Word: skins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...laibon used a Dik-dik, that small lovely antelope, to thwart someone's plans. It works thus: he places charms upon the animal and then releases it in the direction of the person who is the target of the spell. For help with childbirth, he drapes the skin of an eland on the woman -- the eland being much like the cow, which possesses magic powers. In order to bring rain, the laibon places a dead frog on the ground, belly up, with a charm upon it. Within 24 hours, before the frog decays, the rain will fall...
...Lamb of God. Behold Him who takes away the sins of the world.") Of course, it all works, said the laibon, irritated that the doubting question was asked. If there are sick cattle, sacrifice a sheep, and take the undigested grass found in its stomach, and stretch the skin over the & entrance to the boma. The cattle will pass beneath the skin and grass, which will draw the illness out of the cows...
Asked if he liked the wild animals, the laibon answered, "I like the animals, but they do not like human beings. That is the problem. But the eland is a friend. You can eat an eland, and use his skin for many things." Not long ago, the laibon dreamed that a spitting cobra bit him. He cried in his sleep and leaped out of his bed, shaking, and awoke...
...spread. Hall says that the lions do not have a strong appetite for beef, and besides, if they should kill a cow, it is a tax write-off. Twenty years ago, he did have to shoot a lion, one that had killed 46 of his cows. The lion's skin hangs on the living-room wall...
...first the meetings were tense. Even moderate black newspapers like the Sowetan had denounced Perkins for accepting a "racist" appointment based on the color of his skin. A U.D.F. spokesman had said that Perkins should have turned down the job, adding that he would be "most unwelcome" in South Africa. But after two discreet talks with Perkins, the U.D.F.'s Sisulu said, "Now that he is here and willing to help, it is all right. I believe in give-and-take...