As best I could reconstruct from witness accounts, the stranger had stopped to purchase a cup of tea at the market. After handing over his money, he clasped the vendor’s hand. The tea seller felt an electric tingling course through his body and immediately sensed that his penis had shrunk to a size smaller than that of a baby’s. His yells quickly drew a crowd.
Somehow in the fray a second man fell victim as well.
Several eyewitnesses assured her the 'appendages did indeed shrink dramatically'.
I asked the town doctor what he thought. Could he help the victims? He shook his head slowly—as if trying to gauge how much I believed about the whole affair—and then responded,
“Western medicine is no match for this magic. It is a mysterious thing.”