The title of the story from Reuters is…Penis Theft Panic Hits City. I am absolutely not making that up. In case you can’t get the link to work (and that would be a damn shame), here is the opening paragraph of the story:

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.

The police chief said this, and I just have to reprint it, so here you go:

“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.

There is so much to say that I’m not sure where to start.

Yes, I know this is serious stuff. People have been killed over this. I get all that. But, really, there’s something about this story that makes me want to write a witch-related novel. Of course, somewhere a former client of mine is screaming “I knew it!” because he insisted his wife had cursed him in this way. And I did not believe him…or agree to look at photos.

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