Posted: Apr 28, 2008, 11:44 PM CST
The Herald, Zimbabwe Nov. 15, 1999
" A Mbare man who thought he could get away with refusing to pay a prostitute for services rendered will forever rue his decision after the prostitute cast a spell which resulted in him losing his private organs on Saturday.
Police confirm the disappearance of the man's private parts yesterday. The man, who recovered his parts yesterday morning after paying his dues, had spent the greater part of Friday night with the woman before he slipped from her lodgings on the pretext that he was going to the toilet, which was several metres away.
Unfortunately, his trick back-fired when he woke to find his private parts missing the following morning. Fearing his wife;s reaction and desperate to confirm that the parts were, indeed, missing, he went to the nearby Mbare Musika toilet, where, on confirming the parts disappearance, he ran around the crowded terminus screaming and clutching his groin.
Police officers took him to their post, where the prostitute was summoned after he narrated his problem. Although denying that she had cast a spell on him, the prostitute, in the presence of the man's wife, told the officers that she could solve the problem if he apologized and paid for services rendered, plus interest. As part of the punishment she said the parts would, however, return to him the following day.
:The man was here this morning to confirm that his parts were back. It is really embarrassing for a married man to have to go through this experience for a small sum of $60, said one officer at Mbare Musika police post.
There was the Khartoum Penis Panic in 2003. $0 men were hospitalized after having their penises 'stolen' by a mysterious West African.
The shrinking penis panic that swept through Khartoum was the latest outbreak of KORO, a psychiatric disorder that cause, it is believed, men to believe their penises, (or more rarely women to believe their labia) have shrunk into their bodied or that witches have stolen them.
This would make a hell of a comedy in a movie.