Hunting Witches in Papua New Guinea | Journal

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  • Many people in the highlands of Papua New Guinea believe that witches exist and often blame witches when bad things happen. Many women are attacked and even murdered as a consequence. We talk to some women who survived such assaults. A few lone voices are trying to change things. We meet a woman who confronts men who attack women.

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  • @ajalahupfront
    @ajalahupfront 5 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    If someone is really a witch, why doesn't she use her powers to overpower them? Its just a nasty way of picking on poor weak and vulnerable women.

    • @fasiapulekaufusi6632
      @fasiapulekaufusi6632 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      This is wrong. But the reason why this happens is because witchcraft and even canabalism is still active in some parts here.

    • @EnvyProof
      @EnvyProof 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Who do you talk about? A nasty brain thinks that all lies in the physical. Anyway, I never read any comment here calling the target a Witch but the people targeting others are instead the Witches damned by the blood of Jesus Yeshua that is against all Evil Spirits and their anointed people.

    • @d-pele-y6547
      @d-pele-y6547 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Video. Sexx papuA

    • @mcleetambe9026
      @mcleetambe9026 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@fasiapulekaufusi6632 shut the f up. There's no cannibalism there

    • @themanwithnothingtolose
      @themanwithnothingtolose 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Witchcraft is real although many of the victims are most likely falsely accused.
      It doesn't work like in the movies. It works like curses and curse objects and genjutsu

  • @Jonadam23ify
    @Jonadam23ify 10 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    What a horrifically barbaric mindset of not only the perpetrators of these heinous crimes but of the authorities aswell.

    • @robsan52
      @robsan52 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Apollo23 Just a couple of months ago a woman was fired from her teaching job in, I want to say Kansas but I read this awhile ago, because she was forcing a left handed boy to write with his right hand because the left hand is of the devil. I would like to say this is an aberration but as ultra conservative fundamentalism spreads I've noticed things like this are becoming very common. Take the most benign science subject and it's automatically ridiculed and some bizarre conspiracy idea replaces it (not theory because that would leave it open for debate and they won't allow debate). I'm concerned for our society.
      I've been watching this stuff grow since the early 70's.

    • @jesantonihevileon8611
      @jesantonihevileon8611 ปีที่แล้ว

      The criminals European colonialusts were the ones that teach them about the witches hunt , just to erase women and so ripoffs that country.

  • @bomaigimogeremawi4242
    @bomaigimogeremawi4242 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Huge problem still. I am from Simbu, home to some of the most violent, gruesome attacks of women accused of sorcery.

    • @libertyhenry1521
      @libertyhenry1521 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @BomaigiWii it's sad that up in the Highlands region your socery is of no effect but the accusations are something else. Unlike the Islands, Southern and parts of Momase regions were our socery is way powerful. But you do not hear much of this killings of socery accusations. I just don't know how to describe this situation up in the Highlands region.

  • @donb2480
    @donb2480 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    The problem is this country live a traditional life to the point of primitive but with western law

    • @emmaskye4681
      @emmaskye4681 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They are about 2 thousand years behind westersn and southern world's.
      They WILL be wiped before the time comes they are functioning members of society. That's what I believe anyway..

  • @isy_fox
    @isy_fox 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    the people who did this are themselves witches.

    • @specter6796
      @specter6796 ปีที่แล้ว

      You goofy they aren't witches

  • @dumboxthomas6151
    @dumboxthomas6151 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    God bless her soul!

  • @dukenegju
    @dukenegju 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Bravo to Monica. Wish your culture all the best. Love

  • @emmapuna2166
    @emmapuna2166 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    May the power of God overcome PNG n destroy all evil spirits upon his people in Jesus name Amen🙏

  • @hbar895348
    @hbar895348 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Atheism is the true light that needs to guide people away from this ignorance

    • @ruthlahari1181
      @ruthlahari1181 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      JESUS CHRIST IS THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE✝️✝️✝️🗣️🗣️🗣️

  • @tomlolijerry4841
    @tomlolijerry4841 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Where i am from in vanuatu many people especially from the outer islands practice blackmagic, we believe in it very much and is part of our culture for ritual reasons. But over the years people used it to kill people just out of jealousy. We locals call it 'posen' or 'nakaimas', many people who practice it use animals such as owls (oknaet), dogs and cats, they take their forms and use it to travel around at night or to kill people they envy. This witchcraft is very true not only in papua New guinea but also in vanuatu and Solomon islands, but in vanuatu both males and females use it but mostly males.

    • @uploaderror7768
      @uploaderror7768 ปีที่แล้ว

      the stories in this video is from the cental highlands area in png. there isnt any sorcery up there just paranoid communities accusing innocent women and then torturing them. vanuatu shares more cultural similarities with east new britain province of png. that province as well as milne bay province practices blackmagic (for rituals as well) the most in png.

  • @tinajello1110
    @tinajello1110 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    How odd it is that the "sorceress" are only women
    What a sad reflection of characters of these boys

  • @localenglish4693
    @localenglish4693 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Surprised to see this sad video.. witch has no power than God!

    • @nuffflavor
      @nuffflavor 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      God has no power......

    • @beepsnboops00
      @beepsnboops00 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Go preach somewhere else

    • @localenglish4693
      @localenglish4693 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nuffflavor sorry to hear that...May God forgive u

    • @nuffflavor
      @nuffflavor 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@localenglish4693 I do not believe the claim, so I can not be forgiven from something I do not believe in.
      That is your BRAIN.... not mine..
      Continue stressing over something you can't prove while I live stress free.

    • @localenglish4693
      @localenglish4693 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nuffflavor u should do believe in God, or else u will be suffer eternally..
      Only your faith can safe u my friend.

  • @praniteshsingh4923
    @praniteshsingh4923 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Please God help them.

  • @nuffflavor
    @nuffflavor 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is still happening ! SMH

  • @teacuhp7403
    @teacuhp7403 9 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Witches don't die for good they respawn in other bodies just like any other person.

    • @nontumbaleki9406
      @nontumbaleki9406 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      🙄🙄🤔🤔

    • @fasiapulekaufusi6632
      @fasiapulekaufusi6632 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This is why killing does not fix the problem. Only prayer

    • @nuffflavor
      @nuffflavor 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Idiocy does also, and it looks like you have that respawn.

    • @teacuhp7403
      @teacuhp7403 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lol ignore me

    • @nuffflavor
      @nuffflavor 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@teacuhp7403 LOL

  • @umbiminewman598
    @umbiminewman598 ปีที่แล้ว

    Keep Up the good work Monica

  • @classynamed4042
    @classynamed4042 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    He's speaking good English meaning he is educated well but his mind is still uneducated. So unfair to judge what they don't know

    • @gloriamn9013
      @gloriamn9013 ปีที่แล้ว

      Being able to speak English isn't a measure of Education. One's ability to learn a language does not translate into literacy

  • @simonphoenix3789
    @simonphoenix3789 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I wish I could show this video to all those foolish people who romanticize what they see as the "pure" past before modern civilization reached isolated parts of the world. The horrors of what people can do to each other are at least somewhat mitigated by modern sensibilities and justice, even if it brings its own set of problems.

  • @tracyseggrant4701
    @tracyseggrant4701 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Mary have a good husband!

  • @CathyJohn-p8g
    @CathyJohn-p8g หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sanguma and witch practices is very common and real in Papua New Guinea.

  • @amariza21
    @amariza21 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is sad. I only made it around 2:00 when the lady is showing her stab wounds

  • @uploaderror7768
    @uploaderror7768 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    ol highlands kan yupla. yupla tasol sa bagarapim nem blo kantri. na taim yupla sa gat moni na save, yupla no stretim ples blo yupla but go stap lo australia. corruption, tribal violence, witch burning, crime on and on thats you people. PNG WOULD BE MUCH BETTER OFF WITHOUT YOU PEOPLE.

  • @aichabua6025
    @aichabua6025 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    That country needs UN help especially the woman.

  • @nicolnelson8766
    @nicolnelson8766 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How can I help Mary and her family?

  • @vernusoil582
    @vernusoil582 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    These guy's have some steep resemblance of each other, especially the women

  • @mimisikujui5514
    @mimisikujui5514 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Poor mary.

  • @papimoses5015
    @papimoses5015 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    i'm waiting to watch one day something good about those people, everything i watched about Papua new guinea was just bad

  • @mariah5862
    @mariah5862 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Omg this was brutal😭

  • @tjyvng5130
    @tjyvng5130 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    They still this n here in the USA I be protecting my family members who are witches themselves real witches

  • @mexicanmuslim
    @mexicanmuslim 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What happened is horrible, she is obviously innocent.
    On the same note magic is real and magicians should be punished. Finding out who would be difficult.

    • @simonphoenix3789
      @simonphoenix3789 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      How To Vegan I hope you are kidding.

  • @tracyseggrant4701
    @tracyseggrant4701 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Give them the holy bible, the need to hear the gosple preach through out all the villages. Pl take the holy bible to them

    • @G.G.C.
      @G.G.C. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Tracyseg Grant The “holy” bible is filled with Genocide, misogyny, wickedness, thirst for blood and slavery; all acknowledged and supported by the biblical god. A lot of crime and wickedness perpetrated have been based on this same bible...we don’t need it to be good people.

    • @tracyseggrant4701
      @tracyseggrant4701 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@G.G.C. Thats your opion i guess for the lack of knowledge.

    • @herelieskittythomas3726
      @herelieskittythomas3726 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Simple minded sheep! There is no sky Daddy.

    • @userNOTfound1-3
      @userNOTfound1-3 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      😂😂😂😂It's not that simple son.

    • @prettythang3038
      @prettythang3038 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      There's ALOT OF CHURCHS but do u think people listen.....no

  • @ericmartin6657
    @ericmartin6657 ปีที่แล้ว

    You can't rightfully blame witches or anyone irrationally without sufficient evidence! Those fools generated negative karma for themselves!

  • @dunique26
    @dunique26 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow those people all favor each other. Heads shape are the same,noses etc. Their features look familiar to me, they resemble somebody but I can't figure out who. Its going to drive me crazy till I do.. Ugh
    Ok everyone i figured it out. My crazy tail went to wikipedia for some research, now I know why they look familiar. Papua new guinea is by Australia..They resemble the aboriginal folks in Australia. The new guinea folks features are softer.

    • @salkimutkilangit8927
      @salkimutkilangit8927 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Papua New Guineans and our Aussie counterparts arrived in this region around the same time so yeah, I guess there will be a resemblance. Look up Denisovans.

  • @AndrewLester-r3l
    @AndrewLester-r3l ปีที่แล้ว

    Lots of Sanguma murders in PNG in 2023.

  • @theresitaaderiano5528
    @theresitaaderiano5528 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    So sad

  • @leighparker9109
    @leighparker9109 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Really enjoyed it. :D

  • @JHKanus
    @JHKanus ปีที่แล้ว

    Why only women? This is wickedness

  • @manuelparedes7519
    @manuelparedes7519 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hqja

  • @Mpro109
    @Mpro109 ปีที่แล้ว

    Always come back to the government

  • @vavaqulama7151
    @vavaqulama7151 ปีที่แล้ว

    Witch is a murderers

  • @billyb6001
    @billyb6001 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Maybe all indiginous tribes should be brought into the future somehow.

  • @johnhumphrys3815
    @johnhumphrys3815 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Also this island had canabal dises from eating othere humans ..currue. . similar or same as. Mad cow dises . hilery has it now.

  • @simplemusic77977
    @simplemusic77977 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    very poor country in this modern ...

    • @nuffflavor
      @nuffflavor 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      There is a long list on that aspect

  • @jacobmillen4357
    @jacobmillen4357 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    If you don't believe you've got to be a victim yourself and tell your close relative who caused your death before you die. And this is the reason why people get mad. You don't see them physically in broad daylight but many unusual things happen before someone is sick and dies.

    • @jeeziiwee4247
      @jeeziiwee4247 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What is your point/the bottomline?

    • @emmaskye4681
      @emmaskye4681 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jeeziiwee4247 he's saying that these women most likely are witches and we don't see what really happens by moonlight, while watching the video.

    • @jeeziiwee4247
      @jeeziiwee4247 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@emmaskye4681 yall are bunch of irrational and superstitious individuals

    • @simonphoenix3789
      @simonphoenix3789 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      wow I can't believe delusional people like this use the internet while believing in such insanity.