Dem Jamaicans (part two)

 Mary Brown* a then 35 year old Jamaican woman living in the USA ......

Tia Dalma (Obeah Practitioner) - Pirates Of The Caribbean

.... told the Jamaican Weekly Gleaner, and the Jamaica Star in September 2020 that she had been cursed by an obeah spell.

The perpetrator was an 'Hispanic woman', the estranged wife of her boyfriend. The problems had started way back in 2021 when she met and became friendly with the man, who was allegedly in the process of divorcing his wife. Things started well until the after the New year, when they then started going badly.

"One night mi lay down a watch him a sleep and a have sex with himself. One day we go in his car and in there was stink and smell like rotten flesh. We searched everywhere in it and couldn’t find anything but the scent didn’t leave until later in the day. But it only leave the car and transferred to him. He was so stink.” [Translation: 'One night I lay with him for sex. The next day we got in to his car but it smelt like rotten meat. We searched everywhere in the car and still couldn't find the cause but the smell persisted until later in the day. He smelt so bad.']

She then started experiencing "awful dreams" and being threatened by the woman after she started seeing ghost-like figures in her home. “One morning mi wake up and mi see a tall figure stand up in the room. I was there staring at it. Mi even blink mi eye cuz mi want to know if it was cloudy, but after that it was still there. It was there until it disappeared." [Translation not needed - your into the patois way by now].

Despite seeing several spiritualists at a total cost of nearly US $3,000 she is unable to rid herself of the curse as they have all told her the spell is too strong. “I remember sending a picture of the wife to a woman and when she got the picture, I hear her scream and the phone line went silent for a couple of minutes. Mi get frighten and start wonder if a sumpn outta di picture on her, cuz memba, mi nuh know bout dem tings here. Afterward mi hear she say the woman soul black.” 

The other spiritualists told her that they were unable to assist, because her attacker was a Satanist, and their powers are not strong enough to battle the devil. Meanwhile the man had returned to his Hispanic wife, but Brown however, believes that he did not do so willingly and is also under a spell.

All this had apparently left Mary in a bad way: “Right now mi mawga and no matter how mi deh eat, mi can’t put on nuh weight. Mi get dark and ugly and mi look different,” said Brown. “I have struggled to keep a job among other things. A part of me is sorry I met him because I am a good person who don’t deserve this.” [Translation first part - 'Right now I am thin, and can't put on weight no matter how much I eat' - the second parts easy].

“Right now I just want someone to help me. I am suffering. He is back with his wife but for some reason, she still feels threatened by me. It wasn’t like I went into the relationship while they were together or anything. I just want back my normal life,” said Brown.

Well we can suggest rattlesnake venom and a snakes head, as the singer Safiria Mono did to ward of an evil curse from a rival .....

*Not her real name as the paper changed it to that to protect her, either from harm or ridicule ... its not clear.