Greetings!
Before picking up my phone to type this, I first had to call my dad to confirm the event I'm writing about because when it happened, I didn’t see the end of it.
Okay, I have written slightly about this event before, and it raised a lot of laughs and discussions.
There was this cousin of mine, let me call her Sophia, who stayed with us when she was very young, around the age of 8 to 10, until she was taken back to her late mom's family.
After about two to three years of living there, a report came that she had been bewitched. To put it clearly, "she chop witch." And guess what? I got to know about this when my dad suggested that they should bring her to me to cast away the witchcraft in her. Yeah, I was known to be quite "churchy."
For someone like me, who barely takes such things seriously, I laughed out loud. I never believed she was a witch, especially with the scenes we used to see in Nollywood movies back then about children being witches. In case you're reading this and don’t know what such movies are about, let me explain:
A child gets possessed by the spirit of witchcraft when a mature witch, or even a teenage witch, transfers the spirit or initiates the child via food poisoning.
Whenever it's night, the child's spirit leaves their body and travels to the coven.
The child also behaves weirdly and abnormally especially with being stubborn.
So I don’t know which of these characteristics made my dad’s family conclude that Sophia was a witch.
“Please bring her to stay with us again,” was my suggestion to my dad because I wanted to examine, observe, and see if those things said about witches are true or just fallacies. Honestly, I wanted a situation where Sophia would come to stay with us, and I’d get to ask her questions about the other world. If possible, I’d even beg her to poison my food so I could see if I could be initiated to experience these things myself. You might say I’m exaggerating, but that’s just me. I really wanted to test all these supernatural claims to see if they were as people described because most of what people say are all lies....including this thing of bewitching🧐
Well, my dad didn’t agree because he was scared that Sophia might initiate my other siblings. Also, he deeply frowned at how jokingly I handled his request for me to cast out the witchcraft from Sophia’s body.
Sadly, I didn’t follow up on the issue to know how they eventually managed to cast out the witchcraft spirit from her. That’s why I called my dad before writing this, and hey, he didn’t say anything reasonable. He was just beating around the bush, and before I knew it, I burst into loud laughter.
When I was home earlier this year for our grandma’s burial, Sophia was around, and she’s now a big girl that it took me a while to recognize her.
The witchcraft thing was all a lie. Maybe she was just behaving very stubbornly, and they thought the best way to explain it was by labeling her a witch. Lol 😂. Also, this subject of bewitching is a big lie!
Tell me, do you believe in this witchcraft stuff?
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