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“Possessed” woman found dead in drain
A 43-year-old Craig, East Bank Demerara (EBD) woman, who was reportedly “possessed by spirits” for the past four days, was found dead early yesterday in a shallow drain a few houses away from her residence.
Dead is Marcel Cummings, a mother of five of Lot 183 Craig, EBD.
Her body was discovered in the drain around 06:00 hrs yesterday by villagers.
According to the dead woman’s brother, Ivor Cummings, since last Tuesday, his sister who works at the Pritipaul Singh Investments, started to behave in a really strange manner.
Dead: Marcel Cummings
“She was behaving as if she was possessed. She wasn’t sleeping in the nights, she just praying loud, loud and waking up the whole neighbourhood. She was stamping the floor and saying the ‘Blood of Jesus is against you. Get out, Get out’.”
Ivor Cummings said that at first he did not think his sister was possessed because she was praying to Jesus and she called up all her friends and family members and prayed for them.
According to Cummings, his sister prayed for persons and pleaded with them to change their bad ways and welcome the Lord in their lives.
“We couldn’t do anything because she wasn’t doing anything bad. She wasn’t cursing, she was just praying and her family members even prayed with her,” the brother stressed.
He explained that during the day his sister was normal- she cooked, cleaned and did everything a mother would do, but in the nights, she prayed continuously and chased “spirits” out of her yard.
Cummings said on one occasion his sister got up at 03:00hrs and was walking around in the yard with olive oil in her hands, chasing the “demon” out.
“She went into all the apartments and prayed for everyone. We even prayed with her. The next day, two pastors came to the house to pray with her and she was even praying more than the pastors, and louder,” Cummings said.
He added that his sister was involved in a triangular love affair and he has his suspicions.
“Since she started behaving like that, she kept saying that she was wrong to get involved with a married man and that Jesus has forgiven her for that.”
Cummings explained that a few hours after his sister left home for work on Saturday he received a call from one of her colleagues who informed him that his sister “tek in.”
“When I went to collect her, I see her lying on the floor with her hands stretched out and I could have seen that the other workers were scared of her. I put her in the car and take her home and she said that she see a lot of evil around her that is why she started praying at her work place.”
Cummings further added that when his sister reached home, she went up to her room and started to write in an exercise book.
“When the place got dark, she came downstairs and she asked my other sister to borrow a long electrical cord to take upstairs. She said that she has to complete her writing by (Saturday night). Later Saturday, we didn’t want to leave her alone so my sister slept with her and she said that Marcel blindfold her eyes and she was walking around in the room, praying.”
Cummings told Kaieteur News that a little before 06:00 hrs on Sunday when his sister woke up, she noticed Marcel was missing.
“She went outside and saw a crowd and she thought that Marcel was “possessed” again so she sent her son who discovered that his aunt was dead. We then went up to her room and when we read the book she wrote, it had her experience in Trinidad, her affair with a married man and it also had, if we miss her, we must check in the drain,” Cummings told this publication, acknowledging that his sister might have predicted the way she would die.
Marcel Cummings leaves to mourn her five children and five siblings.
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