My experience with shaman.

So in Ecuador, I met a shaman at a beach. I was on vacation with my cousins. The tide was really low, I remember,  so we could go pretty deep into the ocean. We went deep enough to stand over some coral-looking rock formations. It was pretty calm until I felt something slimy under my foot. I had just enough time time realize it was a stingray before it pricked me and swam off. The pain was minuscule at first but it became unbearable within a few minutes. It pricked me on my ankle but I felt the pain shoot up to my hips.

There were people telling me to go see this shaman that lived on the beach. I went to her and I told her It was a Stingray, I was sure of it. She started taking some string things and burned them underneath my foot. She did some weird chants, I was skeptical, I knew there was some logical explanation with that she was doing. The pain went away instantly and came back whenever I took my foot away from the flame. I met a nice British couple, the woman told me that her boyfriend was also bit and they too, visited the Shaman. This didn’t make me believe what the Shaman was doing was actually “magic.”

The pain finally subsided after 2 hours. When I was back home, I did some research. I found out that stingray venom is protein based, and it dies with heat. I was pretty happy to have proven the Shaman was a scam, although my friends seemed to believe in her.