Escapy - 2017 - The Beats 2 - Digital Issue

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This time the tiger possessed man picked up a coconut
and started to bite the husk off while walking
in a circle. He then threw it up in the air some
two to three storeys high and continued his walk. I
watched the coconut being affected by gravity, fall
back down and hit him (tiger possessed man) right
on the head and burst into pieces. No, not his head
but the coconut. He then picked up a piece of the
coconut and started eating it.
Oh yes, what I forgot to include in this article is the
use of a whip to control the dance and the dancers.
The whip was used to change the dance movement
of the dancers during the dance and to contained
the possessed as the shaman did his thing to remove
the spirits.
The person who tried to stop our media friend from
dancing earlier returned with this same whip and hit
him lightly (I hope) on the arm twice and suddenly
the expression on his (media friend) face changed.
He dropped the flat wooden horse and with a blank
face slowly walked out of the circle and sat under
the coconut tree. Phew! Safe at last.