Forget Sabrina the Satan-praising witch; an Indonesian domestic helper is accused of using manipulating her elderly employer into making irrational decisions, including selling off his three properties and giving the money made to her. Black magic and witchcraft may or may not have been involved.
Chinese-language daily Lianhe Wanbao reported about a 51-year-old domestic helper who was fired back in August by the relatives of her 88-year-old employer. The nieces of the elderly man informed Wanbao that the maid had been under his employment for eight years, and throughout the period, allegedly pushed him to make irrational decisions. Some of them included selling off his properties — including one that was supposed to be used for his retirement — which had a total estimated value of $200,000.
No longer having a roof over his head, the nieces were forced to take in both their uncle and his domestic worker.
It was two months ago that the nieces decided to take action against her alleged witchcraft, Wanbao reported. They took the elderly man to a temple to get the “spells” removed, and that apparently shook him to his senses. After that, he agreed to let go of the domestic helper. By that point, she had allegedly spent over half of the money made from the sale of his properties.
According to the nieces, the domestic helper has since been repatriated back to Indonesia, but not before the woman threatened to cast a curse on the family. Spooky.
Domestic helpers and black magic
Despite sounding totally nonsensical to the skeptical ear, the fears of Indonesian domestic helpers utilizing black magic and witchcraft on employers remain very much real in Singapore. Over the past decade, plenty of stories about maids using the supernatural to their advantage have emerged.
Just last year, a young woman’s story went viral with a Twitter thread about how her hired live-in domestic helper acted strangely (the maid had an envelope containing hair and her parents’ picture) and brought an unwelcome spirit to the house.
In 2011, Wanbao ran a story about a maid who apparently made soup for her employer’s family that had bits of her menstrual blood in a bid to “charm” them into treating her better. An industry insider even revealed some alleged black magic rituals that maids conduct, including mixing urine into food and mailing their employer’s photo and hair back home so a witch-doctor could cast spells on them.
