The Olympics have long ceased to be the fiefdom of amateurs, for whom the main thing is not victory, but participation. For professional athletes, the price of success is unusually high. Someone's main help in achieving their goals is training. Others prefer technical tricks. Some are playing uncleanly, using different types of doping. Well, the most sophisticated hunters for medals do not shy away from "ordinary" witchcraft.
God help
Sport is not the most ancient invention of mankind, it is three thousand and three years old. But if people compete, then more often they do it for the sake of victory. This means that increasing your strength or weakening your opponent, albeit not entirely honestly, is far from the last thing.
At the Games of 776 BC (the first ones mentioned in history), a certain Fa-ill jumped in length … 16 meters. How he succeeded, the ancient Greeks wondered. They said that he wandered for a long time in Western Asia, which at that time was considered the country of sorcerers. Indeed, now such a result is shown in the triple jump. So this same Faill learned the art of levitation?
Curious rumors circulated about Asia Minor among the Romans. For example, horses from this area could not participate in chariot races, because … they were considered enchanted. The organizers of the races believed that the Asian owners of horses knew how to enchant them so that later they could influence the results.
Both in Greece and in Rome it was considered not shameful to ask the help of the gods in sports matters. The athletes themselves, the owners of the chariots, and the owners of gladiator schools asked her. But in the last three hundred years of the existence of the Roman Empire, morals there have significantly deteriorated.
Extremely interesting archaeological finds date from this period. Many wooden and even copper tablets are dotted with Etruscan spells, which are believed to contain the names of gladiators. The Romans also called the Etruscans sorcerers, but, as it was believed earlier, their language was completely forgotten. And then there are plates in a mixture of Latin and Etruscan!
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Comparing the many finds, scientists came to the conclusion that at some point in Rome, whole witchcraft offices proliferated, which they offered these same charmed tablets to their clients. Gladiator fights were the most beloved sport for the Romans.
In the Middle Ages, sports for Europeans were replaced by knightly tournaments and shooting competitions. There, too, it was not without accusations of witchcraft. The stay-at-home knights accused the crusaders that they spoke the Oriental way of horses and blades. The British believed that dark forces helped the Welsh in shooting, and forbade them to use bows.
Reich sports magic
Germany received the right to host the 1936 Games under a democratic government, but was already preparing for them under the Nazis. All efforts were thrown into the confirmation of delusional racial theories.
The Olympic Village has indeed attracted the admiration of athletes from all over the world. The Germans simply hid that they were building it not for a sports festival, but as a training base for the Wehrmacht. All work was supervised by Goebbels. Among his assistants were the general secretary of the organizing committee of the Olympics in Germany, Karl Dim and Colonel Walter von Reichenau.
The half-brother of Reichenau, later a prominent general of the Wehrmacht, due to his dubious origin, could not rank himself among the aristocracy. Therefore, he worked with particular enthusiasm for the National Socialist German Workers' Party. According to some reports, he repeatedly took part in Nazi expeditions to Tibet and the Caucasus as the leader of cover groups.
It is no coincidence that strange characters in the robes of Buddhist monks appeared with him at the future Olympic base from the first days of construction. They secretly supervised the work. Subsequently, the Germans presented the area near the town of Elstal as a natural landscape, which delighted foreign guests. In fact, the area, repeating in miniature the outlines of Germany, was created artificially - hills were poured, streams dug, groves planted.
Apparently, the goal was to create a special atmosphere in Elstal. Indeed, most athletes during the Games complained that they were constantly feeling uncomfortable. By the way, members of women's teams were not allowed into the territory of the Olympic Village - they were settled in another place. And in this, you see, there is a certain touch of influence of Tibetan magicians.
There is evidence that Buddhist shamans also worked with German athletes. Some German athletes recalled this after the war. However, Tibetan magic did not help the Reich to prove the racial theory in the sports field. The Germans won no more than they should have won anyway.
Mysterious Africa
In our time, the indisputable leaders in the market for "sports and magic services" are Africans. Almost every football club on the Black Continent has staff wizards. In most cases, the matter is limited to noisy calls to the ancestral gods during matches. A caster dressed in a colorful costume jumps across the podium and calls upon the spirits of ancestors to help his beloved team. And on the opposite podium his opponent is kamlaing.
Drums, vuvuzelas, painted faces and the like have not bothered anyone for a long time. Africa is very fragmented ethnically, and therefore it is unacceptable to conjure openly - the gods and tribal spirits are different for everyone. In extreme cases, they will compete too.
But connoisseurs of the occult world admit that in the wilds of Africa there can be hidden not only secrets that have not yet been discovered, but also inaccessible to man's understanding. The elite of the shamanic class is sure that they have learned to use a particle of this knowledge.
Not everyone can afford such masters. Their fiefdoms are national teams. For example, Ligel Ngoy Mbay is part of the official delegation of the Senegal football team at all major competitions. He himself says that he only needs to watch his team's match on TV in a hotel room to help her. Mbay bears the official title of the supreme sorcerer of the country.
Once the Senegalese were caught using amulets directly in the stadium. It happened in Nigeria during an important match. The local shamans somehow realized that Mbay does not just conjure - he enhances the spell of an artifact hidden in the area.
The Nigerians were behind with a score of 0: 1 and could not hit the opponents' goal in any way. Suddenly, a crowd of enraged sorcerers rushed out onto the field. They rushed to the gates of the guests and, breaking the lawn, pulled out some kind of amulet from the ground. The game was resumed after the scandal with great difficulty, and the Nigerians eventually won. But Mbay was banned from entering almost half of the African countries.
The results of the Tanzania Football Championship were once canceled. It turned out that before the final game, the staff shaman of one of the clubs performed a magic ceremony at the stadium where the match was to take place. The basis of the whole idea was a frog, specially raised, fattened, charmed, killed and buried in accordance with special rules. The match ended the way the magician wanted, but the authorities annulled his result.
And other officials
Officials in Africa have long recognized witchcraft as a real force. For example, after the Cameroon national football team won the Continental Cup, the head of the federation received a bill for 45,000 euros from a famous sorcerer in the country. He claimed to have patronized the team from the qualifiers to the final. After a long meeting, the football federation decided to pay off.
In Zambia in 2005, sports officials canceled the African Wrestling Championship. In one of the fights, the representative of Zaire, Lubandi Mulosi, faced the local athlete Vili Nkandu. The hare's face, covered with a thick layer of white powder, resembled a ritual mask, and bizarre amulets hung around his neck, arms and body. After the signal for the start of the duel, he began to make strange passes with his hands and mutter incantations, and his opponent collapsed unconscious. The judges recognized this as a manifestation of black magic and closed the tournament.
African experts in witchcraft are also looking towards athletes - mostly Kenyan and Ethiopian. They do win the lion's share of the races. The most interesting thing is that all Kenyan champions train in one town - Eldoret - not far from the Ethiopian border.
Competitors have sounded the alarm. It turns out very strange: in Kenya, almost 90% of the population is Christians, and success in athletics goes almost exclusively to adherents of pagan cults. A famous African sorcerer from Botswana was admitted to Eldoret without further ado. He scoured the neighborhood for a long time, and then asked to take him home. And only there he confessed: there is magic in Eldoret, and everything is saturated with it. But this magic is alien to blacks, it is "for a white man who drinks our blood."
It's hard to say what the magician smelled there, but the phenomenon of Kenyan runners exists. As scientists have found out, their secret lies in the saturation of blood with oxygen while running. Energy expenditure reaches its maximum, and this occurs without metabolic disturbances. Kenyans are unique in that nature has endowed them with a gene that “turns on” itself when needed, and just as organically “turns off”.
For about 15 years, a group of American scientists has been working on the border of Kenya and Ethiopia, which includes anthropologists, physiologists, biochemists and God knows what other specialists. Will their research result in an artificial analogue of this gene? Moreover, rumors circulate around this group about their collaboration with all sorts of dark personalities - sorcerers, who help to select "material" for research. It seems that it occurred to the modern "medal spellcasters" that Kenyans got this gene for a reason.
Traditional magic is now out of fashion, even in sports. After all, no matter how the shaman Tzamarenda Naychapi drove out evil spirits from the football stadiums in Germany before the 2006 World Cup, all this remained only a beautiful show. The spells of the Ecuadorian did not help his team.
Mark ALTSHULER