What some societies call a “seer” or soothsayer, clairvoyant or prophet, we in Trinidad call a “see-ah” man.” When I was young and someone lost an article, money, spouse or any other significant or sometimes increasingly insignificant object, that person visited the obeah or “seeah-man” to find out the truth and sometimes inflict the appropriate or grossly overweighted punishment on the person fingered by the seeah-man. When people wanted to harm someone they believe had harmed them or when they wanted an object belonging to the other person, including saidRead More

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Tony Deyal is a Caribbean journalist who believes laughter is the best medicine.

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