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.
Rumors 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 . . .
. . . "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.
Just a reminder folks, this is the year 2008, we have landed men on the moon, invented the hot dogs on a stick, breast augmentation and many other wonderful things, and yet across the globe people still believe in witchcraft.
Back here in the states nearly 40% of Americans still believe in George Bush's weapons of mass deception.
Personally, I'll stick with the witchcraft. (without the shrinkage of course)
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