Growing up, most of us repeatedly heard the story of the aged mother who was saved from being used for rituals by her son through the psychic ability of a mad man who warned her not to eat the loaf of bread that would be presented to her as a gift. This story made most of us attach some sort of spiritual power to mad people who we see roaming on the streets.
There are also others who believe that any form of kindness extended to a mentally deranged person brings good fortune and I witnessed this first hand.
My mum was a 'mama put' food seller and even though she always sold up everything she cooked, they were mostly bought on credit by her customers and it was always difficult to have enough money to prepare for the next day's sale.
She however noticed that whenever she gave food to a mad person who begged for it, almost everyone who bought food would pay up and she would even make enough profit.
These instances happened so many times that she never turned down any mentally ill person that begged her for food, no matter how tight things were for her.
I still remember a particular one who made it a habit to beg daily for food and she would sit so close to us. I was very uncomfortable and scared but I didn't have the nerve to send her away. In order to avoid to a nasty confrontation that would likely go awry, I waited for the particular moment I knew she would show up, immediately I sighted her, I poured water all over the place she would sit. When she came and saw everywhere was wet, she would mumble something inaudible and leave.....
Impressed by my 'sense', I informed my mum about what I did ,but she was very cross with me and gave me the tongue lashing of a lifetime.
I felt so foolish and regretted my action.
Do some mad people really 'see' things, or are we so thirsty for spiritual insights that we attribute insanity to spirituality?
*Isnt that why some people are told they would be rich if they sleep with a mad woman?I think there is something with Mad people that brings good fortune cos i have heard a lotta stories like you too....
Hian! My only experience was when I mistakenly kicked a mad man's stick while walking, the guy just flogged the back of my leg eh.
ReplyDeleteIt pained me o but how I wan begin exchange words with mad man na. I just faced front and increased my pace. No good luck came with that experience mbok.
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DeleteStella, sleeping with a mad person is for rituals o.
ReplyDeleteOne slapped my half caste friend and pulled her long hair when we were strolling. When asked he said all yellow women with long hair were mammy water. I found it hilarious but my friend wept like a baby. She said it was the hottest slap she had ever received and says so till date. Apparently he was in the habit of slapping fair girls.
ReplyDelete😯 maybe na fair girl put am for the condition wey im dey😛
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Once I sight a mad man I scamper from a distance , cos I dont want to be mad too based on slap me I slap you back lmao.
Ewoooo! One slap me too OOOoooh. While strolling down the road with my school mates and friends from the University. I saw stars. I cried and cried. I kept asking myself why? I was happily walking and gisting, the next thing came a slap. My Dad was so furious when he heard about it but he was in a different State. I am very fair and beautiful. I always make sure to keep a distance from a mad person now.
DeleteI've heard a lot about this but I've never had any first hand experience. One memory I'll never forget was once a group of them were passing while I was wasting a bottle of fanta. I thought nobody had seen me but the leader did see me and he crossed to the other side of the road and admonished me saying why would I do such a thing because I have excess while they were hungry. The memory has stuck with me since. U believe I was 10 at the time or less.
ReplyDeleteI also often have this thought that just maybe mad people see the world exactly as it is and their brain can't often handle what they see, hear and feel thus, they speak gibberish and act the way they do.
It is however, worthy to note that most mad people in Nigeria can easily be treated and cared for because what they suffer from is schizophrenia, bipolar or other milder forms of mental illness that can easily be treated with the appropriate care.
Yes o. When I was in University, my friend and I went to a prayer house. We were sitting at the reception waiting to see the pastor. Then we saw a lady bound with ropes, her mum and uncle were sitting with her. The lady was just saying all manner of rubbish and the mum will chastise her, the uncle held like a cane to put her in order. Next thing she called my name, she mentioned my hostel and some stuff about me. I was amazed because we have never met, my friend was telling me not to worry that probably because my name was a common Yoruba name, it might just be a coincidence. Still reeling from the shock, she called my friend's name, this my friend had an uncommon and unusual english name. That's when I knew that things like that are real.
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DeleteWhat is there in a demon inside the mad lady knowing your biodata? A demon is a spirit, do not forget. Spirits are not limited by time and distance. They can coordinate with your tempting spirits whom you do not see to know and say a lot about you. That is why people a so awed by spiritualist and medium's priests for nothing.
DeleteHad an experience with one mad man long time ago..
ReplyDeleteOn this particular day,I was about to enter a bus that will take me to school, when this mad man came out of nowhere and told me not to enter the bus, because they're killers,I didn't listen and I was afraid of him..
Behold they were ritualist,how I survive that day still remains a misery to me...
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DeleteI don't think I really believe in this, all I know is to assist them in anyway I can, according to the condition oh
ReplyDeleteA very good neighbor in d vicinity where we parked told us how a mad woman confronted him one day he went to fetch water opposite their compound.
ReplyDeleteIn his words, he said d woman saw him carrying two buckets of water and laughed saying "you be be mumu oo, I think say you Sabi something....don't you know it's two buckets of blood you carrying and when you use it you will going down. That is how their eyes opened and they knew that d man dat has d borehole is an ogboni man.
And after that day, they didn't see d mad woman around there again and the man has to cut off d borehole in order not to be exposed.
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DeleteMy Mum in those days use to sell rice and beans.On a particular market day as we were settling down ,trying to display the rice and beans on the table,one mad man just came abruptly, straight to the display table.he picked few grains of rice and threw them into his mouth and he left without anone chasing him away almost immediately.
ReplyDeleteNa so people begin come oo.they bought everything we took to the market that day.we rushed to our storage to get more.we sold everything that day oo
It was like magic.
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I believe you some of them actually carry goodluck
DeleteWhen i was in secondary school there was this mad man Who used to walk around our school calling himself Jesus loboti and we used to laugh at him one Day he started chasing us we All scattered but All his eyes were on me because i laughed the most that mad man chased me i ran and entered some womans house in the ghetto and entered under her bed the woman pulled me out when she saw the madman she closed the door from inside the mad man stood there until some men came n chased him away. Since that Day i stopped laughing at mad people
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DeleteI know of a madman that was made so by his stepmother her reason? He asked his father for school fees. A pastor later healed him after that the madman became a pastor I think he travelled out or so. It happened in Edo State
ReplyDeleteMy aunt has a mentally challenged man that always comes to her house to eat even watches tv programme with her. She said that the a mad man is aggressive to everyone except her and her family. That whenever there is an online church programme,she calls him to join in the programme and he participates and understands everything
ReplyDeleteYou has better advise your aunty not to let that man into her house but give him food from afar. From my work experience, when his madness peaks, the first person(s) he would turn against are those who are close to him. She had better protect her family.
DeleteVery interesting topic Mrs Dee. I also think that some of them are possessed by demons..........
ReplyDeleteSome of them even prophecy and some can tell you your issues when of course you don't know them. I also think that some may be operating on another frequency or level of reality, such as seeing with the third eye.
Life is a mystery.........
This happened over 12 years ago back in Uni. I was walking back to my apartment when a mad started laughing and said I have two girlfriends, stating further that I am enjoying. It still baffles me till tomorrow how he knew.
ReplyDeleteI had an experience with a mad woman, I was about to leave Nigeria to school that week, she was bleeding(on her period), omg, she chased me on the streets, speaking a language I didn't understand, I was actually crying and screaming for help, until a street trader asked me to stand, the woman challenged her, then the mad woman spoke in yoruba,since I didn't understand yoruba, the trader interpreted to me, She said"Tell her not to leave Nigeria now, or she might come back in a body bag"I got so scared with that revelation.
ReplyDeleteAs soon as the message was passed, she went her way, I ran home and told my mum everything, and we started praying and fasting,I didn't travel
that week, less than a week after that message,I fell ill and that illness almost took my life, Infact I was begging God to let me die, coz I was in so much pain and no diagnosis, the hospitals weren't seeing anything. It was only God that healed me, I lost one year, and moved the following year. I just thank God that woman.
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Thank God you listened and for your life....
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DeleteMy mum once had an encounter with a mad man. While walking, he approached her saying; every time you are treating malaria, its not malaria ooo..
ReplyDeleteOf a truth, she was always treating malaria then..
I don't even understand how they see beyond the physical.. Odiegwu
Reminds me of Abulu in Chigozie Obioma's "Fishermen"
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Very interesting book
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DeleteAboki, I read that on 'Anybook app' and you were the person that recommended the book.
My colleague once told me that he was in a critical state of poverty after like 5years of graduation no job no money and living in their family housse with other poor relatives.
ReplyDeleteaccording to him a mad man was know in the neigbourhood and he was occasionally nice to the guy to the end that whenever he had small money or food he would give until one day the guy told him to go fast or something like that and gave him the prayer point. immediately after our office invited him for an interview and he got the job in a leading manufacturing company till today like 13yers after
Oh Stella, I have a story how a mad man helped me secure a US Visa.
ReplyDeleteMay 1995
I was on queue at the Lagos Office of the U.S Embassy waiting for my turn to go in when a mad man came from nowhere and started lecturing people on how to avoid visa rejection.
I gathered from people on queue that the mad man was a regular visitor to the embassy (apparently many of the people on queue were repeat visa applicants).
I paid rapt attention to the mad guy and took a mental note of everything he said.
Interestingly when it was my turn to be interviewed, the interviewer just bursted into laughter. Why?
The mad man had taught me what to do. Just a little thing oh, the interviewer didn't ask me questions.
Years later, I did same thing to disarm an interviewer and got my request granted.
I muse at countless times the little 'trick' has helped me in dealing with people.
People will ask what the 'trick' is but don't disclose it to anyone
DeletePlease share the little ’’ trick’’
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DeleteMy encounter with a mad man. I was 23years old then at university of uyo, I didn't see my period for weeks and I was not pregnant. As I was walking with about three of my friends at Abak road, someone hit my buttocks so hard. I ran and turned it was a mad man, I was the only one he attacked. That evening, my period started and I didn't understand that till date
ReplyDeleteI was made to understand that guys find and give mad men tokens to reveal baba ijebu no to them so as to win the lotto game. Some said it usually works for them.
ReplyDeleteAfter work some years back, I was crossing a dual carriage road to get a taxi.. I was very pregnant.. I had crossed the first half and waiting to cross the other half.
ReplyDeleteI noticed a mad man at the other side of the road where I was crossing to. He was looking directly at me. Next thing he started crossing over towards me.. I fainted in my mind..
He came towards me and stop a little distance from me still starring at me. Next thing he went back into the road and stopped all them speeding cars and signalled me to cross.. Lol
People at the other side were wondering if we knew each other.. I just said thank you and moved on..
Wow ...that was so nice of him
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DeleteAh! Stella I will never forget my experience with a mad woman.She was just passing o,suddenly she stopped in front of my mama shop and started gazing at me,gosh! I almost freaked out,I almost screamed my heart out,I cried like a new born baby,I was literally shaking like a leaf....the thought of running came to my mind,but then another thought flashed through my mind "what if she catch me while trying to run out of the shop,hot sweat was dripping from my body,I almost peed on myself.She eventually left. Stella,you need to see the way I ran outta the shop immediately she left.Ah!,I'll never forget that day.it wasn't funny at all
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