DO YOU KNOW THAT IN IGBOLAND IT IS/ WAS FORBIDDEN TO POUND FOOD OR COOK AT NIGHT?

It was believed that doing so would attract the anger of the spirits. Thus, evening meals were prepared on time before darkness fell and eaten on time too.

The truth of the matter is that there were no spirits going about to know who cooked late.

The tradition of preparing evening meals on time was developed by our forefathers to checkmate late meals due to its health hazards.

In one study conducted recently, “researchers studied 20 healthy volunteers to see how they metabolized meals eaten at 10 p.m. and 6 p.m. All participants went to bed at 11 p.m., and researchers found that blood sugar levels were higher with the later dinner, even when the same meal was eaten on a different day at the earlier time.”

Eating late in the night comes also with other health hazards.

Moreover, early dinner offered households the opportunity of coming together as family, where children were told fairytales by the adults. Sometimes the children went to play, danke with other children especially under moonlight [egwu onwa].

Having evening meals on time helped the people also in going to sleep early so as to wake up early for their daily tasks.

With the tradition of not cooking and eating late in the night, a healthy, harmonious, joyful, and progressive society was ensured.

Today, many of us see this and other traditions of our forefathers as evil because spirits or deities were mentioned.

Those laws actually have nothing to do with any deity or spirit but with the peace, health, and development of the citizens.

Remember that there were literally no police as we know it today and no prisons. The fear of the deities and spirits was employed to command compliance to the laws. Our forefathers were wise.