{"id":27665,"date":"2013-04-15T11:18:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T07:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=27665"},"modified":"2013-04-15T11:18:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T07:18:19","slug":"mumbo-jumbo-in-oman-black-magic-still-a-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-society\/mumbo-jumbo-in-oman-black-magic-still-a-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumbo Jumbo in Oman: Black Magic Still A Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-society\/mumbo-jumbo-in-oman-black-magic-still-a-force\/attachment\/black-magic\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27667\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27667\" alt=\"black magic\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/black-magic-e1366009552746.jpg\" width=\"645\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/black-magic-e1366009552746.jpg 645w, https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/black-magic-e1366009552746-634x329.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oman NEVER fails to baffle me. Real\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gulfnews.com\/news\/gulf\/oman\/oman-sorcerer-jailed-after-ritual-deaths-1.1170222\">this article here<\/a>\u00a0by the one and only Sunil Vaidya over at Gulf News. Omani sorcerer caused the death of two people during one of his rituals in Muscat.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t heard of any &#8216;death by black magic&#8217; incidents in Dhofar in recent years, but witchcraft is still quite popular down south where we are. In fact, just yesterday the house of someone I know had to be evacuated and &#8216;cured&#8217; of any hex since several bundles of horrible things (animal bones, herbs, verses from the Quran written backwards, names of people, skin, etc) were found in the house. You can see from this\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.muscatdaily.com\/Archive\/Stories-Files\/Venturing-into-the-unknown\/(language)\/eng-GB\">piece<\/a>\u00a0by a local newspaper columnist that the use of black magic is still quite prevalent in Dhofar. Not a pleasant thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DHOFARI GUCCI: I know of a recent, rather unpleasant incident which occurred in Dhofar. It&#8217;s a reminder that even in the early 21st century black magic lives on in Oman <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":458,"featured_media":27667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,173,369,482,73,5],"tags":[16690,1182,18338,16641,17046,17045],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27665"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27671,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27665\/revisions\/27671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}