320 Accused of Sorcery in New Guinea

Thought y'all might get a kick out of this...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051103/od_nm/papua_sorcery_dc
from JoeUser Forums

PORT MORESBY (Reuters) - Police in Papua New Guinea have arrested 320 people for practicing sorcery and religious cults, the National newspaper reported Thursday.

Belief in sorcery is widespread in this jungle-clad, mountainous South Pacific island nation where some villages only encountered Western civilization in the 1930s.

Police raided three villages Monday near the city of Lae on the north coast and arrested leaders of a "cargo cult" and their followers, the newspaper said. Those arrested were aged between 20 and 70.

Cargo cults believe that Western goods or cargo, first encountered through missionaries and explorers, are created by ancestral spirits. They have been known to build airstrips in the jungles in the belief that planes would land with cargo.

One group led by two women used menstrual blood as "sacred water" to enable them to see "invisible things," said the newspaper in the capital, Port Moresby.



I don't know what scares me more, that these people are practicing witchcraft by BUILDING AIRSTRIPS FOR THE GODS. Or could be their preferred method of foretelling the future and seeing them pesky "invisible things"...
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
I wonder if we can use that group led by the 2 women over in the Middle East?  That's some powerful mojo over there!
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
I remember hearing someone say that they couldn't trust a creature that could bleed for 7 days and not die. Not sure if he was from New Guinea. Hehe.
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top

I remember hearing someone say that they couldn't trust a creature that could bleed for 7 days and not die. Not sure if he was from New Guinea. Hehe.

Taht was Mr. Garrison in the South Park Movie!  ANd it is still one of my all time favorite lines!