Kenya,Rift Valley Province,Lokiriama. A Turkana soothsayer acts as a healer to diagnose the cause of a person’s illness by examining the intestines of a specially slaughtered goat before smearing his patient with its chyme - the partially digested stomach contents of the animal.
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