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Re: Part Of Igbo Land Where You Mustn’t Kill A Python by Ooye12: 12:37pm On Sep 16, 2019
explosiveskull:

You are the one betraying your ignorance via your stupid reasoning. Over ages it's been confirmed in these villages that the python is harmless and you think you are wiser than almost 100 thousand plus people.
Think about your life, you may have a comma somewhere that is causing badluck and hardluck for you that is depressing and frustrating you.
you will need one in your room be dat
Re: Part Of Igbo Land Where You Mustn’t Kill A Python by anoziechi(f): 12:42pm On Sep 16, 2019
BabaIbo:

Smiles, are you from the town next to Orlu?
no...just passing
Re: Part Of Igbo Land Where You Mustn’t Kill A Python by Nobody: 12:47pm On Sep 16, 2019
Bbbwings:

Well you do believe that a donkey talked?

How smart are you if you make such bold assumptions about total strangers on an anonymous forum?

That being said, a talking donkey is way more probable than the wild creation-myths attributed to the Ibos up there
Re: Part Of Igbo Land Where You Mustn’t Kill A Python by BabaIbo: 12:48pm On Sep 16, 2019
anoziechi:

no...just passing

Oh! Alright...
Re: Part Of Igbo Land Where You Mustn’t Kill A Python by sylve11: 12:55pm On Sep 16, 2019
soul95:


The person you are quoting is actually correct. All these python sacred stuff doesn't really apply to the African rock python which can grow up to 6 metres in length and swallow a live crocodile.

I don't doubt the spiritual stuffs, but that's a fact. African rock pythons are aggressive beasts that can kill a man if really hungry.

Secondly, no python has venom.

Anyways about the spiritual side,most communities that revere snakes (especially pythons) are usually worshipping a marine spirit or diety. I'm not surprised because anambra people are known as successful business people and in spiritual parlance, the demonic entities that give wealth and power usually abide in the waters (read the book of Nahum and the prophecies against Tyre in the Bible) for those that are willing to pay the price.

So let's all be guided




hmmm cool
Re: Part Of Igbo Land Where You Mustn’t Kill A Python by sylve11: 12:57pm On Sep 16, 2019
Damsonkc:


It’s up to you to choose to be ignorant. I wonder what exactly is the reason why you believe you have the right to tell me what to write here. Your forefathers knew everything and they sold their brothers into slavery. Dumb folks like you need to remain in your caves. You don’t like the Igbo tradition as much as I do and it’s up to me to do away with any aspect of it I choose.

me love this.................. wink cool
Re: Part Of Igbo Land Where You Mustn’t Kill A Python by dazzybliss(m): 1:01pm On Sep 16, 2019
Karemarealty288:
Nnewi.
Nah so nwanne m, nnewi don't kill python
Re: Part Of Igbo Land Where You Mustn’t Kill A Python by MrCliff(m): 1:01pm On Sep 16, 2019
A certain Community called Umuokani in Ohaji Egbema LGA of Imo State, there pythons are respected and worshipped, they don't kill it. what amazed me most is that when a woman gives birth, the python will visit the home, and they will allow it coil it's self on the baby, a nursing mother would treat it like a guest, pour powder on the snake whole body , after a while, it would uncoil and go away.. they even said, that the snake act as a baby sitter since some nursing mother can go to the market or farm, leaving the baby alone with the snake at home and the snake would go away peacefully not harming the baby, once woman returns.
I fear ohh �
Re: Part Of Igbo Land Where You Mustn’t Kill A Python by Nobody: 1:04pm On Sep 16, 2019
glink2015:
Definitely all those towns and villages people are possess. They all need urgent Deliverance. ....
They preserve the snake as god.

That's reason I have to be very careful wen I see a lady outside of my tribe.... Because they're things to know before I say , I do mistakingly

God bless you. Your eyes are open, This particular issue is also common in some parts of my home state , Akwa Ibom.

However even your own tribe has the deities they are attached to, so its up to you to personally break out by the agency of God's power and the blood of Jesus. Besides God usually raises some of his strongest soldiers from communities with strong satanic entanglements.
A case study is Bishop David oyedepo. Even Canaan land in ota, ota was once well known for intense satanic activity.
So so far as you have God and you are obedient and are ready to deal with the devil, you have no challenge

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Re: Part Of Igbo Land Where You Mustn’t Kill A Python by Nobody: 1:07pm On Sep 16, 2019
MrCliff:
A certain Community called Umuokani in Ohaji Egbema LGA of Imo State, there pythons are respected and worshipped, they don't kill it. what amazed me most is that when a woman gives birth, the python will visit the home, and they will allow it coil it's self on the baby, a nursing mother would treat it like a guest, pour powder on the snake whole body , after a while, it would uncoil and go away.. they even said, that the snake act as a baby sitter since some nursing mother can go to the market or farm, leaving the baby alone with the snake at home and the snake would go away peacefully not harming the baby, once woman returns.
I fear ohh �

And that's how that baby will be initiated into the serpentine kingdom. Spiritual darkness can be a terrible thing

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Re: Part Of Igbo Land Where You Mustn’t Kill A Python by PrincewithGod(m): 1:09pm On Sep 16, 2019
Spiritual darkness. You people should surrender to Jesus Christ and be saved from this bondage to demonic spirits in the name of tradition.

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Re: Part Of Igbo Land Where You Mustn’t Kill A Python by Onyi90(m): 1:17pm On Sep 16, 2019
udoka2013:
Even some villages in Aguata too do the same.
You are � very correct
Re: Part Of Igbo Land Where You Mustn’t Kill A Python by Baroba(m): 1:18pm On Sep 16, 2019
No body should be killing pythons in the first place, tradition or not.. They are freaking harmless..
Re: Part Of Igbo Land Where You Mustn’t Kill A Python by Nobody: 1:18pm On Sep 16, 2019
OruExpress:
I believe the python is respected like this in Imo, Anambra, Rivers and Abia. I think they can kill it in Enugu and Ebonyi and I don't know about Delta and Edo

Abeg where in Rivers?

Re: Part Of Igbo Land Where You Mustn’t Kill A Python by Onyi90(m): 1:19pm On Sep 16, 2019
[quote author=Atigba post=82257714]

You will do 7 days burial for the python and mourn her for 21 days or be banished forever kiss[/quote
Ahhhh. Let me jejely nwayoly walk away from this your terrible lie

Re: Part Of Igbo Land Where You Mustn’t Kill A Python by Nobody: 1:22pm On Sep 16, 2019
AngryNijerian:
I know one woman that python mistakenly bit in her farm. She said to the python; why will you bite me, don't you know that i'm daughter of the soil and besides i didn't intentionally march you. Immediately the [b]python's venom [/b]started dripping off her leg. You will think its a story but it actually happened.

You don't kill python here, some see python entering their room at night but won't bat an eyelid and will probably sleep in that same room with the python. If you don't like its presence take a stick and take it out of your house while you throw the stick away because if you don't it will trace that stick back to your house.

Python has venom?

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Re: Part Of Igbo Land Where You Mustn’t Kill A Python by armstrongkevwe: 1:23pm On Sep 16, 2019
explosiveskull:

Alligators in Africa?
Alligators are native to only the United States and China.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alligator

I think u mentioned the wrong person cos like I said the oroguns does not hold it (alligators) sacred so therefore they are free to consume it as food ,wether it is native to Africa or not!
U feel me?
Re: Part Of Igbo Land Where You Mustn’t Kill A Python by foster212: 1:37pm On Sep 16, 2019
gidgiddy:
In much of Anambra, it is a taboo to kill or harm a python. I remember one time I was driving to somewhere in my village. A Python was trying to cross the road but it was sluggish. We all had to wait in hold up for a good 20 minutes until this massive python crossed the road.

As an Anambra man, when I see pictures of people killing Python, even cooking it to eat, I'm very angry

In some parts of Igbo land, that animal is sacred.
You say 20 minutes for the snake to cross? How long is it?
Re: Part Of Igbo Land Where You Mustn’t Kill A Python by logan2(m): 1:40pm On Sep 16, 2019
Asquare84:
Their is so much mystery surrounding python, like Idoma speaking part of benue, python act very shy during the day and will never bite anybody even if you carry it with your bare hand, but during the night python is the most dangerous snake in Idoma land. As a child growing up and till date nobody can explain the reason behind this mistery
sorry to burst you bubble, but python never bites and doesn't have venom , I thought we've gon through this in primary school

Re: Part Of Igbo Land Where You Mustn’t Kill A Python by CaptiveMale: 1:47pm On Sep 16, 2019
AngryNijerian:
I know one woman that python mistakenly bit in her farm. She said to the python; why will you bite me, don't you know that i'm daughter of the soil and besides i didn't intentionally march you. Immediately the python's venom started dripping off her leg. You will think its a story but it actually happened.

You don't kill python here, some see python entering their room at night but won't bat an eyelid and will probably sleep in that same room with the python. If you don't like its presence take a stick and take it out of your house while you throw the stick away because if you don't it will trace that stick back to your house.
Re: Part Of Igbo Land Where You Mustn’t Kill A Python by Fantazy(m): 1:49pm On Sep 16, 2019
If one kill and cook it for food nko
Re: Part Of Igbo Land Where You Mustn’t Kill A Python by BarrElChapo(m): 1:54pm On Sep 16, 2019
Reppin' Alor London Idemili south.. wink

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Re: Part Of Igbo Land Where You Mustn’t Kill A Python by Padra(f): 1:57pm On Sep 16, 2019
nick50:
..its so obvious u don't know the tradition of ur people.. There is no town in anambra state that kills pythons I am sure that u are one of those we refer to as 'my mama say I be igbo'
I don't understand how people who don't even have an understanding of their own tradition claim to understand another persons own more.
I said we kill snake but we don't kill tortoise and fish from the village river. You aren't my dad that told me what I know. Odikwa egwu bikonu. Ndi mmadu eh

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Re: Part Of Igbo Land Where You Mustn’t Kill A Python by Intelcorei7: 2:22pm On Sep 16, 2019
AngryNijerian:
I know one woman that python mistakenly bit in her farm. She said to the python; why will you bite me, don't you know that i'm daughter of the soil and besides i didn't intentionally march you. Immediately the python's venom started dripping off her leg. You will think its a story but it actually happened.

You don't kill python here, some see python entering their room at night but won't bat an eyelid and will probably sleep in that same room with the python. If you don't like its presence take a stick and take it out of your house while you throw the stick away because if you don't it will trace that stick back to your house.
But python is not poisonous na. Where did it get its "VENOM" from ?
Re: Part Of Igbo Land Where You Mustn’t Kill A Python by obigold1(m): 2:31pm On Sep 16, 2019
prince2pac:
Where I come from in Mbaitoli in Imo State we don't kill it, I can remember stepping on one on a faithful night jeezz... I was standing on a spot and just a step back and I felt like I match a tube, I looked down loo and behold the python don fold em self...

People from Njaba LGA in Imo State don't kill it too



check my signature
Are you from Umunoha
Re: Part Of Igbo Land Where You Mustn’t Kill A Python by Nobody: 2:41pm On Sep 16, 2019
sylve11:


Some Chinese Buddhists discourage the consumption of beef, although it is not considered taboo. but in your case, it's taboo. cool
Thank u
Re: Part Of Igbo Land Where You Mustn’t Kill A Python by foster212: 2:48pm On Sep 16, 2019
Themaths:
I'm from Azia. I confirm your post to be true, we don't kill pythons. Our neighbour, Mbosi, don't kill ewi (rabbit)...

I wonder why anyone will want to kill a Python though.

It is just like telling me not to kill chicken or goat because it doesn't bite. The site of snake, be it python or not can be frightening.
Re: Part Of Igbo Land Where You Mustn’t Kill A Python by bizhop01: 2:59pm On Sep 16, 2019
If i see i must kill nothing will happen
Re: Part Of Igbo Land Where You Mustn’t Kill A Python by donkossy(m): 3:18pm On Sep 16, 2019
[quote author=judgementyard post=82265038][/quote]Otolo connect

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Re: Part Of Igbo Land Where You Mustn’t Kill A Python by bejick(m): 3:22pm On Sep 16, 2019
AngryNijerian:
I know one woman that python mistakenly bit in her farm. She said to the python; why will you bite me, don't you know that i'm daughter of the soil and besides i didn't intentionally march you. Immediately the python's venom started dripping off her leg. You will think its a story but it actually happened.

You don't kill python here, some see python entering their room at night but won't bat an eyelid and will probably sleep in that same room with the python. If you don't like its presence take a stick and take it out of your house while you throw the stick away because if you don't it will trace that stick back to your house.

which bus/stop will i drop grin grin grin grin of the truth Python doesn't even have venom. the are strangler or constrictors.
Re: Part Of Igbo Land Where You Mustn’t Kill A Python by Nobody: 3:23pm On Sep 16, 2019
mightyokwy:
My town is in Ihiala LGA, we don't kill both python and Ewi. We have a shrine dedicated to python. Those days in the village python will enter our house and swallow our foul, the best we could do is to use stick to take it out. One of my cousin usually use hand to carry it to the bush. Ewi is also sacred. Ewi was like a domestic animal in my town. My grandfathers ban was a home to a lot of them. We only go there to chase them away to stop them from eating the yams. People from the neighbouring towns usually refer us as "Mbosi ichi eri ewi".

Nice one,I m from Mbosi too
Re: Part Of Igbo Land Where You Mustn’t Kill A Python by donkossy(m): 3:27pm On Sep 16, 2019
AstroG:





Exactly,Uli don't kill pythons. I can vividly remember when I was still a student at Anambra State University,Uli Campus,have encountered them so many times. Even my lodge then was their den due to the fact that we didn't knw there was a python shrine 7km away from the Lodge,but it has never bitten anybody in the Lodge.
which lodge b that

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