Dressed in goat skin
"When I arrived there,
the first person I saw was
the witch doctor (the one
who would do the initiation
ceremony). He said he was
expecting me. I told him in
my own language, "It is not
me you have been expecting
because I have no business
with you."
This must have made the witch doctor angry
because he spoke an incantation. I must have
then fainted for a long time. The next morning
I woke to find I had slept on the altar where
the god of the Oturkpo River is worshipped. I
was dressed in a goat skin and was lying on
top of a lion skin.
I sat up and my grandfather came to me.
When he saw me, he fainted too. I could do
nothing to help him. My grandfather never said
anything because he was afraid of the witch
doctor. The whole village was afraid of him.