He decided to go and see his aunt; an old lady, skinny, grey-haired, living in the Gulf. She was a healer and a spiritual cleanser and had some prestige. It was said that she could do evil by just looking at you. She spoke to almost no one but it was rumoured that she knew voodoo and that she was an expert in black magic. When the King arrived, she was already waiting for him, as if she had long known that he was coming to visit.
She gave him a good cleanse. She used eggs, rosemary, rue herb, some other potent herbs, pepper tree branches, a black hen, pure cane alcohol, water, fire and a cat that she killed. With this, he was supposed to be clean of all those evils that had plagued him. His aunt made a circle on the floor, and they both stood inside it. She said things that he didn’t unde
