One of the best strategies for being more creative is reading things you normally wouldn't be exposed to. In that spirt, here is a random story you may not have run across:
from the website of a radio station in Ghana:
FETISH PRIEST PREVENTS TWO 'EVIL' STUDENTS FROM WRITING EXAMS
A 13-year-old and a 17-year-old Junior High School graduate have been camped by a fetish priest in his shrine at Nankese in the Suhum Municipality of the Eastern region.
The fetish priest, Togbe Dzebu, claims the minors possess evil spirits hence his decision to camp them and perform rituals to exorcise them.
The children, as part of the rituals were forced to march through the township and nearby towns by the fetish priest to show where their spiritual pot, locally known as "Bayie kukuo" had been kept.
One of the victims, Yaw, the 13-year-old pupil of Nankese M/A Primary School, has been prevented from writing the end of term examination by the fetish priest. School authorities are worried over the development but say they are helpless to seek for the release of the pupil to write his exams.
The victims have been given strange haircuts, concoctions and subjected to various forms of abuses as they have been confined to the shrine.
The fetish priest claims he has been able to cast the witchcraft in the 17-year-old girl but waiting for the family to buy some items for final rituals.
In case, like me, you're not familiar with fetish priests, here's what Wikipedia says:
In Ghana, Togo, Benin and other countries of West Africa, a fetish priest is a person who serves as a mediator between the spirit and the living.[1][2][3] Fetish priests usually live and worship their gods in enclosed places, called a fetish shrine. The fetish shrine is a simple mud hut with some kind of enclosure or fence around it. The Priest or priestess (in the case of a female) performs rituals to consult and seek the favor from his gods in the shrine. The rituals are performed with money, liquor, animals, and in some places, human sex slaves called trokosi, fiashidi, or woryokwe."
