Black magic and white medicine: A mine medical officer's experiences in South Africa, the Belgian Congo, Sierra Leone, and the Gold Coast

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Geister, Magier und Muslime. Dämonenwelt und Geisteraustreibung im Islam. Kornelius Hentschel, Diederichs 1997, Germany. a b c Travis Zadeh Commanding Demons and Jinn: The Sorcerer in Early Islamic Thought Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014 p-154 Myths were never regarded as historically accurate, rational or factual; their purpose was therapeutic. [18] While science has invalidated many myths, it has been much less successful in providing meaning and significance to chronic medical illness, meaningless suffering and to the complexities of life. The devastation caused by many chronic and disabling illnesses demand understanding and comprehension. Medical and scientific explanations, while emphasizing naturalistic causes, fail to provide personalistic explanations for illness. ‘Why me?' is never answered by science. Before denying that “voodoo” death is within the realm of possibility, let us consider the general features of the specimen reports mentioned in foregoing paragraphs. First . . . is the fixed assurance that because of certain conditions, such as being subject to bone pointing or other magic, or failing to observe sacred tribal regulations, death is sure to supervene. This is a belief so firmly held by all members of the tribe that the individual not only has that conviction himself but is obsessed by the knowledge that all his fellows likewise hold it. Thereby he becomes a pariah, wholly deprived of the confidence and social support of the tribe. In his isolation the malicious spirits which he believes are all about him and capable of irresistibly and calamitously maltreating him, exert supremely their evil power. . . .

to combine the active celestial forces with the passive earthly forces at moments favorable to the desired action and influence, with the help of vapors [able] to strengthen and attract the spirit of the talisman, with the intent of producing unusual manifestations in the world of generation and decay. In comparison with magic, this science is more accessible, for both its principles and its causes are known. Its usefulness is obvious, but mastery comes only after a great deal of effort. [58] a b c d e Sebastian Günther, Dorothee Pielow Die Geheimnisse der oberen und der unteren Welt: Magie im Islam zwischen Glaube und Wissenschaft BRILL, 18.10.2018 ISBN 9789004387577 p. 40 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Sayyid Abdul Husayn Dastghaib Shirazi. "The Thirty-First Greater Sin: Sorcery". Greater Sins. Vol.2 . Retrieved 2 December 2021.Much of this knowledge about uncertainties of chronic illness and its course and outcome are available in the cultural commons and local collectives. However, medicine and psychiatry’s obsession with evidence makes their practitioners blind to wisdom about health, distress, illness and disease distilled over the years and freely available in the commons. If medicine and psychiatry can understand cultural idioms and metaphors, then they would not dismiss available cultural knowledge. Wehr, Hans. J. Milton Cowan (ed.). A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic (PDF). p.340 . Retrieved 2 December 2021.

Bali's first book -- Wiqayat al-insan min al-jinn wa-l-shaytan -- was more narrowly on the dangers of jinn and how to protect yourself from them In 2008, police went to the trouble of luring a well-known Lebanese television psychic, Ali Hussain Sibat, into a sting operation while he was in Saudi on hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca). He was sentenced to death but had his sentenced reduced to 15 years in prison [3] "after outcry from international human rights organizations". [91] In September 2011 a Sudanese man was beheaded, having been caught in another sting operation "set in motion by the religious police". [3] Khalīfah, ed. Flügel, 1955–1958, vol. 4, pp. 646–647, quoted in Fahd, Toufic (1987). "Magic: Magic In Islam". encyclopedia.com. Translated by David M. Weeks . Retrieved 1 December 2021.

describing sihr al-nazif (sorcery which allegedly causes vaginal bleeding outside menstruation and may go on for months) as being brought about by 'a trampling of the devil on one of the veins in the womb'. Its treatment is drinking water over which a "Qur'anic incantation has been recited", and taking baths in the water "for three days". [100] The description in Q.2:102 of magic as revealed by a pair of Fallen angels ( Hārūt and Mārūt), suggests it is, (in the words of Toufic Fahd), a "fragment of a celestial knowledge": [18] If you think you are being attracted to something negative, and your aura is slightly different from usual, you should burn camphor every morning and evening in your house.