Penis theft and shrinking is rampant in the Congo as witches are shrinking and in some cases penises disappear with a simple touch through black magic.  The people in the Congo are trying to lynch and kill those accused of practicing the black magic.

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.

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.

Police have arrested most of the victims and sorcerers to keep them from getting beaten to death as several were the last time this happened.

source: Reuters