Mary Slessor 8 Puzzle Answers
1. People believed that there were a lot of evil spirits around and that they made people
ill.
They thought that people could practise sorcery or witchcraft and make people so ill they might die.
2. A chief called Edem had an abcess on his back. An abcess is a kind of swelling. A witchdoctor showed the people: shot , powder, bones, teeth, seeds and egg shells.
3. He said he had taken these out of the man's back. Some people were blamed for this and sent away to a farm.
Mary wrote a letter to an African Christian pastor to see if he could help
4. The man spoke to his sister who was a nurse.
5. She treated the chief who got better and the prisoners were released.
