A Devil
That old woman - she, she was a nightmare! In all manners of the word, she was a devil! She didn't know how to heal mentally ill people at all!
All she did was beat them up, and that wouldn't cure them at all!
Anyway, why was he thinking about her treatment!?
He was perfectly fine, he was in tip top condition!
The people of this world thought that people who were mentally ill were cursed. They thought that beating them would cure them.
The people of Lyria were a bit more accepting, and didn't send anyone to the so called 'healer' unless they started becoming violent and trying to beat and kill people up, or talked about some 'unacceptable' stuff.
They were only thinking about sending John there because of his extremity of his belief.
He swore on the ancestors about something that was most probably fake, and the problem is, they didn't feel that he was lying! But the stuff he said was unbelievable.