Characters in this chapter: (James), (Hatheron), (Sercius), (Lyria).

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Chapter 018: (Evil Witch Doctor)

Autumn dusk always comes quickly, before the moisture evaporated by the sun on the mountains dissipates. And the sun went down into the western mountains.

The sky is high and the dew is thick, and a crescent moon hangs quietly in the southwest sky. The cold moonlight sprinkled on the earth, it was so gloomy, but the stars of the Milky Way became more and more brilliant.

In the dense and boundless fields of sorghum, corn, and millet, the chirping of autumn insects is resounding one after another, and the grasshoppers occasionally add a few accompaniments, blowing the ground like intermittently blowing cold eggplants. Willow trees hang silently on the roadside, shade the winding path of weedy bushes.

This is the most beautiful time of the day in autumn in the eastern plateau of Svadia. Growing up in the Dehrim region, it was the first time that Lelia had discovered how stunning the eastern highlands were at dusk. She was the girl who had been rescued by Hatheron from the bandit camp.

Even the Swadians, who have lived here all their lives, have to work hard to complete their innate heavy tax duties, and they will be tempted by this beauty to let go of their dissatisfaction and uncertainty about the future, and pause to look at the scenery in front of them.

At this moment, Lelia was slowly walking on the back of a black horse, led by Manid's brother who had been kidnapped by the bandits, James. He also has a less popular profession - the witch doctor.

The witch doctor is a very old profession, a person with a dual identity. He can communicate with ghosts and spirits, and he also has medicine, and is a character who specializes in medicine more than ordinary wizards.

During the Age of Dark Invasion, they were not only responsible for curing diseases, but they also had the important duty of communicating with the gods. This gives the witch doctors a mystical tinge and the way they heal is frightening, which makes people fear them and think that the witch doctors are evil.

However, these witch doctors sometimes cloak themselves in a cloak of mystery, adding some so-called magic to them, making people feel mysterious about them and thus awe them.

Most witch doctors have been proven to be tricksters, using subtle hand tricks to complete the trick in elaborate rituals. But not all witch doctors are liars, and many understand the properties of herbs and insects to prepare secret recipes.

At this time, Hatheron, who was walking beside James, said in a rough voice. "Hey, boy, tell us about your experience!"

"What do you want to know about?" replied the emaciated James. Along the way, he had a little insight into the Nord's temperament.

"Tell me how you became a witch doctor!" Hatheron knew a little about the profession of a witch doctor, but not much.

"I'll tell you – it's a story about evil. James emphasized. "I warn you in advance, lest you do anything terrible because of your temper and the irritation of the story. ”

Hatheron urged, somewhat dissatisfied, "Say it! I promise not to lose my temper." ”

James began to reminisce in his mind about his childhood. "The first time I met the witch doctor in the mountains of Lesotho, Mamsdi, was when I went with my father to her house. His father said his arm hurt terribly. So, we rushed to the house of a witch doctor on the top of a grass-like garden halfway up the mountain. ”

"The witch doctor was about 50 years old, small and thin, and when he looked at me, one eye was half-open and half-closed, and his mouth was a little protruding, like a duck's beak, and his voice was squeezed out of his throat, like a bird's call, and he spoke quickly and quickly. Since she couldn't give birth to a child, she had long been divorced by a man, and she had lived alone in the middle of the mountains for many years. The witch doctor has been practicing medicine for more than 20 years and is a highly respected man of God in this area. ”

"The old witch of the bard?" Hatheron blurted out.

When Sercius, who was on horseback, heard the word 'bard', he suddenly remembered the bard Niza, whom he had met in the tavern the previous night.

They agreed to meet outside the North City Gate early in the morning, but they forgot about it because of Manid's affair, which delayed their departure from the city. When they went out of the city in the afternoon, they did not see the poet waiting. Sercius thought to himself: maybe he had already left.

But the freerider did not think that the bard Niza had spent the night at his ** last night, and did not wake up until nearly noon, and he thought that the knight had left the city of Decherim. In order to fulfill his promise, Niza set out on his own journey to the town of Tosdel.

"When we arrived, she had just seen two men from afar and was getting ready to eat. James recounted unhurriedly. "When he heard that we were coming for healing, he immediately put down the bowl and brought a bench and put it in the courtyard, so that my father could sit in the sun. ”

After that, she asked about her condition, and then asked her father to spread his arms like Feiyan. But her father's arm hurt so much that she couldn't straighten it at all, so she just pulled her father's arm up and "flew", and "flying" made her father grin in pain and scream. That's not all, she lifted one arm, held it in her arms like gnawing on old corn, and came up and bit it hard, where could my father withstand the pain, and almost fell off the bench.

"It's a brutal cure!" Hatheron began to wonder about the witch doctor's healing skills.

"I thought so at first!" James continued. At this time, the witch doctor pinched his bitten arm again, took out a small iron box from his pocket, put something powdery like medicine noodles into the iron box, and then spit two mouthfuls of foam into it, and then gently stirred it twice in the iron box with a thick needle, and used the needle to pick up the medicine noodles mixed with the spitting in the iron box to the wound where his father was bitten, and pressed it vigorously with his hand a few times. Then, she picked up a duster, closed her eyes slightly, and circled around her father as she dusted the air, chanting something in her mouth, and putting him into a meditative state of hallucination. ”

"Is she chanting a witchcraft spell?" asked Hatheron again.

James smiled wryly and shook his head. About half an hour later, just when we thought the disease was almost cured, she suddenly walked up to her father again, grabbed his head and shook it desperately, until he was almost blind, and she did not stop. ”

"Oh my God, what kind of cure is this?" Lyria, riding on horseback, shouted involuntarily, causing Hatheron to stare at her.

James couldn't help but smile again, and continued: "Afterwards, I asked my father: How do you feel? Does it still hurt? My father moved his arm and said to me: It doesn't hurt, it really doesn't hurt, I said, she is very godly. I saw that the tooth mark was still on it, and it was covered with foaming medicine. ”

"Then your father let you learn the art of medicine with this witch doctor!" chimed Sercius, who was riding next to the girl.

"Yes, Lord Knight!" James looked up with a respectful look.

"I understand that witchcraft is a tradition in Lesotho. Sercius said with his usual smile. "In the early days, the people of Lesotho were very particular about strengthening their own strength, not only to prevent and cure diseases, but also to resist the invasion of foreign evils. ”

"Your Excellency, you are right!" added James. "Lesothos have a ritual of increasing strength by regularly cutting open a part of the body for each member of the family, and each cut is coated with herbs. This ritual is especially held before the warriors set out for battle. Some specific parts of plants or animals are also thought to have strange effects, such as the skin of a lion that increases courage and strength in people with a weak heart, and the joints of animals that make people run faster. They summarized the different uses of animals, plants and minerals, and some of them were used for their own use, so that they could increase their strength. Some are used against the enemy, destroying their health and wealth. ”

Sercius asked rhetorically after a moment. "I'm curious how your father managed to get that respected witch doctor to teach you healing. ”

"At that time, the land of the Lesothos was being invaded by the Kujits, and my father promised to buy them a batch of armaments and food to help them defend themselves against the Kujits. In exchange, I was asked to learn this mystical art from Mamsdi. ”

"Your father seems to be obsessed with this kind of medicine!"

"Yes, sir!" said James in a somewhat sad tone. "My father spent a lot of money and took a lot of risks so that I could learn witch medicine with Mams. However, he was killed by a group of Kugit cavalry while transporting substances. ”

Sercius said apologetically, "I'm sorry!

Only a handful of Lesotho men and women have been chosen for the position of witch doctor because of their unique gift of being able to see and communicate with spirits. Only those who have the ability to interact with ghosts in what they call the Invisible, can become a witch doctor.

When a person dies, the witch doctor can feel the breath of life leaving the cold body, and they are able to follow the gaze of the deceased and watch over their surviving family members. When catastrophe or extinction sends hundreds of souls into the Invisible Realm, transforming them into more evil forms, the witch doctors can hear the souls trembling and screaming endlessly.

The witch doctor can never ignore the cry of the soul. When the voices of worry grow louder, they have to make a choice. Choose to restore the balance between your own worldly realm and the invisible realm, or for the rest of your life...... Even endlessly watching the torment of the dead creatures.

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