In this day and age you might think we have finally grown above such barbaric, primitive acts, but you can never underestimate the stupidity of the human race.

Wherever you go where people decide to suspend reason for superstitious nonsense, these are the kind of results you can expect. And these stem from religion is exempt, which is just mainstream acceptance of freaky, crazy, beliefs.

Just a couple of weeks ago an Indian lady had to go through this ordeal, and just this past Friday another group of five had to die because they had been tagged as witches.

The women, leaving in a rural part of eastern India, were dragged out of their huts by a group of villagers.

They had been accused of using black magic to kill a boy in the village, located some 30km from India’s Jharkhand state capital of Ranchi.

“A group (of villagers) dragged the women out and beat them to death with sticks, accusing them of practicing witchcraft,” Ranchi deputy police chief Arun Kumar Singh told AFP news agency.

At least 21 villagers have been arrested over the killings of the women, who were mostly aged between 45 and 50.

Jharkhand police spokesman S.N. Pradhan said the villagers also used stones and knives after blaming the five women for bringing illness, poor crops and bad luck on the village through witchcraft, according to Yahoo News.

“The whole village is ganging up against the police now saying they all killed the women,” he said, adding that an investigation was underway.