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“We are going to a place where there are all types of wodoo that you canimagine, outside there were all the figures (…) those who go there know that theyare going to make wodoo (…), it is like a building, there are all sorts of types offigures that you can imagine, monsters, etc. ” (Interview Victim No.7).“If you see what they do it will frighten you” (Interview Victim No.2).“There are various ways, they use water, all sorts of herbs that smell, perhapsthey have put a six month old herb, they always use that water, they cut you, manythings” (Interview Victim No.7).“You go inside the room and you immediately know, there is a strange smell,impossible to explain. They do it there with crude things, meat, chickens, goats;they take the heart and eat it crude. You must share it and swear” (InterviewVictim No.10).“I went to this witch doctor; they had taken the head of a dead man, then putwater inside and made me drink it” (Interview Victim No.5).“For wodoo they take off your panties, brassiere, and wait until youmenstruate, they take off the sanitary pad that you have used for the menstruation,they take away your hairs under your armpits, they take everything” (InterviewVictim No.5).Despite the fact that from the testimony of the victims, there emerges theobligation to do the rite before the departure for Europe, in some cases this was notdone because of the firm refusal of the girl. The reasons for the refusal can berooted in a strong religious belief of the girl, and therefore in the lack ofacknowledgement of the value of wodoo as a pact between the two partiesinvolved, or in the fear of such practices which comprise an oath in which they donot fundamentally believe to be all-binding.For such subjects and for those who, despite the rite undertaken beforedeparture, appear to be controlled with difficulty by the madam, because toorebellious and independent, then the next step is menaces, which often come about,to make wodoo in Nigeria against them. In this case, the nature of the rite ischanged, from a strict bond between two consentient parties, to what appears moreas a magic practise to damage the person aimed at. Such menaces often result inbeing an efficacious means also for those who previously were able to not fall intothe trap of the mechanism of wodoo.“I wanted to go and she told me that I was not going anywhere. She called meone morning about six o’clock, and told me «today you give me your nails, yourhair and your panties and I must take a photograph of you in the nude. If you payme the debt, I will give it back to you». That day I went to work and cut my nailsshort because I did not want my nails cut while I was sleeping” (Interview VictimNo.4).The subjection to the rite is a fundamental element in exploitation ofprostitution of the Nigerian women and is one of the steps that permit to say thatone is faced with a form of very strong psychological and moral subjection.