Bernaka Kandulana's Grandfather cut off her head to insure a good harvest

**Nell** · June 6th, 2009, 09:13 PM

New Delhi- A 10-year-old girl was beheaded by her grandfather in India's eastern Orissa state who believed that sowing seeds mixed with her blood would yield a bumper crop, a news report said on Monday.

The incident, spurred by age-old superstitions, took place on Sunday in the tribal region of Sambalpur, 450km west of state capital Bhubaneshwar, the IANS news agency reported.

The barbaric crime was detected after the villagers caught the man Rajesh Hembram and handed him over to the police.

Hembram who owned three acres of farmland, planned in advance to sow seeds mixed with the blood of his granddaughter on Akshaya Tritya on Monday, a day considered auspicious by Hindus, police said.

"He cut off his granddaughter Bernaka Kandulana's head with an axe in a room when nobody was at home and drained her blood into a pot," PC Nayak, a local police inspector told IANS.

""We found some seeds in a steel pot that were mixed with blood," he said. Police said the man was arrested and had admitted to his crime.

India has a centuries-old tradition of human sacrifices to appease deities, gain prosperity or ward off evil. Some cases are still reported around the country.

In recent years, parents in Orissa sacrificed their two sons on advice of an occult practioner that it would please the gods and bring them prosperity.

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/N...507623,00.html

**Angelinfl** · June 6th, 2009, 09:28 PM

Gosh these people are sick..... I notice they always sacrifice the women too!

**petrina** · June 6th, 2009, 09:57 PM

next season maybe they will cut off their dicks and see if that works.

**Marv** · June 6th, 2009, 10:14 PM

WTF is wrong with these people?! It beggars belief that in the 21st century, people can still be so fucking backward that they believe in these ridiculous superstitions!!!

I laugh at people who wont walk under a ladder, but can live with their eccentricity. But 'believing' that mixing seeds with the blood of a child will bring a bumper crop??? Bull-fucking-shit! Kudos to the villagers for reporting this horrible crime. I hope they hang this bastard!

RIP little Bernaka. x Im sorry you had the misfortune to be born into such a pathetic family, and have such a tard as your grandfather.

**Just my luck sucks** · June 6th, 2009, 11:02 PM

Ironic that this tread is started at the same time as the one "Does prayer work?"

**HijabiGirl** · June 7th, 2009, 08:32 PM

So this guy is from a religion that doesn't believe in eating meat but he felt it was okay to hack off his granddaughter's head? Yeah, somehow I don't think that verse can be found in their scriptures.

**Valasca** · June 7th, 2009, 08:33 PM

Duhhh, everyone knows you need Edward Woodward in a giant wicker man.

**Thinkgoat** · June 7th, 2009, 08:53 PM

Originally Posted by ohmarvellousme!

WTF is wrong with these people?! It beggars belief that in the 21st century, people can still be so fucking backward that they believe in these ridiculous superstitions!!!

I have an "internet" friend who lives in Maldives (off the tip of India) who has one of the best jobs in his country, which is rewarded with an internet connection. Once he found out I was American, the questions came flooding in. He is ruled by an Islamic Govt. and although their ties with the US are strong, their media is very heavily suppressed. People actually get imprisoned for speaking against their President. At one time, through our mutual questioning sessions, this man asked, "What is this rumor of you putting a man on the moon?" (This was approximately 5 years ago) Imagine that. An entire country of people having information from the real world kept from them is simply amazing...and scary.

So it actually doesn't surprise me in the slightest that people in repressed parts of the world still believe and practice ritualistic activities in the belief they actually work.