Muti: ritual murder of children
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Many muti murders are of young children whose body parts are thought to provide more potent medicine. Despite South Africa being the most developed African economy, a large part of its population still believes power and wealth are better guaranteed by witchdoctors than stockbrokers and market analysts.
"Persons who want to do better, people who want to be promoted at work, gamblers and politicians who want to win and even bank robbers who seek to get away with crime turn to muti," said Labuschagne.
How the body parts are used varies according to what one wants to achieve. The victim's body parts, and sometimes the contents of the victim's skull, are sometimes used as ingredients for diabolical get-rich-quick concoctions that are eaten, drunk or smeared over the ambitious person.
Various body parts are used for different purposes. A man who had difficulty fathering children killed a father of several and used his victim's genitalia for muti purposes. In another case, a butcher slapped each of his products with a severed human hand every morning before opening, as a way of invoking the spirits to beckon customers.
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Posted by: Epicurist | August 23, 2004 4:37 PM