Today, I will be telling you "How Eji-Ogbe Used Ifa Wand [Iroke Ifa] To Perform Great Miracles".

Eji-Ogbe was a wonder boy who did a lot of mysterious things when he was growing up but the first major miracle he performed was at the age of fifteen when his mother took him to Oja-Ajigbomekon.

The only market existing at the time and in which traders from heaven and earth transacted all kinds of businesses, from sale of goods to divination. Everyone having any kind of goods, skill, art, technology etc., for sale, came to that market to trade in them.

The Miracle at the Market on their way to the market, he met a woman. He stopped the woman and told her that she had a problem. As she was about to speak, he told her not to bother because he knew her problems better than she herself.

Ejiogbe told the woman that she had been pregnant for three years but that it had not developed. He told her to make sacrifice with 16 snails, one hen, one pigeon, five "laughing" kolanuts and honey. He also told her to use a he-goat, Akara and Eko to make sacrifice to Esu.

The woman brought the materials for the sacrifice and after performing it, Ejiogbe assured her that her problems were over. He however told her that after she had delivered safely, she should bring a small boa, a serpent of the constrictor family to offer thanksgiving to Orunmila.

He told her to add snail and whatever else she could afford. The woman did the sacrifice and went her way.

The next person Ejiogbe met on his way to the market was a cripple called Aro. Like he said earlier to the pregnant woman, he told Aro that he had a problem but the cripple replied that he has no problem and that it was the young boy Ejiogbe who had a problem.

Ejogbe brought out his Iroke-Ifa [Ifa divination wand] and pointed it at the cripples hands and legs. Instantly, the cripple got up to walk. It was at that stage that Aro realised that far from dealing with a boy, he was dealing with a priest.

Aro went on his knees to thank Ejiogbe for curing him of a deformity that he was born with. Ejiogbe however advised him to go and be serving Orunmila but should in future refrain from concealing his problems because he would never know when God would respond to his prayers. Ejiogbe remarked that if anyone concealed his ailment, the ailment would bury him inside the ground.

Next, Ejiogbe met a blind man and asked him if he had a problem. The blind man replied that he had no problem whatsoever. Once again, Ejiogbe stretched out his Iroke-Ifa towards the man's eyes and he instantly regained his sight.

The man was overwhelmed with joy but Ejiogbe advised him to arrange to become a follower of Orunmila in order to minimize his difficulties with mankind. He also told him to serve his head with a cock on getting home. With that Ejiogbe got to the market.

On their way home from the market, his mother left him behind. Ejiogbe came across a squirrel by the side of the road. He advised the squirrel to make sacrifice to Esu with a he-goat so that the words spoken from his mouth might not bring him destruction.

The squirrel retorted that if the young man wanted meat to eat, he could not get it from him. Just near-by, he also saw the boa. He told him that death was lurking around and that it would be brought to him by a loquacious neighbour. To avoid the calamity, he advised the serpent to serve his head at a secret place with a snail.

He was not to allow anyone to encore Ase to his prayers when serving his head. Finally, he met the thick bush and advised him to Offer he-goat to Esu in order to avoid unwarranted trouble.

He also met the palm tree who he advised to give he-goat to Esu so that someone else's problem might not break his neck. The palm tree did the sacrifice without delay.

After that performance, Ejiogbe went home. The journey to and from Oja Ajigbomekon normally took about three months. As soon as he got home, he received a message that the woman he met on his way to the market was in labour.

He quickly ran to the woman's house and delivered her with the use of an incantation. That is one of the incantations with which lfa Priests deliver pregnant women to this day. She gave birth to a male child.

As soon as the woman put to bed, the husband took his hunting gun and left for the forest in search of the boa as welt as the meat with which to feed his wife.

When the boa heard that the woman who had been pregnant for three years brought forth a child, he realized that her husband would soon come in search of him as he was told that Ejiogbe had directed.

Rather belatedly, he ran into the thickest part of the bush to serve his head privately there.

As soon as the boa sat down to pray to his head, Squirrel came Into the bush. As boa said his prayers, Squirrel encored Ase, boa retorted by warning Squirrel that he did not require Ase from anyone to his prayers.

He then ran farther into bush house. At the same time. Squirrel changed his tune and began to sing; Okaa, Jokoo Kpekpe re kpe.

At that point, the man with the hunting gun who was searching for Okaa (boa) heard the squirrel shouting and began to trail his position.

As the squirrel continued to shout hysterically, the man shot him and he died. The man then cut a fork-stick to clear the thick bush. While he was cutting and clearing the thick bus, he saw the boa on the ground and killed him.

At the same time he saw by the side of the boa, the dead squirrel and the snail that the boa was going to serve his head with. He collected all of them and went home.

The thick weeds that the hunter cut with a fork stick were on the body of tall palm tree. The palm tree rejoiced and had a new lease of life as soon as the shrubs disrupting fresh air from reaching his body were cut off.

That is because he was the only one of the lot that made sacrifice at the right time. To this day, it is the mouth of the squirrel that kills it. It is also the squirrel that tells people where the boa is hiding and Invariably attracts death to it.

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