My Magun experience

There was a funeral ceremony in the neighborhood. Guests came from Lagos and other major cities. One of the guests, a horny man, saw a woman and approached her for a relationship. While the party was in progress, the two snuck into a room for a quickie. Finished, the man got ready to disguise himself. Then he screeched and landed on the ground with a thud. Luckily, the woman had enough traditional sense to know something was wrong, and she buried her shame. She screamed for help. Neighbors rushed in and cornered the Lagos boy. Burly young men were called in to hold it, and one of our relatives, who knew that a magun antidote existed in the family "pharmacy", rushed to ask for the potion. It saved the amusement seeker's life. And what happened to the woman afterwards? She didn't wait for daybreak to leave town. The last time we had a chat about her, no one knew where she was until this day. But she saved a life before disappearing. So, is Magun real?

There is this joke about the effectiveness of the magun, the Yoruba response to the insults of adultery and fornication. A white man is said to have engaged his Nigerian friends in a dispute over the existence of the magun and, if so, whether or not it was effective. The Nigerians, obviously Yoruba, tried in vain to convince the white man to no avail. Then they decided to be practical about it. The guys fixed up a lady and laced her up with magun then pimped her on the white man. Now the type of magun the lady was bonded with is the type that will become active whenever the victim eats the forbidden food used to prepare the substance. On one particular day, the Nigerians gave an ear of corn to their friend Oyinbo and after eating it, they again brought up the subject of magun. The Oyinbo man responded by telling his friends, "I don't believe in magun, but I feel like tumbling." And he did a somersault. Again they asked him if he believed in the magun and when he replied in the negative, he fell again. The Nigerians restrained the white man and gave him a potion to drink. That's when he calmed down and the somersault stopped. So may I ask you readers: Do you believe in the magun?

Sade Oguntola is the health editor of the Nigerian Tribune. On Saturday, January 7, 2023, she did a full report on magun. She titled her article: "Sex romp: Is it a magun or a heart attack case?" Interesting piece. Oguntola's material is his reaction to the incident on Monday January 2, 2023 in Ikere-Ekiti. On that day, as reported by virtually all daily newspapers, an "indigenous doctor", Fadayomi Kehinde, popularly known as Ejiogbe, died in a hotel in Ikere-Ekiti during a sexual encounter with the woman. of a pastor. Interesting times, we are! Reports claimed that Ejiogbe died of Yoruba metaphysics known as magun. Magun literally means "Do not climb". Modern languages ​​have interpreted or translated magun to mean thunderbolt. I love the interpretation. Thunderbolt kills instantly, as does Magun. Now Oguntola, as a "Health" writer, is trying in his article named above to determine whether indeed Ejiogbe died of magun, or whether he just suffered from normal health risks during the sex with her lover. The question we might want to ask again is: does the magun exist? I will answer that presently. But before I do that, I like to watch interesting things about Ejiogbe and his lover and wife of another man.

The African Traditional Religion (AAR) is a very rich mission. There are do's and don'ts in religion. One of the caveats built into the ATR is prophylactic sex. A diviner or herbalist is not expected to have indiscriminate sex. The victim of sexual intercourse Ikere-Ekiti is described as an "indigenous doctor". The Yoruba equivalent of this is "Onisegun". Oniseguns are esoteric. In order for you to understand the root and herb pathways, you must be an insider otherwise nothing will work. The Yoruba worldview makes a distinction between Babalawo (diviner), Onisegun (herbalist) and Adahunse (sorcerer). However, most herbalists are confused with Babalawo. While it is true that most Babalawos can pass for Oniseguns or Adahuns, not all herbalists or sorcerers can be soothsayers (Babalawo). Fadayomi, the sexual victim of Ekiti has an appellation, Ejiogbe. It is purely a traditional name. Ejiogbe, in ATR, is the father of all divinations. Hence the saying: "Ejiogbe, Baba Ifa." One is therefore tempted to believe that the late Ejiogbe must be versed in Ifa divination for him to have deserved the name. If that were the case, common sense would have told him that it is forbidden for a Babalawo to have sex with another man's wife.

The information about the incident is that Ejiogbe died of magun. A source claimed that the deceased laced the pastor's wife with the magun substance so that the husband contracted it and died. I questioned this argument. My doubt is: when Ejiogbe did not hear about the pastor's death, why did he go...