Soccer shamans and African continental reps at the World Cup are clashing over plans to hex
the Kyoto football pitch.
The magazine said there was "a common thread of spiritual practices — animals sacrificed and their parts buried, midnight rituals, powders and smelly lotions that embraces every part of sub-Saharan Africa and spans every variation of football success."
Casting a spell on a team is so common that players sometimes will climb fences to enter a stadium rather than use the main gate, fearing a spell may have been put on it.
(Thanks, Brian!)
