hot on the heels of my maid's daughter is possessed my drivers wife had a spell cast
... on her.
My drivers wife has been sick, I managed to determine that she had a pretty bad cough. Not so out of the ordinary i've had a nasty cough or two here in the past year, I attribute a lot of it to the pollution, which i never had living in Bangkok, so I guess the conclusion must be that Jakarta is worse off pollution wise than Bangkok.
Anyway I mentioned this to an Indo friend of mine and the next time she saw my driver she had a conversation with him, of which I could only follow a little.
Translation is that somebody in her family put a spell on her, she had been coughing up a lot of blood, which occured somewhat suddenly and is obviously not normal, thus there is no other explanation other than a magic spell....
Thankfully she is ok now, but she needs to visit a magic doctor to ensure she is all ok. (which will cost money obviously!)
a link to another article about witchcraft in indonesia http://hometown.aol.com/divadelaluna/witch2k.htm
and another...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/3247290.stm
