The Bird of Heaven

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Peter Dunseith. The Bird of Heaven

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The Bird Heaven – The story of a Swazi Sangoma

Peter Dunseith

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Walking quickly to the kitchen hut Mandla dropped the dishes into the washing basin. Then he circled around the outside of the sleeping huts and back to the group assembled around the fire. By the time he sat down quietly in the darkness beyond the firelight Grandmother was explaining to the apprentices how to probe the clay pot with the eye of the spirit until the object could be seen.

Mandla tried looking at the pot in the way that Grandmother had explained. There was a sudden pressure in his forehead and a humming sound in his ears like a swarm of bees. Inside the pot, lit by a strange glow, he could see Grandmother’s goatskin bracelet. “It’s your siphandla, Gogo,” Mandla cried, so excited that he forgot he wasn’t supposed to be there.

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