A few years ago, in Oceania, Papua New Guinea, a young man named David Wade was murdered. The official conclusion turned out to be: "He was killed by means of evil witchcraft by shamans from a local ethnic sect." However, these words do not look absurd for the local population. Most of the inhabitants of this country believe in witchcraft.
Wade was found in the bathroom of his own apartment. A sheet was tied around the man's neck, but as the experts found out, the cause of death was not strangulation at all. According to the police and the Prosecutor of the East Sepik province, the murder was another act of the religious-ethnic group of the Sangum practicing black magic. The sangum is credited with the repeated killings of people, both by order and for ritual purposes. Most likely, David Wade died as a result of the sacrifice. But how exactly he was killed is still unclear.
One of the most famous magic secrets of African sorcerers is a curse that is sent to those who violated "taboos", the sacred rules established by the tribe …
The researcher of native customs Lawrence Hins describes how, during an expedition inland, one of the Africans suddenly took off his load and lay down on the ground under a tree. Hins asked him if he was sick. “No, I’m not sick, I’m dying,” he replied, trembling all over. In less than an hour, he actually died. Other natives explained that he was cursed by a local sorcerer.
This magical curse is called "Ju-Ju". Europeans at first treated the stories about him with distrust. A Dutch merchant named Doorn decided to prove that "Ju-Ju" was nothing more than an ordinary swindle. To do this, after drinking heavily, he came to the sacred grove and began to row there. Soon a local sorcerer appeared and asked the merchant to leave, adding that he did not take responsibility for Doorn's life. He only ridiculed the sorcerer and drove away, hitting him with his fist and spitting on the statue of the African god. The old man went to his hut, where all night, bending over the fire, muttered incantations.
Doorn was found dead the next morning. At the same time, his face was distorted with horror, and his body was twisted. The doctor who examined the corpse found no signs of illness or violent death. The only cause of death could be a strong fear caused by a nervous shock. The Police Commissioner, who is familiar with Aboriginal customs, said that given Doorn's actions, there was nothing surprising about his sudden death.
Local authorities tried to fight the "Ju-Ju" rite, but the consequences were dire. So, a white judge and a black policeman, who sent one of the sorcerers to execution, were blinded during the execution of the sentence …
In another county, a police commissioner jailed a local sorcerer who was accused of several ritual murders. But as soon as he was taken to prison, the Commissioner's son fell seriously ill. Thinking, the commissioner turned to the arrested sorcerer for help. He said that when he was released from prison, the boy would recover. And so it happened.
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Such magic cults are active not only in Africa. So, recently a resident of Uralsk (Kazakhstan) Timur Arystanov told about a mysterious incident that happened to him on the Uralsk - Aktobe highway.
“We were returning from Aktobe to Uralsk tonight,” he says. - Not far from the village of Bekey, the driver failed to react to the rubble embankment in time and we flew off the road. While we were waiting for the tow truck, we walked around the neighborhood. Literally 25 meters from the accident site, three strange dolls were found on the left hand in a forest belt. Various colors: white, red and black. With painted faces. The height of the dolls is about 30 centimeters. They look creepy. With ropes of the same color, they are tied by the throat to tree branches. The dolls look at the scene of the accident. Interestingly, there is dust around, but the dolls are absolutely clean, new, as if they were hung literally an hour ago and the dust did not have time to sit on them.
Timur suggests that the dolls are related to the famous voodoo cult and are specially tied to trees.
- I will assume that the colors of the dolls correspond to the colors of the cars that should get there in an accident, - he says. -
For example, our car is white …
Timur and his comrade were lucky - they survived. But it could have turned out worse. Maybe the dolls were "waiting" for some specific cars? Or it was an attempt at sacrifice - just someone had to die, no matter who …
You can believe in magic or not … But it is better to know about such things, for whoever is forewarned is armed.
MARGARITA TROITSYNA