[overcusser]

OK, I know that these two pics don't directly deal with medicine or death, but more indirectly as I'll (attempt) to explain. I wanted to post these as pics like these are hard to find & are an interesting piece of history (I think). You don't see real live witch doctors everyday & someone skinning a leopard.

My grandfather was an industrial missionary, and took the family over to Africa; they were they from 1946 - 1949. The main reason my grandfather wanted to go was because of the witch doctors, and per my mother: "This why daddy felt called to go – real-live African witch doctors. You can see part of our house in the background, with the boys down there hiding out beside the house – they were scared to death of the witch doctors and truly believed in them if they hadn’t been converted. If one of them had a curse put on him, he would sit down and actually die. I don’t know how Joe talked these two into stopping for a picture – they greatly feared cameras."

So I think from that aspect, I think this is indirectly related to death as the human mind is very powerful, and if a "curse" was put on one of the natives, sometimes they would actually cause themselves to die as they believed they were cursed, liked my mother mentioned. Psychosomatic, or a hypochondriac...whatever.

The second picture is my grandfather skinning a leopard that he killed, with my uncle in the picture towards the right (the only other white person in the pic, besides my grandfather...lol). I know that there are not be any animal abuse pictures posted, but this was a daily thing for them, the dangers of wild animals, and since someone could be attacked & killed by one of these cats, I think it deals indirectly with death too, as I mentioned above. The animal is dead & is not being tortured or abused, so I decided to post it. Per my mother: "Daddy skinning one of the leopards he killed. It is down behind the chapel on the station, by his workshop etc. During the leopard season, they would come up on the porches & kill the dogs & other animals".

Anyway, I thought some of you might find these interesting. And if the mods choose to remove the entire thread, or the pic of the leopard being skinned, I totally understand. It's all good

[legolasgreenleaf]

interesting

[carkees]

amazing! Interesting info!

[collaredgirl65]

Good post with great information.

[Zambini]

Some things never change

[Sharon]

Thank you for sharing this interesting peek into your family's past

[Cumulonimbus]

Very interesting post.

[Airbornemama]

Very interesting post!! You have A wonderfully fascinating family!!!

[Bastet]

Wow, that's an experience many of us may not to be able to have. Intriguing post

[nobackspace]

Do you have any more? Please post. Amazing to see.