“Devil Worship and Human Sacrifice on Increase in Uganda” this title in a newspaper inspired me in making this post.

People who believe in satanic powers have resorted to witchcraft… such bondage has led to acts of human sacrifice since devil worship involves shedding precious human blood….

Tom Waits, falling down

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What different body parts are wanted for?

Blood: Believed to boost one’s vitality when taken raw.

Skull: Placed in the foundation of new buildings to bring good luck to a business.

Brains: Eaten to achieve political power and success in business.

Hands: Built into shop entrances to attract customers. They are also burnt to ash and mixed into a paste, which is used to treat strokes.

Entire bodies: Buried on farms to secure big harvests.

Genitals, breasts and uteruses: They are used to treat infertility and to bring good luck. Those taken from young boys and virgin girls are especially prized as uncontaminated’ and, therefore, highly potent.

There is a belief among devil worshippers that body parts taken from live victims are rendered more potent by their screams.

“The cutting off of body parts of innocent victims is consistent with devil worship. The parts are offered as sacrifice to Lucifer, in exchange for wealth and prosperity”, explains Monsignor David Kyeyune, the national pastoral co-ordinator at the Uganda Catholic Secretariat in Nsambya. (read all of it)

Shammim Muhammad, aged 5

On April 4, 1999, Jalia Katusiime, a hair dresser from Njeru town, Mukono district left her five-year-old daughter Shammim Muhammed with a neighbour, Francis Muwanga, to go and attend to a customer.

When she returned, both Shammim and Muwanga were missing. There followed a search for her . Her decomposing body was found on Namiya hill. Two of her fingers had been chopped off, her neck cut off and her tongue plucked out.

Her private parts were also missing. Police arrested Muwanga as the chief suspect. Later, he and his wife confessed that they had been advised by a witchdoctor, Yunus Samanya, that if they sacrificed a child to the spirits, they would become rich.

Muwanga, his wife and the witch doctor were sentenced to death on July 29, 1999 and are in prison. ( read more cases)

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