The first time I heard about Magun, it was not even in a Nollywood feature film, unlike most people I have interviewed on the subject. I was still a young man in the University then and I was reading “Ikebe Super”. Do you still remember Ikebe Super Comics? I think Wale Adenuga has converted it into a Television comedy series now and re-christened it: “Papa Ajasco and Company!” He did an excellent job of picking characters that really look like the cartoon characters in the magazine, but it will be nigh impossible to re-enact some of the fantastic stories illustrated in that cartoon in moving pictures for TV, not even with film tricks!
In that Episode, this randy doctor employed this beautiful looking nurse called Ronke. The most attractive part of Ronke was her full firm breasts which were so turgid that it reminded me of a Kegite song in Ibo language about “Mrs Mgbeke’s breasts bursting her brazierre!” Each time Doctor looked at Ronke’s breasts, he starts stammering and sweating and can never take his eyes off the nurse’s boobs. On one occasion he had injection prepared to administer to a male patient who had already presented his hairy buttocks for the needle. Unfortunately for the male patient, Ronke was the one assisting doctor with the injections, holding them in a small tray, rather close to her breasts. Doctor ended up poking the poor patient on the head with the needle rather than his buttocks his eyes were glued on Ronke’s breasts!
It got so bad that one day, Ronke decided to have pity on Doctor and give him a taste of her breasts! She walked into his office, locked the door and bared her breasts for Doctor to do whatever with; touch it, play with it…what have you, I mean you understand! But no sooner had she bared her breasts than doctor started screaming “Ogida papa o!” continuously. People rushed into the office and beheld doctor screaming and nurse Ronke looking as scared as if she had seen a ghost! Of course by then she had quickly hidden back her breasts and was not ready to tell anybody what happened. Every medical effort to manage doctor’s condition failed woefully.
At last, a witch doctor was invited by somebody. He was left alone with doctor in a room to consult his oracles. Witch doctor did a few shenanigans and pronounced that a cow must be provided for sacrifice because doctor is under the attack of witches. As soon as Ronke could be alone with witch doctor, in the midst of the whole brouhaha, she bared her breasts for him, explaining that that was the real cause of Doctor’s predicament! No sooner had witch doctor beheld Ronke’s naked breasts than he too started screaming, “Ogida papa o!” By now the entire hospital was thrown into an uproar. Patients were running away and workers were quitting; a strong witch is in operation at the hospital! It was at this juncture that the rumour floated to Ronke’s suitor at his shop. He walked into the hospital and explained that he placed a strong Magun on Ronke’s breasts s that any man who sees them naked will go mad! He then brought out an antidote powder and blew it at the two doctors, the medical one and his witch counterpart and they regained their senses!
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If you think this story is silly, you are not alone. Magun is a Yoruba term which simply means; “do not climb”, “do not touch”! it is a charm that when placed on a victim, will either kill the person for having sex with another person, or will harm the other person that is involved in a sexual intercourse with the magun vector! Most victims of Magun would simply convulse, fall to the ground and die! In more cases than not, it is the male who has sex with a woman who obviously belonged to another man and who has been laced with Magun, that falls and dies.
I was trapped in this belief on Magun until I read something on the internet recently about post coital headaches and stroke. A man in England fell to the floor convulsing immediately after sex and later went into a coma. He was rushed to the hospital where he was diagnosed with what is called Orgasmic cephalgia. This is a type of post coital headache or a headache that results immediately after sex or even masturbation. This is a source of concern for medical doctors because it is often caused by a type of stroke called subarachnoid haemorrhage. According to doctors, this is often caused by a weakness of a part of blood vessels in the brain. The vessels burst open due to the stress of the sexual act, leading to bleeding inside the brain. The bleeding causes acute increased pressure in the head, while convulsion and death can subsequently occur.
Now, ever since I read that story, I have been on a serious personal campaign, to educate Nigerians as much as I can about this thing called Magun. If someone is suffering from this post coital stroke and is caught in the midst of this superstition, he could be denied of badly needed medical attention as his ‘helpers’ may prefer to take him to a prayer house or a witch doctor’s rather than to a hospital; such a situation will lead to the person’s death. Patients have been treated with post coital stroke successfully and they went home perfectly healed, and continued to enjoy sex! Some of the symptoms of this condition are nausea, vomiting, seizures, loss of consciousness and severe headaches. Timely resuscitation and management can prevent death from this potentially treatable condition and stroke disease.
Another more annoying aspect of this Magun nonsense is the version where upon after having sex with a Magun laced woman, a man loses his ability to achieve erection and thus becomes impotent subsequently! I have heard of cases where men literally went out of their way to impregnate other people’s wives and other women outside their marriages, just to prove that they do not have Magun attack on them, making them sterile! The funniest thing a wife can do is to accuse her husband of infidelity because he suddenly ‘can’t get it up’. There are many causes of erectile dysfunction and most of them are temporary, some people find that using erectile dysfunction pills could be useful when it comes to treating it. The commonest cause of erectile dysfunction is stress, if you suffer from erectile dysfunction and would like to see if you can fix the problem check out a site like https://www.vigrxplus.com/male-enhancement-pills/. So if your husband is going through the stress of a promotion examination and can’t get it up and you accuse him of having slept with a Magun branded woman, the best reward you are asking for when he eventually gets promoted and the stress is gone and the libido is restored seven times over, is a baby from his delectable secretary in the office…do not say I did not warn you!
