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﻿In fall of 2011, Yisa Anifowose of Nigeria acquired an amulet that he believed rendered him bulletproof. Trusting in the charm's magical powers, he asked a friend, John Taju, to shoot at him, believing that the bullets, under the charm's spell, would fall harmlessly away.



"I want you to shoot me as hard as you can."

So like any good friend, John Taju, who has only ever been able to afford one basket for all his eggs, decided to shoot his friend, during this trial run of the amulet, in the chest. Not the foot. Not some part of the upper arm. But the chest. This killed him instantly.

Unfortunately, something must have been wrong with the amulet because somehow the charm was not able to overcome the laws of physics when the bullet hit Anifowose and, surprisingly, killed him.

Even though he fired at Anifowose's request, Taju was arrested afterwards, citing "he told me so" as a poor defense for murder in the first degree.

Unfortunately for both Anifowose and Taju, they hadn't heard of the Ghanaian man who was killed in 2001 when the concoction of herbs a witchdoctor had given him to make him bulletproof failed to stop the test bullet a friend shot at him. Obviously it will take more than a few deaths to deter belief in bulletproof charms, because sometimes it's just kind of hard to accept something so awesome doesn't exist. Kind of like how you still try and move things with your mind every now and then.

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But even believers admit there are a lot of fakes on the market and any accidents that have happened while trying to prove that such a thing as a bullet proof spell exists have been attributed to the "unreliable market".

So follow the advice of one believer who suggested that before relying on such a charm for protection, test it on an animal first. Which his actually pretty good advice unless that animal runs away with your amulet/herb/spell.