Darkest Mysteries of Africa

By Mark Classican

The world is full of mysteries that sounds like just fictional stories when those who are experiencing them are trying to explain them. Life itself is a mysterious thing that has many unexplainable elements in it. We always hear that there are things such as witchcraft, zombies, spirits, souls, living ancestors, super powers, black magic and many of that nature, but we are not sure if those things really exist or they are just fictional stories. What we turn to ignore is that there is no smoke without fire. Those mysterious stories has their original source.
This books reveals every African mystery that the world is relating to. You will view life at different sight after reading this book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mark Classican
• Release date: Sep 22, 2016
• ISBN: 9780620731195

Mark Classican

Mark Classican is an African born author. He was born in 1984 in Limpopo province of South Africa. After his high school education he went to Wits University where he studied Media and Creative writing.

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By Mark Classican

Copyright 2016 Class Maake

Published by Class Maake at Classican Industries

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Table of contents

Prologue

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

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Prologue

This mysterious world is full of mysteries. Life itself is a mysterious thing that has many unexplainable elements in it. We are only humans and what we know is that we are alive, but we don't really understand what exactly life is. We don't really understand who exactly we are and what made us what we are. Our origin is a mystery to us. We know that we were once one race and living on one part of land and probably speaking the same language and share the same beliefs and culture. How we ended up divided into many different races and living on different parts of the speaking different languages and having different cultures and beliefs is a total mystery.

Though human races differ in many things, we have one thing that we have in common. We believe in superstitions. We all know that there are things as spirits, souls, ghosts, zombies, witchcraft, black magic, super powers and more things of that nature. I call those things superstitions because they sound like they are nothing but just fictional stories when those who are experiencing them are trying to explain them. The truth is that those things really exist. People around the world know that those things are there. That is the reason why they have names in every language around the world. What people don't know is how those things come to existence and why they exist.

This book is a true revelation of the darkest mysteries of Africa and the exposure of the deepest secrets of African culture and beliefs that the world has in common. It tells every tale in full details. You will view life at different sight after reading this book.

Chapter 1: African superstitions and mediocrity

Human life started a long time ago when the earth was still consists of one continent of Pangaea. People of this planet of the earth were once one race and living on one piece of land until they were separated by greed, superstitions and natural events.

The first humans who evolved directly from the hominids were Africans, but not the actual tall and dark or deep brown skin Africans as many modern Africans are today. They were not even taller like many modern humans are. The so-called black people, the Khois and the Sans evolved from the first human race. What black people and the Khois inherited from the first human race that they evolved from, is the bigger hips and bigger buttocks in females. The Khois and the Sans looks similar, but they are slightly different. Their difference is that the Khois are little taller than the Sans and the Khoi women have biggest hips and buttocks while the Sans are tiny. The Khois are the Hottentots. Both races has yellowish brown skin complexion, which is what makes them look little golden.

The first human residents of this planet of the earth were intelligent enough to marry wives, have families and raise their children in community. They even gave their children names. They even named other natural objects so they can identify them by their names. They had their living customs and respected those customs. They had their beliefs and understood the use of plants and animals for medicines to cue different illnesses. They had their doctors. They had their kings and they were abiding by the laws passed on them by their kings. They followed their African customs which most of them are still in practice even today.

Spiritual guidance and healing is actually an African thing that Africans turned into their part of culture. Early African people were highly spiritual people. They depended on spiritual guidance for most of their problems. Africans believe that God exist thought they believe that there are many Gods than just one as Christians may debate against that matter. They believe that there is the main God who is the creator of the universe and everything in it. The main God created people and created their guardian Gods where each person has his own guardian God. The bible says a human is the image of God. That probably means your God looks exactly like you. Because we do not look the same, it means our Gods are not the same too. That can contribute to the African belief that says there are many Gods and each person has his own God.

All human beliefs have their own mediocre. In the bible, we learn that those who committed adultery were stoned to death. We learn that when a woman is on her menstrual period, she is somehow not pure and everything she touches becomes dirty too. Any man who can touch her, sleep with her or eat the food that she prepared will be as much dirtier as she is. We learn that there are great misfortunes that can affect one’s life when things not done according to the way they should. That is the Christian believe that most countries are abiding by, even today. Democratically they are very oppressive and injustice to most people who are not part of that religion.

African beliefs has too many superstitions and mediocre just like all other beliefs around the world. The origin of those superstitions and mediocre is a mystery but Africans see their effectiveness. Most modern African people are still practicing those beliefs except for those who abandoned their African tradition and adopted Christianity and other beliefs that are not African. African beliefs have many restrictions. Africans prohibit many things from being done because they believe those things have negative effects that can bring misfortunes upon humans.

Misfortune is the most feared thing to African people. There are restrictions that set for people in order to prevent misfortunes from falling upon them. Elders are telling and teaching their children about things not to be done in order to prevent misfortunes. They are also teaching them about things they should do when they are facing things that has bad aura.

The most common things that bring misfortunes as well as those that are bad omens are; eating while standing on your feet. That will course your life problems to unsettle. Wearing clothes inside out will make the world turn against you. Exiting or entering the house walking backwards brings death to your home. To pretend as if you are crying while you are not, courses death to one of your family members. If a human can have sexual encounter with an animal, that will brings misfortune to the society. The rain will not fall and the land will suffer a great drought. Alternatively, it will rain with thunderstorm and destroy plants and properties. When a dog screams like a hyena at night, as dogs sometimes do, that is a bad sign that says someone in the family or within the community is dying or going to die in few hours time. If the cat enters the room in which a critically ill person laid and come out running, it is a bad sign. It means the person is dying or going to die soon. If people are passing negative attitude towards you without reasonable facts or perhaps you are experiencing a number of bad events in a short space of time, it is a bad omen. It means a close relative of yours is going to die in a short while. If close relative of yours dies and no one tell you about his or her death, it brings misfortunes to you. You are going to experience a number of bad events that may even lead to the loss of your own life. To prevent such misfortunes, an elderly person must throw salt crystals in the fire and talk to the dead person’s soul not to course trouble to the living people. Those are the African beliefs. Most African people are still following and practicing them even today.

There are things that happen naturally and Africans believe they have an aura that might bring disastrous events. There are measures that are set to deal with those things to stop or minimize the aura that they have. Giving birth to twins or more than one child at a time is a bad omen. It is something that needs to be secretly sort out with immediate effect. Twin babies or multiple born babies are believed to carry bad aura. In case where a woman gives birth to more than one child, elders who help her to deliver the babies will save one child and kill the rest at birth. They are doing that without the mother’s concern or knowledge. The mid-wives are the ones who are killing those babies.

Though giving birth to twins or more than one child at a time is highly taken as a bad omen by Africans, where the quick solution is to save one child and kill the rest, there are times when they make an agreement to save all those babies. That happens when the woman who gave birth to those children has no other children or has difficulty conceiving. They perform rituals to reduce bad aura that they believe those children are carrying. Those rituals are not cleansing them from the aura that they are carrying nor setting them free from the omen hook. Very strict restrictions are set on those children and they remain restricted throughout their lives. They are not supposed to enter the room where the critically ill person is laid because their aura will make that person die or have permanent disability if he lives. They are also restricted from touching newborn babies because the belief is that they will make them sick and eventually die.

Multi-born children are also a danger to one another according to African belief. They believe that when one of them is experiencing emotional or physical pain, the other one suffers an emotional discomfort too. That happens even when they are far apart. In case where one of them dies, they perform specials African rituals for the remaining one so that she will not die too. One part of those rituals is when the living one is laid in an open grave and spend the night in there before her twin sibling can be laid to rest in that grave.

Multi-born babies are not the only kind of babies who are carrying bad auras. Even babies who are born one at a time may turn to be bearers of bad aura. Children who are born with teeth are the bearers of aura. Midwives are killing them immediately upon their arrival. They believe their auras are so bad and there is no traditional healer or rituals that can help to bring them under control. Babies who are also born deformed or with extra organ attached to them are also bearers of bad aura and the midwives are also killing them at birth. They are doing all those killings in the name of getting rid of bad aura that may bring bad luck in the family or the entire village if not the entire world. They believe that aura can be harsh and stop the rain completely for years where people and animals will go starving. The rain is the most important thing to African people because they cannot survive without it. For that reason, they do anything in their power to make sure that they have enough rain yearly.

Sometimes babies are born without bad omens and aura but develop the signs when they grow up. That emerges when those babies are beginning to teeth. In African belief that is still highly followed by modern African people, a child is supposed to begin to teeth with two lower incisors. Women are using their thumbs to rub their children’s lower jaws so that they can make them softer and enable their lower teeth to emerge easily. Children who begin to teeth with upper teeth are the bearers of bad aura according to African belief. Africans are not killing those children but they restrict them as they restrict multi-born children.

Those people who are carrying bad aura are still part of the society despite the tough restrictions that they are living through. They still have families and friends who love them. Having such person in the family is not a problem if the family is following the required African cultural rules and regulations. Because they cannot chase them from their homes whenever there are newborn babies or critically ill members in the family, there are ways that they follow when such occasions occur. When there is a newborn baby in the family, they lay the baby on the floor and all those who have aura in the family will jump across that baby. If it is a case of critically ill person in the family, all those who are the bearers of the bad aura within the family will urinate in the container. Elders will mix their urine with special herbs and apply it all over the patient or the newborn baby’s body. That is a way to make the bad aura not to affect the patient.

Albinos are naturally bearers of bad aura according to African belief. In the olden days, people who were born with albinism were believed to be bearers of mother of all bad auras according to Ancient African belief. Nevertheless, Africans were handling the albinism aura issue differently from all other aura issues. They were not killing children who were born with albinism at birth as they were killing multi-born and deformed babies at birth. There were strict restrictions set for them like others. They protected them from any harm that may put their lives at risk. The real reasons why they protected albinos from harm that may take their lives was that, Africans believe that a living albino carries a bad aura, but the aura is not active when the albino is still alive. The aura is only active once he is dead. They believe the bad aura of the dead albino is so great that it affects the land and the entire society for many years. They fear that the aura is going to course lack of rain, illnesses that are not curable and great misfortunes to people in general. That is the reason why they protected lives of people with albinism with all they could.

Everything that lives naturally eventually dies naturally. African people were aware of that fact too. They knew that though they protected people with albinism and fear for their death, those people will eventually die naturally someday. In that way, kings came with the solution to that problem. Their solution was the greatest secret of a lifetime. No one was supposed to find-out about that secret except those kings and few men who were selected to carry out that duty of dealing with that problem.

In ancient times, Africans were normally living with people with albinism as they were living with other normal people though they were giving them close supervision. An elderly man who was a close member of the family of the albino person was deployed by the king ambassador to watch that person closely and report to the ambassador of the king when he saw that the person was leading a poor health with death possibility. When those people with albinism were ill where their guardians believed they might die at any time, they were reporting to the king. The king was sending the message to men who their duty was to deal with such crisis so that they can secretly take those patients away from their homes and abandon them in the mountains far away from their settlement in the northern part so they can die there. For that reason, African people who did not know about that secret believed that people with albinism were not dying but disappearing from the face of the earth in an unexplainable way. That is the reason why even today most Africans still believe that albinos do not die but just disappear. There is also a famous say in South African Sepedi language that says Lebitla la leswafa ga le tsejwe, which means the grave of an albino is not known. Many Africans only know that say but they have no idea where it comes from.

That secret of making people with albinism disappear was in practice until recent years, as recent as 1990, though the disappearance strategy had changed the format at some point. The change was that they were no longer taking them to the mountains and leave them there to die. They were nursing them at their homes until they die, and when they were dead, they were secretly burying them and no one was told anything about their death. Children and those who did not know what was happening kept on believing that albinos were not dying but just disappearing.

People have been living like that on that super continent of Pangaea until a major earthquake that happened at around 245, 000