Sorcerers’ tales haunt Port Vila
DailyPost Administrator posted on February 08, 2010 11:06
A man is dead, three men are held in custody and Police and community leaders in one of Port Vila’s suburbs are on the look out for sorcerers who have allegedly preyed on people until a recent confession made by a 19-year-old young man that the claims are true.
As rain continued to pour ceaselessly the scheduled meeting over the contentious reports of a “blood drinking” cult entwined with sorcery in Manples was postponed yesterday.
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Nakaemas, Sorcery, Black Magic, Posen or whatever name you may call it is unwanted but the reality is it plays a fundamental role in the Melanesian society.
In the days of great grandfathers and grandfathers of the present Vanuatu generations, chiefs use it as a measure of social control to maintain peace and order.
Along the way this element which many people believed is embedded in the cultural heritage, was exchanged and fell into the hands of some people who use it for other means than for the purpose it was designed to serve.
- Jane Joshua
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