The Spirit World, Black Magic And The Temple Mediums & Soothsayers

Posted on December 22, 2007. Filed under: Social Issues | Tags: Black magic, bomoh, God, spirit world, temple mediums |

In these modern age, there are still people who believed in those temple mediums or bomohs ( Malay word for those who practice black magic) . The temple medium may liaise with a certain bomoh and they will recommend their clients to each other.

This story was told to me sometime back. An elderly woman went to seek a cure from a temple medium about her numbness in her leg after she had gone to those specialists trained in Western medicine and did not get well. Those doctors told her that they could not do anymore for her. It was beyond their ability.

The temple medium told her that she was possessed and there was this famous bomoh who can cure her. What on Earth do a Chinese temple medium have to do with a Malay bomoh ? When those who went to the temple medium and cannot get well, he will recommend them to this bomoh. This is like admitting that his Chinese God is not powerful and cannot cure the sickness or that he is a faked medium of a faked God.

A date was arranged with the bomoh and all those sick person were send to the bomoh where the real show started. In a large hall, those sick people were seated on the floor.

The bomoh placed a big bowl of clear water and told those people who were possessed would find the presence of rusty nails, hairs or worms in the basin of water. There were even Singaporeans and people from far off places. These people could be in the same team to hoodwink those poor and unsuspecting folks.

Each and every one of them took their turns to sit in front of the basin while he prayed for them. Some were found to be possessed while others were clean. Those who were not possessed were told to go home while those possessed were told to stay for more treatment.

Most of them were found to be possessed..LOL! If you watch a magic show, those magicians with the sleight of the hand can make things reappear or disappear.. Those people believed after seeing with their eyes and they thought it was not magic but real.

Initially, she felt the numbness gone and thought she was healed. Then later when, her son asked her about her conditions, she said she felt the same as before. She was cheated and he told her that she was conned by those two guys. She did not tell about how much she paid to those two slick guys.

We often read of young and beautiful girls been raped by temple mediums. This temple medium is even pickier. He only chose those beautiful ones .LOL ! If the girls are pretty, they are sure possessed and if they are plain , he will send them away , telling them they are OK. Being beautiful can be a cursed as in this case.

He preyed on their fear of God and those unclean spirits, he even spiked their drinks or when he gives those ‘holy water.’ to drink. The Chinese medium will write an inscription on a piece of yellow paper, burn them in the presence of the deity and then put the ashes into a glass and add water inside for them to drink. It is called a ‘Fu’ in Chinese. It is consecrated water.

Those people who were raped are really desperate and will believed anything .When after the sex and they find they are no better, then they will cry rape! In this world can sex with a man heal your sickness? I believe Jesus can and she does not have to sleep with Him. They have gone to a con artist and not the real God.

As a Christian, I believe in God and a spirit world. There is the Holy Spirit which resides in us and there are many kinds of spirit which roams the world. Some people worship those spirits as their God because they give them lucky numbers and they strike it rich..LOL!

Credit and thanks to

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