15 Places That Still Practice Ritual Killings

India

While many parts of India are highly developed, ancient superstition and folklore are still widely practiced in the more far-flung rural areas and have led to several cases of modern human sacrifice. One such case occurred as recently as 2015 when a five-year-old boy was abducted and beheaded by a man who then collected the boy’s blood and sprinkled it around his home. Upon discovering the man’s gruesome crime, an angry mob of villagers tied the suspect up and set him ablaze in an act of retribution.

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