The practise of ‘obeah’

Feb 03, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
As much as I do not condone the practice of witchcraft — obeah or whatever people want to call it — I had read with amused interest about the 40-year-old Grove resident charged with “practising ‘obeah’” at the Providence Court, as was reported in the KN of Saturday, 31st January 2009.

Irrespective of his previous charge of having received stolen narcotics, could the aforementioned charge of “sprinkling some liquid” be counted as “littering”?

“Obeah,” or witchcraft, was initiated by former High Priests of Jehovah. As time went by, the Egyptians perfected the art. Evidence of this can be found in the Bible when Moses countered Egyptian “magic”/”obeah”/”witchcraft” with God’s Miracles. Even King Saul returned to the witch of Endor, whom he had evicted from his kingdom, for the purpose of invoking the spirit of Samuel the Prophet to enquire about David’s succession to his (Saul’s) kingdom.

Each of the six ethnicities in Guyana has its form of witchcraft, brought here from whence the peoples came, some being disguised as religious ceremonies – and this happened long before the late President L.F.S. Burnham legalized “obeah”. What about those Guyanese who would just exit the doors of the “House of God” and rush off to the “obeah”/”see-far” man or woman to enquire about who did them what, and what the future holds for them?

What about the people who visit the cemeteries to invoke their dead relatives in an attempt to hurt those whom they consider enemies? Obeah is being practised by every strata of our society, and the practitioners and believers are both afraid that what they attempt to do to others hit them on the rebound!
This nation needs to turn to God, not to obeah! Have we not suffered enough? Should God remove His Hand from holding back the Atlantic Ocean?
S. M. Monasingh

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