Amazing Facts About Mysterious Black Magic - చేతబడి వెనుక ఉన్న అసలు రహస్యం వీడింది - With Subtitles
"Banamati & Chetabadi" - Black magic or dark magic has traditionally referred to the use of supernatural powers or magic for evil and selfish purposes. With respect to the left-hand path and right-hand path dichotomy, black magic is the malicious, left-hand counterpart of benevolent white magic. In modern times, some find that the definition of "black magic" has been convoluted by people who define magic or ritualistic practices that they disapprove of as "black magic".
According to K.S. Singh, former Director-General of the Anthropological Survey of India and author-editor of the Peoples of India Project, the advent of witchcraft in India probably coincided with the arrival of the colonial rulers. The local people had a larger view of Shamanism (the world of good and evil spirits), but with European influence it began to get identified with black magic, white magic and witchcraft. Women were regarded as healers and granted powers in Shamanism, he said. In his own observation of tribal societies, mostly in Bihar, the majority of witches killed were women and some 30 per cent were men, Singh said. Entire families were wiped out in some areas. Greed for property was one of the main reasons for witch-killing, he said. The struggle for gender equality had also led to various forms of insecurities in village communities, according to Singh. When family members intervened, they were most often killed along with the branded women. Singh said that tribal cosmology was explicit in its reference to women being trained as witches. The Santhals, he said, were major "witch-killers" and their witches were often women.
General claims of the People:
Stones are hurled from nowhere on top of the roofs, which is considered as a game of ghosts or gods.
"Blood" in the coconut as a de-possessor and flowers revealing that the person is cured
Flames in the house
Sudden burning down of clothes
Cots/Beds turning upside down
Beds getting wet
Talking Dolls as a symbol of ghost talking through the doll
Inflicting pain on others by piercing the dolls
Painless body piercing
Swallowing fire and rubbing fire on the body
Manthrik revealing that an egg without yolk meaning that a person is possessed
Murmuring in an unknown language revealing that a person is possessed
Howling in the night
Manthrik displaying blood without a wound
Materializing fire by pouring water
Person suffering from Epilepsy, Malaria or developmentally delayed branded as being possessed.
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