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GO GO GO!
Mar 2001
time: 23:27
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SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico (AP) -- An angry crowd stoned to death an Indian man accused of practicing witchcraft in a southern Mexico town with a long tradition of religious violence.
The man, Domingo Shilon Shilon, was also hacked with machetes Sunday by the crowd in San Juan Chamula, a majority Catholic township on the outskirts of the colonial city of San Cristobal, 460 miles (735 kms) southeast of Mexico City.
Shilon, 50, was caught by the crowd in a neighborhood known as Rancho Narvaez, state police said. After killing him, the crowd partially burned his body.
Shilon, like most of his alleged attackers, was a Tzotzil Indian, a branch of the Maya. The Chiapas state Justice Department said an investigation was continuing into the killing, but it is often difficult to prosecute such cases, given that witnesses are frequently unwilling to testify.
Since the 1960s, San Juan Chamula has seen numerous killings and confrontations as "traditional" Catholics -- who mix pre-Hispanic Indian rights with Roman liturgy -- battle to expel evangelical Protestants.
Witchcraft is often blamed for outbreaks of illness or the deaths of children in the impoverished Indian community, where many practice faith healing and some residents -- mainly men -- engage in so-called "white" magic.
In 1996, residents of another San Juan Chamula neighborhood beat and then hanged a man suspected of causing ailments and misfortune through witchcraft.
The villagers killed the man after they went to a cave he frequented and found bottles dressed in the local Indian garb, objects he allegedly used in casting spells on people.
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Yet another example of why I'm proud to be an American. 
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gsmoove23
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Stoned, hacked AND burned. They have WAY too much time on their hands.
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Plan Austral
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Poster Formerly known as Kublai-Khan. Buenos Aires - Argentina.
Oct 2001
time: 05:27
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Originally posted by Spiffor
Plan Austral :
I'm almost surprised we live on the same planet. What you describe is inimaginable here nowadays. There is sure some hype for new supersticions, but I cannot even fathom seeing some ritual's remnant in a park  |
Sadly they are quite common, twice per month month at leat I end up having to watch those things when taking the train.
Last week there was a red carpet with stones in it forming a circle and candles, sometimes it doesnt include dead chickens
You dont have to think of those rituals as big rituals with lots of people, it was simply a carpet with just those things, probably done by just one person.
This things are called "trabajos", they are used for example to curse a person you hate, you can go to a witch and ask him to do a "trabajo" against x person, or if you believe someone has done a "trabajo" against you, you can ask (pay) a witch to neutralize it with another trabajo, something like that.
They usually include that kind of things, candles, sacrifices etc
I saw a documental about those things two weeks ago.
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15-04-2003 02:39
j/k 
...... uh ooooh....
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