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7733_chicken_decapitation
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Cultures - Past and Other

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witch doctors
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chicken
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An African witch doctor cuts off a chicken’s head with knife to tell the future. The headless chicken thrashes around a circle of rocks. Outside of rocks = bad omen. Inside the rocks = bright future.


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