Africans firmly believe that all misfortunes are due to witchcraft. In the Shiluk tribe, the sorcerer's illness can turn out to be death for him, since this suggests that his magic is weak and the tribe can suffer misfortune. In the Congo, in order to identify the sorcerers, the unfortunate suspect of magical intrigues is forced to take poison extracted from the bark of the nkasa bush. When the victim begins to writhe in agony to the beat of drums, the audience rejoices that they have finally gotten rid of the villain.
The fearsome beliefs of voodoo came from the Yoruba tribe of western Africa. 30 million Yoruba still profess the oldest religion of Ifa'Orish, which influenced the birth of the voodoo tradition. They believe that each person is protected by a spirit - orisha. A person may not know who it is and what his patronage is, but if the spirit calls, then everyone will immediately understand this.
Gradually, their beliefs spread throughout the rest of the continent, and today there is a center of Yoruba culture even in Moscow. Russian football fans are said to have turned to the voodoo sorcerers to secure a victory over England in the European Championship qualifier. By the way, ours won then.
Especially many Yoruba live in Togo, which has the largest market for magical supplies for Voodoo rituals. There is everything here to cast damage or spell. There are even potions that can raise the dead from the ground and cause unbearable suffering to the living.
In the open air, there are rows of animal bones, herbs, potions, severed heads of wild antelopes, and other witchcraft. Sellers can offer you a talisman for good luck: a severed monkey's foot or a gazelle's hoof. In the event that you do not buy this rubbish, then curses may be whispered after you. However, the goods are going "with a bang", because everyone wants help from otherworldly to solve various life problems.
Sometimes, the treatment begins immediately after the acquisition of the magic component. Magical figurines for gaining wealth, talismans for good luck and smoking mixtures are especially popular with tourists. Having smoked a potion, a person can become like a sorcerer and see his future very clearly.
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In neighboring Congo, sorcerers are feared like fire and people are killed on the slightest suspicion of "illegal" activities. When the British decided to unite the Africans into communities, they began to violently resist this. It turned out that they were afraid that an evil sorcerer would fall into their neighborhood.
The most dangerous sorcerer in African history was Equatorial Guinea's president, Masias Nguema Biogo, of the Fang tribe. The people of this tribe traditionally take special narcotic infusions that can make them sorcerers. Macias became one of the greatest villains of the 20th century, and some believe it is because of his witchcraft power. He ruled the country from 1968 to 1972 and during the entire period of his reign he destroyed 30 thousand people, that is, a tenth of the population, and 150 thousand fled in horror outside the state.
Once, when the director of the state bureau of statistics published a report on demographics, and Ngueme did not like the numbers, he ordered the director to be dismembered "so that he could learn to count." The President personally tortured and killed his political opponents or those whom he considered as such.
Macias used the blood and entrails of slain animals for witchcraft rites. Once he ordered to shoot all the former lovers of his own mistresses. When he went abroad, he staged demonstrative executions to avoid a coup. However, this did not help, and his own nephew organized a coup d'état.
Ngueme fled with two suitcases of dollars and burned the rest of the country's foreign exchange reserves. Two weeks later, he was arrested, convicted of 500 murders and sentenced to death. To carry out the execution, a platoon of Moroccan soldiers had to be specially summoned, since everyone in his homeland believed that he was an evil sorcerer. And they were afraid of the revenge of his spirit after death, which may appear in the form of a black dog.
The use of witchcraft in African politics is common. In a courthouse in the southwestern state of Ondo in Nigeria, police detained a sorcerer wearing a variety of amulets. The sorcerer admitted that he was hired by one of the members of the State Legislature to cast magic spells on judges and influence a lawsuit over massive electoral violations.
Sometimes sorcerers are guilty of unleashing a hunt for people. Once albino children suffered, as the sorcerer decided that the amulets made from their body parts had powerful magical powers. Often, ordinary children also suffer. Nigerian sorcerer Abdullahi Mohammed tried to kidnap a little boy in order to use his organs for his magical rituals. Abdullahi hit the boy on the head with a "magic chicken", but he began to call for help and passers-by rescued the child. Mohammed was tried, and he was threatened with death by hanging, but the court took pity on the mad man and sentenced him to life imprisonment.
A mysterious killer sorcerer has appeared in Nigeria who called people on the phone and killed from a distance. People would recognize the villain's phone to prevent the threat by not answering deadly calls.
In the South African province of Transvaal, a struggle broke out between the sorcerer Amel Banamezi and the bank "Absa". The sorcerer took a large loan, did not give it on time, and the bank employees threatened, in case of non-repayment of the debt, to sue him for the car. Banamezi threatened that if "these bank snakes dare to take the" sacred machine "on account of their debt, they will have to deal with their wild relatives." The bankers nevertheless went to court, and he decided the case in their favor, as a result of which Amel lost his “sacred car”.
The next day the sorcerer came to one of the branches of the bank "Absa", opened the door, and, without crossing the threshold of the bank, let five vipers into the room. The guard tried to kick them out, but one of the snakes bit his hand. After that, the bank's visitors were seized by panic. The bank employees called the police, but they could not catch the snakes and only a team of snake-catchers, who arrived from the serpentarium, were able to cope with the task. The bank's management again went to court, but this time they could not be helped, because formally the snakes themselves crawled into the bank from the street. Banamezi said with a grin that he still had mambas and cobras in reserve, the bite of which was fatal. The bankers decided that it was dangerous to contact the sorcerer and his snakes, and abandoned all financial claims.
However, not all sorcerers in Africa are evil. One day, after the announcement of the results of the presidential elections in Kenya, riots broke out in the streets, which took advantage of the looters. In the coastal city of Mombasa, the stolen property was recovered through witchcraft. A good sorcerer was found who put damage on the looters, as a result of which they began to have problems with digestion, they were not able to go to the toilet. This was announced on television, and the "antidote" was announced: the return of the stolen property. Immediately after this message, processions were drawn on the night streets of Mombasa: people dragged TVs, chairs, dishes and other items to the affected houses.
Once a wife and two children were kidnapped from an Englishman Lowell in France, but the police could not find them. The desperate man, on the advice of friends, went to Benin to see the famous sorcerer Archwa. He drank the magic potion, which is why in a trance he saw the Lowell family in the basement of a villa in northern France. He detailed the location of the villa, and on his tip, the police did find Lowell's wife and children languishing in the basement.