Egunes and Kiumbas

Egunes and Kiumbas

In Santería, Umbanda, Quimbanda, and Vudú, it is known as Egunes or Egguns, the souls of the already disembodied, the deceased and the deceased. While the Orishas (deities) are incarnations of the different aspects of the universe and nature (the sea, love, good luck, night), the egunes are the souls of beings who have lived and perished.

In the different forms of witchcraft found in the Afro-Brazilian cult, it is customary to use the term "egguns" to refer more clearly to souls who live in pain, or who are under some kind of hex or spell that forces them To remain on earth, whether for good or evil, thus differentiating themselves from common souls.

On the other hand, there are Kiumbas, forms of egguns very backward in spiritual evolution, are negative, very dangerous, also somewhat "dumb" and are often made to pass for other egguns, in fact, can take the form of anyone who has perished , And are accustomed to appear before the mourners in the form of a loved one who has just left to stay anchored on the earth for a longer time.

The kiumbas are intuitively treacherous and cheating, watch over their own good and therefore are able to easily deceive poorly indoctrinated mediums and people who plunge into the magical world without sufficient training.

According to Brazilian folklore, the kiumbas possess shamans and spiritualists very young and lacking in practice, leading them to suffer from mental illness, hallucinations, madness and arriving in the majority of cases to commit suicide.

Note: Egguns often help witches and practitioners, although they often do not at the expense of the happiness of other humans, so they must be "handled" (invoked, conjured and worked) with great care.