Papua New Guinea: 'Witch' tortured with red hot irons and a pair of pliers claims she escaped after killing her attackers and eating their hearts

• The woman was accused of killing child and feasting on its heart
• She was stripped, burned with hot iron and had ear clipped off with pliers
• But as she was about to be burned at a stake police arrived to rescue her
• Witnesses claimed she appeared to feel no pain as torture went on

 
An accused witch who was tortured with red hot irons and a pair of pliers told police she escaped from the clutches of several of her attackers by fighting back and eating their hearts.

Police in Papua New Guinea are still investigating the claims of the woman who, witnesses said, appeared to show no pain despite the torture she had endured.

Accused by villagers of earlier killing a child and eating the youngster's heart, the middle aged woman was hunted down, stripped - and the torture began.



Sorcery: A Papua New Guinea tribesman in traditional dress. Sorcery is widespread in remote villages in the country and the government has recently introduced tough new laws to deal with it (stock image)


Red hot iron rods were applied all over her body, she was stabbed in the chest and her left ear was snipped off with a pair of pliers.

Witnesses who watched the torture said the woman had also lost a tooth - but during the attack she shouted at the gang that she had killed several of their friends and eaten their hearts after they tried to assault her.


One witness told the Post Courier newspaper that while the naked woman was being tortured she showed no signs of being in pain - even when the hot rods were placed against her flesh.

'People who saw this were stunned,' the witness told the newspaper. The observer also said the woman had told her attackers the names of the people she had killed and butchered.



Mob lynching: The incensed crowd were about to burn the woman to death - a punishment that has been handed out to other suspected sorcerers in Papua New Guinea - when police arrived and saved her from her fate (stock image)

The incensed crowd were about to burn the woman to death - a punishment that has been handed out to other suspected sorcerers in Papua New Guinea - when police arrived and saved her from her fate.

The incident occurred less than a month after a deranged father killed his young daughter in another part of the country and drank her blood from a hideous wound he inflicted in her neck with a machete.

Sorcery is widespread in remote villages in the country and the government has recently introduced tough new laws to deal with it.

But officials have admitted that stamping out the practice is likely to take years.



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Colorado: Abandoned Occult Altar Discovered In Vacant House

A cleaning crew and a realtor recently made a haunting discovery when they stumbled upon a possible occult altar forgotten for a decade and a half in a small house for sale in a Colorado suburb.

Animal skulls, chains, bones from a goat and possibly other animals, a skull mask with a black hood, candles and a machete were among the items that were found in the home's backyard shed.

Police say that some of the bones, including a partial skull, are suspected of being human and have been sent to an out-of-state lab to determine whether any DNA evidence can be found. Up to 20 bones were found and investigators even brought in search dogs trained to find decomposing bodies.


The vacant house, located on the 1200 block of Kline Street, looks nondescript in the extreme -- and apparently nothing inside it struck the cleaning crew assigned to get it ready for sale as the least bit odd.


The Shed: At about 3:30 p.m. on October 17, according to the Lakewood Police Department, officers were called to the residence after workers found what they believed to be human remains -- reportedly part of a skull and leg bone.
 
Animal bones also appeared to have been part of the mix, as well as odd items like these....

Neighbor Carlos Fraire said the discovery was very eerie.

"It's weird that it's this time of year, right around Halloween," Fraire told 9News.

According to a report by Westword, neighbors described the woman who lived there as a Christian and the items in the shed are suspected of having belonged to her now-deceased husband, who reportedly left the country in 1998. For the last 15 years, his wife apparently either hadn't known the items were there or left them completely alone because when they were discovered most were covered in thick dust.

The two split up over a decade ago, and the altar wasn't discovered until a realtor commissioned a cleaning crew so the house could be put up for sale.

For photos taken from the house, head over to Westword.

When the cleaners found the bones and a partial skull in the shed, they called the police.

"It just appears that they were used in some type of 'occult' ceremony," Lakewood Police Department spokesman Steve Davis told 7News. "At this point we have no evidence to suspect that any kind of crime has been committed."

Police say they have talked with at least family member of the man who lived there who indicated he was an occultist.

Investigators aren't currently treating the home as a crime scene, noting that human bones -- oddly enough -- can be purchased online.

Police are asking that anyone with any information about the case please call 303-987-7111.



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Underwear that neutralizes the stink of Fart!....yes, for real!...can squash the smell of "200 times the average flatulence emission."

A British line of fart-filtering underwear is doing big business, and it has the United States to thank for it.

"Americans are making up the majority of our sales at the moment," Shreddies spokeswoman Ianthe Betts-Clarke told The Huffington Post.

Since word about the odor-neutralizing Shreddies passed through the Internet a few days ago, the company has experienced a 400 percent increase in orders over all, Betts-Clarke estimated.

Shreddies weaves a carbon cloth called Zorflex into its rear panel. Betts-Clarke says it can squash the smell of "200 times the average flatulence emission." (Shreddies apparently hasn't met my Aunt Edna.)

In 2008, the company began to serve customers with digestive-tract woes but branched out. "It's a product for everybody, because everyone farts," Betts-Clarke explained.

Men's boxer briefs cost between $39 and $45, while women's panties are about $31 to $34.

A product called the Flat-D Flatulence Deodorizer is also on the market. It's an activated charcoal cloth pad that tapes to the inside of briefs to mask the stink.

Imagine your silent but deadly farts now just silent.


This pair of Shreddies for women costs about $31.

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DNA tests have shown a Bulgarian Roma couple ARE the biological parents of the "blonde angel" Maria who was rescued from a Greek gypsy camp.

DNA tests have shown a Bulgarian Roma couple ARE the biological parents of the "blonde angel" Maria who was rescued from a Greek gypsy camp.

Greece girl Maria's mum: 'I have many children so I sold some and gave others away'
Sasha Ruseva was tracked down to a squalid shanty town in the centre of Bulgaria, 300 miles from where the fair-skinned blue-eyed youngster was found last week.

Bulgarian prosecutors are now investigating whether the 40-year-old agreed to sell her daughter in Greece, an accusation she denies.

Real mum: Sasha Ruseva
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The case has come to illustrate the plight of Roma gypsies in Bulgaria, many of whom have spent their lives in poverty, are illiterate and have been marginalised by society.

Four-year-old Maria was found last week hiding under a blanket at a Roma settlement in central Greece. DNA tests showed the Roma couple she was with were not her real parents.

Maria, whose case has drawn parallels with the disappearance of 3-year-old Briton Madeleine McCann in 2007, is being looked after by a Greek charity, which says it has received over 10,000 calls with leads or from parents of missing children.

Rescued: Maria was found in a Greek gypsy camp
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Sasha already had two children and was picking olives in the coastal town of Livanates, Greece, when she fell pregnant in 2008, it was claimed today.

Unable to cope, Sasha is thought to have sold the unwanted tot to the highest bidders - a group of child traffickers.

A mysterious Bulgarian middleman known as 'Michalis' and his prostitute partner then offered baby Maria around central Greece before her adoptive gypsy parents paid 1,000 Euro to keep her.




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Prince George: The Royal Christening In Pictures

The Duchess of Cambridge coordinated her outfit with Prince George's intricate christening gown

Kate's christening outfit was by Jane Burton, creative director at Alexander McQueen

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge with their son Prince George arrive at Chapel Royal in St James's Palace where they are welcomed by the Archbishop of Canterbury

 As they processed out of the Chapel, William, Kate and the Archbishop looked pleased with the day's proceedings

Proud father

Pippa Middleton, pictured with brother James (left), appeared in a cream trapeze coat by British designer Suzannah Crabb and hat by Edwina Ibbotso

Carole Middleton

Zara, who is six months pregnant, wearing a heavy swing coat over a matching dress

Kate and Wills were accompanied only by their closest family members, including the Queen, seen above, and chosen godparents

Prince George, in the arms of his father, was centre of attention in his vintage christening gown

 It seems those who attended opted either for classic cream or royal blue, as Carole and Camilla show

The Queen wore a blue cashmere coat with Mother of Pearl buttons by Stewart Parvin over a paisley printed silk dress

Godparents: William's cousin Zara Tindall and Kate's schoolfriend Emilia Jardine-Paterson have been asked

 

Willam van Cutsem, 34,  and Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton, 52, have both been asked to be godparents

 

Godparents: Diana's old friend Julia Samuel, 54, left, and the Duke of Westminster's son Hugh Grosvenor, 22

 

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