There is apparently no place for pagan traditions in the 20th century, but this is far from being true. The examples are just near - there was a voodoo doll made after the prototype of the French President Nicolas Sarkozy. The French toy-maker organized the production of such exclusive souvenirs with the face of the French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Twenty thousand cardboard dolls with the face of the head of state came into the market with the pin set and the instruction for applying the voodoo magic. Nicolas Sarkozy began a legal action against the company, but all was in vain: the court of Paris considered the voodoo dolls to be "the manifestation of word and the French sense of humour" and did not honour the claim of the head of state. An American firm that put on sale the ceramic figurines resembling Bernard Madoff, the former director of the stock exchange NASDAQ, joined the creative trend. Madoff is accused of building one of the biggest financial pyramids ever, which caused large-scale losses for world’s biggest banks. As an attachment to this doll, there is a small hammer, with which you can break it any time you like. The devils in bright red costumes with tridents in their hands and faces of the great financial trickster were sold out instantly too. The doll was called "Smash Me Bernie", which can be interpreted as "Bernie that can be shattered" or "Bernie that can make you bankrupt". Meanwhile, a scandal has flared up in Gambia because of the revealed information about the witch-hunt that has been allegedly led in this country since January of this year. News reports said that the decease of the aunt of the President of State became the ground for capturing the inhabitants of villages and settlements. He suspected that witches had interfered into the lives of his relatives and finally caused the death of his beloved auntie. The mass capture of witch-resembling individuals began by order from the head of Gambia. More than a thousand men were arrested on charges of witchcraft and transported to secret prisons where they were given a hallucinogenic potion to drink, which made many of them suffer from renal insufficiency. Two of the detainees died. "The militarized police armored with submachine guns and spades surrounded our village and said that all residents who tried to flee would be dug into a grave," the BBC referring to the human rights organization Amnesty International quotes the words of an eyewitness of the raid to the village of Sintet. As is mentioned, members of power ministries selected about 300 men and women from the inhabitants, forced them into the buses and took them to Kanilai, the home town of the President.