After getting up very early to catch the morning light on the mosque for Jack we continued on to see Yelfa and his brothers teaching the talibes at their Koran school. Then Yelfa took us up the mud stairs of his beautiful house into a room in which we sat down on mats on the floor to listen to Yelfa’s recommendations. Jerome was to purchase a ram with a red head. This animal was to be sacrificed and the blood used for the writing of certain magic formulaes etc. The work could be done the same day. All included the price would be about E150. Jerome was shifting uncomfortably on his mat.