Mama Nnuku don come back with story story...
When all of a sudden I was hearing haaaaa egbami o ! Oja bo ni ( it fell) with the way she spoke the Yoruba I know say no be Yoruba person she was togolese
She immediately begin to untie are wrapper, and pull her blouse . for my mind I was like shuooooo na tear rubber werey be this ooooo!
She immediately begin to untie are wrapper, and pull her blouse . for my mind I was like shuooooo na tear rubber werey be this ooooo!
She put her both hands up in the air and was running back and front and was screaming oja bo ni (it fell)
Wetin fall I thought and out of my curiosity as she ran backward for the fourth time I run follow her for back....
I saw about 3 women gathered and holding a baby boy she would RUN round the baby boy and run forward and backward .
I could hear them saying the child fell from her back , so she was asked to strip naked and run 7 times to avert some kind of calamity in future .
When I got home that day , I had narrated what I saw on the road to the people around me and argument started .
1st woman : even if na baba adeboye wife this thing happen to she must strip and run naked 7 times wherever it happened be it in a market place or at a function
Me : if she no run wetin go happen to her
1st woman : any girl wey him pikin lie with go die
2nd woman: me I no believe in that , she go use Faith carry am and pray about it nothing go happen
1st woman : which Faith , na so e be from the beginning of time , even if na President wife she must run naked 7 time for where ever the thing happen
I stood there looking at both of them .
Now my question is , is this practise in every tribe or for every woman ? Does it apply to only the male child ? Or both .. If it were you would you run around naked ?
Na so this one take shele.
If na so me sef go run naked for my pikin
ReplyDeleteI have heard of this thing in Yoruba land and It applies to both gender. But I don't know of other tribes...
ReplyDeleteGod forbid!I will pick d child n pray then give d child medicine for any injury he must have gotten while he fell.naked ko,naked ni.I have never heard of this before o.just hearing it for d first time.
ReplyDeleteHian nothing I won't read hers ooo
ReplyDeleteIt's only for those who believe in it.
ReplyDeleteits amazing no one talked about hospital. pick the child with faith? there could be internal bleeding in the babys head!!!
Deletethis our culture sha. there must be something spiritual about it. something real.although its almost dead parts of it come out and shock you. although modern medicine is still good i am convinced there was some sort of truth to our past practice and traditions... i wonder why they had to run around, could it be to appease the Gods? a psychological way to calm the mother down while the chief priest worked his medicine? some curse placed on some certain tribes or villages in the past? Sadly we will never know as it has all been erased. white people sha...
this is the 2nd time i am reading this about the yorubas - its alleged if a child, backed by the mum falls, she will be widowed 7 times before the 8th husband "survives"
ReplyDeleteMe I be first time hearer on this matter.
ReplyDeleteEnter your comment... It is very important in my tribe,you just have to do it because of the child.
ReplyDeleteEnter your comment... It is very important in my tribe,you just have to do it because of the child.
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ReplyDeletei have heard about it. One thing i have come to realize is that, there are a lot myths put up to ensure we are more careful and better behaved. Like this one being discussed, an average woman who has heard of this is now more careful while trying to back a baby. Backing a baby is a whole process on its own. You are putting a human where your eyes can not reach. Another popular myth is that you don't draw lines on the ground with stick, so you don't loose your mom. No child jokes with his/her mother, This is to avert accident that could occur if while you are drawing the line, the sticks hits a stone, the child can get injured. There a lot of myths, just to avert accident/injuries.
ReplyDeleteThis same story has been given to me. I'm from Auchi, Edo state.
ReplyDeleteThis is the first time I’m hearing this. I don’t think it’s practiced in Igbo land.
ReplyDeleteI have heard it alot and I don't believe in superstition, yoruba's with their superstition nah 5an6..
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ReplyDeleteYorubas have so many myths. Some are simply ridiculous and seem to have originated from ignorance e.g. making sure your baby doesn't wear yellow clothes to prevent the baby getting yellow fever.
ReplyDeleteI weep for Africans. Damn we're backward ehh. Pikin fall, you no go carry am up immediately ,check for injuries and perhaps medical attention, na to dy run naked upandan. Stay woke people.
ReplyDeleteI think some taboos are to make people more careful.
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