Incantations

Incantations fall under the category of religious poetry which is a subgenre of African oral writings. They range from the simple one or two-line songs of the Senegalese women in spirit possession rituals or the mystical sons of southern Rhodesia with their many nonsense words to the specialized hymns to westerly African deities or the elaborate corpus of ifa oracular literature which is so striking a phenomenon among the Yoruba of southern Nigeria. It is popularly referred to as Ofo or Oro by the Yorubas. They be words believed to contain charming words that argon chanted, recited or said in social club to get a desired effect or assert of affairs. This effect could be attained through the invocation of more or less particular spirits in order to get protected from overture from enemies or to prevent one from coming in contact with evil.
The words being chanted may be believed to have any(prenominal) magical power or are recited along with the performance of a ritual that is believed to have some magical powers.
They consist of a variety of formulae and use numerous magical names intended to bind gods and invoke certain(a) spirits on behalf of a person who is beyond their reach. They are in close link with musical forms and are call rather than recited.
It is like ese Ifa-a-restricted poetic form, cultic and mystical in its expectation.



Unlike ese ifa which is only done by a trained babalawo or ifa priest who recites to the hearing of a lymph gland during consultation, ofo, when obtained becomes the personal property of the individual, who used it for and to suit his own purpose-to win a cure from an illness, to overcome an enemy especially in time of war and also to achieve success in some endeavors-thus, an individual who has perfected the act of ofo does not take into account anyone access to it but guards it jealously, for allowing access to it is laying oneself bare to the attack of real or assumed enemies. (Like during this fieldwork, in the places visited, most of the priests we met refused to render...If you need to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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