Charm

A pebble resembling in shape a human head and shoulders. One of a class of familiars acquired in the same way as a Wali. It must be "fed" with rice flour and goat's fat and washed every new moon in a concoction of leaves of kemba and of a plant called red fowl's foot. Kamatos appear to the people they favour in human form: as a man to a woman, as a woman to a man. Kai Tshali employed his Kamato to help him to be "proper carpenter".