Believe it or not

The last few weeks I have been hearing a lot of stories about black and white magic. And I have been asking a lot of questions about it to try to understand how it works.

A lot has to do with “believing” it. Here everybody believes it is true.

As said before there are white magicians and there are black magicians. They are both called “Sjeikh”.

When someone really doesn’t like you, (s)he finds one of the black kind. When you find out or when you notice some strange thing is happening to you, you find one of the white kind to make it undone.

Always make sure your magician is a strong one, because the strongest wins.

The magician writes the message on a piece of paper and puts it into water. The piece of paper is used to make an amulet. Of the water, tea or coffee is made for the addressee.

It is the habit here to serve immediately tea or coffee to a visitor, and often both are served very quickly one after the other. Now, I learned that you should never accept to drink anything in the house of your enemy or people that may have a grudge against you.

The message is : know your enemy !

Magic or not, today was a beautiful day. It was warm, the bees and flies were back in business.

We’ve been planting a lot of trees and there is room left for about 20 olive trees.

It is clear that the trees will produce a lot more fruit than we can eat. Some trees will be in bloom this spring already. The others will need more time.

The fig trees alone will provide a nice income in the summer months. A good fig tree providing figs the same year costs 2,5 Euro. Last Summer 0,90 Euro was earned per kilo figs.

A small investment for both food and income in the future.