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Thank you guys some very funny replys there .

I was reading in the last couple of weeks in DRC there has been a increase in PENIS thefts
not be cutting off but by Witch Craft ? ? and they are burning & hanging the culprits ? ?

It is (Brazzaville) Congo , CFA is official currency , but I'm hearing US funds mentioned a bit ,
Travellers cheques will not work im told .

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1. West African witchcraft and penis thefts go hand in hand. From an April 2008 article -

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.

Of course, the penises have not really disappeared.

“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.

2. One source for local news - it was alot more active back during the Civil War. http://allafrica.com/congo_brazzaville/

http://www.afrol.com/countries/congo_brazzaville

3. Ziplock baggies, good for hiding stuff where the sun never shines.

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