 A fetish becoming the shepherd of a child 
A fetish in the Lobi country of Burkina Faso has become the shepherd of a white child who also happens to be that of the ethnologist, the author of this article. These two existing people, the child and the fetish, are called Toulou. When and how did such an intermingling come about? What are the practical modalities? A book of drawings made by a Lobi diviner allows us to apprehend this alliance of actors testifying to an unusual community of destinies. It relates a particular episode, sealed by animism. One discovers a pictorial initiation to clairvoyance highlighting a subjectivity other than human, which fetishes never cease to show and which must be watered with sacrificial blood.