Sorcery and Healing
A Sangoma is a traditional healer who performs the act of healing various kinds of sickness and predicting the future. In healing anyone who has been sick, he weirdly places a puff adder snake close to the mouth of the sick in the midst of chants.
To further determine or predict the future of people, he uses the same snake as an instrument in telling the people what would happen to them in the future.