An Ogbanje (Igbo) or Abiku (Yoruba) is a child who dies shortly after incarnation and reincarnates only to die again... and the circle continues.

Such a child often leaves his relatives in anguish with the alternation between hope and despair.

But why are some children this way?

Here are basic facts worth knowing about Ogbanje or Abiku;

1. The child has a pact with some spiritual entities before its birth that it would not stay long on earth before returning to them.

2. The child has a mischievous nature.

3. The child can cause pregnancy and incarnation with aim of causing pains to its parents.

4. The child usually dies suddenly shortly before or after an important ceremony that binds or commits it deeply to earthly existence and responsibility.

5. Such important life events include; naming, religious dedication, puberty, and marriage.

6. The crises by an Ogbanje or Abiku is as a result of conflict between the child's spiritual companions who vow to make his earthly existence miserable if he refuses to keep to his pact with them, and the child's relatives who are making efforts to sever such spiritual relationships and keep the child alive.

7. An Ogbanje or Abiku child can survive, marry, have children, and become and ancestral force at eventual death, if proper spiritual diagnosis and treatment is carried out via negotiation with the spiritual companions.

8. Powerful traditional doctors (dibia, babalawo) can intevene to save the situation.

9. However, when an Ogbanje or Abiku is successfully severed from his spiritual companions, the child not only survives and lives a relatively long life but is likely to be unmarried and 'enjoys' hardships to the detriment of relatives.

10. People who suspect a child is an Ogbanje or Abiku typically marks the child before burial and if the same child reincarnates, he or she does so with sometimes beautiful birthmarks at the parts of the body where the marks were given in the previous existence.

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