Maiombola: The Death Pact

In several African countries,
during witchcraft rituals, a pact is
made where someone ’s life is
offered in exchanged for material
riches. In Angola, for example,
that pact is called Maiombola; in
Mozambique, it ’s called Kuthaca;
it’s known under a different name
in each African country.
Depending on what the person
desires, they ’ll have to offer the
life of a loved one. The person
that ’s being offered has to be a
close family member; preferably,
they should have the same
bloodline. Regardless of what
they ask for, it ’s necessary for a
brother to hand over his sister,
for children to hand over their
parents and for parents to sell
their children. Here in Africa, this
is extremely common.
A woman once told me that she
had been sold to the spirits by her
father when she was 12 years old
in exchange for riches. In this
case, the pact is done in the
following manner: when the girl
turns seven, her father must have
sex with her. The purpose of this
act is to capture the blood, which
usually comes out during the girls
first time having sexual
intercourse, on a white cloth and
offer it to the spirits. The blood
represents the life of the person
that ’s being exchanged for the
riches. However, from that
moment on, the child belongs to
the spirits. They consider her to
be their property and they ’re her
master, or husband.
They don’t allow her to get too
close to anyone, she becomes a
slave. If she doesn ’t seek God,
she’ll never get married. She’ll
likely have several relationships
with men, but she ’ll never have a
husband. She may have several
children, but she ’ll never live with
their father. Her spiritual life will
also be constantly tormented.
She ’ll be visited every night by a
spirit, which in Africa is known as
‘ the night husband', that comes to
have sexual intercourse with her.
Many women wake up in the
morning without underwear, tired
and scratched. There are several
cases where the man leaves
because he ’s woken up to the
woman whispering as if she were
having sexual relations with
someone.
Recently, the case of a desperate
father was brought to our
attention. He brought in his seven
year old daughter and explained
how the child ’s body was used by
a spirit while she slept. The father
often found his daughter
whispering and moving her body,
as though she was having sex.
This young girl had been sold by
her grandfather and will never be
able to realize her dream of
someday getting married; and if
she does, the marriage won ’t last
very long. Unfortunately, she had
been sold and the spirit
considered himself to be her
master because of the pact that
was made.
When a male is sold, he’ll never
be able to possess anything,
materially speaking. The more
poverty stricken he is, the more
the other person obtains financial
success. The person that sold him
can ’t help him, or anyone else for
that matter, because his misery
and suffering represents the
happiness and prosperity of the
one who made the pact.
And when he dies, the life of the
person that made the pact must
be given to the spirit in his place.
This person will then endure the
same pain as the one who died.
Only a pact with God can break a
pact with evil.
Bishop John Leite