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6th Trip
Doing a report on the sex industry in Japan in November 1997, I was suddenly taken ill. My joints hurt and I could hardly move. I flew back to Switzerland, but no one in the hospital could diagnose what was wrong with me. I took painkillers for weeks, the stronger they got, the less they alleviated the pain. Went from one clinic to the next, only to be told the same old story: I was right as rain. Even though I could hardly move for pain.
I got in contact with Mahounon, who told me I’d been hexed, by Cosme, the local Chakatou
(hexer). A rumour that I had cheated some people out of their money had somehow got started in Ouidah,. The misunderstanding was quickly cleared up.
If I wanted to get "un-hexed", I had to go to Benin for 10 days over Christmas. Alone.
I had no choice, so I went to Ouidah by myself for the first time and put myself in the hands of Cosme, who had put the spell on me two months earlier. He took me to a small tent, that he had made himself, and administered various substances.
After two days, the pain was gone.
I stayed in the tent for another 8 days. Then everything was over and I was fine.
In farewell, Cosme gave me a fetish, or gris-gris, to protect me in future. I was always to carry it with me and let no one else to touch it. I went home feeling very strange.
I only found out a year later that some of my fingernail clippings and strands of hair were in the doll’s belly. |
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