| Pair of Fertility Statues | |
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| Lust | |
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Origin |
Baule tribe |
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Type |
Male and Female Statues |
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Effects |
Increases fertility |
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Downsides |
Lowers promiscuity and sexual appetite |
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Activation |
Touching both or one |
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Collected by |
Pete Latimer and Myka Bering |
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Section |
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Aisle |
Baku-1280 |
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Shelf |
567966-8421-541 |
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Date of Collection |
2011 |
| [Source] | |
Origin[edit | edit source]
In 1994, Edward Muier was looking for artifacts bizarre enough to add to his Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum. Traveling to a small village on the Ivory Coast he found a curio shop which had the statues. Standing at five feet tall, a male and female, carved from solid ebony by a tribe called the Baule. A village shaman had used a ritual to bless it so that the women in his village would be blessed with fertility.
Effects[edit | edit source]
When touched at the same time increases a female's fertility. Touching a single one lowers a person’s promiscuity and sexual appetite.
Collection[edit | edit source]
Believing they were interesting enough Muier put them in the museum. Agents were alerted when several females in the town became pregnant within a short time including all the female employees of the museum.
