Samike was a very successful dance leader and would
easily win the comptetitions against the Bagika Dance Group. The Bagika became
very jealous, envious and looked for ways to harm Samike. After several
unsuccessful attempts, one day at a local beer party, his enemies bewitched
Samikes and he became seriously ill. His regular diviner-healer could not cure
him. Then he went to several other ordinary diviner-healers who also failed to
cure him.

    Finally, after going without food for fice days and being
unable to walk, Samike was carried by his disciples to the home of the great
divine-healer, Luhumbika where he was eventually cured. After his recovery,
Samike was overcome with joy and composed a song of thanksgiving to Luhumbika.
He traveled everywhere singing this song of praise and thanksgiving. Samike
could not keep silent, but at dance competitions he kept telling people the
great things that Luhumbika had done for him. He sang:

    To be sick is not to die. I am completely better. I am
healed. My children, rejoice with me. Luhumbika is the one who healed me. May he
live forever? He is a real divine-healer. His magical medicine is so powerful
that it is impossible for the witches to harm me. His medicine is more powerful
than the sorcerers. If it were not for him I would be dead. I would have no life
in me.

    There was no way out for me. I had no one else to turn to. I
was in a hopeless situation. I was like one dead or lost. Luhumbika raised me up
from my sick bed. He healed me. Luhumbika refashioned me like a brick maker
makes a new mud brick as if I had just come from my mother’s womb.