A True Story

One day I started noticing that there were a lot of primary school students not in school. Normally when I see a few kids out and ask them what the deal is, it usually turns out to be a manual labor day so they don't have class. This time I was noticing way too many kids out of school for that to be the reason. So I ask around and first get told that someone wants to kill a teacher. Hmmm. I wasn't sure what to think of that. Then I ask some other kid and they tell me it's because of sorcery. Hmmm. Trying to get an explanation I understand a little better, I ask Tanti what the deal is. Whenever Tanti tries to explain something to me I get maybe about 60 percent of what she's telling me so even now I'm still a little unclear of exactly what was going on. But here is the general gist of it.

A teacher went to school one morning and saw that someone had left a pile of human poop in his classroom. Odd, right? Well, turns out another teacher finds the same thing and this situation reminds them of something similar that happened the last school year. Last school year there was a teacher that came to school, found a pile of human poop in his classroom, and asked a student to clean it out. The kid does. Soon after the kid gets really sick and the teacher ends up dying from bee stings while out in the fields working. People's explanation was that someone did socery through the pile of poop and because it was in that certain teacher's classroom and because the kid cleaned it out, they died and got sick. Back to this year. So the teachers remember the incident and refuse to do anything with the poop in their class rooms, as does everyone else. They cancel all classes indefinitely. Classes were cancelled for close to two weeks. They were having prayer groups going to the school and who knows what else as an attempt to deal with it. Out of nowhere classes are back in session and everything is back to normal. I asked some people to see what they did to fix it and they just shrugged and said the sorcerers cleared out the classrooms and everything was fine now. Weird.