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Re: How To Fly To China As A Witch? by cuteNhot(f): 2:42am On Apr 04, 2007
gosh!!! i'm so Fking bored shocked
Re: How To Fly To China As A Witch? by ultrafem(f): 2:43am On Apr 04, 2007
me too
Re: How To Fly To China As A Witch? by Bulga(m): 7:17am On Apr 04, 2007
@ cute_N_hot & ultrafem,

How come both of you are bored when there is a mission to accomplish? Fly to China and collect your cash please.
Re: How To Fly To China As A Witch? by segoye2(m): 7:20pm On Apr 05, 2007
If you know you are a winchi co-ordinator and really know how to co-ordinate winchies to China, then recharge my mobile, better still, lets start producing magic mobile, like i want to call, I will conjure ur ear or head from anywhere you are and speak to ur ass head.

Still, as a winchi, you can do a lot of things, so many things, Don't ask me for clue to those things because am not one, but still to let the spirit of writing flow, you can be the next king of your village, while you make me the assistant admin to Nairaland.

I think Mr Admin is not talkin on this issue, what do you think about him? Do you think his in support of the the thread author flying to china with some group of local league winchies? I think Mr. Admin is right.

Africa winchies get board if the discussion is out of the usual meat and blood comminion.
Re: How To Fly To China As A Witch? by Bulga(m): 8:18am On Apr 07, 2007
Happy Easter to all you witches in the house.
Re: How To Fly To China As A Witch? by segoye2(m): 7:43pm On Apr 10, 2007
I guess all the Winchie don scatter this season?
Re: How To Fly To China As A Witch? by ogechi84(f): 4:06pm On Apr 18, 2007
humm

Witchcraft: Myth Of A Curious Institution


BY

UMEBE N. ONYEJEKWE

Curator, National Museum, Lagos.



WITCHCRAFT, this was and still is a dreaded word in Nigeria. Our forefathers believed in the existence of witches and the havoc they wreaked on mankind and society. Everyone in Nigeria knows about witches, or has heard of them or has been affected by witches. Our present generation of Nigerians attribute all manners of misfortune, disease, ill-luck, death, infertility, etc. to witches. Several new generation churches, white garment churches, etc. see "vision" of witches committing all manners of havoc on their victims.



Of course in Nigeria there is nothing like a natural death. Nobody dies a natural death. Natural death, Haba, Mba, Otio, some Nigerians will mumble in their mother tongues. Something or someone is behind the person's death, never mind the fact that he has been ill for years. As matter of fact, the illness was caused by witches or evil persons. Any and every death was attributed to someone and most times to enemies, witches and evil persons. One very interesting factor is that no one has ever seen a person metamorphose into a witch or into an animal. In short no one has seen a witch metamorphose into a bird, rat, bat, owl etc. People just "felt" or "knew" that the rat or owl or bat was acting strangely and hence must be a witch.



Nigerians believe in witches and spend time, effort and money in the attempt to counter their malevolence. Traditional doctors are paid to divine and diagnose malign influences, to supply the medicines of protection or revenge. To the average Nigerian, witchcraft is an actionable wrong and culprits are punished severely. Our culture provides the preconditions for accusations of witchcraft. Therefore, we can safely posit that belief in witchcraft is unquestioned.



So, what is witchcraft? The Longman English Dictionary defines witch as "one who is credited with supernatural powers especially a woman practising witchraft". A witch doctor is "a professional sorcerer or magician". The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary defines witch as "a woman thought to have evil magic powers". A witch doctor as "a doctor with supposed magic power." From the above two dictionary definitions we can summarise that witchcraft is an activity that cannot be detected by ordinary means or by everyday means. Therefore, it must be tracked down by the actions of people.



Potential Witches/Wizards

In Nigeria, the following people, rightly or wrongly, fall into the category of witches or potential witches. They are old people: native and traditional doctors; people who exhibit strange behaviour; wicked and malevolence people; young people; unsociable people; people with disagreeable behaviour; people who stare fixedly at other people; people who are easily offended; people with red eyes; people with evil eyes and evil countenance; people who avoid looking at others straight in the face; people who eat alone and do not share their food; people who do not rejoice with others at their good fortune; people who are happy at other's misfortune etc.



How Does One Become A Witch

It is believed that virtually everybody is a potential witch. Being a potential witch is very different from actually being a full-fledged, practising witch. So how does one become a witch. Stories abound of how people become witches. Some of these stories are just too incredible to believe while others are simply left to the imagination. Our forefathers as well as the present generation of Nigerians believe that:

(a) Witchcraft runs in the family and is passed through the blood line, i.e. a mother passes it to her favourite daughter or all her daughters and on to her granddaughters. In the same vein, wizardry can be passed from father to son or grandson.

(b) Witchcraft is passed through eating in dreams, or through sexual intercourse in dream. It can also be passed openly at home or at gatherings through food, drinks, kolanuts, fish and meat. In short through anything edible.

(c) Witchcraft is passed through cuts made into a body by native doctors.

(d) Witchcraft is passed through laying hands on someone's head, forehead etc.

(e) Witchcraft can also be given to a stranger - i.e. a non-family member out of pure mischief.

(f) Witch doctors can initiate people into witchcraft for a fee.

(h) Witchcraft is passed through blowing of air at someone especially in the face, heart etc.

(i) Witchcraft is passed through simply being touched by a seasoned and very powerful witch.

(j) Witchcraft is passed through numerous other ways e.g. by stepping over a witches outstretched legs etc.



How Witches Operate

It is their operations or rather their activities or what people perceive to be their activities on other people that strike deadly fear in non-witches. It is their activities, which are full of evil, that gave rise to the general saying that the fear of witches is the beginning of wisdom. Witches are said to hold nocturnal meetings under big trees or in clearings in the bush or forest. They supposedly travel invisibly through the air to arrive at their destination. They are said to be capable of metamorphosing into any animal of their choice - their favourites being rats, snakes, owls, bats, cats or dogs. People believed and still believe that witches committed and still commit a lot of havoc. They turn into rats to take peoples' money and render them poor; turn into snakes to attack and kill enemies; turn into birds to pluck their target's eyes, or suck their blood etc; they tamper with the fertility of women either by eating foetus, stopping the growth of the baby in the womb or by eating the woman's eggs. They either drink, steal or damage men's sperm thereby making it impossible for the men to impregnate women. They supposedly change children in the womb; kill babies in the womb before they are born; make it impossible for women to be delivered of their children. They even kill women during child birth. The list is endless.



Witches are said to be capable of disrupting and changing the course of one's success in life and turning it into extreme failure. They stop good things from happening e.g. marriages, promotions and healings. Most importantly, they are said to "suck" human blood and "eat" human beings. They are said to have an insatiable appetite or lust for human meat. It is believed that at their meetings they must dance naked to the tunes of a "native piano" made of "strong medicines". It is also believed that at their meetings (when they are held in each other's houses), the hostess must offer one of her children to be killed and eaten by members.



Ethnic Groups Beliefs And Punishment

The Yoruba People believe that witches turned into Eiye Efe (witchcraft bird) to go to meetings and wreak havoc on people. In the olden days, witches were so abhored by the people that suspected witches were made to go through the Ayelala ordeal and if found guilty their bodies would swell up and they would die. The universal belief then was that to antagonize a witch was to court evil for one's self. Yoruba babalawos (medicine men) used "medicine" to protect themselves against witches. The ingredients for this medicine were a pigeon, red tail feathers of a parrot, Eru fruit, and a leaf called Aje-Ko-Fo-Orule (witch never rests on the roof). All these were put together and burnt and its smoke was what drove the witches away. It was believed that the witches in the vicinity where the "medicine" was being burnt, would become incapacitated and restless and would start talking to themselves at the same time trying to take some embers from the fire so as to spoil the "medicine". They were usually prevented from doing so by the babalawo. The ashes from the medicine was rubbed on the forehead for protection. This medicine is still used today. Because the Yoruba people know and understand the depth of the wickedness of witches, they created the Gelede cult which is dedicated to the witches who they addressed as Iya Wa (our mother). The aim was to appease them and turn their evil powers into good use for the development and well being of their communities.



Likewise the Ijaw people, in the olden days, had a very healthy fear of witches. They had various gruesome ways of disposing of them. A witch caught dancing the "witches" dance was either stoned to death, or drowned or tied to a log and thrown into the swamp. The witch's eyes were also torn out so that she would not be able to find her way back to earth to continue to perpetuate her evil deeds. If a witch was very notorious, she was tied to a stake and fires lit beneath her and burnt alive. Some were bound and thrown into the water. Among the Brass Ijaw, when a child died, the bowels were opened and examined and if found to be black, the mother was suspected of witchcraft. Her whole family was then put under surveillance. Any member of the family, previously suspected and later found guilty was taken to the waterside, tied between two posts while members of community threw spears at her until she died. These were very gruesome deaths. The people believed that those who are deformed, and crooked during the day become strong at night when they performed their nefarious deeds. They also believed that if one met a suspected witch at night, all one had to do to render the witch powerless was to call her name first, then take earth and throw at her. She would be rendered powerless to hurt the person. Any owl, bat, cat or vulture sited near one's house was pursued and killed with the belief that it was a witch and anyone who died at that time was believed to be the person who turned into the animal. Lots of witches existed among the Ijaw, hence they watched suspected witches seriously and if any of them did anything suspicious, she was instantly dealt with - either beaten to death or buried alive in the swamp.



The Igbo people believed witches are capable of everything evil. The witches were believed to love dancing to the "native piano" at daytime and anyone of them caught in the act was stoned to death or beaten to death or burnt alive. The bodies of notorious witches were never buried in the village but thrown into the bad bush after her eyes had been gorged out. Suspected witches whose atrocities had not been proved were driven out of the village and made to live in the bad bush. She was barred, on pain of death, from coming to the village or the town.



The Igbos believed that witches change into rats, fowls and pigs and actually bite people in this form. The wound thus inflicted would enlarge, become inflamed and eventually kill the person. There is also the belief that witches can kill people from a distance by the power of thought.



The Urhobo people believed that children do not die natural deaths but are eaten by witches who are envious of their mothers. While the Efik and Oron people believe that if a witch is not dealt with in her lifetime and if she is buried like an ordinary person, she will reappear and cause harm to people. She does this through a small hole found near the grave. She reappears in the form of a rat or small animal. When the people in the community discover this hole, the witch's corpse is exhumed and if found to be in perfect condition, as if just interred, she is burnt. The Efik and Ibibio people also believe that babies are initiated into witchcraft through potions put in their food after which they will find themselves in the witch's coven.



The Mbembe people feared witches but believed that a witch living in a compound where everyone was friendly with her would protect those living in her compound but if the people were not friendly but hostile towards her, she would cause them harm. The Mbembe witches hid their witchcraft in their eyes, and hearts in the form of bats. For this reason, when a witch died, her head was severed and placed in a cooking pot and thoroughly cooked to kill the bat so that she will not see her way back to earth again. According to Talbot (1926) an incident happened in 1920 in Api Apun Eye, a village in Mbembe land. A small hole was found near the grave of a witch. The grave was opened up in the presence of a "native doctor". The woman's body was found to be quite fresh and with a looking glass in her hands.



The native doctor on seeing her this way, immediately blew her head to pieces with his shot gun. The Mbembe people also have special medicine called Atan Fichin (eyes of witchcraft) with which they can perceive witches entering their compound. This medicine was usually prepared by powerful native doctors. They also believed that people are born with witchcraft and that no one can buy real witchcraft and that while on earth a person decides if she will be a witch in her next life. If she had been badly dealt with by them in her present life, she would decide to become a one on reincarnation. If she was already a wizard and enjoy it, she would come back as one. If she was not enjoying it, she would not return.



The Nupe people believe that the witches who kill are women while the wizards defend others against the female. The Nupe believe that for the female witches to kill, there must be an avenue left open by the wizards as a result of default in defending his fellows. In effect, the female requires the assistance of the male to kill. The Nupes believe that evil resides in feminity. Women are considered sexually insatiable because they control the economy especially in trading. She shoulders the expenditure in the family. In the process of trading, the females travel to distant lands and there they end up having lovers and supernatural strength hence the belief in them being witches. Convicted witches were either stoned, killed, burnt or sold into slavery.



The Tivs believe that failure to excel and be recognized is a moral fault and this is highly despised. This failure inspires envy which leads to witchcraft. In the same vain, excesses in performance or ambition or exercise in authority is also believed to be a moral fault and may be ascribed to evil occult power. These two beliefs are said to be controlled by Tsav which means talent, ability, potential a certain witchcraft. Tsav exists in every person's heart and can either be developed or undeveloped. It can be obtained through the use of human beings or spirits or ancestors. Those with Tsav are known as Mbatsav. They belong to a secret society; deal with spirits and magic; are sacred and perform spiritually at night. They are said to leave their bodies at night, riding on a magical iron horse to do their work and they can turn into animals. Mbatsavs perform the following functions:

(a) They can cause agricultural, human and animal fertility and infertility that is they perform a productive function.

(b) They expel evil from the society through magical rites; drive away diseases or destructive animals, birds, insects associated with witches. This is protective.

(c) They have the power to propel evil to a person to cause death, suffering of discomfort. They use their power against members of the society and are believed to be antisocial. This is destructive function.

(d) Mbatsavs are, therefore, always in constant conflict between the forces of good and evil.



From the above one can posit that Mbatsav is a generic word which includes those who practise both black and white magic, as the constituted authorities for the benefit of the community as well as those who practise black magic as a weapon, which is being done with a personal objective as an anti-social act. Thus one is legal and constitutional while the other is illegal and unconstitutional. Protective and productive functions are legal and constitutional while destructive function is illegal and unconstitutional. Punishment for the latter is an ordeal which may lead to death. Thus the Tivs believe that all evils are conveyed by the agency of malevolent spirits, often propelled by evil men who have acquired Tsav which they use to influence them (spirits) through magical processes. Wizards, therefore, fall into the category of who use their Tsav for evil action.



In my research into this topic, I was told all sorts of fantastic tales. One interesting factor was that no one has actually seen a real witch but were told or believed through strange behaviours of people. Some Awka women told me that they believe that witches change into all sorts of deformed human beings but that their figures could not be clearly discerned. They claimed that the most notorious wizards confessed their crimes while they were on their death beds - just before they died.



There was this story of a very notorious witch who flew out as a bird and could not return into the human body because the witch has been turned while she was away - that is, her feet where her head was and vice versa, thus the bird could not enter into the body. This supposedly happened in Onitsha. There was another tale of a witch in Ikot Abasi in Akwa Ibom State who had only one child and when it was her turn to "produce meat" for the members, refused to produce her only child. Instead she supposedly gave her fellow members all the old portions of meat she had been saving. They refused to accept the meat and killed her child and she was forced to seek redress at the King's Palace. There was yet another story of how a woman accidentally witnessed a meeting of the wizards in their coven in the bush. There she saw, to her horror, her daughter tied up for slaughter by her (woman) sister. She ran off and summoned the chiefs of the village to the area where the child was saved by the intervention of the medicine man. Two years ago, there was pandemonium at Oshodi where a "flying" woman "landed" on the ground. She wore only a thin strip of cloth over her genitals. People pounced on her and she confessed that she was very late leaving the coven. She was burnt after her confession. There was the story told by an "eye witness" of how some people went to a Buka - (a local restaurant) to eat. One of them demanded for fufu (cooked cassava mound) with egusi soup. However, when the food arrived and the man was about to eat, the fufu started "talking" - saying "don't eat me, please don't eat me". Those around shouted drawing the attention of passers by. The owner of the restaurant was pounced upon. A medicine man was brought who forced the woman to confess that she was a witch and that this was one way she has been initiating unsuspecting people into witchcraft. Unfortunately for her, the customer's spirit was too powerful for the witch.



One February 25 this year, there was a news story at the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) of a man who macheted his father to death for being a wizard. He accused his father of killing his mother, children, wife and brother and also of disturbing him and threatening him daily in his dreams. One could go on and on.



Detection Of Witches

Now that we have an idea of how witches operate, we need to know how witches are detected or known. It is a well known fact they are human beings, but their activities cannot be detected or tracked down by the actions of people, but through manipulation of objects which are believed to have mystical power to reveal secrets. Thus it is done through divination, (the skill of saying what will happen in the future or discovering hidden knowledge through magical means), by very powerful babalawos or traditional doctors, The following are methods of detecting witches:

(a) Through witch doctors who can fish out witches and remove the evil and diseases cast on one by them. Witches run away from them.

(b) Through spirit medicine - priests and priestesses who can tell when a sickness is caused by a witch. They will usually advise that the affected person contact a witch-doctor and in addition move out of reach of the witch.

(c) Through oracles and their operators.

(d) Through diviners who interpret the answers given by the behaviour of the mechanical objects he uses. He never speaks with the voice of the spirit.

(e) If blood is found in the mouth of a man or woman coming back from the farm, he/she must have eaten a human being in the bush.

(f) If the internal organs of a woman is diseased in certain ways, she is proclaimed guilty of being a witch.

(g) If a person does not successfully go through some ordeals meant for witches, the person is guilty of being a witch. For example, the gun powder ordeal or trial. In this trial, a suspected witch throws some gunpowder into the fire, if the gunpowder does not explode, the person is guilty of being a witch.

(h) When a man is suspected of having been killed by a relative who is a witch, a medicine man is invited at the man's wake. He puts some strong "medicine" in the palm wine and gives it to the dead man's relatives to drink. Any person who, after taking the drink, sleep non-stop for three days in the case of a woman or four days in the case of a man is said to be a witch or wizard responsible for the man's death.

(i) When the suspected witch keeps appearing to his victims in their dreams and bothering or disturbing them or gives them food to eat or liquids to drink.



Analysis

In trying to analyze the witchcraft phenomenon, we will look at various aspects of witchcraft.



Accusation of witchcraft attempts to modify a set of social relationship relevant to the accuser, to an accused and certain others who are potential parties to the accusation.

The usual charge is that the accused used illegitimate, magical or supernatural means to accomplish an end. His use of such means establishes him as a witch and as a witch becomes estranged from his accuser and those witnesses who have accepted his guilt. The accusation of witchcraft is usually carried out before and upon an audience. It works like this:-

(a) The accuser presses the charge.

(b) A convinced audience fixes guilt.

(c) The community mates out instant punishment.

(d) When unconvinced, the audience absolves the accused, usually through ordeals.



In a community, witchcraft can and does provide inevitable schism, smear campaign, justification for breaking a relationship, reason for prosecuting a feud, justification for homicide etc. When a person is accused of witchcraft, his status in the community is automatically degraded. The witches are convicted on circumstantial evidence. When proof is provided, it is through an ordeal or divination. A person denouncing a witch must provide triangle of identities and relationships. This triangle leads the denouncer to the perpetrator and both of them to the event.



The denouncer establishes the credentials as a representative of the community values. The event for which this responsibility is to be allocated belongs to a special class. Its act of commission automatically condemns the perpetrator on motivational grounds. The audience accepts the event, denouncer and perpetrator as proper representations of their types, just as they (audience) judges the unsuccessful accuser to be unqualified to denounce another and represent group values.



Whatever the case may be, accusations of witchcraft have some attributes which are: (a) Accuser is "doing something" to a named person.

(b) Accusation is prompted by a set of prior events e.g. misfortune, strange behaviour that leads to identification of a suspect. Thus the accuser is "doing something" about a predicament.

(c) Accuser gets the audience of witnesses convinced through communicative work and thereby accept the transformation of accused into a witch.



In analyzing witchcraft one should not forget the importance of misfortune and people's inherent belief in the various causes of misfortunes which directly propel certain actions. The causes of misfortune are believed to be three:

(a) Acts of supernatural beings and forces. God and the ancestors fall into this category. Responsibility of the misfortune is therefore supernatural.

(b) Unseen forces triggered by an error, (conscious or unconscious). For example, braking taboos, contact with ritual impurity etc. fall into their category. The individual is responsible for his misfortune since he knows what to avoid and actions required to remedy these breaches of which he is conscious.

(c) Witchcraft for which others are responsible.



An important aspect of the analysis is our state of technological development. Why is it that belief in witchcraft and its malevolent actions are prevalent in the technologically underdeveloped countries? Is our inability to analyze happenings scientifically and place them in their proper perspectives responsible for these beliefs, or is it simply that in our custom nothing happens by chance? Every strange behaviour must be attributed to something. Every strange event must be controlled and motivated by unseen forces. Have the non-traditional religions affected our views on witchcraft? How do we situate the Nigerian belief in witchcraft to the strange happenings of the Bermuda Triangle? These are only food for thought.



Jan 2003
Re: How To Fly To China As A Witch? by redsun(m): 10:53pm On Apr 22, 2007
If churches pray against witches,then what is funny or crazy about what his is saying,wanting to fly to china and come back,ofcourse any right thinking person would have love to have that kind of power,but that is not real in our own concept of witchcraft,but practically it is real as a scientist if you understand how.African concept of witchcraft is so primitive and outdated that we just blame innocent old women and men,even children who are caught up in a confuse world of old amd new without any sense of direction,it is like europe in the15th century,the time of witch hunting,i wonder why we can't learn from the mistakes of others and not repeat it,he who laugh last suppose to last best.
Re: How To Fly To China As A Witch? by boladonas(m): 11:28pm On Apr 22, 2007
u dey benin still dey look 4 how 2 become a witch
everybody in benin no be witch?
abeg u get am already
Re: How To Fly To China As A Witch? by segoye2(m): 2:51pm On Apr 25, 2007
Winchie Ogechi84,

You are trying to write a Winche book or wetin? Me need to know oooo, meanwhile is cool to have yar'Adua as Winche presido.

@ Thread Author,

How many winchie have applied so far? or all those in Benin took up all the vacancies? Pls try reach Ogechi84 for some new compiled list!
Re: How To Fly To China As A Witch? by feelgood(m): 8:06pm On Apr 29, 2007
All this grammar, analysis, research, etc because someone wants to fly to china via uncommon means.
@ poster
you are in the wrong world ol chap. In this clime, you get to china faster by plane. Sorry, if this doesnt meet with your expectations but then, how you go do now? ewu witchcraft. undecided
Re: How To Fly To China As A Witch? by kellorah: 8:07pm On Apr 29, 2007
don't take it seriously nau cheesy
it's all jokes!!
Re: How To Fly To China As A Witch? by star01(m): 7:46am On Apr 30, 2007
kellorah:

don't take it seriously nau cheesy
it's all jokes!!
obviously u a witch too
Re: How To Fly To China As A Witch? by IBDat(m): 3:26am On May 02, 2007
How did i miss this thread all this time - rolling on floor in stitches LMFAO

Put those witches to work on something productive!!!
Re: How To Fly To China As A Witch? by anusule(m): 12:00am On May 03, 2007
africans sef. u guyz (some) dont know more than witch winch winsh, all join. when oyinbo dey build planes, dey explore space, build eco-friendly houses, u r all talking of hw to fly to china to and fro. not even london. abi u no need visa go china? grin angry
Re: How To Fly To China As A Witch? by IBDat(m): 12:04am On May 03, 2007
africans sef. u guys (some) don't know more than witch winch winsh, all join. when oyinbo dey build planes, dey explore space, build eco-friendly houses, you're all talking of hw to fly to china to and fro. not even london. abi u no need visa go china?

That's why he's looking 4 a witch now!!! No visa, tax or passport required cheesy
Re: How To Fly To China As A Witch? by Nobody: 12:10am On May 03, 2007
it is obvious dat most of u guys is Jay Dee are obviously stupid and disoriented, dats why u cum 2 forums and say stupid tins dat r out of touch
Re: How To Fly To China As A Witch? by unkel: 4:20pm On May 10, 2007
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Re: How To Fly To China As A Witch? by jenny2007(f): 11:34am On May 14, 2007
are you really serious? however, they've got a loads of witches in Benin City if u ask me, so y disturb us here with your horrible request. Blood of Jesus!
Re: How To Fly To China As A Witch? by viee(f): 11:40am On May 14, 2007
LOL @ jenny
Re: How To Fly To China As A Witch? by mohadana: 7:27pm On May 14, 2007
Breaking News : Man Sets Son Ablaze Over Watchcraft
Posted by admin on 2007/5/4 16:22:14 (77 reads)
By Emma Una/Calabar

A middle aged man identified as Victor Friday Usuk of Afagha Uqua in Eket Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State has set his 10-year-old son, Jeremiah Victor Usuk, ablaze for allegedly bewitching him. P.M.News gathered that the man poured petrol on his son, struck a match and set him ablaze after a prophetess in his church, Prophetess Grace, prophesied that his failure in business and joblessness were caused by his son.

Jeremiah, who sustained third degree burns and narrowly survived the trial by ordeal, is still nursing the severe injuries.

The boy told P.M.News that Prophetess Grace wanted to extract more “confession” from him by severely beating him in the presence of his father and mother.

The boy has a sister named Victoria, who was also accused of witchcraft. She was said to have been subjected to several hours of deliverance by the prophetess.

According to Mr. Usuk, the boy’s father, Jeremiah was too deep in the act “such that bringing him out of the witchcraft world required physical torture.”

On why Victoria was not set ablaze, Mr. Usuk said the girl is now certified free from witchcraft by Prophetess Grace after she had gone for deliverance in the church several times.

Jeremiah, a primary three pupil in Aunty Mercy Primary School, Afagha Ukwa, Akwa Ibom State, said: “If I were into witchcraft, I would have made sure everyone in the family becomes a member so that this torture will not take place.”

He said his problem started when his father’s business started collapsing. His father, he said, became withdrawn and when his offshore job was also taken and his vehicle broke down, he allegedly accused Jerry and Victoria as those responsible for his misfortune.

Reacting to the incident, Pastor of the church, Rev. Peters said he believes that witchcraft was responsible for the plight of Victor Usuk, but denied that his wife’s revelation made Victor to set his son ablaze.

“Society sometimes pretends that witchcraft does not exist but it is the cause of the problems of many people,” he said.





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Re: How To Fly To China As A Witch? by Echidime(m): 8:57am On Jun 07, 2007
Does Witches really Exist? If you must go to China,I think you know the way to International Airport
Re: How To Fly To China As A Witch? by dinipre(f): 3:22pm On Aug 13, 2007
i'm a witch, o.infact, i'll be back before breakfast. u must be a weird fellow, hw r we sure u r nt a wizard urself
Re: How To Fly To China As A Witch? by Nobody: 1:28pm On Aug 27, 2007
I tire for all these witches on this forum. So una no know say as science de improve, witches do de improve. Witches no longer use broom to fly (that was and still remains harry potter's stlye) What [s]we [s]use now is [i]groundnut sh
Re: How To Fly To China As A Witch? by Nobody: 1:30pm On Aug 27, 2007
groundnt shell
Re: How To Fly To China As A Witch? by Nobody: 9:59am On Aug 28, 2007
Please guys, i think he needs to see FAZE
because i think he is going Kolomental
Re: How To Fly To China As A Witch? by efuah(f): 1:33pm On Aug 28, 2007
shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked shocked
what a thread, am dead frm laughter here grin
Re: How To Fly To China As A Witch? by Seun(m): 1:07pm On Sep 09, 2007
This thread is a classic one. Well done, guys! cheesy
Re: How To Fly To China As A Witch? by omoge(f): 1:17am On Sep 10, 2007
sooooo interesting grin grin
Re: How To Fly To China As A Witch? by Nobody: 9:39am On Sep 12, 2007
;d ;d ;d
Re: How To Fly To China As A Witch? by tommyex(m): 6:20am On Sep 14, 2007
OGECHI OGECHI OGECHI

HOW MANY TIMES CALLED I YOU??

DID U ACTUALLY EXPECT SOME1 TO FINISH READING THAT STORYBOOK U POSTED??DAMN!

I CANT UNDERSTAND SOME FOLKS SEF

ANYHOW THANKS 4 D TIME SPENT
Re: How To Fly To China As A Witch? by uchetobi(f): 9:40am On Sep 14, 2007
wow. cant believe am just seein dis today

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