One churchman was confronted with a village of people who genuinely believed the claims of a woman who claimed to be a witch and who said, amongst other things, that she could turn herself into a puff of smoke and leave a locked room through the keyhole.
One device will produce enough clean water to support a village of 300 people.
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Estaing is a fairytale village of just 600 people with a castle and a 16th-century Gothic bridge over the Lot River that has been awarded Unesco World Heritage status.
There's no land, no space for a car park as it's a tiny village of 350 people.
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Most significantly, there are 200 new households in a village of 5, 000 people, some of whom have returned from towns and cities.
Despite this, it has already set aside money from sales to fund water projects, including one in a village of 10, 000 people in the Tamil Nadu region of India, where Belu has created four sources of water for the town, sanitation blocks for children and hygiene education.
As a result of poverty and lack of education at village level, some people thought, he said, that they could divorce a spouse on the authority of the village council or even by rejecting their wife and sending her back to her family's home.
Wukan, a coastal fishing and farming village of about 12, 000 people, is a collection of squat stone homes connected by narrow pathways.
Nandgaon, a village of some 1, 700 people, most of them farmers, is a microcosm of bachelor angst.
Al Khiyam, for instance, is a hilltop village of 30, 000 people that was heavily shelled, though never occupied by Israeli troops.
In Eber, a village of about 1, 000 people, 15 people were crushed to death in houses made of sun-dried mud bricks and wood.
Also at issue is the proposed inclusion of traditional adat, or unwritten laws at the village level, in a sprawling archipelagic nation of 240 million people where local mores can vary widely.
But I lived in a pit village and I knew many of the people that were on strike and I knew the way these people had to go out at night to gather waste coal just to keep their houses warm over the winter of '84-'85 and the impact that had on people.
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In Nway's village, 120 people out of a population of 430 people lost their lives.
The couple settled in their village of Kuznetskov in part because the village administration offered them a vacant log cabin, these people said.
"This is enough to provide water for a village or town of 2, 000 to 3, 000 people, " he adds.
His village in the Amazon rainforest has a population of only 600 people and it takes five days of travelling by boat to reach the nearest town.
Rasool said his decision to leave his home in Hisarak district came nearly a month ago after a particularly blistering air assault killed five people in the neighboring village of Meya Saheeb.
In 2000, the mountain village of Gondo was almost completely devastated by a landslide, killing 13 people.
Dozens of people attended a drop-in session at Pangbourne Village Hall on Saturday, where they could talk to Reading West MP Alok Sharma and West Berkshire district councillor Pamela Bale.
"I thought this could be the center of this village ... (a) place where people could come and discuss the world and how we can affect it in a positive way, " he added.
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The Eastern region has a long list of schemes which, for decades, businesses, motorists and local residents have been longing for: people were talking about a by-pass for the village of Elveden on the A11 back in the 1970s and there was talk of completely dualling the A47 in Norfolk in a 1988 government white paper.
Village chief Margaret Thole explains that they have started to tell people in the village of the importance of delivering in a hospital.
At least 14 people have died in clashes to end the siege of a village in Malaysia's Sabah province by a Philippines clan, police say.
Later the same day in Kashmir, 19 people - 14 of them children - were killed in a remote village.
Set in a fictional Ainu village (the Ainu are the bearded, lighter-skinned indigenous people of Japan) the story revolves around The Order of Akane, a group of demon hunters tasked with ridding the village of demons.
People living in a Herefordshire village have said they feel stranded after the building of a new road bridge was delayed.
They wanted to help develop it, they wanted to be able to say I had a part in creating this incredible new form that brings people across the world together, makes the world more of a global village as we call it.
The panel is strategically located in the village of Bujama, an area south of the capital city that is almost a desert, where some people have no access to clean water.
After a shooting in Raurimu in New Zealand last year in which six people died, members of the tiny community huddled together in a classroom at the village school, to avoid reporters.
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