Abbey Marie
04-24-2008, 02:24 AM
I can just hear these men on a date: "Baby, it's not really that small. The witch doctor shrunk it, I swear!"
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men's penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.
Reports of so-called penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, where belief in traditional religions and witchcraft remains widespread, and where ritual killings to obtain blood or body parts still occur.
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Purported victims, 14 of whom were also detained by police, claimed that sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear, in what some residents said was an attempt to extort cash with the promise of a cure.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080423/od_nm/witchcraft_dc_1;_ylt=ApuVfl_JoDkMaFMBO7ETMwcL1vAI
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men's penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.
Reports of so-called penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, where belief in traditional religions and witchcraft remains widespread, and where ritual killings to obtain blood or body parts still occur.
...
Purported victims, 14 of whom were also detained by police, claimed that sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear, in what some residents said was an attempt to extort cash with the promise of a cure.
...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080423/od_nm/witchcraft_dc_1;_ylt=ApuVfl_JoDkMaFMBO7ETMwcL1vAI