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Nairobi's Mutinda the witchdoctor

Some may consider the tale a fantasy while others will swear that it is truth all the way. The tale begins in the small African nation of Zambia.

A wealthy Zambian businessman had his new car stolen and wanted desperately to have it returned. The poice were totally useless in finding it as well as the offering of a reward for its return. Finally at his wits end he decides to consult with a local witchdoctor. The witchdoctor was shown the spot where the automobile was last seen and proceeded to perform a somewhat magical ritual. He danced and he chanted all the time waving his hands within the air. He finally concluded the ritual and went to his home.

It was a mere few days later that the missing automobile appeared at the exact spot where it originally disappeared from.

In another similar situation a man from Kitui had been missing for several years and no trace could be found of him. Police could not find him nor any proof of foul play. The family was in a state of despair and hinged on giving up all hope. The father finally decides to consult with the local witchdoctor and ask for his assistance. Within a matter of days the missing man reappeared at home. He had left a teenager and when he returned he was total unable to speak his native language of Kitamba but rather conversed in the language of Kikuyuland where he claims he had been living.

Although you may consider that these are some very unusual and strange situations they are not the least but peculiar to Teresia Mbini Mutinda. For the last thirty plus years, Mutinda has been practicing her special style of witchcraft in her native Nairobi. She readily claims to have aided people from every corner of the world and from every lifestyle imaginable. She claims her birthright as her start in the profession as witchdoctor. Records were generally not kept too accurately in the days of her birth and thus even though her nation identification card indicates that she was born in 1930 it possibly may only be an estimate.
She states that she was a witchdoctor long before she was married. Her husband had forced her to convert to Christianity which resulted in the name Teresia being bestowed upon her. She admits that when her husband had convinced her to convert to Christianity he insisted that she burn all her related craft paraphernalia and that to her was not an easy task to accomplish.
Mutinda will tell you straight out that when she entered the pool for her conversion baptism that

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