Penis Theft article
Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 2:24 pm
I thought you would find this article interesting:
http://www.bloggingwv.com/penis-theft/
Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink mens 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.
Im tempted to say its one huge joke, Oleko said.
But when you try to tell the victims that their penises are still there, they tell you that its become tiny or that theyve become impotent.
Its real. Just yesterday here, there was a man who was a victim. We saw. What was left was tiny, said 29-year-old Alain Kalala, who sells phone credits near a Kinshasa police station.
http://www.bloggingwv.com/penis-theft/
Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink mens 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.
Im tempted to say its one huge joke, Oleko said.
But when you try to tell the victims that their penises are still there, they tell you that its become tiny or that theyve become impotent.
Its real. Just yesterday here, there was a man who was a victim. We saw. What was left was tiny, said 29-year-old Alain Kalala, who sells phone credits near a Kinshasa police station.
