Witch Doctor

This is the witch doctor.


This is before you enter their village and they are to scare away unwanted spirits.


While in Ghana I decided to check out the witch doctor to see what it was like. **Just so you know I do not believe in the witch doctor whatsoever, but it was interesting to see what some of the people believe in there. **

Once we arrived we sat down and we met the witch doctors. We then proceeded to the area where they do the ritual stuff, and sat down. We sat outside of two shrines. One of the shrines was a room with sheets over the door way, but on each side of the door on the wall was dead chickens with blood dripping down. The second just had random things inside of it... kinda weird. We had to fold a GH 5 into fourths, then put it to our lips and think of questions, next put it to your head, rub your chest, and spit on it 3 times. During this time I tried my hardest to not laugh at what was going on. They placed the 5 down and put this sting of beads on it. He had a huge pile with random things in it like: bottle caps, bones, starters from a car, bolts, rocks, and shells. They did their ritual thing and their prayer. Then he tells you what your future is.

This is what he said mine was:
That a witch is after me, and I should not quarrel with anyone. If I fight with someone then I will always be blamed for it. I should also not slap or cane a child for they will fall down and then die. If this happens I will be blamed for killing the child. He then proceeded to ask me if on my moms side of the family if we worshipped something, or if we had any traditions. I told him we had traditions, and he said that I should participate in them. He then asked if i came from a royal family.. to which I answered no. Then asked if my father and mother were alive. Once I told him they were he said that I should get them a souvenir because then there spirit will always be with me to watch over me. He then said that I will have a successful marriage, and that if I think someone it the one I should just marry them. If I think someone is the one I shouldn't get them a souvenir because then I wouldn't marry them. I also should receive souvenirs from them as well. He continued with telling me that I will become a leader of an organization or school, and that I will become rich.