SUP KOOOOOOOOOOKS! This here's another installment in the semi-regular series called THE OCCULT CRIME ATLAS! This one takes us to India, where there's a lot of human sacrifice, like a LOT! Holy shit! PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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SOURCES:

- All India Police Gazette Archives (colonial and post-independence)

- Bombay Presidency Police Records (1900–1947)

- Bengal Presidency Criminal Investigation Files

- Madras Presidency Police Special Branch Reports

- Uttar Pradesh State Police Occult Crime Dossiers

- Bihar/Jharkhand Witchcraft-Related Homicide Case Files

- Kerala State Police Elanthoor Investigation Records (2022)

- Delhi Police Burari Deaths Forensic Reports (2018)

- Maharashtra State Anti-Superstition Unit Case Files

- The Times of India — colonial-era crime reporting (1900–1947)

- Amrita Bazar Patrika — Bengal witchcraft trial coverage

- The Hindu — Madras Presidency occult crime reports

- Hindustan Times — post-independence ritual crime documentation

- Indian Express — Stoneman murder investigation coverage (1980s)

- Malayala Manorama — Kerala esoteric crime reporting

- Regional-language dailies (Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Marathi, Odia)

- Crime beat reporting: Delhi Monkey-Man panic (2001)

- Investigative journalism archives: Noida Nithari coverage (2006)

- Documentary journalism: Burari deaths forensic analysis (2018)

- Field reporting: Chhattisgarh witchcraft violence (2020–2025)

- Indian Journal of Psychiatry — mass hysteria and psychogenic illness studies

- Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology — ritual homicide case studies

- Anthropological Survey of India — tribal shamanism and witchcraft accusation patterns

- Legal history reviews — colonial-era anti-superstition legislation

- Religious studies scholarship — Tantra, Vamachara, and folk esotericism in South Asia

- Census of India — special reports on witchcraft-related mortality

- Ministry of Home Affairs — internal security reports on mass panic incidents

- State Crime Records Bureaus — occult-linked homicide statistics

- Law Commission of India — reports on anti-superstition legislation

- Society for Psychical Research archives — early 20th-century poltergeist investigations

- Indian Army border observation post logs — high-altitude aerial phenomena

- Maritime records — Arabian Sea anomalous sightings (1909)

- Railway Police Archives — Stoneman murder investigation files

- Sajal Nag (ed.), Black Magic, Witchcraft and Occultism: Secret Cultural Practices in India (Manohar/Routledge, 2023) — including chapters on the Kecaikhati cult, U Thlen, human sacrifice in Assam, Mayong, Naga lycanthropy, and Khasi-Pnar witchcraft

- Edward Gait, A History of Assam (1905); E. Gait, "Human Sacrifices in Ancient Assam" (1898)

- J. H. Hutton, "Leopard-Men in the Naga Hills" (1920); "Some Astronomical Beliefs in the North-East" (1925)

- P. R. T. Gurdon, The Khasis (1906)

- W. B. Brown, An Outline Grammar of the Deori Chutiya Language (1895)