The Ogbanje Child: The Changeling

Depending on the situation, the term "water child" can refer to a person who has a strong emotional, astrological, or spiritual connection to the water element. The most popular interpretations are as follows:

1. Traditional African Spirituality (Omo Omi/Nwa Mmiri)

A "water child" (also known as Omo Omi or Nwa Mmiri) is a person who is spiritually connected to water deities or marine spirits in various African traditional belief systems, including Yoruba and Igbo cosmology.

The Significance: It represents a person with a strong, intuitive, and occasionally mystical bond with water forces, rivers, and the ocean.

Associated Characteristics:

Believers frequently identify these people with strong intuition, high levels of creativity, the capacity for healing, and occasionally severe emotional swings or turbulent life cycles (such as going through frequent changes in finances or relationships).

2. The Zodiac and Astrology

According to Western astrology, you are a water child if you fall into any of the three water signs of the zodiac: Pisces, Scorpio, or Cancer.

The Significance:

The subconscious, feelings, and intuition are closely linked to water signs.

Associated Characteristics:

People born under these signs are usually very sensitive to their surroundings, creative, sympathetic, and intensely focused on their relationships and emotions.

HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU ARE WATERCHILD/OGBANJE

Below are the forty-three questions I have for you. If you can answer sincerely and honestly and get a YES (positive) answer to about thirty of the questions, then you will know that yes, you are an Ogbanje.

43 SIGNS YOU ARE AN WATERCHILD/OGBANJE

(1) Is your mom or dad an Ogbanje?

(2) Did your mom or dad go to the river or sea to get you?

(3) Are you extremely kind and generous?

(4) Do you have a way of bringing out the best in others?

(5) Do you like to know people on a deeper level, and do you not like to waste your time trying to maintain hundreds of shallow friendships?

(6) Are you incredibly intuitive, and do you follow your instincts?

(7) Do you dream frequently, and most times the dreams come true?

(8) Do people find it difficult to understand you?

(9) Do you always win, and do you feel very bad when you lose?

(10) Do you have strange and mystical dreams every full moon, and are you affected positively by the full moon?

(11) Are you very creative?

(12) Do you fear rejection and like acceptance?

(13) Do you try reading people?

(14) Do you dream of snakes a lot and ones in a while?

(15) Are you afraid of snakes?

(16) Are you in touch with your spiritual side?

(17) Do you fall in love and fall out of love easily?

(18) Do you sometimes experience sudden miracles in your life when you need help?

(19) Do you sometimes just love to be on your own for a while uninterrupted?

(20) Do you so much appreciate honesty and sincerity?

(21) Do you have cold feet?

(22) Do you have a high sexual urge?

(23) Do you search for your property and later find it?

(24) Do you burst into a frightful laugh for no reason?

(25) Do you sometimes discover that sometimes you look handsome and cute and sometimes you seem to look ugly?

(26) Do you have frequent stomach pains?

(27) Are you scared of swimming in a swimming pool, river or sea?

(28) Do you sense the presence of someone with you whenever you are walking on a lonely street / road or inside a room?

(29) Do you hear your name being called without you seeing who is calling you?

(30) Do you hear distant music or drum beating or strange sounds or strange noises?

(31) Do you feel you have supernatural powers but you don’t know how to consciously make use of these powers?

(32) Do you curse people when they hurt you?

(33) Do you care very little for your life when you are angry?

(34) Do you talk while you are asleep, or do your lips move while you are asleep?

(35) Do you take strange sleeping positions?

(36) Do you dream of making love frequently to a partner you have never met?

(37) Do you dream of eating, and when you wake up, are you full?

(38) Do you dream of participating in strange meetings inside the river or sea?

(39) Do you dream of having the scales of a snake or of a fish?

(40) Do you dream of finding yourself in the midst of snakes or fishes or crocodiles or other river animals?

(41) Do you have weird dreams of masquerades?

(42) Do you dream of seeing your body shining and radiating?

(43) Do you dream of somebody teaching you things, knowledge on something you may not be able to find in books?