{"id":1852,"date":"2012-02-20T23:29:47","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T23:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/fear-of-witch-acts-hit-nyabivumu-residents\/"},"modified":"2012-02-20T23:27:15","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T23:27:15","slug":"fear-of-witch-acts-hit-nyabivumu-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/fear-of-witch-acts-hit-nyabivumu-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear of Witch Acts hit Nyabivumu Residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Residents of Nyabivumu cell, Gasaka sector in Nyamagabe district are filled with fear over an unknown person who slaughtered a black hen on a certain grave during the night.}}<\/p>\n<p>The grave on which the witch act was done is located in a graveyard known as &#8216;Mu dusego&#8217; said to have been where a woman believed to have been killed by the thunder was buried.<\/p>\n<p>Angelique Uwineza, residing near the graveyard, says that it was the first time to see it.<\/p>\n<p>She said, \u201cThe act was first reported by people who came in the morning to dig another grave and called us; actually, there was a black slaughtered hen, a used knife and an elephant grass tree beside and blood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marta Nyirakamana and Alphonse Nyamanyoni, above 70, said that since time immemorial, there was no such act and emphasized on reporting the matter to relevant authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Nyamanyoni said, \u201cIt\u2019s worrying, we have to inform the authorities; though they say the late was killed by thunder, she might have died of witchcraft.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nyirakamana lauded him saying that it is the first time to see such witch acts.<\/p>\n<p>She said, \u201cWe have been living here for many years and it has never happened in our area and I don\u2019t think it has ever happened in Rwandan culture, this must be a foreign witch.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Names and history of the said deceased woman remained unknown for IGIHE.com as no names were scripted on the grave and eye witness could not disclose her identity.<\/p>\n<p>{{ENDS}}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Residents of Nyabivumu cell, Gasaka sector in Nyamagabe district are filled with fear over an unknown person who slaughtered a black hen on a certain grave during the night.}} The grave on which the witch act was done is located in a graveyard known as &#8216;Mu dusego&#8217; said to have been where a woman believed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[383],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-1852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-jean-damour-nsabimana-2"],"bylines":[{"id":383,"name":"Jean d'Amour NSABIMANA","slug":"jean-damour-nsabimana-2","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":383,"name":"Jean d'Amour NSABIMANA","slug":"jean-damour-nsabimana-2","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1852"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=1852"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=1852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}