Video: Akodessev's magical shops: a supermarket for sorcerers
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Magic shops, it turns out, exist not only in books and films about the world of sword and magic; moreover, get into Akodessev's magic shop everyone can! True, here they sell not magic tomes and spells, but skulls and skins of animals, mysterious herbs. What do you want: voodoo - this is not some idyllic Potterian, but severe witchcraft, as it is.
Akodessewa - the largest fetish and magic goods market for voodoo in the world; moreover, it can be called a real voodoo supermarket. This place is located in the capital of the African state of Togo, in the city of Lome, and is a place of pilgrimage for thousands of tourists. Here you can buy such wonderful things as a real gazelle head, a monkey's foot, a crocodile's tooth or a crispy bat wing. The most surprising thing is that the buyers of such goods are not hook-nosed witches with burning eyes, but more or less ordinary Africans and tourists.
The fact is that belief in magic is still very strong in African countries. We called Akodessev's magic shop voodoo, but voodoo itself is just a weak shoot of a huge tree of African magic. The people of the Black Continent (and not only them) sincerely believe in powerful shamans and spirits, in the change of fate and the fulfillment of desires, in the sympathetic connection of a person with his hair and nails, and most importantly - between his body and the body of an animal. The crushed parts of the bodies of animals, especially exotic ones, are perceived as a valuable magical medicine.
A person who wants to get rid of infertility or reliable protection from the evil eye will surely find something useful in the Akodessev market if he wanders through the rows long enough. And no matter how much you convince the buyers that this is all fiction, they will not listen: "drugs" really help with almost all ills. This is understandable: after all, most of our troubles are imaginary, which means that only magic can defeat them.
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