Ситаран
Simicoudza Simicourba (1858 - 1911), иначе известный как Ситаран , был вором и убийцей на острове Реюньон .
Биография
[ редактировать ]Ситаран родился в семье врачей -ведьм в португальских владениях Мозамбика . Он прибыл на остров Реюньон в 1889 году в возрасте 30 лет, чтобы работать по контракту в качестве наемного работника на земле, принадлежащей к моральнику г-на Сен-Бенуа , был назначен билет № 10 8958. Два года спустя он ушел это занятость и ушла в подполье. В 1906 году он встретил двух других преступников: Пьер-Эли Календрин (1869–1937), лидер банды, у которого была репутация ведьма, и Эммануэль Фонтейн (1886–1911), с которыми он совершил многочисленные акты Кража, некоторые из которых были предприняты таинственным и дерзким образом, а затем три убийства, где во время их сна было вырезано горло жертв (однако утверждается, что они несут ответственность за дюжину убийств).
Трио терроризировало жителей Сен-Пьер до ареста в 1909 году, а также около десяти сообщников.
The investigation also revealed that the three bandits had drunk and collected the blood of their victims as part of Calendrin's occult practices. Calendrin himself denied everything at the trial and was handed a sentence of forced labour for the rest of his life. The two others were sentenced to death and were sent to the guillotine.[1]
Just before his execution, Sitarane asked to be baptised.
Influence
[edit]Curiously, only the name Sitarane remains alive in local folklore and history, and today his grave - bedecked with flowers and candles - is the focus of a genuine cult.
According to the tradition of witchcraft on the island, many sorcerers call upon Sitarane's spirit when performing black magic.
It is also claimed that anyone planning a crime or a hold-up, or who is planning to misappropriate inheritance or murder their mother-in-law, prays at the grave of Sitarane at night so that his evil spirit might help them in their plans.
A story is still told of a man who, one night, left a butcher's knife at Sitarane's grave and then used it to murder his mistress who was watching a variety show in the square in front of the town hall with ten thousand other people.
It was the same cult that led Noël Clarel, a labourer working on archaeological digs at Pointe du Diable (a cape near Saint-Pierre), to take an 11-year-old child to a ravine and then strangle him. While undertaking his own digs at night in the hope of discovering the treasure that was supposedly hidden there, Clarel believed that finding it depended on sacrificing a child.
French author and historian Daniel Vaxelaire has written at least two books on the subject of Sitarane.[2][3] His (mythological) history based on what was related in his judgement was released in 2012.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Histoire de Sitarane célèbre bandit et sorcier africain La Réunion, tombe de sitarane cimetière de Saint-Pierre". La Réunion Mi-aime-a-ou (in French). Retrieved 30 December 2023.
- ^ Vaxelaire, Daniel. Les buveurs de sang, ou la véritable histoire de Sitarane. Orphie, 2008.
- ^ Vaxelaire, Daniel. Saint Ange et Sitarane : Les buveurs de sang. Orphie, 2011.
- ^ Maumont, So-Ye-Year. Мои, Ситаран . DiCriciae, 2012.