Did you know that Africa has a secret profession? This secret profession is called Witchdoctors or Medicine Men. This paper is about the history of these people, how they are still prevalent today and how they can be found in the book “No Witchcraft For Sale”.
There is a practice in Africa much like our doctors today, except they don’t use any man made medicines they use just what is naturally found around them to help people. These people are called Medicine Men. The Medicine Men have a very interesting history for two main reasons the history of them and how they are still prevalent in south African society today. It is believed that Witchdoctors and Medicine Men started practicing in 2000 BCE. The Medicine Men and Witchdoctors Are there to help the people so naturally what they do for the people has changed over time. The practice has changed to help with guns being brought into Africa and gun violence. Later, racial and class struggles. To even help people cope with what they have done or what has been done to …show more content…
One, the cattle boy, who had been with them a long time, and had grown to trust the a little, said: “Ask your boy in the kitchen. Now, there’s a doctor for you. He’s the son of a famous medicine man who used to be in these parts, and there’s nothing he cannot cure” (Lessing 155). This tells the reader that Gideon knows a lot about the native plants and the ones that can heal people. The other reference was when the mother is thinking back to what she had heard about the native herbs and there medicinal properties. “Remembering what she heard of the efficacy of native herbs” (Lessing 155). This tells the reader about how the native herbs that can heal are very good at healing and also have very little down
There is a practice in Africa much like our doctors today, except they don’t use any man made medicines they use just what is naturally found around them to help people. These people are called Medicine Men. The Medicine Men have a very interesting history for two main reasons the history of them and how they are still prevalent in south African society today. It is believed that Witchdoctors and Medicine Men started practicing in 2000 BCE. The Medicine Men and Witchdoctors Are there to help the people so naturally what they do for the people has changed over time. The practice has changed to help with guns being brought into Africa and gun violence. Later, racial and class struggles. To even help people cope with what they have done or what has been done to …show more content…
One, the cattle boy, who had been with them a long time, and had grown to trust the a little, said: “Ask your boy in the kitchen. Now, there’s a doctor for you. He’s the son of a famous medicine man who used to be in these parts, and there’s nothing he cannot cure” (Lessing 155). This tells the reader that Gideon knows a lot about the native plants and the ones that can heal people. The other reference was when the mother is thinking back to what she had heard about the native herbs and there medicinal properties. “Remembering what she heard of the efficacy of native herbs” (Lessing 155). This tells the reader about how the native herbs that can heal are very good at healing and also have very little down