Ghosts, Black Magic and the Witch Doctors

In “Ghosts, Black Magic and the Witch Doctors—I” we came across so many horrifying categories of ghosts wandering here and there in dark with the sole intention of terrifying you and taking your life. Well, a couple of them were less dangerous still the encounters with them were not pleasant at any stretch of the imagination.

Magic is an antidote, a spiritual treatment for those possessed by these naughty and dangerous evil spirits. This is the common belief of those who don’t pooh-pooh this ghost idea and very religiously believe in magic- black or white. Well, black magic is a negative façade of magic while white magic sends positive vibes. Still, for good or for bad ends, the term black magic is in common use. Magic is believed to be some coding knowledge. You decode it and acquire a power beyond imagination.

Black Or White Magic In Nimtala Ghat

So many witch doctors- the sadhus, aphorizes, tantriks, and others practice in different ways to unfold the mysteries of magic-black or white in Nimtala Ghat in Kolkata. Mayong in Assam, Kamrup Kamakhya temple situated on the Nilanchal Hill in the western part of Guwahati. And at so many places in India. The practices of aphorizes are obnoxious and blood-chilling- in the dead of night. They do their penance at the cremation places with human skulls and dead bodies- it is said that they eat the flesh of dead bodies. Some of these practice their rituals through sexual acts in a bid to reach penance through intercourse.

If you happen to witness these witch doctors- tantriks and agrees at Manikarnika Ghat in Varanasi or Nimtala Ghat in Kolkata or at other similar places in India. An unknown fear will rattle your nerves. They look like dangerous lunatics lost in themselves talking to the invisible spirits. And some of them are less fear-inspiring by their appearance- they are like some average pundit clad in dhoti-kurta. Yet their chants and commands to the unknown and invisible spirits need guts to stand.

Which Are seat Of Magic?

People with interest in Para- Psychology or those with whom, they suppose are the spirit-stricken patients go to certain places in India, which are seats of magic- black or white. Let’s take a cursory glance at those places. To begin with, we travel to a small village Myong in Assam with many mysterious stories in its fold. People say that Myong, forty kilometers away from Guwahati, is the capital of black magic in India. Everyone in this small village is a staunch believer in the powers of the unknown, the ghosts and evil spirits, and exorcism to fight them all.

You will find everyone with an incredible story at one’s lips. How a man can be turned into a beast or a bird by magical powers, a leaf into a fish or a fly, and then all vanishes. But it all depends on to what extent one has decoded the coding knowledge. The witch doctor is called Bez in the local tongue.

At every step you will find a Bez here- almost a hundred Bezos live in this village. It is believed that they have enslaved many spirits. They cure the diseases with the help of these invisible ‘junior doctors’ In the cases of acute pain. They stick a copper plate at the back of the patients, the copper plate absorbs all pain, gets hot, and falls on the ground. But financial hardship is there, the Bezos cannot survive on their magical practice alone so they work in the field as mere laborers.

History Of Black Magic

Mayong has an unwritten history of black magic. In its folklores and verbal transition of incredible stories from generation to generation. But if you explore the Mayong Central Museum and Emporium, you can find some ancient books on black magic.
Now we move from one mysterious place Mayong to another mysterious place Kamrupa Kamakhya temple. In fact, this temple links with a Hindu mythology of Lord Shiva. The immolation of his wife Sati in the Yagya pyre of her father. And then the tandava (destruction dance) of Shiva carrying the corpse of his wife on his shoulders. The places where the organs of the corpse fell became a shaktipeeth (seat of power). The temple of Kamrupa Kamakhya is one of them.
( written by Sanjay Kumar Kundan)