A husband’s heart isn’t win through bewitching
By Majok Arol Dhieu, South Sudan
Friday, October 25, 2019 (PW) — Far a time, a hard-boiled woman in the name of Abuk Mar, trekked many miles to the seaport where a magician was living. She went there purposely to bewitch her husband who was housed by her co-wife — Amakou Matiop, for a number of years. Her child was weaned and was eight years old without her husband at her side.
In the middle of her journey, she met some men who cowed her into change-of-decision by telling her, that there were many wild animals they found in the thick forest she will travel through. To her, it sound callous because she was sure the fame in the world of rock and pop is largely ephemeral and she want to bring her man back before the sun set.
So, she ruthlessly pursued her ambition, letting nothing, whether somebody opinion or fears of wild animals get in her way to retard her mission of destroying her co-wife quest for domination. In the afternoon, she arrived and was given a three-legged-traditional stool to sit on. Before she rests her weary legs fully, she told the magician the entire story and ended the story that she needs a lure of fame—-a juju that will bring back her husband.
The magician scanned her from the feet to her mesmerizing blue eyes and said; “I have seen that you have many goats in your house, rightˮ? Yes, agreed the lady. “Alright, then we are luckyˮ, reckoned the magician. You go back, slaughter one big he-goat, skin it and cut its meat into big slices and put all of them into one container. Go deep into the forest especially the big mahogany tree, which we all know has been a lion’s den for years.
You will find two of them. When they rise to their feet and advance toward you, pick two very big slices and throw them down in front of you. They’ll pick them and make sure you continue throws many slices one after another until you grasp a hair from a bearded lion—a male lion, and then put the whole of meat beside them and get off quickly up to hear. I’ll tell you what to do with the hair.
The lady being described above as a hard-boiled human went through as instructed as far as she obtained some hair from the lion’s chin, poured the whole meat down and get away at a very fast speed. When she noticed it was the sunset, she slept in her own house and set off for magician’s village the following morning.
When she arrived, she narrated exactly how she managed to go through. The magician told her that, the whole process is how a man can be handled. He told her that there is no juju to totally overcome men to stay by your side. What you need to do is that after marriage, there are certain basic ‘musts’ and ‘shoulds’.
One of them is respect! You need to respect your husband for whom he is, what he does, his choices, dreams and everything about him just exactly like what you did to the lion. Make sure his food should be ready at his desirable time and train his children to respect him.
The lady went back to her house, slaughtered another he-goat and forged an invitation to her husband that the whole family came down with the flu. When her husband arrived, she instructed her children to welcome their father and to thank him for visiting them after a length of time.
After a while, she put a clay-bowl full of meat and soup before her husband. Following in time, the old couple’s conversation was a crack-up from start to finish. Her husband was wondering what has happened and noticed that someone must have coached her on how to handle men.
As co-wife in feminine vocabulary is a thorn in one’s side, Amakou yammered on and on about why her husband did not return home. She called her house a home, and annoyingly called the house of her co-wife, a cluster of some sorts. She came very early in the morning to collect her husband back. Her husband replied that he would spend a good time in Abuk’s house in order to compensate the lost time. Amakou discovered to her dismay that Abuk had done something.
Liar Tokmach as the name of their husband from that day on managed to balance work and his extended family commitments. So, it was not a bewitching that has convinced Liar, but good deeds, good communication, an indeed, a respectful call of husband by his titles and the names of his children that has made him returned.
Note: The story is not only confined to married couples, but for all, to have good approaches, proper caring and well worded statements minus lying. These can oil and strengthen every relation.
Majok Arol Dhieu is a South Sudanese residing in South Sudan and can be reached at email: majongaroldit@gmail.com
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