For some, it's food to eat or not to eat. For others, it's faith,whom to serve or not to serve. For many its family, or attires or marriage rites....
Sunday, November 03, 2019
Sunday In House Gists - Tradition And The Consequences Of Going Against Them...
A tradition can be many things...
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None I know of except a woman cheating on her hubby.
ReplyDeleteWhich women has now had a way to break the consequences diabolically.
I am from esan side.
Tent, same in some parts of Delta State... U sleep with another man, and Ur hubby suspects but doesn't speak out, he'd suddenly grow a swollen stomach and probably die in the process... Most tyms, their male children might start dying one after d other or run mad...
Deletei sight u,,,,those women has gotten a way ofbreakin dat tin
DeleteIt happens somewhere that I know. If a woman cheats on her hubby, she runs mad though she can be cleansed with the blood of new born goat if the husband wants to keep marrying her to avoid madness. Now I ask, is the blood of goat more powerful than the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ which was shed on the cross of Calvary for the remission of our sins?. If you sleep around as a married woman, even nature has a way of dealing with you. If you repent genuinely and confess your sins, the Bible says that everything has become new. Honestly people don't know what Christianity is. They mistake that for religion.
DeleteNjaba in Imo State?
Delete17:09Your stupidity is something else. So it's ok for a man to cheat, right?
DeleteEverything is abt woman what abt d man?
DeleteWhat happens wen d man cheats?
Our traditions n customs hav actually made it for d men to be idolized n free to do whatever deynare free to do!
Woman this, woman that! Meanwhile, its d man dat actually cheats nonstop!
Thank God d eyes of women hav opened!
In my father's family, we were told we don't eat a particular mushrooms (Olu Ogogo). It's not a common food so it's not something you can get easily to eat. Don't know the consequences of eating them
ReplyDelete*Larry was here*
where aee u from please
Deleteam sorry to disappoint u,,,,
Deletegive wat is caesar to caesar does not tell u to worship devil when u are born again in d name of tradition except if u are not really born again
@Pinky I'm from Ibadan, but this is only applicable to my family house.
DeleteMoreover, is mushrooms a common food to get and eat? If it's something I really love, forget it, I go dey chop am and nothing go shele. Those things are no longer in existence jare
*Larry was here*
And Ogogo is very delicious.
DeleteGive unto Caesar what is Caesar and unto God what is God. Dont mess with tradition
ReplyDelete@Blowjob
DeleteSo if "caesar" says you should bring human head for sacrifice, you give him human head?
If Caesar, that your tradition says you should drink blood, you drink blood?
When you give your life to Satan in this way, there is nothing left to give to God.
And if your tradition demands that you sleep with shrine prostitutes as is the case in many
DeleteAfrican communities, you give that to "Caesar?" Please do not prostitute with the Scriptures.
Exactly o. Civilization and religion has made many people to be in one position for a long time. If only they know it's that it's something so little they have to do or not do? I learnt my own lesson the hard way coz none of my parents told me anything, and after mom died I had to figure out a lot myself, or remain in one position.
DeleteI am a Christian,and I never subscribed to this' traditional' beliefs till things started unfolding in my life which I knew nothing of.
If you have been struggling for something for a long time, baby, financial breakthrough, marriage crisis, getting a spouse etc, please go and find out about yourself, where you come from, and your family. It could be something as easy as killing a chicken, or doing some supplications that is making you suffer which you do not know. Nobody comes out to say how this or that worked for them. Go out and find out people. Please.
sorry to disappoint u madam
Deletethis is not applicable to a real born again christian,,u cant worship the devil all cuz ur tradition wants it and u claim to be a christian。
oga madam,,,go and read ur bible well and alo,this caesar you talking about is a king
@pinky
DeleteI don't think I understood you at all.
I told him that he should not give his life to devil and talk about giving to
God because devils will be in control of his life and he will be serving them.
What belongs to Caeser from Jesus' explanations is tax
What belongs to God is tithe
Check your Scriptures well.
Anon 14:34 I wasn't going to comment on this blog post at all but I have to. Sorry but you are VERRRRRY DECEIVED. Kai! Which one is you're a Christian but...? If God be God, serve Him. If not, face where you are really facing. Stop pretending there's a middle ground cos there really isn't. You cannot serve more than one power at a time, no matter the eye/lip service you do.
DeleteLike I told someone, "Either the Word of God is true, or it's not. Either the Blood and the Name of Jesus work, or they don't!" What's all this mess fgs?
I am a citizen of heaven and the traditions of heaven is the Holy Scriptures.
ReplyDeleteProof:
Look at Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. AGAINST SUCH THINGS THERE IS NO LAW.
Did you see that? If you call yourself a Christian, a believer in Jesus with the above fruits of the
Spirit in your life...And you still submit to "traditions or laws" of "do not taste, do not handle, ..." as in your
communities, WHEN these laws go contrary to the teachings of Christ,
you have denied him.
For e.g., the law of God says that
we should not shave our head for the dead (Deut. 14, Rom.6:13 etc.) but you do that; scrape your hair when someone dies...you see you have gone contrary to Christ?
When they burn that hair or cast it into the grave, you have submitted part of your body to death and that is a covenant. You will write chronicles wondering what is pursuing you and scattering things all around you.
Are you a Christian, do you stand up for Christ?
Ajuju oo ➕➕➕🌹🌹😊😊😊
@madam fork,I hope your dowry was never paid and your husband never performed traditional wedding rites for you.
DeleteEven Jesus respected tradition so who are you to condemn it?
Go and burn all the shrines in your village,you will be alright.
*yimu*
@Veteran Chikito m
DeleteMy DH paid my Bride Price (not dowry -I learnt that one on this blog o😊😊
-dowry is that one Indian women pay for men inugo?)
Ahaaa, yes Jesus taught men to pay bride price for their wives and do traditional
wedding like that one he attended in Cana in Galilee John 2.
Again, he paid for his bride (the Church) with his blood (Acts 20:28)
and we were told that marriage is a mystery like Christ and the Church (Ephesians 5:31-32)
YOu see my Chikito, make you read those references and see. I talked about where
those cultures go contrary to the Scriptures inugo?
I do not need to burn shrines in my village, when I pray and fast (spiritual warfare for
we do not war against flesh and blood...), those evil spirits they worship in those shrines
cannot operate inugo?
Ahaaa, my beloved Chikito (veteran preacher), I like as you dey learn the Scriptures wey
you go preach inugo?
Make I ask my ajuju n'ese okwu 😊😊
Who you dey call "madam fork?"
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Thanks for the correction.😁
DeleteTradition is Tradition while Religion is Religion.
Learn to respect both.😋
Na you I dey call "madam fork" because you too like fork matter!😋
Wetin you want me to call you?😍🤩
@Veteran (preacher)
DeleteChristianity is not a "religion" but "eternal life"
If traditions go contrary to the Scriptures, don't respect it.
Just avoid it because it will tend to satanism in the long run.
Me love fork(nication) matter? Tufiakwa!
I love legitimate pounding 😂😂😂😂and my DH dey
do correct job for that one inugo?
Whatever you choose to call me, whosai!
Is there anything I have not been called 😂😂😂😂
No be my friends Naija girls use ANG do "maiming" ceremony for me?
Ajuju n'ese okwu oo
🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱 as usual, boring Anonymous.
Deletewell, I love this topic but let me drop this.
ReplyDeletelets talk about culture which,is a complex whole and everything that makes up a society is an individual and what he or she has acquired morally,psychologically,spiritually, physically, to mention but few that makes him/her part of that society.
every society has its own culture and traditions which must be strictly adhered to.
at ire-ekiti,,it is a taboo to go into ritual else you loose ur life or forget coming into that village cuz death will be the,end result
in katsina state,most especially Kusada local government,,you are not allowed to pull off ur clothe as a man outside,else,,u will receive 30strokes of bulala at the megari's palace cuz they beleive doing such na haram n also u will lead the ypung girls into rubbish.
also at CRC known as charanchi along katsina town,u are not allowed to,come closer to a lady let alone holding her hand.
come Funtua,,,a male and a female is not allowed to use the same swimming pool,u must adhered to this strictly or else,,u are on ur own ni ooooo
there is an hotel in the rural part of zaria,,u cant lodge in with a woman except u are marriwd and,she must be ur wife and relebant document to prove must given,either one wedding pix or marriage certificate
abeg make i rest
All these Northern states and villages you mentioned, their practices are base on religious belief and not traditional beliefs
DeleteAll you highlights on northern nigerian states na Islamic law(sharia) and not traditional laws or believe.
DeleteHe is right because religious beliefs can become cultural. In many places they are intertwined. So as long as what is happening there is the norm, it is their culture whether or not the root is religious.
DeleteI don't know of any, I'm here for comments. I think this topic has been discussed here before.
ReplyDeleteTrue that.
DeleteThis should be a part 2.
Reading comments too.
In my village we dont eat "okpa".
ReplyDeleteFunny thing is that my village is in Nsukka LGA of Enugu state and Nsukka people are known for okpa.
I eat though🚴♀️
lol
DeleteShey it's forbidden or okpa is not well known in your village or what?
Forbidden o
DeleteSounds strange. Okpa Nsukka ke?
DeleteInteresting! Which village in Nsukka
DeleteIn my place owerri , wé dont eat una , it looks like yam .
ReplyDeleteI love it, we eat it in owerri, it didn't kill us.
DeleteOnu..three leave yam .that's yam isnt starchy tho.
DeleteAnob 14:34 u are not from owerri rather u are from onicha mbaise.
DeleteÓna in my area.
DeleteLove the special pepperish oil sauce used to eat it.
In my village, there is a river you can't kill the fishes inside else you bury the fish with all the full rites of burying a human being. Failing to bury the fish like a human being you you will be visited by the river goddess. If you go to the river you will see big fishes swimming about , you dare not touch any. That was when I was small it has been long I visited the river, I don't know for now.
ReplyDeleteAgenibode in edo state, been there before
DeleteIsé that's the name of the goddess. My parents told me so many stories about that river.
DeleteAnonymous 14.37 many of pure Owerri descent are genetically allergic to that Una so centuries ago the food was banned to ensure good health of the natives. Not all traditions are fetish. If we study them well we will see some are rooted in reason .
DeleteSounds more like ecological conservation
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ReplyDeleteMy mum is from okolochi in IMO state and they forbid (Onah) its another specie of yam, if you are an indigen and you go to any place on earth to eat it you must have a very big boil on your body. When she newly married my dad those years she ate it with my grandfather (may his soul rest in peace) later had boil and was told the meal she ate, she never knew how it tasted because they never planted it in her village, but that din't happen to my dads family and even to us her children, my husband likes Onah as well.
ReplyDeleteOlit was an ALLERGY. Owerri genes are allergic to Una. ...fact
DeleteIt was an ALLERGY. Owerri genes are alleric to Una....fact
Deletein my own village,you don't go more one round as a man.
ReplyDelete🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
DeleteI pity all the faithful women who are married to the men from your village.
One round?
I cant deal!
Lmao....that’s punishment.
DeleteDo you give head?
Please tell us where you are from so some of us don’t make the mistake of marrying from there 😂😂
I wonder who made this tradition 🤣🤣 he must have been a 1min man who dint want to feel left out, he now made everyone suffer his lack of enjoyment 🤣🤣
DeletePlease bv, what are the consequences
Hahahaha.
DeleteNo satisfaction for dome women.
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 you wickid
Delete2sure, you have made me to have Head ache from laughter, village of 40seconds men.
DeleteWhat is bothering me as per so called traditions is the consequence of not seeing ones mother face on death bed.
ReplyDeleteI am first child/daughter and i dont want to see my mother's face when she is gone due to all she said when she is angry that l should not see her face when she is dead.
Any consequence?
If its even possible to send money for burial (she is in her late 70s) and then stay away. I am not too comfortable with her
Do what you feel led to do. She made her choice!
DeleteI believe in giving ppl their wishes. If she gave you a strict warning why would you want to go against it.
DeleteMy dad's place growing up u do not kill a certain kind of snake 'eke' if i do not go to church for a month i start dreaming of snakes. Scary shit! May God save us from tradition
ReplyDeleteIt is simply a CONSERVATION STSTEM. Those snakes maintain the ecosystem there and need to be protected so centuries ago elders placed a ban on their killing with taboos. Simple...nothing fetish
DeletePeople always say that snakes do this and that for the environment, yet I look at countries with no snakes and they are beautiful. I could never live in any country where dangerous snakes live,
DeleteAnon 20:41
DeleteNo near Australia or Amazon for Brazil
SMH. People be forming woke till life happens to them and they realise that not everything has a "logical" explanation.
DeleteAnon 20.41 the snake protected are giant non venomous snakes mostly constrictors. NO DANGERS AS SUCH
DeleteMy village traditional laws are you dare not kill a python snake, eat ona(a kind of yam), kill monkey you see in the village and you don't have sex or marry a member of your clan.
ReplyDeleteÈNVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ...using taboo system. Simple
DeleteIn my village, the only animal they don't eat is human being, others are delicacies.
DeleteI just found out/heard that in igbo land, a woman does not eat gizzard.
ReplyDeleteI wonder why?
That's not true...women eat gizzard in Igbo land, although it's mostly preserved for the men.
Delete@olive k: did you verify,ask your elders or use your Google before coming to say "that's not true? Or are you speaking for yourself cos you eat it?
DeleteLike I said, I just found out that as tradition,it is reserved for men.
My question is why?
Not whether it's true or not.
It's not a tradition in Igba land please.. It's just one of those things men used to oppress women in the olden days. Growing up, I used to eat gizzard and nothing happened.
DeleteMhiz...you're right.
DeleteEke ókúkó is for men in the open or within the family dining.
In private, a woman can head to the meat shop, buy 3 kilos, garnish and fry then balance on the floor and munch to her fill.
If I kill a fowl in my house, I will not eat the gizzard!. My mother said it is part of what they used to suppress women in olden days. Anything a man can eat a woman can eat too
DeleteI love Igbo people alot, they cherish their tradition, went to Igbo land for a wedding, and I totally fell in live with the way they do their things,
ReplyDeleteTradition definition::::peer pressure from our *ANCESTORS*
ReplyDeleteLol
DeleteWhat saddens me is that most of those "traditions" are "anti-women". As a Christian, we believe that we are born again and sanctified hence no need to pay heed to tradition and taboo.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I've come to realise that there's just nothing you can do about some.
I usually don't comment under posts but I've been commenting on any post I see tradition or taboo. I've commented many times about how is forbidden in some families for women to do family planning and I've been hoping Stella would do a solo post on this subject so we can all learn and ask questions from families we want to marry into before going ahead because it has deadly consequences sometimes.
The latest one I heard about is how in one family, if the husband dies prematurely, his widow must be remarried to another man in the family. I've known about this practice but I never heard it was compulsory, I thought it was a woman's choice until I heard about a family that if the woman refuses, she will suffer terribly maybe lose her job, her business going under and in extreme cases even loosing her children.
Also heard of some families where they sleep with one another's wives and if a man or woman refuses terrible stuff happens.
Such strange beliefs that completely erase a woman and reduce her to not much more than just a vagina. Why even be born in such places, you achieve nothing just get passed around and give birth to children you may not even know who fathered. Sounds like prison.
DeleteIt is never by force to remarry your husband's brother, My friend lost her husband early and she is a banker, the family told her to marry one of their jobless son. She used only one wicked look to answer them. She is still enjoying her work going to 5years now. She say she is not interested in acquiring any liability to herself. They let her be
Deleteyou cannot do family planning excerpt you are done with child birth with the approval of your husband,so if he wants 7 children, you give me...secondly, you cannot cheat on ur hubby else you first son will die..and no abortion as well
ReplyDeleteWhat if you don't have a son? 🤣
DeleteThese kind of beliefs are scary because if your first son dies naturally ppl will automatically assume that you cheated, and there is nothing you could say to make them feel otherwise.
DeleteBut the husband can cheat?.Most of these traditional laws are just there to scare women
DeleteThey say if you spray money in my town. Pata pata 6 months, you will be back in the village poor. I went for an occasion and Prophet Odumeje showed up also. I threw N300k in 20s. A year later and I am still standing stronger. It is all psychological.
ReplyDeleteODUMEJE FANS FERE EGO NA INDONESIA. FEREN'T THEY?
DeleteYES, THEY FEEEEEEE.
Definition of tradition::::Peer pressure from our*ANCESTORS*
ReplyDeleteIn some part of d east of Nigeria (especially IMO and Anambra), a free born can't marry an Osu (outcast). If one does, his entire family including extended wud b considered as one. Humans r so stupid sometimes.. Den dey go to church and call Themselves Christians. Hell awaits.
ReplyDeleteWhites have outcasts called Gypsies....not everything in Africa is bad.
DeleteThat osu thing I have seen it first hand. And both were Christians. Such a wonderful couple but the man was an osu.
DeleteThey're not stupid o. They tried eradicating it in some zones last December, many red cap chiefs didn't even turn up for the meeting.
DeleteThe ladies marry non Igbos or Oyibos. It is well.
The Osu-caste system is another tradition that will be very difficult to eradicate in Igbo land. In our own community they are fighting each others.
DeleteIn my place when a man dies the widow of the man is asked if she still wants to remain in the family and by that she will have to stay faithful, no sexual relationship with any other man or she returns the bride price to the family and she's free to remarry and live her life
ReplyDeletein my place you must not eat food that is salty or add salt to yourfood after child birth for seven days if is a girl and for 9 days if it is a boy.
ReplyDeleteanother one is if a child falls from her mother's back then the mother has to run to the market naked else it is believe that seven men will diedating the girl or nine females will die after saying the guy.
Nawa o, Africans and superstitions.
ReplyDeleteI wasn't going to comment on this post at all but whatever.
ReplyDeleteThere's probably nowhere in this world that doesn't have harmful (and dumb) beliefs and practices as part of their culture. Yes, even oyibo people. But for some reason, we want to throw out the baby with the bath water when it comes to Nigerian cultures. Some want to form woke and don't realise how grossly ignorant they sound. Till someone gets into serious trouble that oyibo professor, accent, dissertation or medicine cannot solve - unu anaghi a nu nti.
What is the logical explanation for a situation where someone meets, marries and breeds with someone they don't know is already dead? As in the person's grave is in their family compound in their village? Cos such things are not meant to be possible, right? No problem. When you enter, you will trend cos bloggers will carry your "What do I do" chronicles. This particular one tends to happen to people who are too "civilised" to do traditional marriage. Something you would have found out if you had bothered to check. But no cos "traditional marriage is un-Christian & brideprice is demeaning to women".
Lol. But the same people will run to registry and church & quickly pay whatever is demanded, no questions asked. Like mindless drones. #Issolraight.
Where there's a problem is when tradition clashes with the Word and purpose of God, or even with basic commonsense. Like don't go and dedicate your marriage or child to a demon and say it's part of your village/family tradition. Better open your eyes and ask questions before you open doors that should remain firmly shut.
Having said that, Christianity is not an excuse to be reckless. Cos God might not protect you from the event or consequences, oh!
I tell some people who think they're deliverance ministers, "If you know a battle wasn't designed for you, don't enter." You can be a real Christian yet die a needless death, bring calamity on yourself cos you went to put your leg where God didn't send you. Waging war without knowledge. Even people whose names were imprinted on some battles before they were born, don't find it easy. E come be you. Let me leave that for now.
Even oyibo people that visit Nigeria, admit that there are phenomena all over Africa for which there just isn't a logical explanation. But an African that managed to learn how to read and write, will be forming woke in their utter stupidity and endangering everyone around them.