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04-25-2008, 02:52 PM
|  | Occam's chainsaw | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: goin down in a blaze of glory
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| | | Penis stealing sorcerers
Lynchings in Congo as penis theft panic hits capital | Reuters Quote:
By Joe Bavier
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.
Rumours of penis theft began circulating last week in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo's sprawling capital of some 8 million inhabitants. They quickly dominated radio call-in shows, with listeners advised to beware of fellow passengers in communal taxis wearing gold rings.
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.
"You just have to be accused of that, and people come after you. We've had a number of attempted lynchings. ... You see them covered in marks after being beaten," Kinshasa's police chief, Jean-Dieudonne Oleko, told Reuters on Tuesday.
Police arrested the accused sorcerers and their victims in an effort to avoid the sort of bloodshed seen in Ghana a decade ago, when 12 suspected penis snatchers were beaten to death by angry mobs. The 27 men have since been released.
"I'm tempted to say it's one huge joke," Oleko said.
"But when you try to tell the victims that their penises are still there, they tell you that it's become tiny or that they've become impotent. To that I tell them, 'How do you know if you haven't gone home and tried it'," he said.
Some Kinshasa residents accuse a separatist sect from nearby Bas-Congo province of being behind the witchcraft in revenge for a recent government crackdown on its members.
"It's 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.
(For full Reuters Africa coverage and to have your say on the top issues, visit: africa.reuters.com/ )
(Editing by Nick Tattersall and Mary Gabriel)
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04-25-2008, 07:20 PM
|  | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Westport, New Zealand
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| | | I bet loads of guys use this excuse on the first night... shame on the girls who, it seems, possibly even believe them.
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04-25-2008, 07:24 PM
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| | | pix or it didnt happen!
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04-25-2008, 07:41 PM
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| | | i know id be way more forgiving of pinky dick if someone told me a sorcerer stole his cock.
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04-25-2008, 08:05 PM
|  | heavens to murgatroyd | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: hospice for the terminally ill
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| | | Even a shrunken Congonian's penis is probably still bigger than most white guys' never even afflicted by voodoo. |
04-27-2008, 05:35 PM
|  | Inventor of the Rapedar | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: nTown, UK
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| | | I'm sure there was something like this in the Fortean Times about 10-12 years ago. I remember specifically the use of the word "sorcerors". |
04-28-2008, 10:08 PM
|  | Part-time narcoleptic | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Oxford and London, of the cold old UK
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| | Ahhhh, we talked about this in another forum here recently: Genital retraction syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Its a very common culture-bound syndrome. I remember when I was doing my masters last year that people in Benin wanted their own loos not for hygiene purposes, or smells, or to avoid long walks etc. A far more common argument than all of those was "To avoid people stealing my faeces for witchcraft against me". Which I have strangely never worried about before now. Maybe I should. Maybe the French are stealing our poo that gets flushed into the sea from the sewers are cursing us all. Would explain a lot... |
04-28-2008, 10:37 PM
|  | EXTERMINATE. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: aotearoa
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| | | that is so facinating. seriously.
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