SACRIFICE IN INDIA

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 131, 6 June 1925, Page 16

SACRIFICE IN INDIA

;--GIEL,-KILLED TO APPEAL ' WRATH OF KALL S^ >That.human samlice is ,jot confined to ).hc w.ld:-;fracts of the Naga comtTy h proved by : the amazing evidence given at a trial just concluded at Ma-ndla r , e - u . Jubbulpore, in the'.Qentrid Provinces v^nriivtd r'yi,^' C-V"'n'»°"t BeiC lived at.,Mandltt with three sons a daughter, and a daughter-in-law The young**, SO n, aged 14, fell ill during be. cember. Medical treatment provinK ineffective, the family believed the boy to be possessed, and that a human saedfice | was necessary to obtain his recoviy \-Vha daughter-in-law first severed the I tip of a finger of the daughter, oilman and put the blood on*brond, which w^ taken to »: holy man. This was ineffective a .nd it was therefore decided to Ml Mikman as a sacrifice to the goddess

Again there was no improvement in starved, and, despite the cold, bound hand and foot and deposited naked in the open near where the holy man stayed This treatment. which\v M n" tended to drive out the devil, caused tho boy s death. The Court held thai the accused persons were not guilty of tho boys deal, because the treatment was not intended to cause death l{e«.ird ing Itukman, the evidence"was cleaAhat she was murdered as a sacnTion -mrl thafioliold as had been urgent tho gmlt of tho accused, rcl . s ,-,nTwa a "x----ciisablo because they believed they but obeyed the dictates of a. divine 'wVwould only encourage such murders T| ? daughter-in-law was therefore sen'trncccj to transportation for life, and sad his remaining two so ,,s were' seutenced to death.