In Uganda, cases of smuggling of parts of human bodies for witchcraft rites have become more frequent

The border police on Thursday interrogated a man arrested when trying to smuggling across the Kenyan border in Uganda a human head packed in a paper bag. The police threatened Ugandan with a shooting after he tried to escape at the time of his detention in the border city of Busia, writes The Daily Telegraph (translation on the websiteinopressa.ru ).

After the arrest, he told the officers that he was going to deliver the man’s newly reminded head to his constant client in Uganda and was supposed to receive about 180 dollars for her.

The authorities of East Africa expresses concerns in connection with the growth of the trade of units of human bodies used by sorcerers-diggers in their rites. These sorcerers reproduce similar practices that exist in Western and South Africa. Typically, traditional crops do not recognize the use of parts of the human body to make healing potions, but desperate people resort to the use of parts of the human body, if the sacrifice of animals is an insufficiently effective remedy, the newspaper writes.

The shell of the stomach is used to send pain to enemies. Nails from the fingers and legs - for the preparation of poisons, and eyebrows, hair and noses are often used to apply curses. The strongest magic rites are made using genitals.

Murders associated with witchcraft reach a peak in the crop season, when, as some believe, if the ground and buildings are sprinkled with dried and crushed human insides and fresh blood, then things will flourish, the publication notes.