Maori exorcism
Family watches fatal exorcism
By JENNY LING and EMILY WATT - The Dominion Post | Monday, 12 November 2007
A Wainuiomata woman was killed during her family's attempt to exorcise a Maori curse, with the mother of two drowning in a lounge as up to 40 relatives watched.
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Teenager nearly blinded when eyes gouged to remove devils
Nov 25, 2007, 23:27 GMT
Wellington - A 14-year-old New Zealand girl was nearly blinded when relatives gouged her eyeballs to remove the devil in a Maori exorcism ceremony, a newspaper reported on Monday.
Her family believed that they saw the devil in her eyes and tried to scratch it out with their fingers, Wellington's Dominion Post reported.
The girl was reported to be a cousin of Janet Moses, 22, mother of two, who died during an exorcism ceremony performed on at least seven members of the family to lift a Maori curse reportedly imposed after a stone statue of a lion was stolen.
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These strange true stories sound like some of the fiction we might read for the book group.
The first article concludes with an informative Q&A about makutu:
Q&A
WHAT IS A MAKUTU?
Put simply, a makutu is a curse placed on somebody, usually in a spiritual manner such as prayer.HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN USED?
Makutu is believed to have been practised for centuries. Warriors used curses against their enemies. A tohunga (expert practitioner, often religious) would be employed to create or remove a makutu, though others had the potential to create a curse.WHAT CAN IT DO?
In extreme cases a makutu is believed to kill its victim. A victim who is told, or believes, that ill- health or bad luck is the result of a makutu would seek its removal.HOW IS MAKUTU LIFTED?
The lifting of a makutu varies with each case, Anglican minister Hone Kaa says.The process involves a lot of talking to understand the family's history and "depth of the makutu".
Removal includes prayer, and ceremonies often use water to cleanse – though usually in small amounts. Ceremonies usually involve numerous participants, including kaumatua. There can be a physical element, with the victim needing to be held in place as the spirit fights against its removal, Dr Kaa says.
Maori Party co-leader Pita Sharples said he had witnessed the successful removal of a likely makutu after a child started barking like a dog. "It's not for me to say that it's all supernatural and there's nothing in it.
"With the right karakia (prayer), the right chanting . . . (the curse) can be lifted by their own family."
Labels: Dominion Post, Janet Moses, makutu, Maori curse, New Zealand
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1 Comments:
Makutu is an ancient religion that predates Christianity and originates from the Cook Islands. A curse is a curse - Christians do not call it a an Anglican or a Catholic -they call it a curse.
In the Old Testament God placed curses on transgressors, but these curses were not called God. Makutu is not a curse. The original meaning of Makutu is "spiritual intervention". Makutu as practised in New ZEaland is not the religion of Makutu. It is something else perverted by heavy drug use amongst its practitioners.
The sad thing about the Moses case is the curse was supposedly planted by the theft of a concrete lion. A concrete lion has no part in Maoritana and so cannot be a taonga (treasure), so to presume a curse applied from a Makutu practitioner was placed on the theft of something not a taonga is what is really sad.
The other great sadness is the experts who have never experienced the practises or results of makutu pretend to know what it means and where it originates. The only religious, spiritual or occult practise that predates makutu is the Hindu religion.
I am sick of informed people who pretend to know something and propagate lies in support of their "wisdom".
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