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It's supposed to ward off unwanted male attention.

Indians in Paraguay shot her with arrows and burned her.

Zimbabwe minister says contraceptives were invented to prevent black births.

Her father joins in.

And non-Muslims will have to ride horses side saddle.

The futility of trying to make things work in West Africa.

A neat way to avoid fornication and adultery.

Each year 500 "witches" are lynched in Tanzania.

Some cases have resulted in death.

The punishment is 15 to 20 years in prison.

Natives think Ebola was invented by whites to kill blacks.

Liberian professor says the US infects Africans through vaccines.

Marrying a dog supposed to rid her of evil spirits.

Poachers kill them for various reasons.

Club-wielding raiders yelled "there's no Ebola!"

The Bukusu people insist that strangers adopt Bukusu customs.

They believed reading the owl Bible passages would force it to turn into a woman.

New Kru Town has 50,000 people and almost no functioning toilets.

VICE shows how blacks' attitudes help spread Ebola.

Most were cut before they came but last year there were 1,300 cases in Britain.

Victims don't seek treatment because they think the disease is sorcery.

Museveni says his people can get along without aid if they "stop sleeping."

Disease has already killed 500 people.

Puerto Rican custom comes to America.

Asylum seekers bring their customs to Sweden.

“We need to unite, we must declare jihad.”

A Pakistani man living in Brooklyn wanted goat for dinner.

In the Central African Republic, 60 percent of the women in prison are convicted witches.

39 percent believe in "the evil eye."

Nigerians want to use their "spiritual hunting skills" to take on Boko Haram.

It's lawful to cut clitorises in Somliland. It is done with only local anesthetic.

There are an estimated 66,000 victims of the procedure living in Britain.

It was long assumed he drowned.

Primitive commerce on the shores of Lake Victoria.

They are told they must lose their virginity or they will get a skin disease.

A few people are waking up to the crisis.

He and his accomplices are all "Christian."

Eating grass "demonstrates that, with God's power, we can do anything."

"I used to practice witchcraft around here, bewitching the Boers during apartheid."

. . . coming to your neighborhood.

One-child policy increased demand for stolen children.

But only Chinese cockroaches have medical benefits.

100 lashes for unmarried sinners.

In Montreal, hymen reconstruction is the second-most-popular kind of surgery.

Wife is killed if her parents can't come up with enough cash.

Many Japanese prefer virtual or sham relationships.

Africans pound and burn the chests of young girls to prevent breasts from developing.

Two men visiting a resort island were burned to death.

The University of Lagos has commended this research.

Millions have been aborted.

60 percent of Papua New Guineans interviewed admitted to rape.

Imported barbarism.

In 2011, the "Anti-Witchcraft Unit" prosecuted 586 cases of magical crime.

He may have to come to America to save his mustache and his family.

Education can eliminate "racism."

Haitian immigrant says she's "coming for all you white (expletives)."

5,000 teenagers have been hospitalized in South Africa in the past seven years.

Authorities do not investigate because of "cultural sensitivity."

Zambian teachers complain they are having sex with people they cannot see.

Her lawyer says it is a contract dispute.

Pakistanis bring their charming practices to Britain.

At least they caught these two.

Diversity keeps the police busy.

The vigilantes' evidence was a swarm of fireflies.

New Guineans bring African behavior to Asia.

"White privilege" strikes again.

They will be fined if they go over 150 meters.

Brains are not enough.

Mexican Catholics mix indigenous religiosity with Christianity.

But all cultures are, of course, equal.

When you import people, you import their problems.

The con started in San Francisco and has moved East.

The Congolese have a fool-proof method for determining if someone is a witch.

So long as they are not Sunnis.

Just can't get good help these days.