
Image Number:
APN252076
APN252076
Headline: b1959_13 Title: Drum Magazine social history photographs, South Africa edition 223 Description: Folk live in dread in the land of witchcraft – Rebecca Ratlou: “My father paid two pigs for my treatment. I gave birth to a child two months premature. She did not live, people are scared.” 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 223
- Africa
- Periodicals
- Apartheid
- Customs
- Traditional
- healers
- Portraits
- Rebecca Ratlou
- pregnancy
- treatment
- 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