The number of missing persons, particularly youngsters, in Malaysia is rather worrying. According to figures issued by the Royal Malaysia Police Headquarters in Bukit Aman in 2018, there were 5,721 missing person instances reported. Only 3,127 persons were correctly identified.
Many things contribute to this loss, including personal issues, stress, the influence of friends, family breakups, and so on. One of the most overlooked parts is the practice of black magic, which involves killing and obtaining prized organs for the sake of demonic worship.
This study explicitly tries to investigate the potential links between missing person instances, particularly rising missing children cases, and demonic worship and human sacrifice rites in witchcraft.
Missing children is a common and growing phenomenon. According to statistics given by the Royal Malaysian Police, similar occurrences increased from 2008 to 2010. Following friends (17.34%), misunderstandings (6.58%), following boyfriends (10.27%), desiring independence (19.10%), running away from family (2.09%), and other unknown reasons (44.62%) were listed as causes of missing children. According to the variables provided, 'unknown reasons' were the major contributors to this statistic.
WORSHIP CEREMONIES IN THE PRACTICE OF WITCHCRAFT
The knowledge and practice of witchcraft are not uncommon in Malaysian society or anywhere else in the world. Regardless of cultural or theological differences, the majority of people accept the reality of witchcraft and believe that it is performed by certain groups for specific goals.
One of the most usual requirements imposed is that the magician perform a worship rite, prepare specific ingredients, and arrange a sacrifice. The worship ceremony demands the practitioner of magic to read incantations, including the titles of greatness and the kingdom of the devil or demon in a specific order, as well as to accept the creature's authority over him.
In the worship ceremony, the witch practitioner is also required to prepare certain ingredients required by the devil he wants to worship. Among the types of materials that are always required are:
a) dirty and rotten materials such as blood, excrement, carcasses, skulls, corpse shrouds, urine, corpse ashes, and the like.
b) Poisonous and poisonous substances such as coal centipedes, poisonous spoon snakes, poisonous ax snakes, and the like.
c) Sharp and injurious materials such as glass, chicken egg shells, silk threads, iron brushes, pot scouring wire, soaked coir rope, human or animal nails, rusty knives, nails, paper flower branches, and the like.
d) Materials that itch and leave, such as bamboo leaves, sugarcane leaves, bamboo leaves, burlap, dead caterpillars, and the like.
e) Knot materials such as cloth, thread, hair, coir rope, and rope that has certain colors, usually red, black, yellow white, and the like.
f) Certain parts of animals taken under certain conditions, such as tiger tusks, elephant tusks, buffalo horns, skunk feathers, white mawas liver, turtle liver, cat's testicles, attached female male toads, and macaque chin bone.
g) Materials taken in an unstable state. For example, things that turn in the middle of the water, such as leaves, wood, or dead animals, or things that are stuck in a spider's web, or hanging things that always turn right and left.
h) Clay, wax, or straw that is carved and shaped into statues.
i) Certain parts of the human body, such as the skull, bones, liver, spleen, or anything produced from them, such as hair, nails, saliva, semen, menstrual blood, and the like.
Touching on the material that comes from the human body, it is usually prepared in the form of a sacrifice that will be offered to the devil he worships. The victim will be killed in a certain way and certain parts will be taken and placed in a certain place, followed by a worship ceremony.
In Malaysia, there are witchcraft practitioners who are willing to kill and cut off body parts to be used as sacrifices, dig graves to obtain certain parts from corpses, suck the blood of murdered children, rape a certain number of women, worship human skulls or animal bones and do other strange things. All this is done to ensure that the magic learned bears fruit.
WORSHIP ACTIVITIES INVOLVING HUMAN SACRIFICE IN MALAYSIA
In Malaysia, the use of human body parts in worship ceremonies can be seen in several cases that have been tried in court. In the case of Francis A/L Anthonysamy v. PP, the appellant was told by a shaman that he could win a four-digit lottery if he brought a human head to worship.
Believing the shaman's words, the appellant cut off the head of the deceased, a Bangladeshi citizen, and then gave it to the shaman to worship. This case clearly shows that there are some magic practitioners who set certain conditions to ensure the effectiveness of the practice.
The worship that is accompanied by the offering of sacrifices is to fulfill the conditions that have been set by the jinn or devil, that he worships. Through compliance with such conditions, then the creatures will carry out the request of the practitioner of magic or the individual who obtains his services.
Some witch practitioners also believe that the cult involving child sacrifice will make the magic power stronger and more powerful. Body parts such as fingers, genitals, or hearts mixed with certain ingredients can be used as amulets and charms by their customers.
In the case of Tan Mui Choo & Anor v. Public Prosecutor, the appellant and her husband were convicted of causing the death of two children. The appellant's husband, Andrian Lim, is a person actively involved in the practice of witchcraft and black magic. During his period of practice, he committed various crimes and immoral activities, such as prostitution, fraud, violation of honor, and even rape.
All the crimes were committed by using black magic and many of the victims were women whom he controlled through ‘pukau’. The appellant and her husband were arrested after kidnapping and killing two children in a very brutal manner. The murder was related to a ceremony to further strengthen the practiced witchcraft.
This can be seen through how the accused has treated the child: "The second appellant lured Agnes Ng Siew Hock drugged with Roche tablets and was sexually abused by Adrian Lim. Before they drowned her, Agnes Ng's finger was pierced, and all three sipped the blood.
The second appellant lured Ghazali bin Marzuki. They drowned him and again went through the ritual of drawing blood from the boy by means of a syringe and drinking it from a glass. The two appellants scooped the blood from the glass and licked the blood.”
To produce a magic substance known as 'killing oil' or 'chin oil', a witch practitioner needs a child with certain characteristics. The child will be killed through a certain ceremony, will be made to laugh and his chin will be rubbed with wax until it releases oil.
Commenting on cases of child disappearances and kidnappings in Malaysia, Inspector General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan did not rule out the possibility that these activities also involve a network of international kidnapping syndicates.
In the author's opinion in this study, to ascertain whether witchcraft activities can be linked to the reason for the disappearance of children, then the authorities need to look at and examine several things.
Among them is the background of the missing child and the child's parents. If the missing child has the characteristics that are a condition in the ritual of witchcraft, then the investigators can place the probability that the disappearance is related to cult activities. If the child is found murdered, the authorities can ascertain the motive of the murder by looking at the body parts and internal organs of the missing victim.
If the victim's body parts are split and organs such as the liver, spleen, and kidneys are taken, or the body is dismembered, there is a high possibility that the child will be worshiped by the devil.
Therefore, it is recommended that the authorities investigate the possibility that the mysterious disappearance of children that is happening more often has to do with the demand for body parts to be used as material for witchcraft.
This article is based on a study by Mahyuddin Ismail and Nurkarimah Yusof.
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