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THE LOVE SPELLS USED IN AFRICAN MAGIC

 
 
 
On this subject, the expert in African magic, Miad Hoyora Korahon, wrote the following:
 
« One branch of Obeah extensively practiced, —especially by women— is the art of exciting “love” and enforcing fidelity in one person, by another of the opposite sex.
 
The means about to be related as made use of for those purposes are such as the Obeah practitioners prescribe on being applied to for advice in such cases.
 
However, in some of their prescriptions vegetable drugs are the means depended on, but these I propose to treat of on some future occasion when Obeah drugs and their uses can be more fully gone into, the data on the subject which I have succeeded in collecting being at present very meagre.
 
To establish and act on a psychic rapport is of course what is aimed at in the use of:
 
1)   Hair: The exciter burns and rubs to powder a portion of his or her own hair, which is sprinkled in the food or drink of the person to be excited. Said to require at least three repetitions before the effect is produced.
2)   Perspiration: The exciter mingles a few drops of his or her own perspiration in the food or drink as above.
3)   Blood: The food of the person to be excited is steamed in a cloth by the exciter, on which cloth a little of the cook’s own blood is dropped. Fresh blood (menstrual), if possible; this way being almost exclusively used by women.
 
This third method is said to have by far the most powerful effect, and, according to one man, who says he has experienced its effects, it produced a semi-madness, and reduces the excitee to perfect slavery to the excitor, from which there is no escape till the excitor performs some ceremony of renunciation, details of which I have yet to learn.
 
As an instance of the working of the other means: the late J.L. (a white man) had as mistress a far from beautiful Mulatto woman called “Angelique.” She was of a very violent temper, and behaved very badly to him, but retained her influence over him for many years, — till his death.
 
A relative of hers explains her power over him by saying that “she took the precaution from time to time, as she thought it necessary, to mix a few drops of her sweat in his chocolate.”
 
 
These methods savor not a little of the witchcraft of old, and if they really have any effect, —there being no doubt that they are frequently tried— it presupposes a considerable amount of concentrative power on the part of the users. But that same power is one that in every day matters the average black man is decidedly deficient in.
 
It is quite probable that a person by thus establishing a strong rapport with another, might obtain a strong influence over him for good or evil; but, should the latter become aware of the operation before the influence is confirmed, and resist it, it does not appear that the operator would have much chance of success.
 
While, if the person operated on, on becoming aware of the attempt, proved a person who knew how to use his will, it is more than likely that the relative positions of the two actors might be completely reversed, so that the original operator would find that she had “given herself away.” And cases of that are not altogether unknown.
 
 
The use by magnetic patients of magnetized water, etc., is but another, —and a much more cleanly— method of effecting a powerful psychic rapport, forming a basis or “line,” through which influence can act.
 
And it would be of great interest to have the effect of magnetized water at the time of drinking observed by a clairvoyant as to what result it produced on the aura of the patient»
(Theosophist, March 1891, p.343-344)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
OBSERVATIONS
 
Although it may be very tempting to perform these rituals, it is a serious mistake to do them because they generate strong negative karma that later costs a lot to pay off. For example, many people wonder why they can't find love no matter how hard they try, and often the answer is because they were doing this type of manipulation in their previous life. And you must also be aware that by clinging to a particular individual, you miss out on the possibility of having a truly harmonious, healthy and happy relationship with someone who would be much more like you.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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