Somalis with scars

[SOULSEARCHING]

I've seen a lot of somalis with what looks like a iron rod pressed into their skin leaving a scar like a X, and also cuts on their body.

Whats this practice about? And do you have it ?

 

[Qali]

I've seen a lot of somalis with what looks like a iron rod pressed into their skin leaving a scar like a X, and also cuts on their body.

Whats this practice about?

I think it might be when their hoyos used to burn them for sickness, my dad has one.

 

[SOULSEARCHING]

I think it might be when their hoyos used to burn them for sickness, my dad has one.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA the Somali mark

 

[Qali]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA the Somali mark

Oh, I didn't see the pic you posted above. It might be from Dubai.

 

[Qali]

*dugsi

 

[SOULSEARCHING]

I work in a hospital lol and the doctors /nurses would ask me this question, what are those marks?(patient's Bodies) I wasn't aware of this, it's a traditional thing .

 

[Qali]

I work in a hospital lol and the doctors /nurses would ask me this question, what are those marks?(patient's Bodies) I wasn't aware of this, it's a traditional thing .

What's the tradition?

 

[SOULSEARCHING]

What's the tradition?

For when you get sick, it's cultural medicine looooooooool you pay a visit to the local witch doctors looooooooooool

 

[Qali]

For when you get sick, it's cultural medicine looooooooool you pay a visit to the local witch doctors looooooooooool

So that's where the burning part comes in? My father told me his hooyo burned him to cure the sickness/wherever the xaanoon was.

 

[SOULSEARCHING]

So that's where the burning part comes in? My father told me his hooyo burned him to cure the sickness/wherever the xaanoon was.

They also say it makes you stronger, like mentally

 

[Qali]

They also say it makes you stronger, like mentally

Somalis never fail to amaze me

 

[Manafesto]

I have a huge mark shaped as tree on my stomach , although it is fading now but I asked my mom why I have it and she told I had Cagaarshow(Yellow skin/Jaundice) as a kid and those burns saved me.

I remember taking a physical test and the doctor asked me what these marks were about and whether I was abused, I told him it cultural thing and I was lucky I was from Somalia unlike South Sudanese ppl who burn their kids in the forhead and face.

Currently in Somalia, the use of western medicine for hepatitis is limited to multivitamins. Many still use fire burning and go to a traditional healer. It is also believed that early treatment improves the chances for cure and prevention from severe disease.

https://www.somalispot.com/threads/burn-marks-on-bodies.56537/

 

[SOULSEARCHING]

I have a huge mark shaped as tree on my stomach , although it is fading now but I asked my mom why I have it and she told I had Cagaarshow(Yellow skin/Jaundice) as a kid and those burns saved me.

I remember taking a physical test and the doctor asked me what these marks were about and whether I was abused, I told him it cultural thing and I was lucky I was from Somalia unlike South Sudanese ppl who burn their kids in the forhead and face.



https://www.somalispot.com/threads/burn-marks-on-bodies.56537/

Oh interesting you were born in Somalia? When did you come to the west? And did that cure your hepatitis?

 

[Marcus]

It's from fighting lions.

 

[SOULSEARCHING]

It's from fighting lions.

That's what Somalis tell white people

 

[scarecrow]

I was completely burnt as a child all over my back my stomach apparently i had some debilitating sickness as an infant. It only bothers me when others notice if i take my shirt off.

 

[Manafesto]

Oh interesting you were born in Somalia? When did you come to the west? And did that cure your hepatitis?

I was only 3 years old when I was cured with the burn, came to the west when I was 14 and never had the issue again, shit works and from what I heard this whole burning culture came from ancient Egyptians.

 

[SOULSEARCHING]

I was only 3 years old when I was cured with the burn, came to the west when I was 14 and never had the issue again, shit works and from what I heard this whole burning culture came from ancient Egyptians.

We're eqyptians I knew it.

 

[Qali]

I was completely burnt as a child all over my back my stomach apparently i had some debilitating sickness as an infant. It only bothers me when others notice if i take my shirt off.

Are the scars obvious?

 

[Manafesto]

Are the scars obvious?

Some scares never fade specially the once they do in the face, two burns on your moustache and two in your chin is very common one in Somalia too, check out this Abdikahim BR 1:30.