A man was shot dead by a fellow villager while testing a magic spell designed to make him bulletproof. 23-year-old Aleobiga Aberima, and around 15 other men from Lambu village, northeast Ghana, asked a jujuman -- their local witchdoctor -- to make them invincible to bullets. After smearing his body with a concoction of herbs every day for two weeks, Aberima volunteered to be shot to check if the spell had worked. Another villager fetched a rifle and shot Aberima who died instantly from a single bullet. Angry Lambu residents seized the jujuman and beat him severely until a village elder rescued him. Tribal clashes are common in Ghana's far north, where people often resort to witchcraft in the hope of becoming invulnerable to bullets, swords and arrows.
Magic Spell Fails
A man was shot dead by a fellow villager while testing a magic spell designed to make him bulletproof. 23-year-old Aleobiga Aberima, and around 15 other men from Lambu village, northeast Ghana, asked a jujuman -- their local witchdoctor -- to make them invincible to bullets. After smearing his body with a concoction of herbs every day for two weeks, Aberima volunteered to be shot to check if the spell had worked. Another villager fetched a rifle and shot Aberima who died instantly from a single bullet. Angry Lambu residents seized the jujuman and beat him severely until a village elder rescued him. Tribal clashes are common in Ghana's far north, where people often resort to witchcraft in the hope of becoming invulnerable to bullets, swords and arrows.
