The Legend of Nawa

Nawa "village is located on the eastern bank of the Nile in northern Sudan, where the ancient legend of the existence of a witch (or Sahhir in the Sudanese dialect) eat human flesh as part of their rituals and to this day, this myth still finds its way to the collective memory of the Sudanese especially In the time of wet maturity (a kind of dates) in the north, it becomes an alarming meal for panic and panic especially in women's councils and infantry sessions late at night. The name "Nawa" is said to be derived from the kernel of dates. Many gossip about the spread of magic practice in Na One of the rumors is that the sorcerers whom Pharaoh summoned and used to confront our master Moses on the day of adornment were from Nawa, which was called "Ninoa" at the time, although there were historical explanations The other is attributed to the city of "Nineveh" located in northern Iraq, and another talk about the attempts of the people of Nawa to provoke terror in the campaign of Abdul Rahman al-Najumi, the governor of Mahdia forces in Sudan, which opened Kordofan and Deir and Khartoum to call for Islam, was born in 1854 Nujomi and died in Toshka In 1889. "Nawa" was always considered a c Zira, although its location does not indicate that it is now located outside the Nile and on the eastern bank of it.

Perhaps many are surprised to discover that the name and place of Nawa are logical in its apparent meaning. The inhabitants of the Nile Valley in the Mamluks of Pharaonic or Nubian practiced witchcraft in their temples as an expression of one of the important legacies of their culture. Their childhood and what they heard of mythical tales as the magic of the Pharaohs and Nubia practiced at that time in the site of Nawa.

There is a research about the history of Nawa and the extent to which it relates to the practice of witchcraft in ancient times. It speaks of two prominent and prominent families in the neighborhood of Kara, located in Nawa, which are connected by the ties of closeness and neighborly relations, namely Ibnama and Dekir. "Deer" means magician who charms people or things. The family name "Ibnama" refers to the high place of the soul and has a connection to magic because magic is often described by the spirit of the spirits is a composite term of three parts:

- "Father" means high or high place which can be called the plateau.- "Na" meaning the soul or soul.- "What" can be the sense of the place ie we can interpret the "sons" into the place of the soul or plateau fortress.

"Nawa" means the island of the soul where "n" means the soul and "wa" means the island according to ancient languages. Perhaps this explanation confirms the general view of the island of Marwa and its linguistic continuity "Bruh" and mean the lining surrounded by water from three sides of the Nile and the Atbara River and the Blue Nile. Or when they say the island is a description of the territory that was previously and during the ancient historical times called Eloh (Ella V) meaning Upper Island. Here we must refer to a local phenomenon related to the traditions of the people of Nawa and their culture, where they call the women who practice magic the name "Nama"

Mohammed Awad al-Hajj, a man who keeps in his memory a large number of the tales that individuals there are discussing, recounts a story that occurred with his uncle. He says: My uncle possessed a little pontoon (or a flok in the Sudanese lingo) used to transport travelers between the opposite sides of the stream. In the locale. On one event, my uncle was separated from everyone else in his vehicle. He gone by a little rough island. He saw a broadened stretch of water moving toward him. He didn't move since he was lying in bed. The man was conveying a hatchet like machine with projections on the off chance that he hit the leader of the crocodile and planted it. The man hit the crocodile. A weird shout, making a plunge the water, and delicacy planted in his mind, he missed the water and found no follow. Also, the days and years passed, and my uncle had left crafted by the vessels and worked in the development of a gallus (a sort of mud produced using the houses) Fremt by destiny in the regions of "Dongola" and go in the town of "Nawa" and would have liked to outperform them before the evening of what he caught wind of the accounts of conjurers, He could. He moved toward a specific house and opened the way to the young lady. He disclosed to her that he was a visitor from the nation of Manasir and needed to spend his night as a visitor before proceeding with his voyage toward the beginning of the day. The young lady entered him and revealed to him that her dad was lying in bed since he was deadened and requested that he hand him over.

When he went into his room and welcomed him, the man said to him: "I figure you didn't have any acquaintance with me?" He said to him, "Never." The man indicated the mass of the room and requesting that he look shocked when he saw the "hypercritical" that the crocodile had hit in the divider. The man revealed to him that he was that crocodile and that the strike had caused him loss of motion. In any case, he guaranteed him that he was a visitor and would not insult him, but rather disclosed to him that he couldn't ensure his security from whatever is left of the mystical performers on the off chance that they knew he had perpetrated the wrongdoing of beating their relative with "devotion". The man revealed to him that the main safe place that the conjurers can not enter around evening time is the mosque, and the mosque was close, so my uncle ran rapidly until the point when he entered the mosque and took shelter in it. While he was in the mosque, he heard the sound of the howling of performers for the duration of the night that he stayed, and early in the day he pressed his things with his paw and did not grumble about anything until the point when he passed the town of Nawa.

It is said that the legend of enchantment was made by the present everyday conditions several years prior to discourage young men from setting off to the palm forests and mangoes in the daytime when ranchers rest at snooze time and one anecdote about viewing a pleasant dark man running in sorghum fields or an apparition of a loathsome lady found in obscurity

In a late spring night, some young men put on an arrangement to threaten an elderly lady who was alert amid the wet season to monitor her homes from little sprites. The arrangement was to wear two youthful odd one out hide and alarm the lady. The arrangement succeeded, and poor people lady was terrified and shut her entryway, Masters "to oust the fallen angels and afterward the young fellows wreaked devastation in the palm of the lady and toward the beginning of the day was the account of mystical performers, which spun around the bits of gossip on each tongue in the town and maybe surpassed the land limits to different towns in the area. Nawa is as of now made up of a gathering of locales with around five youth clubs with around three fundamental schools and a second school. The Nawa territory has added to various open assumes that have affected open life in all regions and have a scope of Pharaonic landmarks