UCKG GUYANA

Maiombola: The Death Pact

In several African countries, during witchcraft rituals, a pact is made where someone’s life is offered in exchanged for material riches. In Angola, for example, that pact is called Maiombola; in Mozambique, it’s called Kuthaca; it’s known under a different name in each African country. Depending on what the person desires, they’ll have to offer the life of a loved one. The person that’s being offered has to be a close family member; preferably, they should have the same bloodline. Regardless of what they ask for, it’s necessary for a brother to hand over his sister, for children to hand over their parents and for parents to sell their children. Here in Africa, this is extremely common.
A woman once told me that she had been sold to the spirits by her father when she was 12 years old in exchange for riches. In this case, the pact is done in the following manner: when the girl turns seven, her father must have sex with her. The purpose of this act is to capture the blood, which usually comes out during the girls first time having sexual intercourse, on a white cloth and offer it to the spirits. The blood represents the life of the person that’s being exchanged for the riches. However, from that moment on, the child belongs to the spirits. They consider her to be their property and they’re her master, or husband.
They don’t allow her to get too close to anyone, she becomes a slave. If she doesn’t seek God, she’ll never get married. She’ll likely have several relationships with men, but she’ll never have a husband. She may have several children, but she’ll never live with their father. Her spiritual life will also be constantly tormented. She’ll be visited every night by a spirit, which in Africa is known as ‘the night husband', that comes to have sexual intercourse with her.
Many women wake up in the morning without underwear, tired and scratched. There are several cases where the man leaves because he’s woken up to the woman whispering as if she were having sexual relations with someone.
Recently, the case of a desperate father was brought to our attention. He brought in his seven year old daughter and explained how the child’s body was used by a spirit while she slept. The father often found his daughter whispering and moving her body, as though she was having sex. This young girl had been sold by her grandfather and will never be able to realize her dream of someday getting married; and if she does, the marriage won’t last very long. Unfortunately, she had been sold and the spirit considered himself to be her master because of the pact that was made.
When a male is sold, he’ll never be able to possess anything, materially speaking. The more poverty stricken he is, the more the other person obtains financial success. The person that sold him can’t help him, or anyone else for that matter, because his misery and suffering represents the happiness and prosperity of the one who made the pact.
And when he dies, the life of the person that made the pact must be given to the spirit in his place. This person will then endure the same pain as the one who died. Only a pact with God can break a pact with evil.
Bishop John Leite