Growing up in that particular village and family exposed them to diabolical realities quite early
Their father was a herbalist, not one of those fake ones who perform tricks and play Russian roulette with people’s lives
He was the real deal
The type that inherited powers and yet travel often to many villages and towns to learn from other herbalists and sorcerers and collect their books and/or knowledge quickening charms in order to grow in the business.
For their father, knowledge was power and power was money
Their father was determined to pay any price to gain knowledge so that he could prosper
There was a rumour that their father’s first child who has a condition that made her unable to sit by herself, talk or function as a human being was not born that way, according to their father’s first wife, their father was a bricklayer as at when she married him and they were very poor
One day, their father told her he was traveling to Ekiti to see some people who could show him the way out of poverty
According to the woman, the day their father returned from Ekiti, their child developed a strange ailment and within a week became twisted inside out
The woman was so sure their father had used their daughter for some form of ritual that she moved out of the house and divorced their father immediately
Their father does not talk about the episode at all
He does not allow the woman to do anything with the family even though she had one other child for him who was supposed to be his firstborn son
They were all forbidden to have anything to do with the woman and her son
Although the woman had remarried and had other children for another man, she didn’t keep away from their father and family for reasons best known to her
She would come for family functions involving their extended families and play her duty as part of the household wives
They later realized that she was doing this because their father had become wealthy and she wanted to secure her children’s inheritance from their father
Their father was known among the initiates and his customers as Ekun (The Tiger), this was due to his spiritual exploits which were obvious for all to see
Their father considered his work as legitimate and something to be proud of right from childhood, all the children and his father’s wives were exposed to their father’s works
Their father as their teacher and coach
They were his production line
He taught them how to differentiate one leaf or plant from the other, one animal or insect from the other and how to prepare all the materials for “medicine”, concoction, sacrifice and protection
As they grew older, their father systematically exposed them to more
When he was nine years old, he was exposed to his first serious bout of seeing beyond the physical realm.
He had overheard somewhere that the rheum in the eye of a dog could make one see beyond the physical realm
It was a case of curiosity and trying to be like his father
His father’s mouth was never silent
He was always chanting something or saying something under his breath
They all believe it was an extra mundane communication of sorts between his father and some extra-terrestrial powers
He knew his father was always seeing things
He had heard things moving of their own accord in his father’s power room before and felt a sudden chill in the house sometimes for no reason
He got some rheum off his dog’s eyes and put it on his eyes in the evening, he had nightmares all night
When he woke up in the morning, the nightmares didn’t go away
He kept seeing things everywhere
Strange things… Like walking flowers and flying snails
It was horrible
He had almost run mad before he confessed what he did
His father washed his eyes with some secret water and chanted some incantations upon him He slept off and when he woke up things were restored to normal
His father wasn’t mad with him
In fact, the next day, his father took him into the power room, sat him down and asked him to describe the things he saw
His father said “The demons work in mysterious ways and can sometimes show to children what adults have been praying and working hard to see for years”
The rheum thing didn’t work for the other children they all saw how his father treated him like some royalty and tried it to get some attention too
It didn’t work It made some of them accuse him of lying
His father told him they were just being envious
His father said he had tried it too and didn’t see anything but he knows the demons favour some people more than others
He was the only one allowed to enter his father’s power room to sweep, clean and prepare the place before his father begins his daily consultations from that day
He was the warlock, the one the demons favoured far above the rest!
His father’s clients came from all over
The lazy poor aiming to get rich quick
The hardworking poor praying for favor
The average hoping to breakout of obscurity
Parents with troubled children
The afflicted, the ambitious, politicians, policemen and soldiers seeking protection from untimely death in the line of duty
Women looking for children, husbands, jobs, enchanted substance to hypnotize and fleece men of their hard-earned money and so on
They came from all walks of life
His father told him specialization was a limitation
The crowd was a testament to the potency of his depth as a sorcerer
He started learning the chants and incantations
When he turned 15 he was awakened one night (This wasn’t strange as his father usually did one concoction or the other for the family as prescribed during his consultations) but it was different
Curiously, the only other person awakened to partake of the ritual was his 12 years old sister
The first daughter of his father’s third wife
The woman was known to be a witch and given that she had not done any extra-mundane feat like him, he wondered why she was chosen until their father began to say some incantations on the eggs they were being fed
They were told to swallow the eggs whole (It must not touch their teeth)
They both did When they were done, his father told the two of them that they had been chosen to work as partners as they learn the work from him
Their father made them swear never to deny each other anything or allow anything come in-between them
They swore an oath to it
From that day, their father started giving them tasks to accomplish
Training them to see the beyond and open portals for divination and medium activities
Their father told them he paid a lot of money and trades a lot of influence daily with other spiritual power brokers because he started alone without any support
It was one of the reasons he married a witch, so that his negotiations with other power brokers can be easier
His step-sister was supposed to be his leverage
He was supposed to be the heir apparent to the throne of his father
Everything was going smoothly
He was respected, even feared by many
Until his sister met the Brother in Jeans and T-shirt on a trip to Lagos in May 2018
Their father had told the two of them that the deities would always demand something for something from them
They couldn’t get anything free
They both had also experienced this When his sister turned seventeen she started having a strange dream
In the dream, she saw herself and her brother having sex in a pool of blood
She had the dream several times
She asked her mother what it meant
Her mother said it might be the deities preparing her for what was to come
She and her brother might have to have sex to be empowered fully for their journey in the occult
The thought didn’t sit well with her but she never told anybody her misgivings on the issue
She was just hoping it wouldn’t come to that even though she was convinced it would most likely be required
That year she gained admission to one of the polytechnics and went to shop for clothes, beddings and other things that she would take to school
One of their cousins living in Arepo offered to go shopping with her
They went shopping on a Friday morning
Their house was located three buildings away from a church in Arepo
The church was holding a vigil
That night, his sister could not sleep
She said something was just stirring in her spirit and she was very restless
So she got out of bed and dressed up
The next thing she remembered was walking into the church
The Brother in Jeans and T-shirt was ministering
That was all!
Her sister gave her life to Christ and was delivered from witchcraft
It felt like being robbed in the dream and waking up to find the said property had disappeared
When his sister returned home, everything had changed
She was singing and jumping everywhere like a bozo
It was as if she had been infected with a strange atmosphere
Everything she touched got contaminated
Their father was almost 70 years old at the time and afflicted with stroke
It was finally time for him to take the reins and his wing-woman was clipped by one pastor
His father had always told him witchcraft was unreliable because it was not built on knowledge but on sheer wickedness
It is a realm that one can be invited into or taken out of by a superior power’s whim
A sorcerer is no witch
He is a harnesser of power from several sources through knowledge and its applications
He had seen Christians before, several Christians
Many of them, even pastors, consulted his father but he had never seen anybody who could do what was done to his sister
Take away her powers and leave her sane and bubbling about as if she had no care in the world?
He felt he needed to meet the pastor, know what he was really about
Find out how deep he was spiritually
Everything his father had was fast turning to dust
The stroke killed his father’s business
The conversion of his sister truncated his father’s handover plans
He called his cousin in Arepo and made some inquiries
He got the phone number of the brother in Jeans and T-shirt
He called and got an appointment
He prepared deliberately
He did many protective charms and incantations
He also took along deadly rings and charmed belts
They met on a Wednesday at the office of the Brother in Jeans and T-shirt in Magodo, Lagos
As soon as he got into the Teen’s church where they met The Brother in Jeans and T-shirt walked up to him and hugged him like an old friend
He said “The Holy Spirit told me you need a hug badly”
He couldn’t explain it
He started to cry like a baby
The incantations faded, his malicious intention faded, he just cried
Afterward, he fell on his knees and asked the Brother in Jeans and T-shirt to pray for him
He became a born again Christian and was filled with the Holy Spirit
Perhaps he lost his courage or was overwhelmed by the Holy Spirit
He couldn’t say
He didn’t mention what happened to the Brother in Jeans and T-shirt until a week later via Whatsapp chat
He was shocked that neither of them was affected by the charms on him especially because they hugged for a while before praying
The brother in Jeans and T-shirt told him idols are nothing in the Kingdom of God’s own son, Jesus Christ and the same goes for charms, incantations, spells and so on
The Bible says “Nothing shall by any means hurt you”
PS: I was told there was a cake maker who follows my stories and believes she can use diabolical powers to see the
future
I saw this discussion yesterday on a Whatsapp page and it made me laugh
There is a booby trap in this story for her
I said it over the piece as i wrote it
She will lose that ability from today and so will any other who deliberately court demonic pathways as an access into the extra-mundane
Nothing of such works for you again
It shall remain forever as i have decreed
Jesus loves you and wants to empower you
Come to Him today
GSW’s notes: Christians should only discuss one power
That is the power of the Holy Spirit
Acknowledging even faintly the claims of another to “power” is buying the person’s lies
The brother and sister whose story
I wrote are part of the PSSBC family and are growing daily in the Lord
These were vessels deliberately prepared for darkness and yet hijacked by the Holy Spirit without as much as a whimper from hell!
Don’t be quick to believe people’s claims to any power or repeat it even in casual talks
There is no other power in heaven and on earth and underneath the earth apart from the Name of JESUS!
Taming The Warlock was written by Gbenga Samuel-Wemimo
