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ShortHand: Papua New Guinea’s Black Magic Murders

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Wondery | RedHanded

True Crime

4.518.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Black magic, or ‘Sanguma’, is often used to explain everything from minor illnesses to sudden deaths in Papua New Guinea.

Horrifyingly, it’s also behind the recent rise of brutal witch hunts sweeping the nation. An epidemic of violence in which, predominantly, women and girls are being publicly tortured and murdered.

Why? Find out on this week’s ShortHand.

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0:00.0

Hello.

0:07.0

Hello.

0:11.0

And welcome to another short hand.

0:16.6

You're welcome.

0:17.6

Today is the supplementary episode to go with your two parts on Bane.

0:25.0

On the Bane family murders.

0:27.0

Oh yeah.

0:28.0

Actually like we said, if you've listened to part one, when we were doing the research

0:31.3

for the Bane family murders, which is an absolute fucking beast of a case, I'm still traumatized

0:36.5

by recording five hours worth of content in one day for that.

0:40.5

But when we were doing it, it was really, really hard to escape the feeling that the 14

0:45.0

years that the Bane family spent in Papar New Guinea had no impact whatsoever on those

0:50.8

murders.

0:51.8

And other podcasts that have covered it, I understand why they sort of skirt away from

0:54.9

the issue because it is a whole nother thing to get into.

0:57.5

But here at Red Handed, getting into things that a whole nother thing to get into is exactly

1:02.1

what we love to do.

1:03.1

It's kind of our thing.

1:04.1

It is our thing and luckily for you, luckily for us, luckily for everybody we created

1:08.2

short hand.

1:09.2

So let's get into it.

1:11.9

In the village of Tukassandar, Papar New Guinea, in November 2017, a seven year old girl

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