Depending on whom you believe, either a 107-year-old woman or a teenaged boy in Kano, Nigeria reportedly concocted a hideous plan that led to the arrest of both of them. What's not disputed, however, is that a second boy, 12-year-old Mustapha Yunus, is now missing an eye after Isah Hassan, 17, led him to a stream and attacked him with a knife. The eye, according to Isah, was to be used as part of a charm that would give him the power to disappear and reappear at will. Isah said the younger boy was maimed at the direction of Sayyada Furera Abubakar, the elderly witch doctor who agreed to prepare the charm. Abubakar denied his claim, maintaining that she deals strictly in herbal witchcraft. "He's lying," she asserted.
After several days without an arrest in the case, the boy and his family were reportedly relieved to learn that, thanks to an undercover operation by local police, Isah had been caught—while planning to steal yet another victim's eye. After the details of the case were investigated, both he and Abubakar were charged last week in the attack and are awaiting trial.