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If someone on the other side of the world claims to threaten you with supernatural spirits for deleting his promotional spam articles on Wikipedia, don't panic!
As global Internet access continues its relentless expansion into the most remote corners of the world, by 2020, less than half of all people online are from the
harassment
such as threats of involving African spirits summoned by village sorcerers.
While traditional African religions and animistic traditions are by large peaceful and involve benevolent spirits, certain disgruntled Wikipedia editors may attempt to invoke malevolent spirits in order to gain an upper hand.
While this may seem bizarre and at best comical to the average person from a developed industrialized society, threats involving
Only a foolish white man makes empty legal threats but our African ancestors know better ooo.
You are indeed an idle
WP:NOLEGALTHREATS
and instead use our own time honoured traditions in Nigeria.
Thus we have consulted a juju priest and master witch doctor who instructed us to partake together in his powerful secret rituals and sacrifice bush animals and use magic potions. The priest has summoned powerful protective spirits from the forest to protect us and our pages from MER-C so he shall not be able to find our accounts and delete our pages. Celestina007 can tell you how scary our Nigerian juju can be. Abeg [I beg] stop this nonsense or next calamity shall fall upon you and you will be posessed with Nigerian forest spirits that no oyibo mugu can ever cure oooooooooooo.
Needless to say, none of this has ever been scientifically proven, so there is nothing to worry about.
