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Memoirs of a village witch. Episode 1

The white owl flew silently, until it perch on the roof of the only tall building around the community, it turns it’s flexible neck raising its head up and down looking for any stray neighborhood rats. After searching for long and not finding any food, it thought, “about time I search for food elsewhere after spending like one week in this neighborhood but no food in sight.” It stretch it wings to its full size and flew away. Spinx look up and saw the white owl as it flew over the horizon in search of food for the night, it wonder how the owl fails to see some juicy rats at the backyard of this tall building. It trots silently approaching the bin area with stealth and looking out for any surprise that may come her way. She saw one of the house occupants dropped one bag of bin inside the big drum, forgetting to close the drum and walks back inside the house. Just then the two mice scurried from their hiding place to access the new goodies that had just been dropped. Spinx allowed them t

Memoirs of a village witch

The old dirty looking women in our society are always tagged with the assertion that they belong to one secret cult or the other and that many misfortunes that happens to young people around them were always caused by this set of old people. Is this true? One can only imagine how we always perceive our shortcomings and our resolve not to look inward for anything that might happens to us but so quick to shift blame to others. The difference between greatness is not in how successful we are or unsuccessful we might think we are, but in the way we manage all the opportunities that comes our way, many people have different definition for success, and this is what drive individuals to come up with a goal or goals in other to be successful. Blaming someone else for unfortunate events or happenings that most times is within the logic of human understanding is what we tagged “our village witch”, but because we are so mischievous in our way of thinking we tend to ignore the truth right in our f