The Sorcerer | Part 2

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True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

3.4 • 8.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The heart of a man is deceptive...

The blackest arts still thrive in the furthest reaches of the Sumatran countryside. In these impoverished villages, there are men who speak to the dead, who divine fortunes, and who cast protective charms … for a price.

Of these sorcerers, one dared to seek a power beyond the pale of mortal ken, by sucking the saliva from the mouths of women. Women who come to him for advice and go missing. Women from villages of people too afraid to reveal the truth, to challenge the strange and insidious powers of The Sorcerer.

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0:00.0	What you're about to hear is based on actual events.
0:06.7	Listener discretion is advised.
0:16.2	That girl was placed in the hole as part of some ritual to barry's sows to his wife.
0:22.4	It is March now, and she is sick of him, ruminating on the horror.
0:27.9	He reaches for the basket he's working.
0:30.8	To barry pulls it away and shakes his head.
0:33.7	No, I've got to keep my hands busy, he says, working a strand of bamboo into position
0:39.9	over the hole.
0:42.5	Almost impossibly, it gives and springs out of the gap to strike him just below the eye.
0:49.2	He hisses and tosses the basket to the ground.
0:52.6	He stares at it for a long moment before speaking.
0:56.9	Girls, women, go missing here all the time, he says.
1:02.2	It happens so much we don't even talk about it.
1:05.4	His wife, threading a basket expertly on her own, sets the weaving down.
1:11.4	In the winter, they will use these to collect sugar cane.
1:15.8	They blame Hata, but Hata is an old man, to barry continues, picking up the stubborn basket.
1:23.4	A thin trickle of blood runs down his cheek as he rises.
1:27.9	He would never do that to a woman anyway, but even if he wanted, he couldn't.
1:32.9	He can barely tend his field on his own.
1:36.2	To barry's wife grabs his arm and gives him a stern look.
1:41.1	I would never do that to a girl, he says.
1:44.2	Our children would not, could not do that.
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