My name is FATMA OMARI JUMA, born in 1986 in SAKURA village in Pangani district of Tanga region,Tanzania. I am the 5th (5th) child of 7 children of the same family. When I was born my mother couldn't breastfeed me for 9 months, as she was haunted by demons and bad spirit sas she had broken the rules given to her by throwing away the saddle clothes given to her as a charm or protection, was punished by those demons not to be able to breastfeed but then after my mother followed the rules and complied she was again able to breastfeed me when i was ten months old.

After that I was raised according to the doctrines of Islamic religion and was going to madrasah to study, I was raised well and my family was very much in loving family. By the year 2000, one day I was sleeping I dreamed of me being presented with a engagement ring by an unknown man on a crossroad. After that every night I went to bed this man came in my dreams. In the early days he could appear in different faces but after about a year (1) he was appearing to me with the same face and in the year 2002 more then 7 men men came to engage me but without any reason none of them married me.

By October 2004I got pregnant and during my pregnancy I was dreaming I gave birth to a baby and then dipped it in water, so I explained this to my mother, she said that I was being haunted by a bad spirit, she advised that I should talk to my grandfather about the matter and I did as my mother told me to.

My grandfather gave me a medicine that was a cup and a necklace to wear around my neck (the cup is a paper in Arabic letters, but it sticks in a jar or bottle so that the saffron ink melts, and the water is called the cup).

After being given the remedy, when I fell asleep at night I dreamed that the man who usually comes to me every night while I sleep crosses the water without getting wet, when he reached to the middle of the river he called me as I stood on the land, put his hand in his pocket and pulled up some money,and told me...let me tell you something good if you will agree with me then i will give you this gift.

I refused, then a woman appeared, asked me "do you know this man? and I answered yes" and asked "who" and I replied "He's not a human being but a spirit" suddenly the woman left. So my fiancé(spirit) came up and I wanted to hug him but he avoided me, I asked "why are you avoiding me?" And he answered "why don't you see yourself?" I replied, "How am I? He told me to “look at the right hand. Looking I saw myself holding a cup.

He said to me, "Look at your left hand" and saw myself with a charm. he said to me,then said look at your neck "today you have offended me,and i am very angry with you." You have provoked me to the extreme, I asked him why he answered "why are you different today from the other days" we went the same way until the same crossroad where he appeared for the first time,but i every time i tried getting close to him he ran away from me, we went all the way up there, then said to me ”Well I accept defeat but remember people break up and make up I believe one day we shall meet again."We parted ways he went left and me right. That's when I realized I had been living with a Jin (bad spirit) for 5 years from 2000 to 2005.

After that, I took good care of my pregnancy and gave birth to a baby boy on July 15/2005 and raised my son well. In July 2007 a young man came to me and said: “I have been sent by your neighbor to borrow construction timbers. ” I only gave them out by faith that when they finish,my timbers would return but that was not to be, because after they finished their construction they just tore them up and destroyed them .My father observed and sent my mother to ask me about the wood. I replied that I had given them out to a neighbor but my mother told me to go get them, and when I went I was given the peaces.

I said to the lady who borrowed these are not the ones that i gave to you, she answer me saying she would bring others. I left and a week later I went back to her but she answered that I would bring them, and I left. A week later my mother went to ask the lady, "Is it true that you sent a boy to my home to fetch some timbers?" she replied "yes" now where are they? She said "I have returned them to your daughter" mom had to come and ask me and I replied I was not given by good luck the same lady was passing by the road then i told my mother why don't you ask her right here in my presence.

My mother did so and the lady was ashamed that i had made a mockery of her by saying the truth in my mother's presence yet she had lied to her.She really got angry and promised to deal with me. We left and my mother went to the farm

When I got to the farm I told my mother that I had found the charms at my door step. My mother's evil spirit raised and the devil in her head started asking aren't you aware of the disappearance of your underwear? why haven't you mentioned it? I really didn't tell my mother about the matter, I answered yes but I forgot to say."

Now your fellow woman has taken it in order to bewitch you and make you work for her everyday. But after hearing what the devils in her were saying,we returned home and found the envelope in which the charm on my doorstep was wrapped in and my mother said that it wasn't meant to hurt me directly but it was meant to hurt my mother in order for the lady to properly get hold of me they said this charm was made for extinguishing your mother's star so they could find it easier to hurt me.

Nothing happened to me until about a week later i started bleeding none stop (menstruation cycle) from four o'clock in the morning until 1 pm o'clock in the afternoon the blood stopped until the next day it started again and this continued for a month and a half then it stopped.

So I continued to live my normal life for three months, one day while I was in Zanzibar sleeping my mother,my sister's kid and I, at the time the baby was 3 years old.

I remember it was like 7 o'clock at night or at 8 o'clock the baby screamed until I awoke from my sleep, I opened my eyes and saw my mother again rising up her demons;I just observed her and after a short while she calmed down and I decided to not mention anything.But in the morning I had to ask her at night what was wrong? she said to me "An animal was sent to attack you. The baby screamed and screamed because she saw me fighting with them but don't worry you are safe"

So that morning I got ready to take the baby back to her mother and we left for the road and shortly before I got in the car my mood started to change and I started feeling nauseous, my body was weak that I even passed my destination without noticing,after some time I became conscious and told them I had to go down and they told me that we had already passed then i asked the conductor to drop in Gamba where I had to board another bus.

but after getting in the car I once again lost consciousness after a long time ago I found out and found myself at my sister's house except that i saw my mother there and I asked her come you are here?She told me I was informed of your condition by your sister, I had to come but don't worry the problem will end and you get well. After that I stayed for about a year and for several months my mother became ill and died.And that's where the real suffering page began in my life.

Three months after my mother died one day when I woke up in the morning the first thing I was wondering was I could smell an oily scent and to my surprise I was the only one smelling as everyone else around me said that they couldn't smell anything, and I smelt it from the time I woke up in the morning until until afternoon.And that scent could disturb me only on Tuesdays and Fridays. The smell was intense until the nose is dry, this condition went on for two to three months during which time I was selling honey.

I remember it was on a Tuesday in 2008 ,that day when I woke up I smelled the same strange scent as I was drinking tea then I went out on my bicycle, while on a one-lane road I suddenly saw a green snake in front of me. all I did was quickly push the bike to my feet so that when I step on it with my bike it would not bite me.when I came a little farther I fell,and it started getting into my mouth and a few seconds later it had gone inside me I got up and went to my grand mother's house and screamed,Grandmother a snake has entered inside me ...then my grandmother took me me into her room and stripped me of all clothes to see the snake but she could not see it,

I was so frightened and confused that I was telling her,grandmother! the snake is entering me through the right foot she couldn't see but I could see it. I kept yelling that the snake was coming in to me.The snake crawled to my lower abdomen and then it sat there and my whole body and clothes smelled the same scent I used to smell before this incident,I felt dizzy, after a while I felt better and I got on to my bike and went back home.

I spent about a month being very ill and one day at around 6 in the evening we were just having a chat with my sister as I was trying cooking, we talked for about a quarter of an hour then my sister told me that she was going to the mosque and I told her it was fine I just finished cooking. and I was ready to eat my food when I started to wash my hands, suddenly my stomach started to hurt so much I ran to the toilet but I couldn't do anything I left the toilet because the pain was so severe I couldn't bear it and I screamed and continued screaming as I was in very intense pain, a certain woman heard my callings ,came to me asked what was happening to me,I answered her that my stomach was aching and after I just answered I collapsed and lost consciousness.

When I regained consciousness it was 10 pm at night but I was in no pain at all, so I continued to suffer stomach aches as it began to feel like the snake started moving and crawl from my lower abdomen to my chest,crawled up to my throat,filled it until I could not breathe, I panicked as some sort of foam was coming out of my mouth and nostrils, and I lost consciousness for about 3 to 4 hours.

I was taken to the hospital and got tested but they did not see any illness. That's when they decided to take me to a witch doctor(healer) where I stayed for a month ,after I felt a bit better I was taken back home. When I returned home I stayed like 4 days,on the fourth day I remember it was in the morning at around 10 am I suddenly felt like I was hit with a hammer in the head I felt so much pain that I can't even describe.I ran to my aunt who lived just next to my home i told her aunt i am dying she asked me what is the problem?

I told her that my head was about to burst because of pain,I was hurting so much when she grabbed my head he was very surprised at how hot my head was.So my aunt took some cold water and poured on my head to cool it down but instead I felt like the water was burning me, I was going insane that I just wanted to start running like a mad woman but they held me and not let go.From that moment every time my head could pain I felt like running and when the whole body could pain I lost strength that I totally could not move from where I was afterwards I lose consciousness.

 

Then, I was sent back to my healer, and he went on with is treatment and I recovered, I went home and stayed for about a week then another problem arose, I tarted having very strong unusual asleep, this sleep could catch me even when I was standing then fell unconscious. , then I was referred to another healer.on the fifth day the healer told my aunt to take me to him that evening so that he could perform some rituals and arisen the spirits and my aunt agreed.

 

On the seventh day that was meant to be the last day of my treatment the healer told my aunt to take me to him in the night and that he would need another seven days to treat me

At night we went to the healer who welcomed us to the witch's room, after he went in, the healer gave me a pair of scissors and asked me to take off the clothes I had on and put on the clothes he had given me, after he would check me about five minutes before we went to the forest.

 

The healer's wife told my aunt let them go just the two of them, since that particular ritual is sensitive and must be only between the healer and the patient.

 

When we got out, the healer and I got to a crossroad and he told me to stop and sit down and start examining me for about five minutes. After that he told me we could leave, he took me to someone's farm there was a very big mango tree when we got to the mango tree he told me to stop and he said I should listen carefully, I said okay, he said you were bewitched and I will spell you magic the same way the person who bewitched did in order for you to be healed, so then whatever you see here must remain between the two of us, you don't tell anyone, right? I answered, okay I understood you him.

He said again if you try to tell anyone what is going to happen here, that will be the day of your death, I told him I would not tell anyone. So the witch doctor began his rituals; first he told me to undress, I obeyed and then he told me to stop and he examined me while standing, after that he told me to sit down, he kept inspecting me and started to applying some oily staff on my whole body and then he sat down and told me to sit on his shoulders and then he asked me if I remembered what he told me, I said yes, now you don't tell anyone you're going to die.

 

So he started throwing me up and down to his shoulders and laps as he uttered words I did not understand, did so after a while he took off my underwear and raped me, after which he told me to go home. When we got to the house he gave me water to wash and then we returned home with my mother.

That day I couldn't sleep, I was asking myself why did the healer rape me, why did he decide to add more pain to me? I was really hurt and didn't have any help as he had already warned me that I would die if I dared to tell anyone.

I had no one to ask for advice and I couldn't tell anyone because I was scared to die, now I thought this witch would do the same thing to me the next day? I didn't have an answer, in fact the night was very long, the next day my mother sent me again but the healer took me to a different place from the previous day.he gave me his medicine and then raped me again, and we returned home, the healer said to my aunt that I should stay at his house for the rest of the days I refused but my aunt ordered me to stay, The healer said let her go with you but you should bring her to me tomorrow.

 

We had to leave, the next day for what I had in mind I couldn't stop myself from being so confused as my heart was aching. I screamed and cried so much my aunt saw so she thought it was the demons so she quickly sent someone to call her the healer and he soon arrived and started to shake my head and saying words I didn't understand,I cried so much that at last I decided to keep quiet, after which the healer went away and insisted that I be sent early to his place. When evening came my aunt sent me that was on the third day and I went to bed at midnight the healer sent his wife to wake me up after which we again left with him.He raped me again and I was so much in shock but helpless. I went to the shower and after went to bed very stressed because I didn't know the fate of it as I was wondering if I was going to get pregnancy or catch AIDS?

 

In the morning I went back to my home with so much stress when I got home I slept so much I didn't even eat. After a long sleep my mother came out and followed her to a doctor and explained that I didn't understand why I didn't want to eat but just sleep, so the Ranger came and asked me why I didn't want to eat?I answered nothing and took out his pocket some cash and sent for a soda and cake to be bought and I was brought the items but I just looked at him and answered nothing. He again reached his pocket and gave me five thousand and gave it to me to use, after giving me money as if he opened my mind to me I thought it meant he made me like his wife I just kept quiet for a while after he gave me the money the witch went back to his house .

 

When it was evening my aunt told me to go but I told her I did not feel well and my she complained so much that I had to go but she did not know why I did not want to go. When we arrived, she left me and went back home, at 9pm and the healer told me to get ready so that we would go for the rituals.but at heart I vowed to ask him why was doing that to me or what did I do wrong to deserve all the suffering,We went into a small forest and when we arrived and started to check on me after a while he wanted to rape me again and I told him to wait first and I politely told him,let me ask you a question,he got nervous and shocked as he didn't expect me to have that courage.

I kept questioning about what these rituals are and why until you raping me ? The healer sat quietly and bent over and I kept talking if you wanted me wouldn't you tell me than doing this me ?He was just bowing to me and I asked him why he decided to be cruel? he said I forgive him! I said I couldn't. He really begged for forgiveness, I said I would forgive you in case that, 1. I didn't get pregnant and 2. I got tested for all sexually transmitted diseases and if I had any problem I would prosecute you. So we left the bush and headed home.

 

In the morning I went back to my aunt and told her everything that happened to me. My aunt was very sad and said we should never go back there. I went to the hospital for testing and was safe, I was told to come back after three months for further tests, when I went back to the hospital, it was found that I did not have an infection so decided to drop the matter and continue to look after my life.

 

I kept suffering from my illness because disappear then they recur, I continued to live that life. In living I met the father of my children. I was lucky to get the first baby, and we were fine until I was pregnant with the second pregnancy.I remember my first baby was one year and five months old, so I felt pregnant again, I had to go to the hospital for check ups and when I was tested it I was found that I was four months pregnant. When I went back home home and told my partner after telling him he reacted so angrily and out of control.

He told me my baby was too young to get another pregnancy so the only way out is to abort the pregnancy, I told him it was impossible then he told me if I didn't want then I should pack everything that belonged to me and leave his house as he didn't want me or the baby in my wombs.

 

I didn't respond but I decided to stay but when I was seven months pregnant, one night my baby was crying so much ,so I carried my child outside the house to try and make him sleep and I decided to go back in, I found the door locked from inside and the man totally refused to open for us until I had to go and report him to the authorities but he came out and said, I told this woman to live my house but won't listen then they him where do you think this pregnant woman should go? He said he didn't have a place for me and that I should go back to my parents' home?

 

I've said I don't want her or the baby. The chairman said ...woman you have to leave,because the man doesn't need your presence I picked up my son and left but in the morning I went back to pick my belongings and returned to my late parents' house.I stayed home for seven months, after which he apologized for what he did .It was hard for me to accept but my sister persuaded me and told me because he acknowledged his mistake then I should forgive him, I forgave him but I stayed home for another six months before I returned to my husband's house.

 

We moved on with life for about a year, I remember it was on a Friday at my business place at about 4hr in the evening and I started feeling very cold until I couldn't bear it that I had to go home.I had the same very acute headache and my whole body was in pain,the headache ached me that I lost sight until I lost consciousness. I was taken to the hospital and got medicine but it didn't help.

Sheikhs after several attempts of reading Quran verses they said that I had a very strong spirit had been cast on me and that even if I went to the hospital I would not recover.They suggested that I go to another healer After they left indeed I thought about returning to the witch doctor and the peace in my heart had just disappeared and all the past events were repeating in my head.

 

Jesus healed me

When it came to a Sunday morning I told the father of my children to take me to church to be prayed for, he hesitated, it wasn't an easy decision for him as he was a radical Muslim, but told him not to worry and assured him that all would fine and this was my decision. He agreed, and for the first time I went to a christian church, when I entered the church I could not look at the pastor in the face because I felt like his eyes were burning me. The pastor first prayed for me for the first time the pain was gone to this day, the pain never came back and from that day I decided to become a Christian.But we continued with prayers for several days and on the third day after prayers on my way back home,I suddenly saw a woman,she called my husband's name just once and she disappeared.I returned home. I was completely healed and always went to church and accepted Jesus Christ as my Savior.

After that I started to face other challenges, as some people in my family rejected me and called a meeting and told me you went to church for prayers and you are already well so now what makes you go there,you must stop going there or else you forget about this family,we were born Muslims and so it will remain? So from today we want you to stop going to church at once, we are tired of being humiliated by you and if you continue to go to church we will disown you, I did not answer them as I saw no reason to so I decided to leave the meeting and return home and continue to pray even harder and surrender my life completely to Jesus Christ.

 

My husband abandoned me and our 3 kids to go and live with an elderly woman as his wife

We continued to live with my husband and we were fortunate to build a two-room house as we moved in. My partner started to change,beatings started,insults, and you can name the rest I endured so much pain when I failed to bear the suffering I questioned my husband wanting to know what I was doing wrong,what made him change,I thought he would appreciate all the sacrifices I made in order for us to even just achieve building that and let him own the place but instead I made things worse as if I had no right to open my mouth .

He replied I have found the right woman for me, so carry your children and leave. At first I thought it was a joke as we had gone through so much that it wasn't easy for me to accept the reality that my man had turned to the old beast he was before meeting Jesus but as days went I saw greater changes that it even reached to the point of leaving the church where we were worshiping and moved to the church where the other woman worshiped.

One night while I was sleeping he woke me up and said to me but I told you to carry your children and leave did you not understand? Why or are you waiting until I kill you and the children then will you understand me? So take the bus fare, tomorrow go to court and claim your rights. I didn't answer anything but I went to bed the next morning I went to court and when I told them they told me to file a divorce suit if I felt that my marriage had reached the point that things could no longer work.

When he was called by the court and explained to why he was summoned ,He was asked:Do you know this woman? his answer was "YES", It is understood that you no longer want to be with this woman ,can you confirm that to this court? I asked him you really want to say yes? but he still replied "YES". When asked why? he replied I have no reason but I just don't want her. Then, after the reading was read, I was told to take my children and leave the house, for my safety and that of the children until the verdict comes out.

I rented a room, lived there with my children and he married the woman but after a short time I found that I was pregnant. I went to the pastor who closed their marriage and told him, first he was surprised that one of his church goer had a wife and children before then, he summoned him and he confessed that I had children with him but denied the pregnancy then the pastor said that I should come back another day ,he would arrange for a meeting to speak about everything.

I left and never returned because I saw no reason to return. After that I returned home where I had planned to start a new life with my two children while pregnant with my third child, I raised the babies on my own with so much difficulties until I gave birth and now I live with my three children.