Killing someone's Soul ... Emotionally Dead has to be the Worst Death! Bone Pointing ... A strange method of execution used by Aborigines. Supposedly the practice never fails to kill despite the fact that the victim is never physically harmed. The practice leaves no trace whatsoever on the condemned. This practice is carried out by a Kurdaitcha, or a ritual executioner. The name Kurdaitcha comes from the slippers that the Kurdaitcha wear. These slippers, made of cockatoo or emu feathers and human hair are completely silent when the user walks in them. The Kurdaitcha will use this silence to quickly hunt down the person to be killed if the person has fled. Once the person is caught the Kurdaitcha will go down onto one knee and point the kundela, or killing bone (which will have been charged with a psychic energy in a previous ritual), at the condemned. A kurdaitcha, or kurdaitcha man, also spelt gadaidja, cadiche, kadaitcha, karadji, or kaditcha (Arrernte orthography: kwertat...
In February 2021, actress and humanitarian Ashley Judd suffered a catastrophic leg injury after tripping over a fallen tree in the Congo rainforest while tracking endangered bonobos. Her harrowing 55-hour rescue involved local Congolese villagers carrying her through the jungle and a six-hour motorbike evacuation before she reached trauma care in South Africa. The Accident Occurred during an early morning research walk in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Judd tripped over an unseen fallen log in the dim light, shattering her right leg in four places and causing nerve damage. She spent five hours lying on the forest floor in shock and intense pain before help arrived. The 55-Hour Rescue Papa Jean located her after a five-hour search and manually reset her broken bone on the spot. Dieumerci used his own leg to support and immobilize her injured limb. Six local men carried her out of the remote forest via an improvised hammock. Didier and Maradona transported her on a gru...
