This attractive young lady would be a sangoma, a professional healer and priestess among the Zulu and related ethnic groups of South Africa. A major responsibility of the sangoma is to communicate with and appease the souls of ancestors in the spirit world, since Zulu belief holds that these ancestors can cause illness to people who displease them. Traditionally, sangomas were more often than not women, but in theory anyone could become a sangoma if they received a “calling” from the spirit world.