Ogbanje ? 
Evil Communication corrupts good manners .. I watched a “threadaltercation” sic yesterday on facebook involving a few of my friends on a group i was referred to by one of them ..
what struck me was the ease with which people are quick to use words that are derogatory and puck full of spiritual enders in a world that has completely lost the respect of the spiritual things that is Man’s very essence.
One of my friends was not very tactful i must say in her approach but i avoided the conversation as i wanted to really see how far people go just to sound extra worldly smart esp when she was called an ogbanje by an obvious stranger.
Same stranger then called himself an Ogbanje also (without batting an eyelid ! ) That you can call someone a stranger a word almost taboo in Nigeria esp in the Eastern part really beats me .
The Ogbanje Spirit is well known in Nigeria and it is a Malicious Spirit which right now i dont want to expound on in Physical Worldly Terms but speak on as a malaise that has hurt The Christian Population That of being born and dying born and dying born and dying .
I pray Christ does not come for us when we are in the process of dying because of the Things the World has to give us .
Other Words like Multiple Personality disorder which like i said Everyone on Earth has to the Point that it is no longer a disorder since many these days are one person today and the next day a completrly different person.
In Lies and deceptions we portray ourselves for worldly gain unlike Christ who became Poor so that We would be rich especially when our own God is God in Three Persons so Multiple personality order more like it 🙂
We are Born Again Only once for then After comes the Judgement.
God give us the Wisdom in inter relations on This Facebook.
Continue to have a pleasant day .
as they say in youruba eni nice day ni 🙂
frank
writes from http://social.netchurch.tv
An Ogbanje (strictly “Ogbanje” and cannot be substituted with “Obanje”, the “gb” forms a single consonant in Igbo language) is a term in Odinani for what was believed to be anevil spirit that would deliberately plague a family with misfortune. Its literal translation in the Igbo language is “children who come and go”. It was believed that within a certain amount of time from birth (usually not past puberty), the Ogbanje would deliberately die and then come back and repeat the cycle causing the family grief. Female circumcisionwas sometimes thought to get rid of the evil spirit,[1] whereas finding the evil spirits Iyi-uwa, which they had dug somewhere secret, would ensure the Ogbanje would never plague the family with misfortune again. The Iyi-uwa was the Obanje’s way of coming back to the world and also a way of finding its targeted family.
The dead child would be cut or mutilated so he or she would not return. Some ogbanje, however, were said to return, bearing the physical scars of the mutilation.[citation needed]Belief in Ogbanje in Igboland is not as strong as it was before although there are still some believers. Sometimes the word Ogbanje has been used as a synonym for a rude or stubborn child. Sickle cell anaemia might have contributed to this belief, as the inheritance of the disease within families may have led people to conclude that the children involved were all from the same malevolent spirit.[2][3]
Ogbanje has been popularized by the critically acclaimed book by Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart with the character Ezinma who was considered an Ogbanje because she was the first of 10 children born to her mother that did not die in infancy.[4][5]
The word ogbanje is often translated as changeling, due to the similarities they share with the fairy changelings of Celtic and broader European mythology. Both serve as mythological ways of understanding what were once unknown diseases that often claimed the lives of children (such as SIDS and sickle cell disease).[citation needed]
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