“Come here, woman!” She said her, and Shumaila obeyed her like she was her slave. She was feeling like the witch had spelled magic on her and now she could not refuse anything the woman was asking. She walked near her. “Just lie here! We’ll make you a witch, like us.”
She laid herself on the sand, without uttering a word. The leading woman told her assistance something in their vague language, and she brought hot ashes from the fireplace. She then spread it all around Shumaila body. “Turn and show me your big back.”
She obeyed it. The assisting witch brought more ashes and the leading woman spread it well enough on Shumaila back from her neck up-to her bigger buttocks, and then she rubbed the ashes all over Shumaila’s haunches. When Shumaila was being covered by ashes thoroughly, the lea
