| September 30, 2004 | - A penis snatcher was beaten to death in Nigeria.
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iAfrica
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| August 5, 2004 | - Several Nigerian
sorcerers were arrested after skulls, body parts, and 50 corpses were found in shrines belonging to a cult called Alusi Okija; the chief priest of the cult was not arrested, however, because he's an old man and police didn't want him to die in custody.
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Associated Press
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| March 28, 2004 | - People in Angola were beating and torturing their own children because they believe them to be sorcerers.
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Chicago Tribune
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| February 11, 2004 | - Four Nigerians were charged with stealing a 13-year-old boy's eyes to use in an invisibility potion.
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The Age
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| October 18, 2003 | -
Thai protesters captured the soul of George W. Bush, imprisoned it in a clay pot, and then drowned it in the Ping River.
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Agence France-Presse
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| October 17, 2003 | - A Buddhist abbot in Thailand cured a sick woman with a magic wooden penis.
| Source:
Ananova
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| October 10, 2003 | - A penis-snatcher was beaten to death in Gambia.
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Reuters
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| September 29, 2003 | -
Witchcraft
killings and mutilations were on the rise in South Africa.
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New York Times
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| January 21, 2003 | -
Orthodox prelates in Cyprus called for a ban of the latest Harry Potter movie because it promotes wizardry and casts a demonic spell on children.
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| March 20, 2001 | - A man in Ghana was shot dead while testing a magic spell that was supposed to make him bulletproof; villagers severely beat their incompetent witch doctor.
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| January 30, 2001 | -
Congo's president Laurent Kabila was buried; he was killed by his bodyguards, all of whom were recruited by Kabila as children when he was a rebel commander. They said they did it “because of suffering.” Johnny and Luther Htoo, a pair of twin boys who until last week were the leaders of the Burmese rebel group God's Army, admitted that they did not have magic powers or an invisible army under their command; Luther told a reporter that he just wanted “to live as a family” with his parents.
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