(Trinidad Express)- The names of a magistrate and police prosecutor were written on paper and stuffed into a powder-filled bottle and left outside the Princes Town Magistrates’ Court on Monday.
It was part of a suspected act of witchcraft at the courthouse. Earlier in the day, police and court staff found a yellow powder sprinkled along the pavement and leading onto the court compound.
A black cloth bag containing a substance that appeared to be burnt wood was also found in the vicinity.
It is believed the items were part of an “obeah” ritual done by a criminal defendant, who hoped for supernatural intervention that his court case would be dismissed.
One of the cases listed involved three persons from Moruga, a village known to have several practising “obeah men”.
The names of Senior First Court Magistrate Indrani Cedeno and Sgt Zamsheed Mohammed were found in the bottle.
But Sgt Mohammed was unperturbed by the act of alleged sorcery.
“I’m not bothered by the incident, and it would not prevent me from doing my job,” he said.
He said this was not the first black-magic attempt aimed at him.
Mohammed said he had showed up in court and found cloves of garlic on his chair.
He said the incident did not disrupt the court proceedings, and the items were cleared by the court’s maintenance staff.
oh gawd..oh lawd…obeh in trini now hahahahahaaha…like dis obeah ting is big businnes fuh getting off..like om does wok.hahahahahaha
Why did it have to be black magic, it could be blue, or green magic too. Everyone want to get off, it’s the same way people pray to god to get rid of their enemies or do them favor.
Like two armies fighting each other, on the Padres on both sides each telling his men, “Go forward, God is on our side!”
Guyanese once more using their smarts to fool gullible Trinis. What a gifted people. Doing what is necessary to survive. Many years ago a Trini came to Guyana to get help for some problems he was having at home.He paid a considerable sum to an obeahman and was given a box that he was not to open until he got back to Trinidad.Fool that he was he followed the instructions, and on his return home discovered he had a box of sawdust. The sawdust was to be sprinkled around his yard. He realized that he had been taken, but it was too late.We have to do something to keep those remittances coming.
I was always under the impression that outside of Haiti, Trinidad was the Obeah capital in the caribbean.