Supernatural Phallus

[KaiserJ]

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/gl ... ling-curse

[Panda]

That is wacky.

[smoth]

The song detachable penis comes to mind

[hoijui]

maybe the pastor used his real penis, but cause the women were afraid to admit they had sex with him when they got pregnant, them villagers agreed it must have been a magic one. could also have been someone elses real penis of course, or multiple ones.. like each women having a different lover.
now if they would have followed the real course of events, they would have had to slay all the lovers and women to death. now it was only a single man. plus the women can officially keep their dignity (never slept with someone else then their own man, at most). does not sound stupid at all, to me, but practically efficient.

[PicassoCT]

this would just be funny, if there was not the tragedy of the never ending party behind this.

In africa (and by now in europe, traditions emigrate with the people who carry them) those who have wealth attract envy, and if you attract envy and dont share, you become target of this mixture of mob, tradition and magic, and it completely ruins you, by cutting off all your social ties, forcing you to pay tremendous amounts of money for medicine against the hexes and curses.

There is a fascinating book about this
http://www.amazon.de/Die-%C3%96konomie- ... 977&sr=8-1

Sorry its german only, couldnt find a english version.. maybe there is a french version of this

I know this sounds lulzy is you read it from afar, but imagine you win the lottery, and suddenly everybody is asking you for favours, and you decline, and the whole town you live in starts to cut you, on a massive scale- and suddenly all those poor and lazy relatives drop by to hang out at your house, and suck you dry to the bone. And there is nothing you can do about it - because the judge and the police chief visit the same shaman, your mother in law does. End of success-story.

[1v0ry_k1ng]

this seems like a good argument for not building wells in these countries

[BaNa]

They also accused his wife of turning into a snail and terrorizing the community.



:D :D

I'm sorry guys, I know its not funny cause they lynched the dude and all that but CMON.

[PicassoCT]

The witchcraft aint real. But the social mafia behind it is.

Guess he was to successfull, or attacked the parasitic shamans, and all those lazys attached to them. If threatend, every peacefull religion - even animism, can get pretty nasty, pretty fast.

the real problem is, that this sort of mentality can even survive without the magic narrative for decades. After all it helps pulling a comunity together, and helps it survive, although on the price of no real big advances at all.

If you studied hard, got a good job, and suddenly your poor parents dropped by with that bad apple of a brother in tow, threatening to disown you (backed up by the local authoritys) would you cave in?

I would, i guess, nowhere to run too.

[Wombat]

this seems like a good argument for not building wells in these countries

so lold.

phallolucious thread

[fc14159]

They also accused his wife of turning into a snail and terrorizing the community.



:D :D

I'm sorry guys, I know its not funny cause they lynched the dude and all that but CMON.

Thank God, I thought I was the only terrible person here.

[PicassoCT]

I sometimes tranfer to a snake at night, but then i haunt mice, and get cold, and sleepy, so i dont get to terrorize people - unless i find a warm and cozy spot. Right, the shrooms... probably should stop them before they melt my mind...

[Forboding Angel]

Totally applicable: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74J_R9Bi ... re=related

[AF]

Reports of recent advances in Africa have been greatly exagerated