Weird Magic, Dreams , and Cure: Weird Magic, Dreams, and Cure

By Bukenya Siraje

Many strange things happen but Authors we only have to write in order to clear the air by conversing with audience. Weird magic , dreams and cure is just making it aware to those who have not experience such magic, witchcraft, superstition, illuminati, and dreams that really exist. Most of these I have seen, friends give me information and also have read.
In this book we get more information about dreams, their meaning and Illuminati, who they are and how they have influenced the world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jun 5, 2022
• ISBN: 9781387896790

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Weird Magic, Dreams, and Cure

Weird Magic, Dreams, and Cure

AUTHOR: BUKENYA SIRAJE

Isbn : 9781387896790

Copyright © 2022 by Bukenya Siraje

All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in any retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means now or here after invented without the prior written permission of the copy right owner

DEDICATIONS

This book is dedicated to all those who are curious, always researching and want to learn more about this world full of weirdness.

I also dedicate it to my Wife Shaluwa, children; Buraira, Imran, Amar and Hisham for being so loving.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER ONE 12

WITCHCRAFT

Examples from my experience African witchcraft

European witchcraft

Some methods applied from European and African settings

CHAPTER TWO 84

GHOSTS, SPIRITS AND DEMONS/JINS

My experiences Beliefs in ancestors

Children most becoming vulnerable

CHAPTER THREE 89

MAGIC

My experiences at school Examples of magic

From European historians

CHAPTER FOUR 109

SUPERSTITIONS

Circumcisions Curses

Death

Other common superstitions

CHAPTER FIVE 115

ILLUMINATISM

Illuminati

CHAPTER SIX 123

DREAMS

Meaning

Most common dreams and meanings Dreams of Prophets

Dream analysis

CHAPTER SEVEN 311

CURE AND BEST PROTECTION OF ALL THESE ABOVE

Prayers tradition

Prayers Christians Prayers Muslims The law.

INTRODUCTION

Many strange things happen but Authors we only have to write in order to clear the air by conversing with audience.

Weird magic ,dreams and cure is just making it aware to those who have not experience such magic, witchcraft, superstition, illuminati, and dreams that really exist. Most of these I have seen, friends give me information and also have read.

Witchcraft and magic are topics of enduring interest for many reasons. Chief among these is their extraordinary interdisciplinary: anthropologists, folklorists, historians, and more have contributed to build a body of work of extreme variety and consistence. Of course, this also means that the subjects themselves are not easy to assess. In a very general way, we can define witchcraft as a supernatural means to cause harm, death, or misfortune, while magic also belongs to the field of the supernatural, or at least esoteric knowledge, but can be used to less dangerous effects: such as for divination and astrology. In Western civilization, however, the witch hunt of Late Medieval–Early Modern times has set a very peculiar perspective in which diabolical witchcraft, the invention of the Sabbat and the persecution of many thousands of (mostly) female and (sometimes) male presumed witches, gave way to a phenomenon that is fundamentally different from traditional witchcraft, even if many case studies conducted in South

America or Africa present similarities, especially in contemporary times (see Wachtel 1992; Geschiere 1997). Another peculiarity of magic and witchcraft in Western civilization is given by the number of writings that detailed their nature, techniques, and effects: these include technical treatises about how to perform magic, such as in the case of necromancy (see Kieckhefer 1998; Gal et al. 2017), or the many writings explaining the powers of witches from the point of view of judges and inquisitors.

A great many of us when we be in trouble, or sickness, or lose anything, we run hither and thither to witches, or sorcerers, whom we call wise men… seeking aid and comfort at their hands.

There were two very separate types of magic according to European historians: black and white.

Black magic is the use of supernatural powers to cause harm and destruction to objects, people or

animals. The black magic they cast was termed maleficium and involved curses, weather magic and ritual sacrifices. By contrast, white magic is the use of magical knowledge and powers for good purposes.

Some of the main examples of the good magic they cast, for their own benefit and for others, included love magic, healing, and divination to tell the future and to find lost goods. Brian Levack gives a good summary of the aims and powers of white magic:

White magic can be productive, in the sense of helping crops to grow or women to bear children; it can be curative, in the sense of healing a person who is ill; or it can be protective, in the sense of preventing some misfortune from occurring or warding off some evil spirit or witch.

The ways they acquired their powers differed as well. Black witches were believed by many to secure their powers from the Devil, after making a pact with him. The origins of white witches’ powers were a much more contentious topic. Some people believed that, like maleficient witches, cunning folk derived their

magical powers from the devil. However, by contrast, others believed their good magic was angelic in origin. The motives behind their work also differed. White witches may have carried out their work purely to help others, or they may have been driven by financial needs. Though many did not take any payment and even those that did, did not earn very much. Black witches on the other hand were seen as predominantly driven by malice, anger and revenge.

Although there were clear differences between the practices of black witches and cunning folk, there were grey areas where the distinction between good and bad became blurred. For example, love magic could be particularly tricky. In essence it was good magic, employed to maintain marriages and create good social relationships. However, if a wizard forced someone to love them with magic or aided an adulterous affair the magic became maleficient in nature; as Levack states, ‘one person’s gain in love might easily be another’s loss’. He notes that there

were also difficult situations with healing, for example if the wizard harmed someone in order to protect

himself, or if he cured a patient by moving their disease to someone else. These grey areas did not help the cunning folk of this period to win acceptance by their critics. Many clergy, especially puritan writers, believed that there was no distinction between good and black magic as all magic came from the Devil.

The magical powers white witches and wizards claimed to be able to harness were not always believed to have been inherited. In fact, many cunning folk asserted that their powers were a gift (or curse) from another supernatural being. The most common claim was that fairies had bestowed the witch or wizard with the abilities they now used for good.

There was a substantial assortment of people who considered themselves white witches or wizards. However, despite their apparent sizeable presence, the populace would often travel many miles to see particular cunning folk, passing others on their way. What made one white witch more reputable than another? Perhaps the key to understanding this is to delve into the techniques and tools that were harnessed by the cunning folk in their magical work.

The techniques they used varied a great deal, some used prayers and simple charms, whilst others used more intricate and complicated means. Before exploring the methods and apparatus used by the cunning folk, we should consider the types of problems they were generally employed to solve. there were four main ways that cunning folk provided help for the people of this period. First, they were able to help find lost or stolen goods, and if needed were able to help establish who had taken the goods.

Secondly, they could offer healing and remedies for various ailments, both natural and supernatural in origin. They were also able to use divination or fortune--‐telling to predict future events in a person’s life.

‘in Barbary... wizards... smear their hands with some black ointment, and then do hold them up to the sun, and in a short time you shall see delineated in that black stuff, the likeness of what you desire to have an answer of’. Furthermore, cunning folk were

frequently engaged to determine whether a maleficient curse had been cast, then to remove the curse and to find the culprit. This fourth role was perhaps their most important, and gained them a significant amount of business. Although these were the most common examples of the kind of work cunning folk were involved in, they do not reflect all of their skills.

CHAPTER ONE

WITCHCRAFT

Witchcraft is the use of magic, supernatural powers, Spell, charm to harm others usually considered to arise from pagan traditions. Witchcraft practices include belief in magical powers such as the power to call up the spirit of a dead man, the ability to diagnose

and cure illnesses, the ability to change from a human being into an animal, and the ability to cause and stop road accidents. It is believed that magic users have the power to cause disease in humans, misfortune, sickness in animals, impotence, sudden death, and other forms of misfortune. This cultural practice causes people to suspect others of engaging in witchcraft, which results in attacks on those suspected of witchcraft. History has revealed that, before colonial rule, witchcraft beliefs formed an integral part of everyday life in most African societies. As such, numerous tenets of customary law had to provide sanctions aimed at restitution, depending on the harshness of the abuse caused by witchcraft.

However, beliefs in witchcraft persist, and these beliefs affect all classes of society and remain a social reality in Tanzania and many other African countries such as Ghana, Angola, Malawi and South Africa. The problem with these beliefs is that they are used to justify the stigmatization of certain people in society, which often leads to accusations against and

victimization of individuals who are suspected of being involved in the acts of witchcraft.

People who suspect that they are the victims of witchcraft seek the services of either a traditional healer or witch doctor to determine the identity of the person who has harmed them by engaging in witchcraft practices. Members of certain communities also tend to hire a traditional healer to break the spell of bewitchment within their community. This procedure is well known as operations to remove the source of the bewitchment. Accusers often demand that a witch undergo an exorcism, or some other procedure designed to purge her of her powers.

Exorcisms are painful and dangerous because the communities often impose punishments on the accused witch, including mob violence, beatings, property destruction, or other extreme measures. A wide range of women’s rights are violated as a consequence of witchcraft accusations, including the right to life, security, and liberty as well as the right to hold property, and the prohibition against torture. Moreover, socio-economic marginalization of those

blamed for the practice of witchcraft also occurs. Anger, hatred, envy, lust and greed have been identified as among the sources of this belief and practice. Those most frequently attacked have been women – particularly lower class and elderly women, most of whom are farmers, usually single and generally living alone. In urban areas, female traders have also been targeted and accused by men who clearly perceive them as competitors and a threat to their power. The abuses inflicted on women accused of witchcraft serve to intimidate and discipline all women, thereby preventing them from asserting their rights.

Witches ( a gender-neutral term) and witch doctors (again, gender neutral) are two different things, but both dabble in witchcraft. Witches can cast evil spells ( some Ugandan’s believe AIDS is caused by the spells of witches and evil spirits), while witch doctors are traditional healers; they create remedies to heal the effects of evil witchcraft and evil spirits (many believe that witch doctors can heal AIDS). Its estimated that 3 million traditional healers (witch doctors) in Uganda.

Obed explained that Ugndans believe there’s witchcraft power in the shedding of blood. Usually, that blood is shed from animals scarificed at local shrines. But as people have become more desperate to manipulate and appease the spirits, they’are now turning to the shedding of human blood and using human body parts. When Obed talked about

witchcraft, it wasn’t the way I woud talk about it. I talk about witchcraft like it’s some superstitious mental manipulation that preys on people’s fears. But, and

this is a bigbut- I don’t believe it has any actual supernatural power. Obed –a college educated Ugandan who is narried to a lawyer- believes

differently. He’s seen it work, he says He’s seen supernatural power. And I think the whole country feels just like he does.

From different examples;

I have illustrated what has been observed from experience.

Most people practice witchcraft, enchantment or sorcery in order to gain power, fame, find lost treasure like money, stolen goods, destroy a person’s body, member, goods, even killing or provoking love.

One Haj’s event of marrying another

woman happened as follows;

A thing is sent in ones womb, moving the stomach in and out until religious leaders are called, they pray hard but instead they are hit and run away. This happened to a certain man who had even built mosques, performed Haj ( going to Mecca for pilgrimage) but married another woman on coming back. The lady got sick and he tried bringing in religious clerics prayed in vain until one man asked him help lift the lady to the car up to a witch doctor reaching there as they put her down, something came out of her hit the husband and died off.

Targeting women in witchcraft killing is also associated with the ownership of property. Past and recent experiences confirm that there is a relationship between poverty and the vulnerability of

elderly women in terms of accusations of witchcraft in Tanzania, because most killings of elderly women occur in poor rural areas where people are largely dependent on crop production. Increasing poverty has led to an increase in illiteracy among people in rural villages; this has steered many people to believe that calamities such as drought, famine, pests and diseases are caused by poor elderly women who do not want to see the progress of younger energetic ones. Evidence has shown that a drop in income from crops owing to different calamities is associated with a large increase in the killing of elderly women who are accused of witchcraft.32 Moreover, people in rural areas lack the funds to visit hospitals or clinics, so it is likely that a patient in these areas will seek medical aid from a traditional healer first. These traditional healers have their own code of ethics and conduct and their influence on the local population is profound. Patients believe implicitly in the words of their healers and adhere rigidly to whatever they are told about the source of their illness. Trust in traditional healers is also enforced by lack of sufficient

hospital services, as in many areas people have to walk more than ten kilometres to seek medical care. The lack of understanding of common diseases such as HIV and Aids and other childhood diseases in rural areas is also considered to be among the factors that result in the belief that a family has been bewitched.

I will give you another experience when My step mother neighbor Made life very difficult for us

After buying a piece of land from this lady being good friends didn’t even wait for the husband. Actually when the husband came he was paid again since he claimed not to accept what the wife had done in his absence, having enjoyed the money just few day, he came back saying even this small piece of land remaining where my wife staying buy it completely

since my daddy was wealth by then a chief accountant in the parliament he paid for it and said they can take their time to move away as they are good friends not knowing the woman was evil. One day the maid was sweeping around the fence when she touched feces accidentally, her hand started swelling, she was feeling so sick until was taken to spiritual healers and was told that since she kept reporting whatever happens in the home from them, would like to see her dead. Also on a certain day we were eating on the dining table as a big snake was noticed under the dining table. She also planted a skull of human under the ground near the entrance at the small gate,, could also be seen Dancing naked around our fence. Mother said they would capture her spirit in the night, hide it in banana plantations, immediately in the morning start celebrating thinking she is dead,

cooking lots of food but in vain. S you pass their place, you see the way they look at you, abusing you with eyes as they are moved up and down.

The woman did a lot of witchcraft until things felt like failing and resorted to hiring armed men. A man came knocked on the gate asking whether the residence was for the person they directed them to, on answering they further found out if mum and dad are around. My sister brought them inside and as they approached the bedroom. My mother tried to run but they hit her with the gun magazine, they told her; were are you going?, we have a full battalion outside that gate as my sister found her way under the legs of the armed man. They informed her and my father; we have been sent to kill you they later

started capturing thing like; Television, Radios, Suit cases.

I also noted most occult practices, the source of the witchcraft is water base , were these water spirits are contacted for supernatural power. Once witnessed a gentleman struggling to go abroad for greener pasture and was advised to meet a witchdoctor, they move up to the lake where he