Story of a Witch

Ranchi: There must have been at least twenty of them. None was armed. But the volley of voices was enough to shake Pratima Kispatta out of her afternoon nap. The men — most of them her relatives — barged in, dragged her out, and dumped her in a tractor. “The next thing I knew was that I was being taken to a faraway place. No one listened to me,” recalls Pratima. Why would they: she had ‘devoured’ a little boy. The ‘witch’ of Ranichacho, a village on the outskirts of Ranchi, had ‘snuffed’ the life out of her own nephew — that too after ‘causing’ the death of another family member, a sister-in-law. Read more........................The witch of Ranichacho

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