As reported by ninemsn.com.au, an Indian clairvoyant allegedly kidnapped and decapitated a toddler before drinking the boy’s blood in a bid to attain magical powers.

Abdul Gafoor told police shortly after his arrest on Friday that he had a dream where “evil spirits” told him he would have to sacrifice a child if he wanted to possess supernatural abilities.

The Times of India reports the 31-year-old man and female friend Ramala Beevi, 28, snatched the one-year-old boy from a shrine in Madurai in the country’s south where the child’s widowed mother was living.

The boy was taken to Ramanathapuram, a nearby city, where Mr Gafoor, reported to be a clairvoyant practising black magic, slashed his throat and beheaded him.

The head and body were buried about 128km apart.

Police ordered Mr Gafoor to dig up the body, which was covered in a red cloth, beads and a portrait of the goddess Kali Amman.

The man has not yet been charged.