Even though magicians and exorcists claim that black magic ‘renders service to the people’, it is basically used to harm others for one reason or the other, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Contrary to their claims, 7 of 10 clients visiting the offices of these black magicians have the intention to harm their enemies and majority of their clients still consist of women.
The incidents of killing newly-born babies, incestuous abuses, excavation of graves, sexual attempts with the female dead bodies, rapes, brutal physical torture administered on spell-bound males and females and theft of shrouds from graves and desecration of holy scriptures and shrines are going unchecked with impunity because of absence of any specific clause of law on evil practices and black magic in Pakistan.
Islam strictly forbids any practice of black magic, however, owing to traditional inheritance of beliefs from Indian culture, both the educated and uneducated believe in evil spirits or at least agree that black magic exists.
Apart from revenge spells, these black magicians offer different spells on variable rates usually decided according to the financial status of their clients. These are love spells, spells to change lovers’ mind, protection spell, money spells, job spells, divorce spells, success spells, lottery spells and gambling spells, hex spells and talisman. Interestingly, the price of a revenge spell is the highest and ranges from Rs 3,000 to Rs 50,000. The price for the spell depends on how powerful and rich the enemy is.
Unfortunately, the details of these revenge spells are not available since black magicians signed an oath with their bloods and it is very sacred to them. “We use blood of an alive person or the organs of a dead person, apart from desecrating holy scriptures and shrines,” a magician, talking to Pakistan Today, said, adding “we hold a sacred congregation every year, mostly in interior Sindh and magicians from all over the world especially from India and Bangladesh participate in it. Nobody is allowed to disclose the location of the meeting and if someone does, they are tortured by demons.”
BLOOD, OWLS AND DEAD BODIES: “Mostly women come to us,” BA Jigar Bangali, a well-known magician said while talking to Pakistan Today, adding “we only take money from them and arrange the ingredients ourselves since laymen cannot obtain them.”
He said masan (a difficult spell to cast) and a flying pot were the most difficult spells to cast. He said spells like Mirgi (epilepsy) fits, Seher Al Mahfloj (paralysis) and Sehar
Kabos (feels sleepy all the time) are easy to perform.
“Masan is the spell that is performed on kids and ash left from a burnt Hindu dead body is put in some food for the kids to eat,” he said, adding that blood from an owl sitting on an oak tree on a dark night was mixed in Masan to make it effective. He said Masan was not easily available in Pakistan so it was smuggled from India. He said after eating Masan, kids’ health started to deteriorate and eventually they die. He said usually females come to them for seeking revenge against their husbands’ second wives children or children of their enemies. He further said flying pot is also a traditional magic to kill enemies and usually apart from different ingredients a small part of flesh cut from the revenge-seeking person’s body put it in this pot. He claimed that he could make the pot fly and this pot breaks over the head of the victim or on the roof of his house. “After breaking of the flying pot, blood is sprinkled around with pieces of flesh. Unbearable stench spreads around the house of the targeted person and he either catches a disease or miseries besiege him,” he added.
He claimed that sacrificial rituals of blood were essential to compel the demons, jinni, fairies or evil spirits and their clients do not have the courage to perform these bloody rituals so the magicians performed them on the behalf of their clients.
KILLING CHILDREN, TORTURING
UNSUSPECTING VICTIMS FOR REVENGE: Another black magician Baba Professor Anait Messih, known as a king of jinni and evil powers, told Pakistan Today that magicians had no religion and those who claim that they were either Syed or Shah and had extraordinary powers because of their lineage were fake and befooling people. He said he experienced a lot of dirty things including taking bath in cow’s urine and even to drink it to get more magic powers. He said a man practicing such acts did not belong to religion as he claimed that magic is itself was a complete religion. He said an expert magician could create separation between a husband and his wife. He said a Silfy amal (evil act) was difficult to perform and through it, a victim could be made to suffer from constant headache, throat infection, difficulty in breathing, killing of children in women’s womb, inflicting pain, acidity, damage to sight and hearing and other ailments of the heart. He said he was an expert of voodoo dolls. He said after making voodoo doll are made, pins were stuck into it and the victim felt the pain in those parts. He said it was neither a mythology nor folk stories as he ‘could get desired results without any difficulty.’ “Sometimes we, the magicians, have to pay the price too. The demons demand bigger sacrifices, they hurt us or our family members,” he said, adding that he could not reveal more.
The grotesque, gory world of black magic
