Emmanuel Eni

Emmanuel Amos Eni is a Nigerian author who penned a 62-page booklet entitled Delivered from the Powers of Darkness, published by Ibadan-based Scripture Union in 1988. This has been reprinted in its entirety on a number of websites, with its author's name given variously as Emmanuel Eni, Emmanuel Amos, Emmanuel Amos Eni and Emmanuel Eni Amos. The quotations in this article are taken from the online version of the text, which fixes numerous typos and EXCESSIVE CAPITALISATION found in the original book.

The story
The essay starts off as a fairly conventional "before I was a fundie, I was a Satanist" ramble in the manner of Mike Warnke but becomes so laughably unrealistic that it makes one wonder what was he taking. It kicks off when the adolescent Emmanuel, living in Nigeria, meets an old school friend named Alice, now in her twenties and practicing occultism: "One night, I woke up in the dead of the night and found a boa-constrictor beside me", says Eni. "I wanted to shout but could not. Some nights, I would wake up to see Alice’s body as transparent as a cellophane bag. Some nights, she would disappear and reappear. Some nights I would hear strange noises or dancing in the living room etc." And then Eni makes a horrible discovery:

After this it gets really weird. Eni goes on to describe how, forced into Alice's cult for fear of his life, he witnessed a child being sacrificed and was later teleported to India. Once there, he entered a jungle (called "INDIA JUNGLE") in which he came across "demonic birds... some had faces like dogs, some like cats" and "terrible creatures, some looked like human beings but with tails and without human faces". Eventually he visited an occult library and learnt all manners of supernatural powers, resulting in events like this:

Eni later describes how he met a woman at a bus stop who claimed to know "the Queen of the Coast" and took him to an undersea city full of "beautiful girls and handsome young men". Here, the woman ate human flesh from a vending machine and forced Eni to swallow a whole boa constrictor; she also gave him the power to turn into "sea animals like hippopotamus, boa constrictor and crocodile".

The essay goes on to say that, back on the surface, the Queen of the Coast told Eni to kill his uncle, claiming that he killed Eni's parents. Eni refuses and is instead sent to kill two men who were apparently also involved in the death of his parents; this time he succeeds.

Next, Eni relates how he met an agent of the Queen, named Nina, and is apparently taken to a face-to-face meeting with Satan. "As we were leaving," writes Eni, "the Queen of the Coast, who now appears in different forms, invited me to her mansion. She inserted human ashes with other things inside the bones of my two legs, a stone (not an ordinary stone) in my finger and something else inside the bone of my right hand."

Eni carries on like this for some time until coming to describe how he was invited to the house of a preacher named Anthony and "was knocked down by the spirit of God". Anthony exorcises Eni, who then has a lengthy vision of a beautiful man (presumably Jesus) on a throne, and he finally converts to Christianity. Eni goes on to describe subsequent attacks by the Queen of the Coast's servants and provides commentary on the activities of Satan's agents (they cause miscarriages in marketplaces, apparently).