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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.
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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.

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.
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QUOTE (gaia.plateau @ Apr 24 2008, 10:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
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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.
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im so sorry r1v3th3ad..
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Wow... over here when unlucky sorts feel their bits getting a bit noodley they take some pills and they're better. I guess in Africa they just have to try killing the neighbors. Maybe the same time they figure out that ED isn't witchcraft, they might also figure out that aids isn't cured by having sex with the uninfected. laugh.gif

This topic reminded me of a clip on the onion: http://youtube.com/watch?v=gyGHHxUFY6w

I lol'd
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QUOTE (mathuv @ Apr 24 2008, 03:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
QUOTE (gaia.plateau @ Apr 24 2008, 10:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080423/od_nm/...ClvHtx9Y08DW7oF


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.
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im so sorry r1v3th3ad..

what?
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QUOTE (voski @ Apr 24 2008, 08:26 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
He might be implying that your penis has been shrunk. At what point in your life I don't know
O snap

Well, the woman hasn't complained wink.gif but I wouldn't know, could be with all this abnormal weight gain I've been experiencing. I don't measure my cawk ohmy.gif
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sry to penis snatch... o i meen thread snatch (freudian slip ha ha), anyways its moot point to call anything in the relm of roleplaying anything but a refference to D&D because they started this whole +5 to dmg, str, agl, mana, pow, dex, wiz, snk, dodge, personality, int....

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