The Witch Doctor

There were quite a few witch doctors around they were called Kalecho around the countryside who for a payment would guarantee to fix anything from bones to marital difficulties. My mother Christine wanted to know what went on at these ceremonies, so she and I went to a session in the witch doctors house, there were several people there in a dark smokey hut. It was slightly scary to me. I don’t think we learnt much as it was all spoken in the local language Glallinya which neither of us knew very well but the atmosphere was very strange, I have never forgotten the occasion.