Rooster crows inside man after hooker's spell

Rooster crows inside man after hooker's spell

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By Staff Reporter

A ZIMBABWEAN man on trial for theft stunned a magistrate by asking for temporary release in order to pay a hooker for her services after hearing a rooster crowing inside him, local media reported.

The man, Gift Moyo, from the remote district of Insuza in Matabeleland North believes a hooker from the southern border town of Beitbridge cast a spell on him after he failed to pay for her services for two days spent at her house.

Moyo, appearing before Tsholotsho magistrate Abednico Ndebele, said he was failing to sleep -- and the chicken noises were keeping other remand prisoners awake.

He told the court that on regular nights at around 2am, he could hear fairly loud 'chicken noises' inside him.

A magistrate could now set legal precedent after saying he would visit his cell to hear the 'chicken noises' before deciding on bail.

"Moyo told the magistrate that he wanted to to go to Beitbridge and pay the hooker," reports the vernacular Umthunywa (see website) newspaper.

Moyo, who faces an unrelated charge of stealing $8,5 million from a farm where he is employed as a labourer, told the court how he had been looked after by the hooker for two days on a diet of chicken and eggs.

"He told the court that he had visited Beitbridge where he looked for a prostitute for the night," the paper reported.

The paper said after pulling an unnamed woman, he was led to her house in the town where he spent two days. He was fed a regular diet of the local staple sadza and chicken with eggs in the morning.

"After two days being well looked after by this woman," Umthunywa reported, "Moyo bade her farewell and flatly refused to pay for her services. The hooker simply told him to go well, but warned she would get even with him."

Magistrate Ndebele could now set legal history in Zimbabwe after telling the court that he would be visiting the prisoner's cell together with the prosecutor, Fritz Madida, to hear for himself the 'chicken noises'.

Although Zimbabwe's justice system did not recognise the existence of witchcraft until recently, the majority of Zimbabweans have individual stories to tell about incidents of witchcraft.

In response to widespread belief in and fear of witchcraft, the government has initiated the Witchcraft Suppression Act (WSA), which prohibits the practice of witchcraft, but also calls for prosecution of those falsely accusing others of the practice or engaging in witch hunts.
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