⚰️Episode 2 Script: The Witchdoctor’s Warning. The Dream Funeral

Episode 2: The Dream Funeral

By Grace Antiedu

The Witchdoctor’s Warning

By the fourth night, Nfor stopped sleeping altogether.

He sat by his doorway with tired eyes and dry lips, watching the moon cross the sky, too afraid to close his eyes. But exhaustion eventually won.

And again, the dream came.

This time, he was not just at the funeral, he was digging his own grave.

By morning, he was shaking. His wife, worried and desperate, begged him to see someone -not a doctor, but a traditional healer. Someone who understood these kinds of things.

They traveled two towns away to visit Ma Gundo, a well-known ngambe woman who lived near the banks of River Mezam. Her eyes were cloudy with age, but her voice carried the weight of knowing.

Nfor sat on a mat in front of her while she scattered bones and cowrie shells into a woven bowl. She stared at them for a long time, her face growing dark.

Then she spoke.

“You have been called into the world of the dead,” she said.

“But you are still alive. That is the danger.”

Nfor's wife gasped. He could only stare.

“Someone is preparing a burial,” Ma Gundo continued.

“But it is not for a dead man. It is a burial of a living soul. If nothing is done, your body will remain, but your spirit will be trapped.”

Nfor felt the blood drain from his face.

She gave him a charm-twisted black thread, herbs, and a red feather and warned him not to remove it, not even to bathe.

“You must not sleep where they can reach you,” she said. “Not in your bed. Not even on your land.”

But Nfor didn’t listen.

That night, he returned home. Too tired, too stubborn, and too used to his bed, he lay down…

And in the dream, the coffin lid began to close.

Next: Episode 3 – When the Crows Gather

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