Once a snake bit a man and he at once called the witch doctor.
They knew him as a witch doctor, and they also knew that he had been educated among whites.
Hume affected to make light of the witch–doctor and his threats.
Every village has the witch doctor who is learned in the ways of these evil spirits.
Even a witch doctor does not play the fool without some motive.
That suggestion of his as to employing the witch doctor was destined to stick.
Ukozi is a clever specimen of a witch doctor but not a malevolent one.
He says the witch doctor promised to let him into all sorts of things.
“If we could only lay claw on this witch doctor,” he said, thoughtfully.
On the contrary they were quite deferential, the witch doctor especially.