Nawa legend

Nawa" a village on the east bank of the River Nile in northern Sudan, where they spread the ancient legend speaks of the existence of witches (or Zhaake according to the tone of Sudan) eat human flesh as part of the rituals and reduce the present day is still that myth find their way into the collective memory of the Sudanese especially in the time to maturity of the wet (a kind of dates) in the north becomes a meal exciting to fear and panic, especially in the women's councils and meetings of the hills childish late at night, and said that the name of "Nawa" is derived from the nucleus of al-Balah, the reporting of that myth parents grandparents,

 Also speaks of many rumors about the widespread practice of magic in the Nawa old addition to the usually devour human flesh, believing it brings strength and luck, and a gossip The witch who summoned by Pharaoh, and used them to face the Prophet Moses on the day of adornment were Nawa, which was called "Nnioa "at the time although there was that interpretations of history may attribute to the city," Nineveh "in northern Iraq, said last talks about the attempts to the people of Nawa to provoke terror in the campaign Abdul Rahman Alnujoma Amir forces Mahdia in Sudan, which opened the Kordofan and Waldeyer and Khartoum to call for Islam ,

Alnujoma born in 1854 and died in Toshka signed in 1889. Have been identified as "Nawa" island, although its location does not indicate that they are now located outside the Nile and on the east bank of it. And probably surprised many people that have discovered that the name of Nawa and place carrying a logical explanation of the implication of the virtual has the population of the Nile Valley in the Mamluk Pharaonic or Nubian practicing magic and divination in the temples, the expression of a heritage important in their culture. It must be noted that his region's population during the period and their childhood during which they heard of the legendary tales of magic, as the Pharaohs and Nubia in the exercise of that time at the site of Nawa.

There is research on the history of Nawa prepared and how it relates to the past of witchcraft, talking about great places which reflect the two families prominent in the "neighborhood Alkred" located in Nawa, linking them to the bonds of kinship and neighborly relations, namely "Bnama" and "Dqr." And "Dqr" means the magician who enchanted people or things. The family name "Bnama" means the place of the high correlation with the spirit of witchcraft, because witchcraft is often described as the science of life, a term composed of three parts:

- "Father" of the place and meaning of higher or high, which can be made ​​up by the plateau.
- "Us", meaning spirit or soul.
- "What" can be any place in the sense that we can interpret "Bnama" spirit to the place of the plateau or the castle.

The "Nawa" means island of the soul, where "our" means spirit and "Wa" means the island, according to the ancient languages​​. May confirm the interpretation of the words Malk Island General Marwa and origin of language, "Roh" and mean lining surrounded by water on three sides and the River Nile, Atbara and Blue Nile. Or when they say the island and a description of the province, who was formerly in the old historical eras called aloe (Mazda and his), which means the island level. Here is a reference to be a local phenomenon related to the traditions of the people of Nawa and culture where they call on women who practiced magic name "Nama."

 Speaks of Mohammed Awad Al-Hajj, a stores in his memory a lot of stories that are open to people there about the witches Nawa Verwey story that happened to his uncle as he claimed he says: My uncle has small boats (or itemize; enumerate according to the tone of Sudan) used to transport passengers between the banks of the river and between Aldzaúz the many existing in the region. On one occasion my uncle alone in a vehicle passed by on the island of rocky small saw a crocodile lying approached him did not move because he was fast asleep. The man was carrying with him (Bidinqh), a machine similar to the ax and the bumps if you hit the top of the crocodile implanted it and cause death.

Hit the crocodile man, cried out a strange cry and dive into the water and Albidinqh embedded in his head and missed the water has not been found under him on impact. And Hmma passed the days and years, and my uncle had left the work boats and worked in such as building Jalus (a type of clay made ​​it home) Fermat its fate in the areas of "Dongola" passed by the town of "Nawa" and he hoped that the bypass before the night, because he heard the stories of witches, but did not could not. Approached from a particular house and the girl opened the door, told her that he Manaseer guests from the country and wants to spend the night before the guests have to continue walking in the morning.

Entered the girl and told him that her father lying in bed because he is paralyzed and asked him to deliver it. And when he entered it in his room and handed him, the man said to him: "I ​​thought you did not know me?" He said to him: "Never," he recalled the man to the wall of the room and asked him to consider Vzhl when he saw the "Albidinqh," which hit the crocodile installed in the wall. And told him that the man is that the crocodile and the strike has caused paralysis. But assured him that he has a guest and will not harm him, but he told him that he can not guarantee protection from the rest of the witches knew that it was he who committed the crime of their relative hit the "Albidinqh."

The man said that the only safe place and that witches can not enter at night is the mosque, the mosque soon, my uncle hurried Fihrol even entered the mosque and took shelter in it. While he was in the mosque was heard roaring over the magicians where he stayed the night In the morning, packs his luggage (Bakjth) does not twist about something so beyond the town, "Nawa."

Said that the legend of magic built everyday situations of the current hundreds of years ago to deter young boys from frequenting groves palm and mango in the daylight hours when the honors farmers to sleep nap time and talk to a story about watching one of them a nice black run in the fields of sorghum or the ghost of a woman ugly Viewed in the shadow of absent

In the summer evening to put some young boys plan hellish to terrorize an elderly woman was still awake seven days a season of wet to guard Nkhaladtha of goblins young and the plan was to wear two young furs two sheep at two black and intimidate women, succeeded the plan and hit the poor woman scared and closed the door a Taatauz and Tbasml and call "masters "to expel demons and then wreaked havoc on young women's palms in the morning the story of witches, which wove around the gossip on everyone's lips in the village and geographical boundaries may be crossed to other villages in the region. "Nawa" composed by a range of areas and by nearly five youth clubs and schools by about three basis and contributed to another school district Nawa range of public figures who influenced public life in all respects, a group of Pharaonic antiquities.