From Mexico, there's a report that Santiago Iniguez Olivares, a 78-year-old man, has been arrested for the 1998 murder of a woman he believed had cast a spell on him. Modesta Navarro Nieves and her husband were bludgeoned in their home in Guadalupe del Cobre eleven years ago. Nieves died from her injuries, although her husband survived the brutal attack.
Authorities say Iniguez Olivares went into the home and accused Modesta Navarro Nieves of "putting a witch's spell on him." He then started beating her with a club. Her husband came home and Iniguez Olivares attacked him as well. No word yet as to what prompted the accusations, but this isn't the first time it's happened lately. CNN says that it's the second murder charge filed against someone for killing an alleged witch in the past eighteen months.
In some parts of Mexico, witchcraft thrives alongside Catholicism and traditions carried down from Aztec cultures. Today's witchcraft, or Brujeria, has a long line of ancestry, going back hundreds of years.
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Authorities say Iniguez Olivares went into the home and accused Modesta Navarro Nieves of "putting a witch's spell on him." He then started beating her with a club. Her husband came home and Iniguez Olivares attacked him as well. No word yet as to what prompted the accusations, but this isn't the first time it's happened lately. CNN says that it's the second murder charge filed against someone for killing an alleged witch in the past eighteen months.
In some parts of Mexico, witchcraft thrives alongside Catholicism and traditions carried down from Aztec cultures. Today's witchcraft, or Brujeria, has a long line of ancestry, going back hundreds of years.
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