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4/1/2007
6:31:15 pm EDT
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Witch Hunting Continues In Rajasthan
Author: IANS Source: Andhra Cafe
Title: WITCH HUNTING CONTINUES IN RAJASTHAN
Women continue to be labelled as witches in Rajasthan even as the government is yet to act on a draft bill to check the practice. In the second such incident of witch hunting in a month, a 45-year-old woman was beaten till she fell unconscious.
Some people in Kasarwadi village in Banswara district, over 600 km from here, held Vensa, the wife of villager Deva Dangi, responsible for the illness of a child and beat her Friday.
'We were informed about the incident by the family members of the women. We are looking into it,' a senior police official from Dungra police station told IANS on telephone. The woman has been admitted in a local hospital.
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| Solomonic Solution | Apr 3rd. at 10:40:35 am EDT
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Ahr-Ohn (Bridgeport, Connecticut) - Email Me
King Solomon has incarnated to redignify the Davadasi Trad. St. Agnes created an order of Devadasi of Jesus, in the Christian Church, but Christianity isn't yet universally enfranchised to tryrannize all of Shudder-In.
Back in the 32nd Century, a girl was unable to gain admission to any temple, for dance training, and appealled to her God. Her appeal was heard favorably, and favored by most Gods, but no temple, at the time, had the administrative connections to accept a Scholarship Recommendation from the Divinity it cellebrated. She had to establish her own temple, with no education at all, on the principle that "A Temple Dancer should connect Life with Divinity," and this laboratory course greatly advanced, and rescued, the tradition of Temple Dancers. Those girls who didn't go on to older, more reputably established, temples, would often be called by a name Krishna gave them, in his Incarnation of the time, Veda-Chiya.
"Reports said villagers held the three married women - Hero, Nathi and Sawal - responsible for the death of some children and livestock in the area, called them witches and forced them to leave the Selaj Lolakpura village."
Those women talked, against all Cultural Tradition, because Starvation is a painful way to die. Properly, they should have been cared for, by the Devadasi of the local temple, until they could discover what God they should have been connecting life to, and at the expense of their persecutors. It would have given the persecutors something to do about their problems, while becoming closer to their local Gods, supporting the spiritually decent women, who didn't happen to be needed for repopulation.
Punishment is not an improvement on Civilization. Economics takes a bit of Understanding, and a godly dose of Pepto-Bismal.
Arawn
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| Me!!! | Apr 2nd. at 5:09:30 am EDT
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The Rev. Sparrowhawk (Yakima, Washington) - Email Me
If I want to make a change in our world it must start with me. I will never crawl under a rock and allow people to discriminate against me. I will continue to fight for my rights and the rights of future generations of Witches. Are you willing to stand up for your rights?
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| Its So Sad | Apr 2nd. at 1:34:15 am EDT
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Arachne Priestess (Cookeville, Tennessee) - Email Me
that a country like India, with its polytheistic religions, who wants to be an industrial nation with the ability to produce nuclear weapons, still manages to fall so far backward on its rear when it comes to the educating and defense of its people. But this is the way of many societies, and the foundation of our own current problems against witches in America.
The problem, for us, is that we have redefined the word 'witch' to be something extraordinary and beautiful, while its historical meaning (and this is not from a dictionary) is something dirty, foul, and evil. In essence it was and is a term used for scapegoats associated with evil - bringing misfortune to communities by way of bad crops, illnesses, livestock deaths, etc. And the sad fact is, these definitions transend the boundaries of religion, country, race, and language, because there is a word which means 'witch' in virtually every language with an equally grusome mythos or folklore to accompany it.
Sad to say, this problem will not be changed by the passing of a bill. We have freedom of religion and expression in this country, and still we face daily prejudice against our kind. Without some kind of major evolutionary step forward mentally, the human race will never cease its acts of violence and vengence against those who are different from the common people.
But like everyone else, I whole heartedly agree that there must be a first step in the stand for our rights. Let it be the bill that was passed. And let us keep all of those who are falsely branded a witch in our hearts and minds, in our thoughts and prayers.
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| Meh | Apr 1st. at 9:57:23 pm EDT
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Ravenowl (Amboy, Oklahoma) - Email Me
there will be one day.. in the near future.. where Witches all over the world will be open and fight back... What do you think will happen when that happens... the answer is simple.. look out your window.. watch.. every day newspapers are filled with our ways.. some good some bad... all great... for your you misinform someone.. they look into it themselves.. cant the christians see that they are only promoting our religion... cant the Xtain see that the best way to shut us down.. is to ignore us.. wouldnt that be great...
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| The Law Must Be... | Apr 1st. at 8:15:49 pm EDT
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Lady Terra (Houston, Texas) - Email Me
established and enforced...
Let there be protection, peace, and sactuary--for (All) Sisters...
Let those who ignore the cries of our Sisters reap the consequences of their indifference times ten...
SoMoteItBe...
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