On
this topic, the connoisseur of African magic, Miad Hoyora Korahon, commented
the following:
African magic
practitioners often use a mysterious language to perform their spells, and
below I give you some examples of this:
1. The
practitioner of Obeah magic, Kongo Brown, gave a party at his house, and for
the entertainment of his guests he planted a banana shoot, covered it with a
sheet, waved his hands over it, and spoke to it in a language his guests did
not understand.
About two hours
later, upon discovery, it was observed that it had grown and was now about four
feet tall. She covered him with the sheet again, kept her hands on him for some
time, and from time to time murmured a few words in an unknown tongue.
Two hours later
he removed the sheet again and there was a full-grown banana with a large,
well-developed bunch of ripe, green bananas.
2. On one
occasion a girl whose grandmother was a witch offered to entertain her
classmates if they would feed her. They accepted and then she lay down on the
grass and began to sing a song whose lyrics were not understood by her
audience.
The song had
not lasted long and as the last words left their lips, two girls appeared
before them, one standing and the other lying down.
3. Another
Obeah practitioner wanted to play a trick on a man who boasted that his donkey
was a very docile animal.
To do this, he
approached the donkey, grabbed its ear and spoke to it quickly in an unknown
language. At which the donkey snorted and shook its head violently.
He repeated
this three times, and each time the donkey snorted and shook his head, much to
the amusement of the spectators.
When the
gathering ended, the man mounted his donkey but the animal did not move. The
man insisted more and more energetically for the donkey to move forward, until
suddenly the animal turned around and began to kick as if it were crazy, while
the man held it tightly.
Then the donkey
rushed to the edge of a pond and threw the man into the muddy water.
4. Another
Obeah practitioner discovered that some bottles of rum had been stolen from
him, and to take revenge on whoever did it, he sat on a chair and tied a piece
of string that passed under one of his feet. He then began to sing a song in a
"foreign language" (as usual), while at the same time pulling the
rope around his foot with his hands.
While this
operation was being carried out, a young man in a house at the other end of the
town suddenly suffered a curious attack of suffocation and during which he
managed to let out a scream saying that someone was strangling him with a rope.
ANALYSIS
As with magical
traditions in other regions, the use of 'magical' words serves to make subtle
beings obey the magician's orders.
This is the
predominant means used to obtain and use such servants, but what will
undoubtedly seem surprising is the conjecture that has been imposed on me
through consideration of the few details on the subject that I have been able
to gather, that a considerable part of your knowledge of those words has been
obtained primarily through the agency of elementals and other similar, perhaps
superior, entities.
They have no
other source as abundant or available.
We know that
the Indians in the use of their mantras have special occult formulas for all
possible purposes, from snake charming to everything that can be devised.
The Norse
runes, from what is now known about them, were a similar system.
The spells or
incantations of European witches were also another similar system.
And the
speeches and chants in “foreign language” of the practitioners of Obeah magic
also correspond to that system.
Probably, if
one could obtain one of the “foreign language” chants of the Obeah, for example
the one used to attract a ghost, one would discover that it is similar in
sounds, number of syllables and rhythm to the Indian mantra, to the Nordic rune
and European spell that are used for that same purpose.
Because all
these formulas, whenever they are used, correspond to the “language of the
elementals,” and as esoteric scholars know well, that language is made up of
sounds, not words, so the reason why it is said that Obeah spells are in a
foreign language it is easy to understand.
And so in the
first case that I mentioned above, the sounds of the elementals served to
accelerate the growth of the banana tree.
In the second
case, the song served so that the girl could unfold astrally.
In the third
case they were used to bewitch the donkey.
In the fourth
case they were used to cast a spell on the person who stole the rum.
And so for many
magic maneuvers these 'magic words' are used.
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