Recently, a series of weird killings occurred one after another in Malawi, Africa:
Last month, three villagers were killed by a mob.
Last Tuesday, the staff of the National Bureau of Statistics was attacked by a gang of thugs while walking around the streets to collect blood and almost died.
Last Saturday, three civilians were killed in different cities...
After the police investigation, they found that these seemingly random murders all over the country actually have one thing in common. The victims are all slandered as "vampires",
and the people who attacked them are the mob group that has been active for a long time in Malawi——
"Vampire Hunter"……
This year two In September, rumors began to appear in the northern and central regions of Malawi:
Magical "vampires" reappeared in the general population. They cast spells at night, causing people to lose their ability to resist and suck their blood.
"Vampire", this legendary creature, has long been "true" in the hearts of Malawi people.
And with the return of the "vampire" legend, "vampire hunters" once again emerged. They once again killed innocent people everywhere in the name of "clearing vampires"...
Malawi "vampires" and The story of the "hunter" must start from the beginning...
Malawi is an agricultural country in Africa, with a backward economy, and feudal superstition has always had a big market.
In the traditional culture of Malawi, smoking the blood of others can gain the strength and wealth of this person.
Later, with the introduction of the "vampire" culture of European colonists, a considerable proportion of the people in Malawi with a lower education level believed in the existence of "vampires".
As early as the 1920s, Malawi began to circulate the legend of "vampires", saying that they often appear on summer nights, pretending to be humans, and seeing opportunities to suck up humans. Blood.
In 1948, when a famine broke out in Malawi, the rumors of "vampires" rose again. It is said that "vampires" would sit in cars and trucks and run around sucking blood. Only by burning the car can they stop their activities... …In the decades since
, the rumors of "vampires" in Malawi have been accompanied by natural and man-made disasters, and they have never stopped.
In recent years, a sensational ritual has become popular among the rich in Malawi:
Using black magic rituals can make people rich. Witch doctors often use a terrible material-human organs...
Under this background, rumors of "vampires" have begun to appear again. In local legends, these "vampires" "They collude with witch doctors. They know how to use black magic. They often lose consciousness by casting spells. After sucking up the blood of these people, they cut off their organs and sell them to witch doctors. They are used by witch doctors to give rich people...
Over time, the chain from "vampire" to witch doctor has become more and more mysterious, and the public has begun to form such a perception:
The gap between the rich and the poor can be judged "Vampire", if a person is very rich, then he must have colluded with the "vampire", with the practice of witch doctors, and the evil rituals of "Satan" to bless him...
In fact, the real "vampire" is of course It does not exist, but the organization of colluding with witch doctors, kidnapping and assassinating young people who sell human organs, and the wealthy people obsessed with the practice are real.
It’s just that these people use not black magic, but anesthesia Drugs, drugs, even ordinary alcohol.
Most people do not believe in science, but rather believe in magic. Rumors of "vampires" have spread through social media. These years, ordinary people in Malawi have been panicking.
With "vampire", there will be "vampire hunter" naturally.
A few years ago, throughout Malawi from north to south, "vampire hunters" who abused lynching in the name of "catching vampires" began to rise.
They formed a loose and huge organization, referring to the deer as a horse, and in the name of "eliminating vampires", killing the innocents they targeted...
January 2016, in a village near Neno, Malawi A 17-year-old girl named Flora Kanjete was struck to death by lightning. Soon after, four of Kanjete’s grandparents were brutally lynched and killed by a group of "vampire hunters". These "hunters" even had relatives of the elderly. .
The reason they killed the old man was that these old people were all "vampires" who used black magic to create "artificial lightning" and killed their granddaughter Kanjete......
2017, Malawi Rumors of "vampires" circulated across the country broke out again. "Vampire hunters" began searching for people who were suspected of having "vampire characteristics" among various people in various places.
In this large-scale "clearance operation", a total of 8 innocent people were brutally killed.
In a village in southern Malawi, this old man named Kondani, his daughter and grandson were both murdered.
and the circumstances of the two being murdered are also incredible. Just because the grandson held a lot of things in his hands, the "hunters" in the village believed that the child was "rich" and was a "vampire", and everyone rushed forward. Beat the mother and son to death...
and in an elementary school in Malawi’s second largest city, suddenly someone shouted to catch a "vampire", and the children fled in fright. .
However, they are not afraid of "hunters", but "vampires" hiding among them. After
, the "vampire hunters" who broke into the school unearthed what they identified as a "vampire"-a boy in red clothes, beaten in public, and other children stood on the sidelines and even watched The child threw a stone to make a knife...
In some places in Malawi, people even faced off with the police in order to protect the so-called "vampire hunters".
From 2017 to 2018, after the outbreak of the "vampire incident" spreading across the country, the Malawi police arrested 200 "vampire hunters" in various places and dealt with more than 20 cases of "elimination of vampires" "event.
This time the "vampire incident" also caused a great impact. Foreign tourists and foreign workers were attacked by "vampire hunters" to varying degrees. The United Nations even urgently recalled the local staff...
In this incident, Malawi President Peter Mutharika responded quickly. He visited several villages where the incident occurred and stabilized the people’s hearts.
then issued strict laws. The person who spread the "vampire" rumors was under severe punishment. Someone slandered an official of the Department of Health as a "vampire" on the street and was eventually sentenced to 18 months in prison.
Under a series of strict measures, Malawi’s indiscriminate killing of innocents in the name of "vampire hunters" has finally improved.
However, such measures will not cure superstition after all.
In the context of the people's belief that "vampires" are infested, the blood donation rate in Malawi is appallingly low. Many government health officials run the risk of being slandered as "vampires" when they go out to collect blood.
In the past two months, the "vampire incident" that has been quelled for three years has revived.
Malawians believe that "vampires" appear in the crowd again, attacking ordinary people with dark magic.
In order to prevent vampires, some villagers began to get together outside for the night to prevent night attacks by so-called "vampires".
As of last week, facing the new round of "vampire incidents" returning, the police showed their iron fist and arrested 37 "vampire hunters" who will be murdered and maliciously wounded. Charged with charges.
The Malawi government also once again sternly declared to the public:
"vampires" do not exist, and no one is allowed to abuse lynching in the name of combating "vampires"...
This time, it is affected by the new crown epidemic The government spokesperson said that President Peter Mutharika could no longer go to the place where the accident occurred to personally quell the rumors, but would still increase law enforcement and propaganda efforts to keep more people away from "vampire" rumors.
Looking back on the past history, once natural and man-made disasters occur in Malawi, the "vampire" rumors will always be raging. I hope this time the "vampire" rumors will be calmed down as soon as possible.
After all, some kind of "vampires" in the rumors, such as human organ sellers, really exist.
But the repeated rebirth of "vampire hunters" is nothing more than another tragedy...
Ref:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-41692944
https://face2faceafrica.com/article/they-dont-exist-malawi-govt-warns- against-lynching-of-people-accused-of-being-vampires
https://www.asiabyafrica.com/point-a-to-a/climate-change-vampires-in-africa-malawi
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/09/un-moves-malawi-staff-vampire-scare
https://www.equaltimes.org/when-rumours-of-blood- suckers-and?lang=en.Xo2JqNMzZfQ
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明月松间照--Liuyu: ... Since it is Wouldn't it be over if the witch doctors killed those witch doctors directly?
Prison Butterfly Beside Flower: Vampires shouldn't be fair and beautiful living in a castle and waiting for someone to deliver you
猫北玉NorthJade Jade in Beique: I think of burning witches in the Western Middle Ages...
我It's a melon-eating crowd and especially want to eat hot pot: just find an excuse to vent your malice to someone, right?
-Chloette-: The poorer the place is to distrust science and medicine, they believe in witch doctors, and they especially reject vaccines. It was mentioned in the book "The Essence of Poverty".
bear and egg yolk: In the name of justice, doing dirty things, I feel that a lot of such things have happened...
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