Ndoki is a belief system that is widely held throughout West Central Africa. It is not a religion. Nearly all Africans, including Catholics, Protestants, Animists, and Satanists, share a belief in Ndoki.
Ndoki is the belief that some people have a separate self or selves that are beyond a person’s conscious awareness. These separate selves can act independently of the person and behave in ways that may violate the person’s conscious will or moral values. Some Africans call them “the dark selves” of a person. Others have described them as “hidden selves” and “unknown selves”. Villagers usually fear them; therefore “dark selves” are also called “evil selves”. Most simply refer to the separate selves as Ndoki.
Africans believe that the dark-self of a person can use magic, witchcraft, and sorcery to acquire possessions, influence decisions in the village, send curses, destroy others’ property, and bring harm or death to others. They also believe that anyone can have a dark-self.
Ritual Abuse, Ndoki and the dark (hidden) self
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