Bantu Religion + Kongo Shamanism in California
SOURCE : Tobacco shamanism and were-jaguars in South American shamanism In many societies [shamen] exercise their power in the form of aggressive were-jaguars, a shape shifting condition they accomplish with the aid of tobacco ingestion. To activate their aggressiveness, nicotine first provokes a number of physical changes, which include night vision like that of the [...]
SOURCE : The White Darkness : Voodoo Diary (Between Death and the Devil) “Where did you get this great guy who’s already got so much Gede in him?” she asks my interpreter as she flings her arms about me. “He’s mine!” I return her embrace and the guardian of the graveyard cracks a lascivious smile. [...]
SOURCE : Navajo Skinwalkers, lycanthropy, vampirism and witchcraft The Navajo refuse even to say the word allowed for fear of retaliation… [but a] Skinwalker is… a Navajo Witch and capable of causing much pain, suffering and even death. Skinwalkers can transform into wolves, but, depending on the power they seek, other animal skins are used [...]
SOURCE : Loogaroo : West Indian shape-shifting vampires The West Indian natives hold that loogaroos are human beings, especially old women, who have made a pact with the devil, by which the fiend bestows upon them certain magic powers on condition that every night they provide him with a quantity of rich warm blood. So [...]
SOURCE : The Werewolf Page Myths – Were-Jackals of the Congo In the 1930′s perched hidden in a tree an English physician witnessed a very special ceremony. It started with the beating of drums, then the nyanga (witch doctor), covered in the skin of a jackal, jumped into the center of the crowd and began [...]
SOURCE : Hyena: Encyclopedia – Hyena In some parts of Africa, some men were thought to turn into hyenas at night. (See lycanthropy.) In the former Kingdom of Kaffa (now part of south-western Ethiopia), qora or were-hyenas were outlawed by special laws. Those accused of turning into hyenas at night were bound then taken to [...]
SOURCE : The Leopard Men For many centuries a leopard cult has existed in West Africa, particularly in Nigeria and Sierra Leone, wherein its members kill as does the leopard, by slashing, gashing, and mauling their human prey with steel claws and knives. Later, during gory ceremonies, they drink the blood and eat the flesh [...]
