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Reported on Lianhe Wanbao 21 Jun 2010 (Monday)
Thanks to Bro Raymond of API for the translation of the Article.
A national serviceman passing by a pedestrian bridge in Upper Bukit Timah was shocked to see two strange mysterious bags tied up and hang on two tall trees.
He alerted API Charles and Raymond Goh, who decided to drop by to investigate.
The location of the two voodoo bags
API found that the strange objects were being hung high on two trees just next to the pedestrian crossing
On closer examination of the two strange objects, they looked like dirty bags being tied up by strings
One of them has two iron nails piercing into the bundle, with another iron nail and chilli tied on top of the bundle, as if securing the bundle.
API Raymond took them out of the trees for closer examination.
Raymond then decided to open the bundle for investigation. The bundle with the chilli and iron nails actually contains a rotten lime that turns mouldy
The other bundle contains two pieces of wood like structure
Both the lime and the wood are wrapped in tissue papers.
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API Explanation:
As Indians used to use lime and chilli to ward off evil spirits and bad luck, API theory is that this is a sort of Indian ritual whereby a person supposedly get rid of bad luck and evil influences by disposing of the bad luck absorbed through the lime, wrapped up with tissue paper, and with the help of the iron nails which helped to nail the bad luck (iron nail is supposed to control evil spirits), secured with the chilli, and then hang it away on a tree to dispose away the bad luck and evil influence.
The wood also are used in the ritual, and have to be disposed off similarly.
As the person doing this ritual may find difficulty to hang the disposed "bad luck bundle" in a tree, he has chosen the location of the bridge whereby he has just hang the bundle onto the tree without any problem (You can reach out and touch the tree when you are going down the staircase of the bridge)
After examining the two bags, we then burned them off.
Burning the voodoo bag
Other explanations
1) It can also be a form of cleansing ritual, whereby the evil influences are absorbed by the lime, controlled by the iron nails, and then disposed off by hanging onto the trees.
Jave Wu theory
Jave Wu, Long Shan Men Taoist Sect Leader, said that the voodoo bag pierced with the nails has 3 meanings:
1) To take a life
2) A curse for no descendents
3) A curse for bad luck
If the bag is hung on a papaya, guava or banana tree, it is a curse for no descendents. However, since this is a common tree, Jave believed it is a curse for a person to undergo bad luck
Priest Wu further pointed out that the cursed person's name and 8 characters probably would have been written onto the two pieces of wood during the ritual, with the lime and chilli fencing off outside
interferences during the ritual, hence the two voodoo bags are related.
For the cursed person, it is better for the person to seek a Taoist priest to remove the curse
Priest jave, are u willing to share how to cure the victim?
ReplyDeleteThere are many ways of curing and this will need to depend on how serious the victim got affected, usually by doing some simple ways of cleansing, it will help in improving the situation.
ReplyDeleteYou can refer to Vabien's Write up on simple Cleansing and Enhancing of Positive Energies in the following link:
http://juin987.multiply.com/journal/item/18
Read and Learned somethings today! Thanks, Priest Jave! :)
ReplyDeleteYou are welcomed. Will try to work closely with the Medias in the future to share more with the Public.
ReplyDeleteHi Jave, I want to ask if someone was hit by voodoo (Gong Tau) what are the ways to know it...
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