Guiding Light Psychic Tarot Readings

TJ Higgs - Psychic Medium Tracy Higgs Harry Tarotthe-angels-within.co.uk Distant learning. Alternative spiritual therapies KSC Crystals Psychic Workshops Bengalrose Healing Elizabeth Francis - Psychic Medium Lorrain Violet Moon Kim Barden Hypnotherapy BWRT Spiritual Energetics
Monmouth MBS Show
Date: 23-Mar-2024 10:00 AM

Visit Site
Address: Bridges, Wonastow Road Monmouth , NP25 5AS, United Kingdom
Occult Science Study Group @ Rosefolk
Date: 28-Mar-2024 7:00 PM

Visit Site
Address: Online Virtual Event, , United Kingdom
Book launch for "Human Being" book
Date: 05-Apr-2024 7:30 PM

Visit Site
Address: The Balmoral Centre, Salisbury Avenue, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS0 7AU, SS0 7AU, United Kingdom
Purple Feather Events MBS Fair Lawford
Date: 06-Apr-2024 10:00 AM

Visit Site
Address: Venture Centre Bromley rd. Lawford Manningtree Essex, CO11 2JE, United Kingdom
Mansfield Mind Body Spirit Show
Date: 06-Apr-2024 10:00 AM

Visit Site
Address: John Fretwell Complex Sookholme rd Mansfield NG19 8LL, NG19 8LL, United Kingdom
Mansfield Mind Body Spirit Show
Date: 07-Apr-2024 10:00 AM

Visit Site
Address: John Fretwell Complex Sookholme rd Mansfield Notts NG19 8LL, NG19 8LL, United Kingdom
QUANTUM HYPNOTHERAPY TRAINING (Past Life, Between Lives, Future Lives, Spirit Release, Healing)
Date: 12-Apr-2024 1:00 PM

Visit Site
Address: Online Virtual Event, , United Kingdom
The Big Purple Wellness Weekend
Date: 11-May-2024 11:00 AM

Address: Merrist Wood College Holly Lane Worplesdon, GU3 3PE, United Kingdom
New Lemuria Calling with Hope, Grace & Healing
Date: 18-May-2024 2:00 PM

Visit Site
Address: The Henge Shop, High Street, Avebury, Marlborough, UK, SN8 1RF, United Kingdom
Dreaming With Plants
Date: 13-Jun-2024 3:00 PM

Visit Site
Address: Whetstone Cottage, Broughton-in-Furness, Cumbria, LA20 6AE, United Kingdom
The Scottish Spiritualist Seminar 2024
Date: 21-Jun-2024 1:45 PM

Address: Stirling Court Hotel, Stirling University, Stirling FK9 4LA Scotland, FK9 4LA, United Kingdom
Learn Kinetic Chain Release (KCR) in Bath Somerset
Date: 29-Jun-2024 9:00 AM

Visit Site
Address: Well Bath, Woolley Lane, Charlcombe, Bath, England UK, BA1 8BA, United Kingdom
Mind Body and Spirit Well Being Charity Day
Date: 29-Jun-2024 10:00 AM

Visit Site
Address: Stock Village Hall(opposite Greenwood’s Spa) Common Road Ingatestone CM4 9NF , CM4 9NF, United Kingdom
MIND BODY SOUL EVENT
Date: 28-Jul-2024 10:30 AM

Visit Site
Address: The Lismoyne Hotel 45 Church Road Fleet Hants , GU51 4NE, United Kingdom
Shropshire Wellbeing Festival
Date: 28-Sep-2024 10:30 AM

Visit Site
Address: Shropshire Wildlife Trust, Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury, SY2 6AH, SY2 6AH, United Kingdom
LIVING THE LAW OF ATTRACTION RETREAT BALI
Date: 29-Sep-2024 5:00 PM

Visit Site
Address: Narasoma Retreat Centre, Jalan Monkey Forest, Gang Beji No35, Ubud 80571, Bali, Indonesia, Ubud 80571, Indonesia
RESTORE, ENERGISE & CREATE RETREAT WITH THE LAW OF ATTRACTION AND MEDITATION, SNOWDONIA, UK
Date: 07-Feb-2025 4:00 PM

Visit Site
Address: Trigonos, Plas Baladeulyn, Nantlle, Caernarfon, Wales, LL54 6BW, LL54 6BW, United Kingdom

International Version
Select County

Psychic Workshops IPHM Side - Therapists Accrediation Spiritual Events UK - Psychics For Hire Theta Healing Academy Psychic Paula VgoriPsychic Paula Vgori SMALL 12 MBS Web Design - Mind Body Soul Gathering of Minds Peaceful LivingLuna Chakra and Aura Certified Course Pauline Clairvoyant Medium Book this spot (SM29)






[ View My Events ]
  +Add Event +Add Article +Add Classified +Add To Directory
Search
EnjoyHolistic.com - Create your own dedicated holistic and spiritual page listing.

Horror of Kenya's 'witch' lynchings

By:Odhiambo Joseph - BBC News, Kenya
Date: Fri,26 Jun 2009
Submitter:Ian
Views:12004

View Related

Joseph Ondieki,
at the grave of
his mother, who was
burned as a witch

Villagers, many straight from their farms, and armed with machetes, sticks and axes, are shouting and crowding round in a big group in Kenya's fertile Kisii district.

can't see clearly what is going on, but heavy smoke is rising from the ground and a horrible stench fills the air.

More people are streaming up the hill, some of them with firewood and maize stalks.

Suddenly an old woman breaks from the crowd, screaming for mercy. Three or four people go after her, beat her and drag her back, pushing her onto - what I can now see - is a raging fire.

Burned alive

I was witnessing a horrific practice which appears to be on the increase in Kenya - the lynching of people accused of being witches.

I personally saw the burning alive of five elderly men and women in Itii village.

I had been visiting relatives in a nearby town, when I heard what was happening. I dashed to the scene, accompanied by a village elder.

He reacted as if what we were watching was quite normal, which was shocking for me.

As a stranger I felt I had no choice but to stand by and watch. My fear was that if I showed any sign of disapproval, or made any false move, the angry mob could turn on me.

Not one person was protesting or trying to stop the killing.

Hours later, the police came and removed the charred bodies.

Village youths who took part in the killings told me that the five victims had to die because they had bewitched a young boy.

"Of course some people have been burned. But there is proof of witchcraft," said one youth.

He said that a child had spent the night walking around and then was unable to talk the following morning - except to one of the so-called witches.

I asked the youths whether or not people involved in this supposed witchcraft should be punished.

"Yes, they must be punished, every one," said the first youth.

"We are very angry and that's why we end up punishing these people and even killing them."

His friend agreed: "In other communities, there are witches all round but in Kisii we have come up with a new method, we want to kill these people using our own hands."

I later discovered that the young boy who had supposedly been bewitched, was suffering from epilepsy.

His mother had panicked when he had had an attack.

All too common

The village elder was dismissive of my horror, saying that this kind of thing happens all the time in t

Mary Nyaboke
came home to find her
mother-in-law burned alive

he western district of Kisii.

He told me about Joseph Ondieki, whose mother had been burned to death less than two months earlier.

I found Joseph and his wife Mary Nyaboke tending vegetables in their small shamba, or homestead.

Mary told me that on the day her mother-in-law had been killed she had been visiting her own parents.

She had heard a noise and discovered the truth when she came home.

She said that in the 20 years she had been married, she had never had any reason to believe her husband's mother was a witch.

Joseph told me he has suffered a lot since his mother died.

"I was born here, but at this stage I feel as if this is not my home any more," he said.

"I cannot visit neighbours or relatives.

"Even when they see me standing by the road side, they point at me, saying: 'That is a son of the witch'.

"And when I go to town they also start wondering what has taken me there. Is it that I am going to give evidence against them?

"When I come back, they say I've been seen at the police station, but I've never been there. I've never reported the matter.

"If I visit the neighbours, I always fear that they might put poison in the food.

"So when I'm forced to visit, I make sure I don't eat anything.

"If I can't get my own food I just have a glass of water and sleep."

I set off with Joseph up the hill towards his house, which was far from the centre of the village.

On the way we passed his mother's house.

A neighbour was reluctant to talk to me and denied even knowing Joseph's mother.

"Here in Kisii, people are being burned on mere allegation and most of them are old," Joseph said.

"We now don't have any old people in the village to consult.

"Even me I'm now approaching 50 years old - I'm afraid that they'll come for me also."

Warning signs

I spent three days in Kisii trying to speak to the authorities, but nobody, neither the police nor the local government officials would talk to me.

As night drew in, and it was time for me to leave, Joseph walked with me from his village to where my car was parked.

When we arrived, he begged me to take him with me to Mombasa, where I am based.

It was very difficult for me to leave him behind.

As I drove away I passed signs pinned to trees, warning witches that they would be tracked down.

"We know you by your names", someone had typed in bold.
Like This? (Click Me)
 Be the first person to like this
 Known Humans have read this.
Post a Comment   View Comments(0)
Did you enjoy this article? why not let us know.






Share Page with Friends EmailBookmark and Share
Contact Me Contact Me
Request Delete/Amendment Request Amendment
Digg this article!
Delicious! Add this article to Del.icio.us!
Discuss Article on TheSpiritGuidesNetwork.co.uk Discuss Article on TheSpiritGuidesNetwork.co.uk

Post Article:
Submit Your Own Article

Leave a Comment

 

  
   
 


  


Enter the numbers shown above:

Comments

Copyright 2006-2013 TheSpiritGuides.co.uk
Tel: 07967 595893
A Mind Body Soul Directory and Spiritual Knowledge Site. Dedicated to Brenda Smith and all spiritual seekers out there.
0