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Série RARE page 24

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“The notion of Witchcraft explains unfortunate events”, p. 63-64, Oxford, at the Clarendon Press

You probably ask yourself: “Why is he giving such an impromptu course about an unknown ethny dispersed over Congo, South Sudan and Central African Republic with the strange assistance of an august long dead professor – “M. A.  (Oxon.), Ph. D. (London) Research Lecturer in African Sociology at the University of Oxford Sometime Professor of Sociology at the Egyptian University, Cairo” ? What is the purpose of that snobish blabla about these delirious anthropophagists from nowhere?”

Well, the answer is simple: my lovely sexy spouse is one of them… So, now, you understand why my bizarre existence is incompatible with any other writer’s wandering between the Café de Flore and Les Deux Magots. Let’s get to my point: my point is that nobody wants to fuck around with a woman who has centuries of warrior spirit, cannibal habits and magic knowledge boiling through her veins! And no one would have convinced my Zande spouse that, when a malicious bitch from Bangui told  her that her womb was blocked with a concrete bolt, it was not witchcraft!

Whatever it was – a curse or a mockery –, it happened  a couple of years after our wedding. At that time I was not aware of the deep magical background of my despairing spouse. It occurred to me only a few years ago, by chance, while I was reading with passion The Savage Mind by Lévi-Strauss, in which he quotes  Evans-Pritchard about the sorcery thinking of the Azande. I was astonished. My wife’s ancestors were a matter of study for the most distinguished ethnologists