Witch branding carries a legacy of violence, including flogging, rape, burning, and even murder. The targets are mostly old, single, or unmarried women living in the margins of the community.

Most witch-hunting victims have been noticed as either, old, widows, or single, women. This paper analyses violence against Dalit women with specific reference to witch-hunting. It explores the caste ...

Police in rural India are investigating the murder of five members of the same family who were accused by a mob of witchcraft ...

Purnia District Magistrate Anshul Kumar said a case has been registered against 23 accused. Main accused is already in police ...

In Bihar's Purnia district, a tribal mob brutally murdered five members of a family, suspecting them of witchcraft. The ...

From 2010 to 2021, more than 1,500 people were killed in India after accusations of witchcraft, ... Village-level protection committees aid survivors of violence.

A tribal woman in central India has been brutally gang-raped allegedly by six men who suspected her of practising witchcraft, police say. The 35-year-old woman has been admitted to hospital and is ...

Six men in India have been arrested for killing a woman and her four children, including a 10-month-old baby, over suspicion that she was a witch who killed a girl. Police said the villagers ...

A tribal woman in central India has been brutally gang-raped allegedly by six men who suspected her of practising witchcraft, police say. The 35-year-old woman has been admitted to hospital and is ...

Experts estimate that roughly 2,500 people have been killed in witch hunts in rural India since 2000. Here is what activists are doing to fight the practice.

Even as India modernizes, witchcraft accusations are common, leading to the murders of more than 2,000 people, mostly women, in the last 15 years. One woman, Birubala Rabha, in the country’s ...

Five women accused of witchcraft were killed by villagers in Kinjia, India AFP / Getty Images Five women accused of witchcraft have been beaten to death by dozens of villagers in India. Residents ...