
Image Number:
APN252071
APN252071
Headline: b1959_23 Title: Drum Magazine social history photographs, South Africa edition 222 Description: Folk live in dread in the land of witchcraft – Amos Ratlou: “When my grandchild was ill, I paid first with a goat, then two pigs, and later two donkeys. But the child did not improve. I also paid Mrs Rademeyer 5s. for the bones.” First three little kids vanished from their parents' huts. No sign of them although the parents looked and looked, and whole villages helped. Gone. Sublocation: Bronkhorstspruit City: Pretoria Province or State: Gauteng Country: South Africa Date Created: 02-07-1959 Creator: Drum Social Histories Credit Notice: Peter Magubane / Drum Social Histories / Bailey's African History Archive / african.pictures Keywords:- Drum Magazine social history photographs
- South Africa edition 222
- Africa
- Periodicals
- Apartheid
- Customs
- Traditional
- healers
- Portraits
- Amos Ratlou
- Mrs Rademeyer
- payment
- bones
- throwing the bones
- witchcraft
- spiritualism
- superstition
- traditional healers
- divination
- inyangas
- vanished
- children disappearing
- missing children
- Bronkhorstspruit
- Peter Magubane
- 1950s
- Drum magazine
- Drum
- Drum Social Histories
- Bailey’s African History Archive
- BAHA