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Attackers chop off man's 'magic' leg :o :o :o
By OMER FAROOQ, Associated Press Writer
Thu Dec 13, 4:30 PM ET
HYDERABAD, India - Two men attacked an 80-year-old, self-proclaimed holy man in southern India and chopped off his right leg, apparently believing it had magical powers, police said Thursday.
Yanadi Kondaiah, who claimed that those who touched his leg would be cured of illness or have wishes granted, was hospitalized in serious condition after the attack Tuesday, said R. Ravindranath Reddy, a senior police officer.
"We are looking for the miscreants as well as the leg," Reddy told The Associated Press by telephone from the Chittoor district, a remote area 340 miles south of Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh state.
"This seems to be a case of superstition. The two people might have taken away the leg hoping to benefit from its magical powers," said Pendakanti Dastgiri, the police officer handling the case.
Superstitions, belief in magic and the occult remain widespread in much of rural India.
Kondaiah told police that two men offered him a drink as thanks for previously helping them with his magical touch.
After he passed out drunk, the men chopped off the leg below the knee with a sickle and left him to die, said Dastgiri, adding that passing villagers found him and took him to a hospital.
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Oh my! This may spell trouble for VinceG and his 'magic stick'. Did he ever reveal to all of us what it was?
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Attackers chop off man's 'magic' leg...VinceG and his 'magic stick'. Did he ever reveal to all of us what it was?
Do you want us to speculate? :-X
Thanks, Judy.
“Imagination-land” is no longer a fun place to visit.
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Do you want us to speculate? :-X
Thanks, Judy.
“Imagination-land” is no longer a fun place to visit.
:-X Oooops, Sorry.
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Attackers chop off man's 'magic' leg :o :o :o
By OMER FAROOQ, Associated Press Writer
Thu Dec 13, 4:30 PM ET
HYDERABAD, India - Two men attacked an 80-year-old, self-proclaimed holy man in southern India and chopped off his right leg, apparently believing it had magical powers, police said Thursday.
Yanadi Kondaiah, who claimed that those who touched his leg would be cured of illness or have wishes granted, was hospitalized in serious condition after the attack Tuesday, said R. Ravindranath Reddy, a senior police officer.
"We are looking for the miscreants as well as the leg," Reddy told The Associated Press by telephone from the Chittoor district, a remote area 340 miles south of Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh state.
"This seems to be a case of superstition. The two people might have taken away the leg hoping to benefit from its magical powers," said Pendakanti Dastgiri, the police officer handling the case.
Superstitions, belief in magic and the occult remain widespread in much of rural India.
Kondaiah told police that two men offered him a drink as thanks for previously helping them with his magical touch.
After he passed out drunk, the men chopped off the leg below the knee with a sickle and left him to die, said Dastgiri, adding that passing villagers found him and took him to a hospital.
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Oh my! This may spell trouble for VinceG and his 'magic stick'. Did he ever reveal to all of us what it was?
Jag, If you come to the US I'll let you touch my magic "leg"
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Jag, If you come to the US I'll let you touch my magic "leg"
ummm... no thank you. :-X
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ummm... no thank you. :-X
it has the ability to grant your wishes - you just have to believe
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it has the ability to grant your wishes - you just have to believe
{lol} Perhaps those guys in Hyderabad could chop it off and mail it to me?
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{lol} Perhaps those guys in Hyderabad could chop it off and mail it to me?
good thinking but unfortunately the magic only works if it's attached to my body
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good thinking but unfortunately the magic only works if it's attached to my body
I think you need to post a picture of it on the board before I answer that one. :-X
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I think you need to post a picture of it on the board before I answer that one. :-X
can't do it - taking a picture of it would capture it's magic
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can't do it - taking a picture of it would capture it's magic
uh huh. {blink} {blink}
Then I wouldn't have to fly to the US and touch it then would I? I could just look at it and make a wish. :D
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uh huh. {blink} {blink}
Then I wouldn't have to fly to the US and touch it then would I? I could just look at it and make a wish. :D
it seems like you know nothing about the properties of wish granting magic legs
the photo would capture it's magic rendering it inert.
in order for the magic to work it needs to be activated by my life force
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it seems like you know nothing about the properties of wish granting magic legs
the photo would capture it's magic rendering it inert.
in order for the magic to work it needs to be activated by my life force
Hmmmm, ...then maybe YOU should be the one touching it if the magic is activated by your life force?
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Hmmmm, ...then maybe YOU should be the one touching it if the magic is activated by your life force?
rarely a day goes by that I don't
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rarely a day goes by that I don't
Well it must have worked. I got my wish... Laura got snowed in in Boston and couldn't get back to sunny Florida. ;D j/k Laura.
Ok, now that the magic is already activated (meaning I don't have to touch it) ...for my 2nd wish...