Science or Magic

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Do you believe in sorcery, divination, mediums and other occurrences wherein just a couple of people could get it?

Wizardry is the utilization of convictions, ceremonies or activities utilized in the conviction that they can curb or control characteristic or heavenly creatures and powers. It is a classification into which have been set different convictions and practices here and there thought to be independent of both religion and science.

Sorcery is an otherworldly force or the capacity to utilize extraordinary forces—black magic or wizardry. The word sorcery regularly (however not generally) alludes to alleged dark sorcery—wizardry utilized for malicious purposes.

I was with my sister-parents in law's house yesterday when we went to a point where we discussed witchcraft. I knew her story two years ago.

She was pregnant with her fifth baby. They were living in the spot of her husband working place situated in a mining organization and possibly come when they considered visiting in our barrio.

In her fourth month of pregnancy, she felt something else. Her skin shading changes that she turned dark. Her eyes were empty with dark circles. From the start, she thought it was a piece of her prenatal period. ( Paglilihi). She tried to consult a physician but they can't explain either. They just said maybe it's part of her pregnancy but she believes there is something wrong.

Once she was advised by her neighbour to search for a medium since she looked different. A medium was said who can see whether you are being played by unanticipated spirits and toss stunts on you. There are mediums in our barrio additionally however they just cast away spells from spirits who ended up making an individual have infection not at all like from different barrios in which they have more profound abilities.

After few days of giving it a thought. My sister-in-law chooses to notice her neighbours exhortation. She went to look for a medium and discovered one closest to their home. She was then told undoubtedly that somebody was applying her an insidious enchantment.

At the point when I heard those accounts from my mother in law. I was a bit perplexed. I am somewhat of an individual that doesn't accept ouch kind because maybe I just trust in things that I see first before I believe.

Indeed, the medium where sister approached advised her to discover the sorcerer to counter assault the spell or find another sorcerer who knows how to counter-spell.

There was this one lady in our barangay who was believed to be a medium. She is also known to see dead spirits visiting or she has a third eye and she can even converse with them. My sister in law sent my mother-in-law toward this local medium. Coincidentally, she can discover flaws in you by looking at your photograph. So mother-in-law acquired a photo of sister-in-law to the medium yet same as what the medium in my sisters place, their perception was something similar.

As indicated by my sister in law, she was advised that the abhorrent spell must be lifted in case that somebody can track down the person who played out the spell and counter-spell the caster.

The medium here in our locality can only find indistinct images in their vision of who was being responsible for the spell. Even their identity we're also indistinct so there are slight pieces of information only the medium can provide.

Fortunately, one of our local people knew somebody who can counter-spell black magic yet it was situated far away from our area. It could require long hours of travel before showing up at the destination. I am happy there is no sorcerer in our place, there are some who experience being cast with sorcery when we travel to different locations. The bases are envy and insecurities. You may be been desirous of your excellence, or actions. So at whatever point we travel, our elders have instructed us to bring the "humang". A specific extraordinary bark of a tree. Our elders accepted that it can shield us from different groups of people's evil eyes. I tasted it once and it's so bitter when I had constipation. It's so hard that it is so difficult to scrape so I used a sharp blade to scrape it and blend it with lukewarm water. I forgot if it's effective though🤣.

I recollected when  I need to travel away during high school for a workshop. I was searching for my grandma during the hour of my departure since I need to request my allowance. She came hustling then with the humang and slid it in my travelling bag. I don't have a clue what was that previously. 😅

So back to the topic, since sister-in-law can't travel, other few individuals made a go to the sorcerer's place. That incorporates, our local medium and its company who knew the area along with mother-in-law.

The strangest encounter...

After arriving at their destination, they need to walk few meters from the central part of the barangay. Sorcerers lived alone in these areas. I heard even in another part of the close-by area. Even they have a family, it's not useful for them to live with their family members because any black magic they do, the impact would redirect to any of them.

Just a couple of individuals can get inside the sorcerer's house. It was made of a shack. So simple, unusual and little. One may be reluctant to enter around evening time. It has heaps of spider webs and the environmental factors were not appropriately tended. The house shows continuous utilization of firewoods because the under rooftops are completely dark.

Our local medium knocked at the magician's house to let somebody inside realize that there is an individual outside the house. "Apo, may kami man."

It was replied by a croaking voice. "Umuneg" was the solitary answer that signifies "Enter".

True to form when our medium entered, she has invited with a dark environment that solitary the fire made the room slightly bright. An elderly person was sitting in front of the fire. A little pot rather than a huge wok as I envisioned during my childhood was on the fireplace. Is it rice or a viand, our medium doesn't have the foggiest idea? Various skulls of animal creatures hanging over the chimney attached with dried rattan. Grouped bottles bathed with soots with obscure substance was aligned in the room. Some were hanged while others were on the mud floor. The room fits for 2 people just since it just has limited space only for a sleeping area for one person, the fireplace and a little space in front of the fireplace.

After a slight perception around the shack, our medium moved toward the magician and sat next to her in an old unchopped log.

Our medium was asked what was her concern about. In this way, our medium was attempting to clarify the issue and simultaneously bribing off the magician with patupat (glutinous rice blended in with coconut milk) and few kilos of sugar with cash worth 3 thousand pesos or about $60 from a sister-in-law.

From the start, the appearance of the sorcerer isn't much noticeable because she is facing the fire, however as she went to turn to face our medium she felt goosebumps that she can't explain. At the point when the sorcerer receives the cash, she suddenly said, "You are one of us".She just slightly touched our mediums hand however as she expressed the words, she was so certain. Our medium attempted to deny yet the old sorcerer with eyes appears to be visually impaired given more whites than nearly covered its retina met hers.

Our medium was pretty sure that the old woman felt it through our mediums hands so she can't deny it any longer.

The sorcerer at that point confronted the fire and took something in a "popping" a little basket with a cover and tossed something in the fire that made it crackle. She at that point made a short chant and told our medium it is done.

The moment our medium got outside the shack, she felt terrible. Her legs shaking she doesn't have a clue why, when she felt normal when she was inside. She admitted that it was her first encounter with a sorcerer. They returned home after that.

After a week, sister-in-law improved. Her colour went back to normal and her state too.

Either there's a connection between the sorcerers magic or there's any scientific explanation to the situation I think will believe the scientific one. 😅

05/25/2021

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