India puts Witchcraft on school curriculum in effort to combat superstition-related murders

Witchcraft is given a spell in India's schools to remove curse of deadly superstition Witchcraft is being put on the curriculum for India's primary schoolchildren in an effort to debunk superstitions that are behind scores of gruesome murders every year. A belief in witches and the evils purportedly wrought by them – from famine to sporting failure – is widespread among tribal communities in the country's impoverished rural hinterland. It is estimated that 750 people, mostly elderly women, have been killed in witch-hunts in the states of Assam and West Bengal since 2003.

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