Spiritual World of Twins

By Leo Agwu

Abe and Abi were born twins. The twins were taken into a deep forest without clothing and left to be killed and eaten by wild animals or used as a sacrifice. Abe and Abi cried for their parents for comfort and food, but in vain—just because they were born twins. This barbaric act was carried out by the man responsible for their birth, their father.

This was because having twins was considered a curse that befell the family, and that family would be excommunicated by the rest of the community if such evil of having twins ever came to light. This was the belief of some cities in the eastern part of Nigeria in the olden days, until the arrival of a missionary from Scotland by the name of Mary Mitchell Slessor. Mary made the people see twins as a blessing rather than a taboo by preaching and teaching. She stopped people from abandoning twins in the forest to be killed and eaten by animals or used as a sacrifice. May the soul of Mary Mitchell Slassor rest in perfect peace. Amen.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: May 4, 2019
• ISBN: 9781532074813

Leo Agwu

Leo Agwu is an international business man who has burning passion in writing all kind of works and as a twin, could no longer keep it inside him but to let the word, mostly twins know what the twins went through in the olden days in some parts of the world mostly Africa. He lost his twins sister Maria Agiliga due to death but Leo Agwu see all twins as brothers and sister no matter where they came from and always pray for love and unity among twins all over the world.

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ISBN: 978-1-5320-7480-6 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5320-7481-3 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2019942648

iUniverse rev. date: 05/01/2019

Contents

Dedication

The Characters

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

B L U R B

B L U R B

Dedication

To the soul of my mom Princess Victoria Chigbufue, my twin sister Princess Maria Agiliga and Mary Mitchell Slessor.

The Characters

Abe……………………………………Twin brother of Abi

Abi…………………………………….Twin sister of Abe

Bassia…………………………….Friend of Abi and twin sister to Bass

Dim………………………….Twin of Dime (both girls) friend of Bass

King Amadi………………………King of Abuedo

Charly………………………………Slave to king Amadi

Lisa…………………………………..The pregnant girl friend of Charly

Mary………………………………..Wife of King Agreement

King Agreement…………..Who got married to his unknown twin sister Mary

Rev. Sister Bridgeth…………Adopted mother of Mary

Princess Ogechukwuka…………Twin brother to Ekenedilichukwu

Princess Ekenedilichukwu………….Twin sister to Ogechukwuka

Rev. Sister Anthonia…………St Mary primary school

Kofi…………………St Charles Catholic secondary school principal

Taxi driver……………..Who picked up the twins from their school

Rev. Sister Veronica………St Charles Catholic secondary school vice principal

Rev father Michael………..Education general overseer

Rev Sister Victoria……………..Class one A in St Charles Catholic secondary school

Pilot……………………………………………………………………………….

First messenger………………………………………………………………….

Second messenger……………………………………………………………..

Chapter 1

Abe: Abi, my sister, we’ve been in the spirit world for such a long time, without going back to land of the living, with no idea when to go back to join the living people.

Abi: My lovely brother, I always think about what you just mentioned, but after thinking about it, the problems why we are still here in the spirit world. The reason is that after thinking of what we went through when we were born twins, as we were taken into forest, abandoned a day babies in the forest to be killed and eating by wild animals, just because of their ignorant mind saying that human beings should not have two children at the same time, seeing it as taboo, kind of abomination that no family want to associate with in Nigeria and so many African countries, so they believed, just to get out of such a taboo story, the best is, take the twins far into the forest and abandon them in the forest for wild animals to eventually hear the cry of the suffering twins. The sin they never created, just arrived to the world of the living, only to face such unfair senseless punishment because they came as twins.

Abe: Abi did you remember the way we were taken into the forest on that evil, never to be forgotten day, with no feeling of love, abandoned in the forest with out wiping the baby born blood in our body, beating by rain, of which that was the first and last meal we had (the rain that entered our mouth as it was raining on that evil day and that was the meal we had.) After the rain, both of us started shivering out of cool from the rain, left in the forest with no cover of any cloth, just left under a tree.

I remembered as the darkness of the night came, as you stopped crying, I thought that you died and started praying for my death to come because the pain, hunger and knowing full well that no one loves us for coming to the land of the living as twins in Nigeria.

I was asking myself, where did we go wrong as twins? we did not create ourselves as twins, and after thinking that my suffering partner is now dead, I just asked for nothing but death, suddenly as the day brightened, you started crying- mar mar mar mar mar, two things came to my mind- she is still alive or am I just dreaming? - when will she know that the Mar she is crying for will never come to us again not to talk of the man that put us into her womb, why? No love for us because we are twins, no crime committed. I could no longer ask for death