In the bizarre witch doctor, a villager allows his wife to be boiled alive
The mother of two was killed by piping steam because the fake doctor thought the steam could drive away the "ghost" inside her.
The woman, from a small village near Guangyuan in Sichuan Province, had tried other superstitious remedies before turning to witch doctors, and the woman was placed in a bucket that hung from a pot of boiling water.
Now her husband blames the charlatans for her death, and Yan Yingmao, 45, said, "She looked good at first."
The strange ritual required needles at the request of the witch doctor, who told reporters: "When I came back, the screams had already begun, they said the ceremony had to be completed, and my wife's scream was the sound of the demon leaving her body." His wife continued to scream until he could no longer bear it.
He lifted her out of the bucket and found that her body was blackened and her face was purple, and I looked at her face, which was purple. Her performances told me she wasn't going to succeed. After the death of his wife, the witch doctors fled to the green mountains and were arrested with them.
The husband, who considers himself partially responsible for his wife's death, now has to raise two children on his own. He said: "I really don't have any other option because I want my wife to be healed and I'd rather die than let that happen. How can I deliberately kill my wife?"
This horrific incident is just the latest in a series of sham treatments that have resulted in death.
On Hainan Island, the three brothers killed their mother after a witch doctor told them to beat her to death and burn the body, and the impostor had earlier fed the woman a mixture of pig blood, chicken blood and dog blood, saying he wanted her to "spit ghosts."
For a century, we have been working to eliminate feudal superstitions in the countryside.
In the wake of this recent incident, the whole society has resolutely cracked down on those who use superstition to harm the interests of the state, social stability and people's lives and property.
