I’ll say something , I used to date a woman long time ago in the 90’s and the father was a “basalii” . This thing is real .
Our own village doctor working at government hospital around "bikeke village"was a kikuyu.He would do diagnosis to a kid,and realize the kid had no known medical infection and would immidiately refer to my ex-girlfriend father. The kid would heal immidiately after lighting some candles and “vuruta” vikumba .
Some people need to tour other sides of Kenya and see what’s real. Witchcraft is mentioned on the bible and who are these neo-thinkers who think that traditional conventional healing doesn’t exist ?Every community had their own traditional healers who would talk to ancestors and beseech intervention when evil spirits strike on them . Some communities like kikuyu have lost theirs, but we luhyas and luos have maintained our tradition.
so how come the kikuyu did not suffer the wrath of the spirits after they dismissed them and stopped appeasing them? vikumba na vikhokho vilienda wapi?
Funny, Sir, my maternal grandpa was a renowned witchdoctor/medicineman while my paternal grandma practiced a branch of the “sciences” that specialized in helping ladies of the night with divination to help them ensnare more customers. None of us took up after them and actually when cucu passed on in the late 90s we threw her divining cowrie shells and funny pebbles into her grave…
That’s because you guys chose a new way of life, abandoning those traditions. It does not mean that they do not work. My great grandma actually left her ways and embraced christianity, so the practices were not inherited by anyone else in the family. I knew a Rainmaker, people could offer gifts to him when they were about to have important ceremonies that needed no interruption from rain.
My grandfather narrated of the days when this rainmaker who was naturally a bad guy hired sorcerers from Kalenjin land to kill someone. These sorcerers were seen in the village and they successfully executed their task. And days after the target man died, the rainmaker bragged to the village that he killed the person. He was feared, good thing he died.
I have seen people I know dying of unnatural causes and I’ve seen a family friend being haunted in the same room that I slept in, same mattress. That is why I do not doubt the supernatural.
The Nandi community has the most feared sorcerers in Kenya, those are killers. I was also told of the village in Nandi where sorcerers are able to surmon thunder/lightning and use it to kill. I am yet to confirm.
then isn’t your argument self-defeating? if the spirits are abandonable why continue holding onto them? Funny, there is a wave of mapepo, devil-worshiper talk in central after a decade of naija movies, and, i believe, fueled by charlatan pastors who later on go on to sell anointed oil to their flock for protection…it’s a culture thing. in europe people hunted down witches but they no longer do. we are still doing it in the coastal strip and Gusiiland…
Those who practise it have their reasons, some to cause harm, medicinemen use it to guide their healing practices i.e knowing which herbs to use etc. I may not follow these practices, but as long as someone somewhere is doing it, it will continue to exist. You cannot wish it away.
In Gusii land we call it Ebiriri. Ati mtoto akiangaliwa na macho mbaya anakuwa mgonjwa. Dawa ni mafuta ya nguruwe na sijui candle ndani ya chupa halafu wanavuruta glass na manyoya kutoka kwa tumbo? My aunt always used to tell us such stories but when we ask if she has ever seen with her own eyes anasema alisikia tu. I don’t know whether it’s believable or pure hogwash. Labda @Eng’iti @ogooti@Koolibah@coldpilsner@inzhener otmetka you can tell us. [SIZE=1]I hope I got all my peoples[/SIZE]
@wenya glad you brought this up. Witchcraft is indeed mentioned in the Bible and its practice was banned meaning it can only be real. If you believe in the scripture, I don’t see how you can’t consider the possibility that witchcraft is real.
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Well well well. Ebibiriria and other superstitious believes and practices never exist in my world.
All that you are saying above here were fairly tales that Nyaboe (granny) tells me that she is still stuck to it and am spoilt i cant believe in those.
Back in the day grandmom used to buy us red teeshirts which would act as an antidote to those Ebibiriria, especially when going to our village market. This will prevent you from being spotted by a ‘bird with red eyes’. Surprisingly we believed in all this shit!
Mimi nasema uchawi hakuna, but in my homeplace we have Night runners
My grandpa was a Muthinjiri Ngai(traditional priest) his ceremonial knifes are still in our compound and his shrine under the fig tree is still there, no one has carried on with his work, one of my elder cousin allegedly born with some pebbles in his hands supposedly to help him in divination, became a doctor and migrated to Australia some two decades ago.