Gri Gri

I bought a monkey head today. I know that doesnt really sound polite or interesting, but I bought it nonetheless. West Africa has a voodoo like belief that their religious leaders can BLESS them if they carry certain artifacts that have been blessed themseleves. Its pretty interesting. For example take Billy. Billy doesnt like knives. Billy really doesnt like to get stabbed by knives. So Billy goes to talk to his local religious leader about not being stabbed by a knife. The religious leader, or Marabout, writes a passage out of the Koran and blesses it. After Billy takes his blessed piece of writing to the local gri gri maker. The Gri gri maker can make a necklace, ring, belt, etc with the blessed piece of Koran inside. Its like magic. Now Billy believes that if he wears his new gri gri necklace, hell never be stabbed. It seems to work. Ive never seen anyone stabbed here. My village has a local marabout that im friends with. Ive thought about talking to him. Because like Billy, I too dont like to be stabbed by knives. But you can have a gri gri made for really any purpose. Good luck with school, money, love, etc... I could have used one of each about a year ago when i was in school, broke, and when Naeda dumped me and etc...

moral of the story: I bought a monkey head from the gri gri maker. Its the size of my fist and he looks like hes smiling.