Kali Sighting: Alert Indiana Jones!

A few must have escaped the Temple of Doom. According to WebIndia123.com:

Witchcraft drove a member of the Chhattisgarh home guards to kill a youth and drink his blood in a bid to cure his mental illness, police said here Monday.

Amit Soni, 28, told police that he had been practising witchcraft for some time and had killed Chhaganlal Sahu in Mahasamund district at midnight on Oct 12, according to district police chief Dipanshu Kabra.

"Amit, a regular worshipper of goddess Kali, killed Chhaganlal on Wednesday but was arrested after two days. He revealed during police interrogation that he committed the crime and drank Chhaganlal's blood to get over his mental illness," Kabra said.

Like that ever worked for anyone else.

Kali worship may get worse instead of better, the report reveals.

Witchcraft is a common practice in remote areas of Chhattisgarh, mainly among tribals.

The rising crime graph against women in rural areas is often attributed to witchcraft. This prompted the state government to adopt the Witchcraft Atrocities (Prevention) Act in July 2005.

The provisions of the law are very strict and one of its clauses ensures five years of rigorous imprisonment for anyone convicted of branding women as witches and harassing them.

That's all fine for the witches, but what's to keep the witches from harassing -- or drinking the blood -- of everyone else?