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outside while my partner consulted with THE FEELING OF
him. The sangoma told my partner that
he was born with so much luck that he BEING CLOSED UP
would have been a rich businessman if it
was not for me. The sangoma claimed IN A COFFIN
that my presence in my partner’s life was n the 24th of December 2016,
blocking good things from reaching my while I was sleeping, I jumped
partner. Oup with anxiety from my sleep.
Immediately after waking up, I felt like I
When my partner asked the sangoma for was in a cage and could not breathe. I
a solution to the problem, the sangoma was terrified for my life because I felt like
told him that his relationship with me I was buried alive. I felt suffocated and
would derail his life. The sangoma also shaken. From that day I was not able to
related his own story that his ex-wife sleep at all. I would just walk around the
suffered from a similar problem and he house for the whole night until it was
decided to chase her away because she morning. I took some days keeping the
was destroying his life and causing him suffering to myself. When the suffering
grievous misfortunes. He also gave my persisted, I could not keep it to myself
partner an alternative to help solve the anymore and I told my partner. He could
problem. He offered to perform a “back also see my suffering and how I
to the sender ritual” so that the person struggled to sleep at night. Therefore, he
that was responsible for my suffering in suggested that we go back to the false
my family would die. prophet in Bushbuckridge. Upon our
arrival at the false prophet’s house, he
My partner did not want us to take the added that I was also tormented by a
sangoma’s advice because he did not spirit of a dead person who was sent to
want to see my family members getting strangle me.
hurt. Therefore, we did not return to the
sangoma again; we searched for other The false prophet gave us muthi and
alternatives instead. instructed us to drink it and induce vomit
to remove some things from our
We started attending a certain church stomachs. He also gave us more muthi
where we were never really encouraged to take home and steam ourselves and
to pray or to live holy lives. We also our children. After that, he invited us
continued consulting different back the next day. We went there the
sangomas; at that point our lives were in following day and he gave us hot muthi
turmoil. and instructed us to go and bath with it
by the river. He insisted that we bath
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