POLITICS : Superstition

Yeh bloggers world wide, today I choose to continue on the controversial topic of superstition based on porous belief systems fueled by misinformation and / or lack of it.In the days gone past  people beliefs were a subject of myth to explain the many puzzles regarding origin of life and here after, more so the day to day unexplainable phenomena that surrounded them. Well to date despite science having broken down the many dogmas and coming-up with reasonable answers, in this our part of the world there are still may people who base their observations on myths.Natural disasters as well as the surrounding phenomena is explained by superstition. For example, dreams which have been explained to occur during the Rapid Eye Movement stage of sleep whereby the mind goes down memory lane and replays the events of the day in whatsoever manner sometimes is taken to mean some telepathic message being relayed from alien sources. We have societies where in case a murder occurs the victim will precisely relay the culprits identities and even expose where its corpse is hidden to a close living relative. Two,we have varying expositions of witchcraft power witnessed amongst those still residing deep in the reserves and witch-burning is not news in such societies.;the culprits usually turn-out to be old females.Of course wizards are the male counterparts.There are the infamous night runners who run naked at night to their secret society meeting places.I am trying to inform you what bases this strongly entrenched belief in witchcraft governing people's day-to-day lives, senior as well as ordinary citizens.When night falls and the night runners begin plying their trade the villages are chilled in to a type of paralysis whereby no one can move a feet / finger, it has a kind of hypnotizing spell.
Then we have those night runners who ride on wild beasts backs, be it lions, leopards, hyenas, hippopotamuses, name it. They aren't the worst..........We have that very powerful legion of  rainmaking lightening-unleashing witches / wizards. Pray you don't cross their path for they can make rain fall within the shortest time possible and single you out of a crowd for their electrocuting-lightening attack.Thus a majority of the community fellows are forced to solicit good-luck / evil-protection charms.Jokingly, some of these charms are nowadays called anti-missiles. One has to be coated by a Sherman / witchdoctor against any missiles that may be propelled towards their direction or that of their kins and property. The procedure calls for laboratory specifications: one may be asked to bring cattle, sheep, goats, cockerels { and mind-you of specified colors }for sacrifices geared to appease the deadly gods of life and death.One may have to under-go live burial up to the neck for several days to guard against 'missiles' in their life time.People are known to even keep 'jinns' for their success in life besides warding-off evil spirits. Thus , going by the witch doctors prescription / terms and conditions such jinni-keepers usually spare one room in their houses for that jinni and they feed it as well regularly on fresh blood. Such a room is usually out-of bounds........supposed to be kept as a top secret. The witch-doctors have an array of disturbing paraphernalia at their disposal which they identify as their tools of trade. Come elections the contenders can't afford to loose and they go far and wide to meet the veterans of this trade. Later virtual s, logistics.