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NOTORIOUS NIGERIA'S CAMPUS OCCULT GROUPS

Nigeria's campus cults: Buccaneers, Black Axe and other feared groups By Helen Oyibo BBC Pidgin, Lagos Published 2 June 2020 Share Roland* was a first-year student when he joined the Buccaneers, a secret, illegal student society in Nigeria. A brutal initiation ritual was held late at night in the forest. Older members, singing, dancing and drinking, formed a ring around him and other blindfolded initiates, beating them severely until the early hours of the morning. The ritual was supposedly to purge the initiates of weaknesses and instil bravery in them. "The moment you go in there and come out, you are a different person," Roland told the BBC. These societies, also referred to as confraternities and campus cults, have names like Vikings, Black Axe, Eiye (a word in the local Yoruba language for bird), and the Buccaneers. They have a chain of command similar to militia groups, use code words and have insignia bearing the favourite weapon of the cult, along with its colou...

TEXT-TAOIST COIN CHARM

Taoist coin charm From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search A Taoist charm that contains Taoist "magic writing" on display at the Museum of Ethnography, Sweden . Taoist coin charms ( Traditional Chinese : 道教品壓生錢; Simplified Chinese : 道教品压生钱; Pinyin : dào jiào pǐn yā shēng qián ), or Daoist coin charms are a family of categories of Chinese and Vietnamese numismatic charms that incorporate elements of the Taoist religion . Taoist coin charms come in various shapes, sizes, and formats and can contain inscriptions or wholly pictorial designs. While a large number of Taoist coin charms have their inscriptions written in traditional Chinese characters , a subset of Taoist coin charms have inscriptions written in Taoist "magic" writing . In these countries similar numismatic charms existed for Buddhist and Confucianism , and at ...

TEXT-WITCHCRAFT IN AFRICA AND THE WORLD- BRITANNIA

Witchcraft In Africa And The World The same dichotomy between sorcery and witchcraft exists (sometimes more ambiguously) in the beliefs of many peoples throughout the world. Again, witches are typically seen as particularly active after dusk, when law-abiding mortals are asleep. According to traditional Navajo belief, when a witch travels at night, he wears the skin of a dead animal in order to effect a transformation into that animal. These “skinwalkers” hold nighttime meetings at which they wear nothing except a mask, sit among baskets of corpses, and have intercourse with dead women. In some African cultures witches are believed to assemble in cannibal covens , often at graveyards or around a fire, to feast on the blood that they, like vampires, extract from their victims. If they take the soul from a victim’s body and keep it in their possession , the victim will die. Like those in Western society...

UNDERSTANDING "WITCHCRAFT" DEMONOLOGY AND EXORCISM

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