CULT OF THUGEE
Namaste, anons. The pedovore con artists are not new. They have a rich history and a long tradition in India.
India has vast experience with criminal conartists cults; the "Thugee" worship antinomian gods and use drugs, hypnotic induction and kill with a ritual scarf. They rob, rape and sacrifice human beings.
>Thuggees worked by joining groups of travellers and gaining their trust before surprising them in the night and typically strangling them with a handkerchief or noose, a quick and quiet method, which left no blood and required no special weapons. They would then rob their victim and bury them carefully.
>Their crimes involved a high degree of teamwork and co-ordination both during the infiltration phase and at the moment of attack. Each member of the gang had a special function such as luring travellers with charming words, acting as a lookout, or taking the role of the killer.
>According to the Guinness Book of Records, the Thuggees were responsible for approximately two million deaths, however estimations vary widely since there is no reliable source to confirm when the practice first began.
https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends-asia/thuggees-cult-assassins-india-002145
>Accounts of a secret cult of murderers roaming India go back at least as far as the 13th century, but to modern history their story usually begins with the entrance of the British Empire in the early 1800s. For some years, India’s British administrators had been hearing reports of large numbers of travelers disappearing on the country’s roads; but, while disturbing, such incidents were not entirely unusual for the time. It was not until the discovery of a series of eerily similar mass graves across India that the truth began to dawn. Each site was piled with the bodies of individuals ritually murdered and buried in the same meticulous fashion, leading to an inescapable conclusion: these killings were the work of a single, nation-spanning organization. It was known as Thuggee.
https://www.damninteresting.com/the-thugs-of-india/
>The Thuggee, or Thugs of India, were history's most notorious and murderous cult to ever exist. Taking their name from Sanskrit, the word Thuggee means to conceal or to hide. Some historians speculate that the Thuggees were the first organized crime ring, believed to have began in the year 1300 (though they may have formed earlier than that), the Thuggees terrorized the well traveled routes of India, until they were virtually eradicated in the 1800s during British occupation.
What the original thug life looked like.
What the original thug life looked like.
Often Thuggees would travel around India befriending travelers. They would charm them and gain their trust, then at night while the travelers slept, they would tie silk scarves or nooses around their necks, strangle them, and collect all of the traveler's valuables. To the Thuggees, there were no immoral implications on what they were doing, because they regarded themselves as spiritual beings selected to offer balance to the world, according to Hindu belief. Even stranger is that not all Thuggees were Hindu, some members also claimed Muslim beliefs. Regardless of their members' religious affiliation, all pledged their allegiance to the Hindu Goddess Kali.
https://www.swordandscale.com/historys-most-blood-thirsty-cult/
CON ARTISTS
>And that’s before one delves into the intricacies of the process. Depending on the identity of their intended victims, the Thugs used a variety of personae and disguises (based on religion, caste and profession) to earn their confidence. And if a first attempt to fool them failed, the Thugs would often regroup and try again, using new tactics and different disguises.
STRANGLED with RITUAL SCARFS aka "RUMAL"
>Strangling someone to death with a rumal, or scarf, required a certain amount of skill. William Sleeman, the British administrator whose pioneering detective work eventually ended the practice of thuggee, describes it thus in 1839’s The Thugs or Phansigars of India: “One of the [Thugs] suddenly puts the cloth round the neck” of the victim and the other end of the cloth is seized by an accomplice. The rumal is drawn tight, the two Thugs pressing the head forward while a third Thug grabs the victim’s legs and throws him to the ground. “The man holding the legs of the miserable sufferer now kicks him in those parts of the body endowed with most sensibility and he is quickly dispatched
https://www.ozy.com/flashback/this-terrifying-indian-gang-strangled-105-people-in-one-winter/90616/