This article seeks to examine the unique process of data gathering among a group of socially marginalized individuals, the Obeah men/women, healers and their clients in a selected community in St. Thomas, Jamaica. The broad theoretical framework used for the study is ethnography and so the actual process follows the established rules of this methodology. The Obeah Act of 1898 makes the practice of Obeah illegal and so the research methodology had to take this very important factor into consideration. The data collection process involved three stages of what I termed community insertion. The first stage could be called the identification and introductory stage, the second stage I have labelled assimilation and a final stage referred to as the delinking period. The substance of the paper is about the thick description of this process.