On January 19, 2012 The BBC’s reporter Randy Joes Sa’ah exposed the constant use of magic charms by players and officials in Cameroon on his article Magic fails to help Cameroon’s footballers.

Bringing to the table, the controversial issue of black magic witch ironically, did not help the “footballing giant qualified for this year tournament”

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In fact, the believe of cast spell, good and bad spiritual powers, is part of African in general and in particular Cameroonian’s way of life including culture, philosophy, language, art, dance, music and medicine.

Some traditional priests use herbs and ask for offerings such as goats, chicken or cow, make sacrifice to ancestors in order to cure the sick, find a job, complete a business deal, find a spouse or have a child.

Others in the other hand use potions and dark power such as visit in the graveyard, lightning strikes, thunder, potion to possibly poison or destroy enemies.

However, we strongly recommend staying away from both as it is not easy to spot the difference between good and bad magic forces.

Below are few cases were black magic forces might have been used to destroy, not necessarily enemies, but naïve and unaware people.

1- The post- natal death epidemic due to sudden hormonal dysfunctions-and the mystery of the half-human half-toad…

Rachel Tcheungna, Author, Writer of 

The Bridge Books and 

The Bridge Magazine Editor.