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Date: October 31, 2019 01:38PM
I had to post this, although it is not really germane to the argument. But as I was saying above, even Mormon Africans still buy into sorcery and witchcraft. In 2005, when we arrived in Kinshasa for my tour there, the city was in the grips of violence caused by people believing that shamans and witches were selling so-called "fetishes" to shrink or destroy the penises of their enemies. No one I knew had had it done to them, of course, but they all swore that they had friends or relatives that it had happened to. Some people reported getting on public transportation with a penis, and discovering their penis had disappeared by the time they arrived at their destination. Weird stuff. Here's the Reuters article on the subject. Oddly enough, the article was from 2008, about 3 years or so from the time I first remembered it happening.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-congo-democratic-witchcraft/lynchings-in-congo-as-penis-theft-panic-hits-capital-idUSL2290323220080422In the context of religion and Mormonism, this is what the churches still deal with there. Even your average Congolese bishop or stake president will still believe in this.