Bantu Religion + Kongo Shamanism in California
SOURCE : The ibogaine plant spirit as negentropic system utility
The ibogaine is territorial. It seems to remove other plant spirits which may be residing in the body. All drugs are plant spirits. Opium /Heroin is a famous, helpful plant spirit. It can help to stop physical and emotional pain, but it is possessive. It demands [...]
SOURCE : Congo basket divination
One of the best known types of divination practiced by Chokwe, Lunda, Lwena/Luvale, Luchazi and others, includes the use of a basket containing numerous symbolic objects, called tupele… Such a divination basket is called ngombo ya kusekula or ya chisuka, and the tupele comprise both natural items, such as rocks, shells, [...]
SOURCE : DAILY NATION - OBBO: An African president wages the strangest of wars
It is the witchcraft season in Africa. Over the weekend, there was a report on CNN about some frightening chaps in Burundi who had been arrested for the murder of their fellow citizens with albinism.
They, like others in the Democratic Republic of Congo [...]
SOURCE : Rwanda says genocide victims’ remains used in withcraft
KIGALI (AFP) — Rwanda on Wednesday charged that the remains of genocide victims buried in neighbouring Uganda are neglected and have been used by in acts of witchcraft there.
Several officials made the accusation following a Rwandan parliamentary mission to Uganda last week but the authorities in [...]
SOURCE : Pope Condemns African Belief in Witchcraft : Is One Man’s Faith Another’s Superstition?
At a Mass on Saturday in Luanda, Angola, Pope Benedict tried to warn his listeners of the dangers of belief in witchcraft. Though he never used that word, his implication was clear when he suggested that African Catholics should offer Christ [...]
SOURCE : The Baptist’s Head – The African Diaspora: An interview with an initiate
I think that in general the African traditions as found in the Americas lack any “spiritual” or “personal growth factors.” I think that most of the hard core practitioners are actually “unenlightening” themselves, as explained earlier. In fact, they are [...]
SOURCE : Nigerian govenment official spends millions on black magic to kill rival
Lagos – Police have arrested the head of a federal agency charged with developing Nigeria’s impoverished southern oil region, after allegations the man spent millions of dollars on a witchdoctor in hopes of vanquishing a rival.
President Umaru Yar’Adua announced on Friday that the [...]
SOURCE : Black Magic, Obeah and Christianity in St Lucia
“Our society has always had two layers,” explained Kennedy Boot Samuel, St Lucia’s leading folklorist. “One is the official, obvious, colonial heritage: Christianity, democracy, the English language, and all the ideas and ways of behaving that go with that. But when you go deeper among the [...]
SOURCE : National African Religion Congress rejects Komgo religion
It seem the National African Religion Congress, a certifying Board for Priests and Priestesses of African-Based religions (COG would be a rough Wiccan equivalent), doesn’t include Palo practitioners due to their ritual methods.
“Palo, which arrived in Cuba during the West African slave trade, has specific rituals for [...]
SOURCE : witchcraft: Definition, Synonyms from Answers.com
…The research carried out by anthropologists on witchcraft has provided ample evidence of beliefs which locate the power to bewitch in the physical body of the witch. Perhaps the fullest description of this phenomenon came with a famous early study, E. E. Evans-Pritchard’s analysis, based on three periods of [...]
