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The evil forest was to curse the missionaries, give them bad luck.
After 28 days in the evil forest, the missionaries emerge unharmed and find that the villagers are astonished by their resilience. This challenges the villagers' beliefs about the evil forest and opens the possibility for a shift in their attitudes toward the missionaries.
The villagers in Mbanta direct the missionaries to build their church in the evil forest because they believe it is a place where evil spirits reside and they want to drive the missionaries away by making them feel unwelcome. It is a symbolic way for the villagers to resist the missionaries' influence and protect their traditional beliefs.
The elders expect that the gods will shower their wrath on the missionaries and that the Christians will be dead within a week. This is because they have built their church in the evil forest.
The elders of Mbanta gave a portion of the Evil Forest to the missionaries to build their church in "Things Fall Apart". This land was deemed uninhabitable and cursed by the villagers, making it a suitable location for the missionaries.
Unoka is buried in the evil forest because he is believed to have died from an illness associated with evil spirits, making him unclean according to Igbo customs. This means he cannot be buried in the clan's ancestral burial ground and his body must be left in the evil forest.
mbanta's evil forest which is where people who die evil or taboo deaths are buried. the elders believed that the powerful magic of the forest would kill the priests in a matter of days
No, the villagers offered the missionaries land on the evil forest. However, since the evil forest had never been farmed, the nutrients in the soil may have been ideal for farming. However, diseased people were taken there to die, so that may have also attracted disease to the land.
Land in the evil forest is given to the men of the church, so that the 'spirits' may drive them out. This idea does not work and instead the church flourishes in the evil forest, the churchmen even rescuing abandoned twins when they are dumped in the forest by the native tribe.
The duration of The Evil Forest is 1.58 hours.
Some of the reasons are:No one thinks that the missionaries will accept the offer.The villagers can pretend to have accommodated the request.Even if they do accept the offer, they will be driven off by the gods.
The Evil Forest was created on 1951-12-21.