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[00:00:52] of file, of in parts of Nigeria, there is cause
[00:00:55] people say in whisper, a spell
[00:00:59] feared by remain and surrounded by
[00:01:02] mystery, from generation to
[00:01:06] generation, stories about
[00:01:08] of this of charm have circulated across many communities in
[00:01:11] Nigeria, particularly the Euroba
[00:01:15] of land.
[00:01:19] Magun, a
[00:01:22] traditional charm believed to punish
[00:01:25] infidelity. The word translated to
[00:01:29] mean: "do not climb, a warning
[00:01:33] to any man who does sleep with another man's
[00:01:36] wife. According to
[00:01:40] local believe, if woman carries the magun
[00:01:43] charm, any man who sleeps with her without
[00:01:47] of removing a or neutralizing it could suffer terrible
[00:01:51] consequences.
[00:01:55] of Some claim the spell can cause sudden
[00:01:59] collapse. during intercourse,
[00:02:02] of violent convulsions, persistent crowing
[00:02:05] of like roster or death, unless a ritual
[00:02:09] specialist
[00:02:11] a intervens. our trip
[00:02:15] to the popular motor park at the oroshoki area of Legos
[00:02:18] State shows that respondents had enough
[00:02:22] knowledge on the
[00:02:24] of spell, he has to spend
[00:02:25] of about like let's say 21 days on that
[00:02:29] woman body. If any man does
[00:02:31] of not move closer to her, that woman will die,
[00:02:35] but any man that move closer to her, during that
[00:02:38] period the man will die, of course I believe in it, because
[00:02:42] his culture, his
[00:02:44] of tradition, and we still have to believe in
[00:02:49] me a it. of
[00:02:58] of
[00:03:03] of
[00:03:09] o gba iyawo e, so wa le magun fun iyawo
[00:03:13] e, so that olorun lo wa sọ
[00:03:16] wipe iyẹn naa strong, so by the time
[00:03:19] tiyin, ọkọ iyawo
[00:03:22] yẹ.
[00:03:26] of
[00:03:32] in
[00:04:00] body uh, she want another person die, woman,
[00:04:04] wicked person, they do her like
[00:04:06] of that, however
[00:04:07] it is believed that the only solution for any man who comes in
[00:04:11] contact with magun is probably an intervention by
[00:04:15] traditional list. Dr. Owujabi Wahid
[00:04:19] ayinde is
[00:04:20] one.
[00:04:24] Kingdom, he sees that consequences are die for any
[00:04:27] man who des to ignore the exists.
[00:04:32] I have
[00:04:32] of witnessed one or two and I've received
[00:04:36] patience with such
[00:04:39] affliction, some one will start crowing, the other one will
[00:04:43] start running towards the stream, some tumbles, he
[00:04:47] tumbles tries, so if he tumbles one, if he some
[00:04:50] ass, some assaulted one, so people will quickly hold
[00:04:54] to him so that it won't take the two
[00:04:57] summers, if he takes the third one, that's
[00:05:00] the head of him, let me explain
[00:05:01] of something, not only husband
[00:05:05] place this on the wive, lover, a
[00:05:09] jealous lover
[00:05:10] of the wife too could place it on the... wife so that the husband will
[00:05:13] die, he to will now inherit the woman, they will not have
[00:05:17] a free hand. in certain percentage of
[00:05:21] yoruba prepare themselves for such
[00:05:23] unexpected, they try and fortify
[00:05:27] themselves with things that will prevent
[00:05:30] magon in having powers over them,
[00:05:34] so it could be an hamlet, it could be
[00:05:37] incision, mutilation and incision, it could be you
[00:05:41] leak it once a it could be a concussion, a concussion
[00:05:45] soup where you eat if you have such with you, so when
[00:05:49] this happens you won't be totally affected
[00:05:52] 100%, you might be 40 or 50% affected, so
[00:05:56] you can now people can now run around and give
[00:05:59] you Mr. Yinde further listed the different types and
[00:06:03] traditional items used to perform
[00:06:06] magons, the one that makes
[00:06:10] someone crow crows. that one is
[00:06:13] prepared, the major ingredient is
[00:06:16] coke, there are other ingredients too, herbs and
[00:06:19] roots, so if it is that of where one some
[00:06:23] ass, some ass and dies
[00:06:26] off, we make you sometimes of that
[00:06:30] there, we use this the blood, we
[00:06:34] use chameleon, the one that the
[00:06:38] victim would start craving for water is
[00:06:41] prepared with water, but the water is not ordinary water,
[00:06:44] sometimes we get the dew, we put bowl outside
[00:06:48] overnight, like 10 20 bowls,
[00:06:52] we got a lot of dews, so from the des we gather them,
[00:06:56] and that the water will now be used, sometimes we use seven
[00:06:59] waters, coconut water, stream
[00:07:02] water, ocean water, river
[00:07:05] water, and some other waters, some waters
[00:07:09] from the from the dead, while watching the dead, is thrown
[00:07:13] away, so the spirit the
[00:07:16] the water dead will do the job, he speaks on the type where a peer become
[00:07:19] physically inseparable, and we use
[00:07:23] these when two dogs meet and they are stuck
[00:07:27] together, so you cut the
[00:07:30] genital, so the male will go this way, the female
[00:07:34] will go this way, so the two will die at the end the day, so we
[00:07:38] will now remove what i needed, according to
[00:07:42] him, the victim may feel relieved after some rights have
[00:07:45] been performed, but it will be a while as the person would finally
[00:07:49] succum to death. it may be f years,
[00:07:52] it may be se years, may be si years, may be thre years, it
[00:07:54] depends on how readily
[00:07:57] powerful he is or he was before the affliction,
[00:08:01] it will him at the end the
[00:08:02] day.
[00:08:11] during the course of this. but we also realized that Magun applies
[00:08:14] in other parts the country. We met with
[00:08:18] another traditionalist Isuchuku Steven Chizoba, the
[00:08:22] Igwe
[00:08:23] or kalete, popularly known as Celebrity Dibia in
[00:08:27] Delta State. He
[00:08:31] said Thunderbolt is real and is the ancestors ways
[00:08:35] of punishing a wife who cheated on her husband. The gods the
[00:08:38] land designed punishment for that. Therefore, a married
[00:08:42] woman should stick to the husband alone,
[00:08:46] while a married man is permitted to add another wife or
[00:08:50] many as many wives as possible to his home. now
[00:08:53] naturally, if you go against this um belief system
[00:08:57] as a married woman going
[00:09:01] outside or sleeping outside, the nature punishes you by bringing either
[00:09:05] sending lightning or perform of thunder to
[00:09:09] either strike the lady or the man.
[00:09:12] man who is having affair with the married woman outside her matrimonial
[00:09:16] home right, it meant it is meant to kill
[00:09:19] immediately a spot, so originally we know that
[00:09:23] nature takes that effect, but these days we can use
[00:09:26] charm to tell the nature take your place, this is what you are supposed to
[00:09:30] do, either you die there or you get stucked in
[00:09:34] there, so it's either nature does it or we
[00:09:37] use charm implement that, warning husbands, he
[00:09:41] stress that there are clauses to the effectiveness the
[00:09:45] charm women will say gender inequality, gender
[00:09:49] inequality, fine, i will tell men before you do
[00:09:52] that and it gets effective, make sure
[00:09:56] you as married man that is doing that to your wife to protect
[00:10:00] your wife, you don't have affair with another married
[00:10:03] woman, because as married man if i'm having affair with the married
[00:10:07] woman outside my home, if i put that in my wife
[00:10:10] it does not work. is not failure the
[00:10:14] charm, is not
[00:10:15] it's nature taking its place, because my
[00:10:18] people say the
[00:10:21] us measuring any substance for anybody. c the use for your
[00:10:25] own measurement. however, the process of making the charm is
[00:10:29] slightly different in the eastern path of
[00:10:32] Nigeria. give different ways in which you
[00:10:36] can invoke that thunder a thunder boot and
[00:10:39] um woman, your wife without her knowing. i said you can
[00:10:43] put tread, you can put needle, some you put
[00:10:47] the broom, pin it down, whenever it happens she gets stucked or
[00:10:51] conjoined with the partner, but rituals i
[00:10:55] said something about pulling out the broom, broomstick, flugging
[00:10:59] the two parties, which it is very painful, don't think it's just a
[00:11:02] broomstick flug, it is very painful, if must tell you the
[00:11:06] truth, then some them like the one of fred, the
[00:11:10] the Habbalist, because not everybody who does it is an
[00:11:13] abalist, the abalis who um, who
[00:11:17] prepared the charm for that man or the husband of that woman
[00:11:21] will tell the man if this happens see this water see?
[00:11:25] sprinkle this water on them or see this colar note,
[00:11:28] use this col note to declare whatever you
[00:11:31] want to want it to happen, break it, see this native
[00:11:34] shop, different rituals, some will tell you okay, once you see it
[00:11:38] stock, you take egg, you break egg, they get
[00:11:42] separated, there are some charms that the
[00:11:46] so aim is to render a man having affair with my wife
[00:11:49] useless, another sh might be to render the man
[00:11:52] impotent the counting. another one will be
[00:11:56] any man who crosses my wife will die, then another one
[00:12:00] will be anyone who crosses my wife will run mad,
[00:12:04] another one will now be this conjoining which i want to see
[00:12:08] you in this art, dwelling on the conjoining part, i think
[00:12:11] that is the best them all because i would want to see
[00:12:15] you, see you, just get
[00:12:17] it in mind that once it happens, it is a dent in that
[00:12:21] family, i would advise a man to invoke this st.
[00:12:25] that boats whichever form it is in his wife
[00:12:28] because when it happens it is very difficult to take that
[00:12:32] person
[00:12:33] back.
[00:12:37] according to local believes a man who sleeps with
[00:12:41] woman who has been lased with such charm
[00:12:45] could suffer sudden illness, madness
[00:12:49] and even death. now while these stories are
[00:12:52] widely told, medical expert. believe that some the
[00:12:56] things we refer to as traditional terms
[00:13:00] could actually be medical conditions.
[00:13:04] Wanting to know more, we decided to seek what
[00:13:07] science think the particular
[00:13:10] type that causes partners to stick
[00:13:13] together, though there hasn't been any
[00:13:16] scientific research to back the existence of maggun, but
[00:13:20] Africans believe showed the dependence these
[00:13:24] supernatural. by those who have seen it
[00:13:27] work, but safeguarding practitioner, nola solomon
[00:13:31] based in the UK says she respects the African
[00:13:34] belief, before colonization we had our beliefes, we had our
[00:13:38] culture, we have things that we believe could
[00:13:40] happen, however we can minimize the
[00:13:44] biological and scientific explanations to what
[00:13:47] our beliefs are, she speaks on
[00:13:51] penis captivus, a medical term for partners. getting
[00:13:55] temporarily stuck together during sexual
[00:13:58] intercourse, penis captivus
[00:14:01] happens when a man and woman are having
[00:14:05] intercourse and during orgasm, especially for the
[00:14:08] woman, the muscles contract and trapped the and trap the
[00:14:12] penis, for men this is
[00:14:16] very painful
[00:14:18] experience, most times it happens
[00:14:21] and within minutes or seconds it stops. when the
[00:14:25] muscles relax and the swelling stops
[00:14:28] and the man can come out if he if he had any form of
[00:14:32] swelling, but in some cases that contraction
[00:14:35] happens claps the penis
[00:14:38] and it doesn't just go away
[00:14:42] within minutes or seconds like it would in some cases, in those
[00:14:45] cases they will need medical attention, she says though is
[00:14:49] ray in humans but it usually happens, they go
[00:14:53] to hospitals and the doctor. will do what is necessary, in some cases they will
[00:14:57] give steroids or anything to relax the muscles
[00:15:01] and then the penis will come out, so the more the
[00:15:04] contractions happens, the blood
[00:15:08] flow to the penis is restricted, it causes
[00:15:11] swelling and it's a painful experience, so in
[00:15:15] those cases the people get scared, the man screams because he's in
[00:15:18] pain, and traditionally is believed that is
[00:15:22] repercussion, so i can't
[00:15:25] dispute why it happens to people or what the
[00:15:28] beliefes are, we can't do that, because we have to respect culture and
[00:15:32] belief, but scientifically, this is the
[00:15:36] explanation.
[00:15:45] believe in maggun still holds powerful
[00:15:49] influence in parts of our society, while
[00:15:52] experts advised that matters involving health or sudden
[00:15:56] illness should always be handled by qualified medical
[00:16:00] professionals. African traditional believers believe such
[00:16:03] cases must be handled the traditional ways.
[00:16:07] Betis Magun a supernatural punishment,
[00:16:11] psychological weapon or simply one the
[00:16:15] most powerful cultural myth ever told.
[00:16:19] In a country where ancient tradition meets modern
[00:16:22] science, the answer may depend on what people
[00:16:26] choose to believe, but one thing is certain
[00:16:29] across Nigeria, Magun has
[00:16:33] become that one word that some main drawing.
[00:17:08] "the human face is a primary means of identification and the
[00:17:12] social significant marker of a person's identity, but for some
[00:17:16] children the identity has been altered due to
[00:17:19] congenital defects. one of such defects is cleft
[00:17:23] sleep and pallets which develops in children when there is
[00:17:27] poor fusion of facial tissues in the wormb leading to
[00:17:31] openings in upper lip or roof the mouth. a cleflipper
[00:17:35] paled is formed in the early stages of" pregnancy where
[00:17:38] the anomaly, this body is a midline where it
[00:17:42] doesn't form and it doesn't come together, it's kind of like
[00:17:45] spinabida, your body just doesn't fuse, so the muscle
[00:17:49] tissues in the face are deformed, it's an anomaly,
[00:17:53] there's no reasoning behind it, it's genetics, it's
[00:17:56] environmental triggers, it's lack of prenatal care,
[00:18:00] and that's what we want to educate the the mothers that prenatal
[00:18:04] care is important and that there is access, is hope there
[00:18:08] are teams and there are doctors here that can help within the walls of
[00:18:12] bagada general hospital I got emotional as the
[00:18:16] story
[00:18:16] of 15 year old Daniel caught my attention, his mother
[00:18:20] recounts the trauma she experienced when she discovered he was
[00:18:24] born with cleffed pallet. when i gave back to
[00:18:28] him i noticed that when you give him something some liquid
[00:18:32] anything it takes it comes through his nose only take
[00:18:35] back little but took him down to the hospital,
[00:18:39] they said i should just that with time, because he the are
[00:18:43] twins, so i came
[00:18:46] back to take care of him, but as he's growing,
[00:18:50] we we are doing it, daniel came last
[00:18:53] fall when we were here in November, and
[00:18:56] unfortunately just before his surgery he
[00:19:00] developed malaria, and of course we can't do surgery a
[00:19:04] patient who's sick, and so we had to postpone. so
[00:19:07] this morning we will do it, and we've already had him
[00:19:11] evaluated by our speech therapist, and she's going to give
[00:19:15] him some things that he can work after his
[00:19:18] surgery to to improve his speech
[00:19:22] even more. during my interactions with Daniel, i
[00:19:26] experienced a zeal and enthusiasm first
[00:19:29] hand. it tells me is excited
[00:19:33] about the possibility of finally speaking clearly like other children.
[00:19:38] after the surgery, the last embarrassment was in the school, he
[00:19:41] wanted to participate in one the this rushing
[00:19:45] game, they were to drink coca-cola, and
[00:19:49] immediately just everything started gushing from his
[00:19:53] nose and the propiator has to call that,
[00:19:56] so he was so embarrassed
[00:20:00] that
[00:20:01] you know that was the last experience we had from
[00:20:03] him,
[00:20:07] Exell
[00:20:20] story is not different, the pain and frustration of watching a
[00:20:24] child being repeatedly ostracized by pierce pushed his
[00:20:28] mother to seek a lasting solution with the
[00:20:32] feeder and we find out that baby take the food instead of to go
[00:20:36] in it's coming out from the nose. so it
[00:20:39] was not like little, it was much, and
[00:20:43] that the same moment you be struggling to save the baby's life because the baby will be like
[00:20:47] choking, we did the first sur six months. because
[00:20:51] the whole inside the mouth was open,
[00:20:54] all the whole up was open, so probably baby
[00:20:58] cry, you will see the the brain from the
[00:21:00] mouth, so it was bad as
[00:21:03] that, as
[00:21:07] Exel is wheeld to the theatre, expectations are high
[00:21:11] that when he returns, it will begin new chapter where he can
[00:21:15] smile, speak without
[00:21:17] difficulty,
[00:21:25] The surgical procedure began with the administration of
[00:21:28] anesthesia to prepare the patient for surgery.
[00:21:32] I witness the procedure life and it was difficult to hold back
[00:21:36] my emotions as I watched each step, the process of
[00:21:39] putting smiles on the faces these
[00:21:42] families.
[00:21:46] Doctors say the procedure for cleft sleep takes an hour to two.
[00:21:50] while cases of Leip Pallets takes two to th
[00:21:54] hours. The
[00:21:57] organization says interventions like this remain crucial
[00:22:01] because every child deserves equal chance at life to
[00:22:05] speak, grow and be fully included in
[00:22:08] society regardless of congenital conditions. This is
[00:22:12] very enduring project because um it
[00:22:15] has to do with the life and if you notice these children they
[00:22:19] have. this stigma either in school or within the
[00:22:23] community because they have this whole
[00:22:25] you know and then they've been finding it so difficult eat and it's also
[00:22:29] affecting their nutritions you know
[00:22:31] but what we have done here what you are here to do is to conduct these
[00:22:35] surgeries on these children and make them happy and
[00:22:38] reintegrate back to the society. children are priceless
[00:22:42] assets and um when we pay attention to their
[00:22:46] health, to their welfare and to their development.
[00:22:50] "we are helping the nation, because it is said that healthy nation is a
[00:22:54] wealthy nation. one the beneficiaries of a previous
[00:22:57] surgery who is now better and living more confidently
[00:23:01] is reminder of what timely intervention can
[00:23:04] achieve. before the surgery is always by himself,
[00:23:08] nobody want to play with him, nobody want to believe with him, he
[00:23:12] always feel timed and shy also loting people because the
[00:23:15] deformity of his mouth, but after the
[00:23:18] surgery." has been happy, he can
[00:23:22] now play with everybody, relates freely with
[00:23:25] everybody, and also it has been so
[00:23:29] much lively. As this organizations continue to put
[00:23:33] smiles on the faces of children and their families, there is a growing need
[00:23:36] to confront traditional believes and myth that still surround congenital
[00:23:40] birth defects. This is because beyond the medical challenge,
[00:23:44] exclusion and stigma often denied this children the
[00:23:48] rights and opportunities. need to thrive in the
[00:23:51] society. Glory Arimu, TVC
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