Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...house, and soon a crowd gathered around it. Finally, a window flew open, and there stood Father John clasping a small bottle in his hand. "Take it!" he cried, flinging it down. "Now you can laugh. Now you can gossip. I do not care any more. I have taken poison and am dying." When they got to him, he was already unconscious, and shortly he died...
...running civil war of spears and poison arrows between the Balubas and the Luluas, more than 60 were killed. Once the Balubas had been serfs of the ruling Luluas. But now, being more numerous, they stood to emerge as the leaders of the provisional government in Luluabourg. Enraged, King Kalamba of the proud Luluas ordered the Balubas to pack up and leave the region. When they refused, the Luluas attacked, screaming, "Benyi baye kuabo" (Strangers go home...
Belgian officials were hard pressed to stop the fighting. For one thing, they were already busy with another kind of savagery among the nearby Bushongo tribesmen. Now that there was talk of independence, the Bushongos were reviving the forbidden ritual custom of tschipapa, or trial by poison. Tschipapa, the traditional Bushongo method of dealing with witches, is a deadly kind of liquid roulette in which entire villages line up to drink from cups carefully arranged to bring death to those infected with evil spirits...
...outlawed by the Belgians 40 years ago, but the local misheke, or tribal poison mixer, remains a man of high honor and awesome power. In recent weeks, since the revival of tschipapa trials, 241 witches have been poisoned to death, reported New York Times Correspondent Homer Bigart...