Bram Vermeulen visits the muti market, where medicines are sold for all sorts of possible diseases; from soft penis to a disappointing harvest. Bram, amongst other things, speaks to a witch doctor who is shopping for a hyena nose. According to her, it helps to smell the witches out there.

In South Africa, magic is for both poor and rich or black and white and it plays an indispensable role in life. "You can decide that it's just madness, but by doing so you will miss the essence of what is so important to many South Africans" says Bram Vermeulen. In an open-minded way, through 8 short films, he shows us this bizarre world of faith, so weird to us, but real to the South Africans.

© VPRO - Presented and directed by: Bram Vermeulen
Camera: Henner Frankenfeld
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