I once saw a photograph on the front page of a newspaper that I could never get off my mind. There was a man of about 25, with four severed heads, two in each hand and he held them by their hair. The caption below said that he was making his way to the police station, and that the heads belonged to a family of ‘witches’ who had been punished by the whole village for practicing sorcery.

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