'Possessed by a witch' wife drinks husband's blood, kills him
- The Bengali woman was doing this every night for quite some time
- Her husband was hospitalised following the first time she did it and he was detected as being anemic
- The man died a few days later and his wife has been accused of sorcery
FollowThese are stories you hear of in fairytales and your grandmother’s stories, but seems like a woman from Bengal developed quite a weird fondness for blood.
She seemingly used her own blood bank - her husband. According to a video report by local ABP Ananda Channel, they found this bizarre death. The police received a complaint that a woman from Sairaipur of Birbhum, Bengal, used to drink blood from her husband's mouth. The man is now dead.
Her actions immediately struck the neighbours as highly odd and she has been accused of being a ‘witch’ . Even her in-laws have been quick to condemn her. Sabitri had been married to Abhijit Bagdi for few years now.
Recently on the new moon, Sabitri began behaving oddly. Her neighbours claim to have seen her walking and chanting mumbo jumbo at really odd hours in the night and they say she told them she was a ‘dakini’(witch) and that she would drink their blood as well.
To make matters worse, since she had started drinking her husband’s blood nightly, his health began to deteriorate. Her mother-in-law has been quoted as complaining that on the night of the new moon, Sabitri made preparations for this blood sucking ritual of hers. She made Abhijit lie beside a trishul and bit his lips from where she sucked the blood. On August 6, Abhijit took ill seriously and even three bottles of blood could not reverse his anaemic condition. He died the same night.
Sabitri has been detained by the police and a probe has been initiated. The video of the couple’s house shows weird symbols having being painted by red in the house. The mother-in-law claims her daughter-in-law used to practice witchcraft within the house premises.
However, Sabitri’s family, who had been locked up by the irate villagers, say that it was some other domestic matter and not the alleged blood drinking that led to the man’s death. They say the charges are being fabricated against Sabitri.Â
Blood sucking humans are not an oddity in India. In fact, back in 2011 there was a story from a village  of Madhya Pradesh, where a man had been drinking his wife’s blood for some three years to boost his virility. So you see ‘vampires’ are a growing tribe. Another Twilight movie anyone?
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