Young Bobohizan shines light on dying practice

Adam (front left) getting ready for last year’s Kaamatan Festival.

WITCH doctors, healers, spiritual guides. Whatever you wish to call them, they were once much respected, trusted and depended upon in many cultures in the world.

This is also the same for Sabah, a land of many unique customary beliefs and traditions, and which at one time depended a lot on what are known locally as Bobohizans or Bobolians (priests and priestesses) in everyday life.