For some, Barack has already won his re-election

November 06, 2012 11:10

Some polls suggest that Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are neck and neck in the 2012 US presidential race, but for a Peruvian group the Democrat has already won it.

Using maracas, coca leaves and a hallucinogenic brew, a group of Peruvian shamans has determined that Obama will be re-elected on Tuesday.

The group of 12 medicine men and women gathered on at the top of Lima's San Cristobal hill for a ceremony, wearing traditional Andean dress, burned incense and rubbed a poster of Obama with flowers and the common rue plant, which is supposed to bring good luck

According to Sky News, they also assaulted a poster of Romney with maracas and a sword.

"The Apus (gods of the hills in indigenous mythology) tell us Obama will be re-elected," predicted Juan Osco, known as the Shaman of the Andes. The shamans sang, whistled and danced in a circle for journalists, who came and went as the ceremony continued, the report said.

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