In the late seventeenth century, witchcraft was big deal as it is now. When someone knows how to deal with nature and understand certain ways to manipulate it to yield to him/herself then such a one is labeled a witch. Until now, when people see that one is breaking forth against odds or doing things that seem beyond the ordinary then others begin to tag them as witches or devil’s agent.
As far back as 1692, the Salem witch trials occurred in colonial Massachusetts, present day Denver in US. So many people, especially women (and even children), were accused of practicing witchcraft. Though there was no proof as to what they had done, they were usually burnt to death. As history would have it, it was said that those who confessed to the accusations were abandoned but those who denied or had nothing to say were persecuted. Innocent citizens were persecuted for nothing.
There were issues in Salem society then, people who involved in acts against the law and committed crimes or those that acted against their belief weren’t confronted but rather, others laid accusations that other persons were the ones spiritually instigating such acts of wickedness.
For me right now, I know that history has a way of repeating itself, the same mistakes older generations made are the same mistakes we are making again. Instead of finding ways of confronting those issues their society faced as at that time, they looked for others upon whom they blamed their problem. If you ask me, their problems never got solved.
If you look closely, you would discover that anything people don’t understand they label as evil. If you don’t think like them or you reason above them, or you make certain pronouncement that goes beyond the ordinary then you must be devil’s handy man. Omo, see trouble!
They have called me all kinds of names and ascribed all sorts to my person. I no shake.
I don’t believe in witches in the Nigerian context, for them it’s like people who would turn to animals at night and go suck people’s blood or cause them to have accidents. That doesn’t work in real life for me; there is no scientific proof for that. People talk about how witches go on electric polls to have meetings there, I find that very funny. It’s because we’re a bunch of very fetish people especially as the churches these days only preach about demons and how they want to take over. People are gullible that rather than facing their problem, they believe that someone is hunting them, or trying to destroy them or stopping their blessing. This is because of our negative perceptions of things. We blame people rather than look inward and find solution to what our problem is.
I seriously don’t believe that anybody can take my destiny, how can? My destiny is in my hands, what I do with it is left to me. The decisions that I make, the efforts that are put into it determines how well my future would turn out to be. Creating the brand wasn’t a day’s job, let me say I passed through hell, my silver-spoon background didn’t save me and thank God I knew that spending 24hrs in church without any effort towards my goal would not help me. Shebi bible ma talk say faith without works dey useless.
We focus so much on the devil that even God becomes jealous.
We are sometimes so much in a haste that we forget that nothing comes easy; the fact what you want is delayed doesn’t mean you won’t get there or that your stepmother or grandmother is against you. It is natural course, something we cannot avoid.
Personally, I believe that a witch is a negative person, someone whose mind set is evil and thought process is negative. A person who wants to infect and contaminate others around him with negative attitudes or behaviour is the kind of person I would call a witch. Those that breathe and feed on evil are the ones I would call witches. That a person is odd or different doesn’t make him or her a witch: the negative attitude of one human towards another is what I term witchcraft.
Wetin you go talk of these our leaders dem, wey dey practise better witchcraft? Their thoughts towards the people are of evil. Na dem be the realwinchee in our midst. Shouldn’t we burn dem all at the stake?
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