Afbisaan, does anyone knows what it means

[Race_Angel]

This afternoon a girl asked me this question.

What does afbisaan means.

Some people told her that she is a fake witch if she doesnt know it. But she could not find any information through google, and nether do I. I asked some friends, also witches and they don`t know either.

I hope someone here knows what it means. :fpraise: It made me really curious is it just a hoax or a real word with a meaning.

Greetz Me

[Agaliha]

I've never seen that word before.

Is the the exact spelling or what you assumed it was from how it was said?

I don't think it's a real word in any commonly occurring language, it would have shown something on Google search. I got nothing.

If anything it might be some acronym?
Or if you're going by hearing, it might be spelled totally different.


Some people told her that she is a fake witch if she doesnt know it.That's just BS, just because someone doesn't know a word doesn't mean they're a fake witch. Hell someone might not know what an athame is or Samhain and they can still be a witch.

[Race_Angel]

She asked me by mail. So it could be spelled differently. But still I don`t know even words that sound like that not in English or Dutch. But I am waiting for some answers from here about the spelling and hearing of the word. So when I get the answers from here I will place them here.

And I sooo agree about the BS factor. You cant know everything. Learning the things you don`t know is a part of life and a positive thing. I wrote her, that she is a witch for how she feels and acts from the inside out, and not by her knowlege base, because we learn everyday and it is a part of life, not of who we are.

[CryssieWillow]

I assume that the person saying it seemed credible enough for her to take it serious and email you....

There are some persons who like to say stuff in some very obscure (magical) language so they'll seem more interesting and cool.
Try Enochian. If this word is in fact several words, it will not show up at google and Enochian is just known enough for it to be used by sad little people who like to do this.

There's a wordlist here: http://www.sacred-texts.com/pag/enoch1.txt
and here: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/5777/enochian.txt

afbisaam, you say. Perhaps the spelling is of.

aaf = amongst
affa= empty
ab = daughter (of light)

biah = stand
bia/bial = voice

amma = cursed
aaiom = among us

You can actually make sense of it like this. Kinda...:kooky:

I cannot make sense of the s, but I have found horribly misspelled weird enochian on the intarwebz before. *shrug*

HTH.
Groetjes ;)

[Ben Gruagach]

I've been practicing witchcraft for over twenty years and I haven't encountered this mystery word yet either.

I guess I've just never talked to the right witches, or read the right books.

(In other words I think they are either purposefully making it up, or else they are so gullible themselves they've fallen for a prank someone else pulled on them.)

[Race_Angel]

I thought of a hoax, something told that isn`t true. Otherwise indeed an non existing word. I think the ones that told here just wanted to make her feel bad. And those people had, sadly enough, succeed.

She mailed me back. It was the right spelling, and spoken as Af-Bie-Saan.
And she feld so much better that I had taken her mail serious, and that she isn`t a fake witch something not knowing like this.

Thank you for your help all :thumbsup:

[Ben Gruagach]

She mailed me back. It was the right spelling, and spoken as Af-Bie-Saan.
And she feld so much better that I had taken her mail serious, and that she isn`t a fake witch something not knowing like this.


It sounds like a mishearing of something German (just a guess though.) I don't speak German, but auf means up, die (not bie) means the. What might saan be? (In French sang is blood but why would they mix German and French? Were they trying to say "of the blood"? Some witches believe that you have to have witchcraft in your blood.)

It might be a rude phrase. In any case, I seriously doubt it has anything to do with being a real witch.

[Astara Seague]

Agreed:uhhuhuh:

[Lunacie]

I've been practicing witchcraft for over twenty years and I haven't encountered this mystery word yet either.

I guess I've just never talked to the right witches, or read the right books.

(In other words I think they are either purposefully making it up, or else they are so gullible themselves they've fallen for a prank someone else pulled on them.)

I'm with you, never heard of this word so I must not be a "real witch" either. Oh gosh, guess I'll go burn my Book of Shadows and my wand and bury my cauldron and my athame and stop pretending to be something I'm clearly not.

NOT. :lol:

Not going to do that. Knowing or not-knowing one strange word isn't enough to determine whether a person is really a witch or not. That's complete BS. :thumbsdow