usually when i get home, i sit down on the couch, have some dinner and watch like 3 hours of tv with my family. so nothing strange, not too dissimilar from what i do at home in America.
but last night was so bizarre. i get home to a house filled with incense smoke. apparently Mama Buyi’s (my zulu mama) daughter-in-law has been having trouble with seeing out of her right eye. So Mama Buyi went to the sangoma (traditional healer) and was told that in order to solve the problem, they would have to communicate with the ancestors and then sacrifice two chickens.
So when i get home everyone’s praying the bedroom. when they come out, i go in and there are two chickens running around. where they got the chickens from, i have no idea. then, Mama Buyi’s son took the chickens outside, where he put them in a big pot. Then he used an itty bitty STEAK KNIFE to cut off their heads. I didn’t actually see him do this, but I heard it and let me tell you I am a little scarred. Then, while we went back to watching TV as usual, he cleaned out the chickens and plucked them. Apparently the last step of communicating with the ancestors was to sleep in the same room as the dead chickens, so the chicken carcasses were left in a big pot in mama’s bedroom all night. And guess what’s for dinner tonight.
Last night was the first night that I have felt like really really weirded out since i’ve been in mama buyi’s house. this was definitely something i had to share with you all haha
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