http://www.reuters.com/locales/newsArti ... ?type=ente rtainmentNews&locale=en_IN&storyID=4683759

Perhaps the best castration news blurb I've ever seen.

I wonder if the ghosts were male or female. In the latter case, I can sympathize with the man's action.

Looks like the author of that article needs to use a dictionary. First he says the man severed his penis, then that he castrated himself. Maybe he doesn't know the difference.

Villagers in the deeply impoverished southeast Asian traditionally offer chicken, duck or cake to the spirits of the dead to ward off bad luck.

Hmmm,

Sounds to me like he made his own bad luck.

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