The connoisseur of
African magic, Miad Hoyora Korahon, mentioned the following anecdotes in which
he points out that some Caribbean practitioners of African obeah magic,
bewitched donkeys and horses, making them act in an unexpected way:
1. By At that time, I was working
with an old man named Don Alfonso. One day I, Don Alfonso, and a practitioner
of obeah magic named Manuel were invited to a funeral. We all moved together,
Manuel and I riding ponies and Mr. Alfonso on a large donkey.
During the way, Don Alfonso
praised his donkey a lot for its docility, tranquility and good working
qualities, but Manuel said that he was sure that this donkey was perverse and
that in a short time he would play a trick on Mr. Alfonso.
Upon arriving at the house where
the funeral was going to begin, we found a considerable number of people
already gathered. The house was on the top of a hill, and a steep slope led
away from the door and down to a very dirty and muddy pond where some ducks
lived.
When we got off and tied up our
animals, Manuel approached Don Alfonso's donkey, grabbed its ear, blew on it,
and spoke rapidly to it in some foreign language, beginning with words like
“likitaki, likitaki, likitaki” and ending with the words “C'est bon!” [which in
French means: Okay!] at which the donkey snorted and shook its head violently.
Manuel repeated this three times,
and each time the donkey snorted and shook his head, much to the amusement of
the spectators, including Don Alfonso himself.
When the funeral was over, we
returned to the house where we had something to drink, after which Manuel got
up and said to Don Alfonso:
- "It's time to go!"
We went out and rode our ponies
and Don Alfonso on his donkey, but Don Alfonso's donkey didn't move. Mr.
Alfonso urged the donkey to move forward, and when the donkey did not obey, Don
Alfonso began to hit him, whereupon the donkey turned around and began to kick
and raise his heels as if he were crazy, while Don Alfonso held him with force.
Then the donkey rushed along the
bank to the edge of the pond, when it stopped suddenly and threw Don Alfonso
into the muddy water, from which Don Alfonso emerged dripping and covered with
dirt from head to toe. Mr. Alfonso became very angry and ran to attack Manuel,
who had been laughing all that time. And upon seeing Don Alfonso approaching,
Manuel shouted to him:
- “Aha man! There you have it! That donkey of
yours never plays tricks!”
And MB, spurring his pony,
galloped off as fast as he could, amid Don Alfonso's vows of revenge against
him, and the laughter of the people.
2. Another practitioner of obeah
was called Daniel and he could also cast a spell on animals. Once he came to a
village riding a donkey (it seems he had just acquired it) and while D was
there doing his things, his donkey got loose and ran into a woman's garden and
started eating her vegetables.
The woman, finding him in the
garden, took him to her house and tied him there.
When Daniel looked for his
donkey, he was soon told that the lady had arrested him for trespassing on
someone else's property. When he went to his house to look for it, the woman
demanded a dollar (according to the custom there) for the infraction before
handing it over to him.
Daniel laughed at her and
approached the donkey, slapped it on the hindquarters and said something in a
“foreign language”, and then turned to the lady and said:
- “Okay,
lady, have a good day!” And she left.
At that moment the lady untied
the donkey to move it to a place where it could be tied to graze, but as soon
as she released the rope, the donkey rose up on its hind legs, and attacking
her knocked her down, and then at full speed the donkey He headed towards
Daniel.
3. In 1870, in a town there was a
fight between a man named Luis and an obeah practitioner named Julian. Luis had
a pony that he used to ride daily to go to work, and Julian used that animal as
his weapon of attack.
One morning Luis, after
sharpening his cutlass (a type of machete), put it in his bag that hung over
his shoulder, in such a way that the tip protruded behind him. Then he saddled
and mounted his pony, but it immediately began to dive and kick, until finally
it reared and fell on top of Luis, the tip of the machete almost impaling him
from behind.
Luis died from the effects of
this injury a few hours later, expressing his opinion that Julian had cast a
spell on his pony to make it throw and kill it.
OBSERVATION
It is said that obeah
practitioners kill and affect cattle by obtaining possession of a part of their
hair or a little of their urine. And they use those things to affect animals
through their astral forms.
But the obeahmen also use other
means to bewitch or influence animals, mainly through “magic words.”
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