Why Did People Used to Burn Witch Doctors?

Witch doctors were people who helped heal the sick, but some villagers started to blame them for bad luck or disease. When they got scared, they decided to burn witch doctors alive, it was like a scary version of giving someone a timeout.

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A boy in a village got sick, and the villagers blamed the witch doctor who lived nearby.
The neighbors of a witch doctor started whispering that she caused bad weather.
When the crops failed, the people said it was because the witch doctor stopped the rain.

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