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Tevai
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Date: January 20, 2018 12:56AM
NotGomer Wrote:
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> Many South Americans and African Americans...
Although the concept of "curses" exists in a number of African (from Africa) cultures, this kind of thing is definitely a minority concept among African Americans (and when it exists, it was passed down from slave times).
When a person becomes a sangoma (African "witch doctor" in bigoted, English-language vernacular...but actually they are healers who use a number of different methods to heal people, including plants, various physical "exercises," etc.)...
...then---regardless of their race or their cultural background---they do study curses during the time when they are learning their healing arts (a process which takes several years), but the aim is REMOVING any already-existing curses, NOT working to create new ones.
Needed information here: it is not just black Africans who become sangomas, there are white sangomas too. Most white sangomas grew up in primarily white areas and went to primarily white schools, but at some point (often because of a very good black friend...plus, often, the example of that very good black friend's family), they decide they want to become sangomas as their life work.
I don't know about the rest of sub-Saharan Africa, but in southern Africa (South Africa, Swaziland, Namibia, etc.) there are, right now, DEFINITELY a [small-ish] number of white sangomas...and the number has been increasing (especially since the fall of apartheid) as young white kids growing up decide that being a sangoma is the thing they most want to do. (Becoming a sangoma takes several years of study and apprenticeship, capped (at least in Swaziland) by what amounts to a community-wide "examination" of the new sangoma's skills. If they pass the exam, from that point on, they are a "credentialed" (as it were) sangoma---whether their patients are white, black, Asian, or whatever.)
Sending out the telepathic vibes ;) ...I would like to again thank the [black] sangoma---a complete stranger to me---who saved my life in the township outside of Pretoria, because without him and what he did, my life would have, in a matter of minutes, ceased a long time ago...
...and again, my thanks to the black woman---also a complete stranger to me---who saved my life when I (the literally just arrived, and ignorantly unaware, American) was walking down the dirt road just outside of Die Werf, because the area looked SO MUCH like the San Fernando Valley community I grew up in.
To both of them: Thank you!!!!!!
Some South Americans (particularly, I have been told, Brazilians, plus some Caribbean peoples) do practice curses as part of religions of which voodoo has become a part.
> Polynesian believe in voodoo and casting curses.
The only thing I found when I did a Google search was a reference to Hawaiians (in past historical times??) sometimes doing curses. Do you know a more complete story on Polynesians?
> After you receive the 2nd annointing in the LDS
> religion, who exactly can you curse?
What does a Second Anointing have to do with curses???
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/20/2018 01:09AM by Tevai.