A Badwe'e Story

This story ends in a rather dreary way at first glance, and you wonder what the edification value of it is. You see, Zyem kills all his wives thinking that they would be raised from the dead afterward with pits on their heads. They would then be able to transport the pits to where the animals were, so the animals would die in them. He would be spared the trouble of digging new pits.

The point of this story is to poke ridicule at those who believe the fantastic claims of shamans or spirit-healers. They cannot do what they claim, which is nothing but a ruse to put credulous people at their mercy.