Through a detailed analysis of the story “The Three Sisters” from Couto’s collection O Fio das Missangas (“The Bead Necklace”) published in 2004, I reveal this space of magic, these relational practices that permeate most (if not all) of Couto’s writing, whether we are dealing with short-stories or novels or poetry. I choose to analyse this specific story to reveal Couto’s relational practices and its accompanying ideas of enchantment and mystical apprehension of the world because the story centers on the relational in terms of male/female relationships (the inter-personal) while also allowing the relational to be explored in terms of the trans-human (the movement from the human self to the non-human self, the Grander Self). Furthermore, the fact that the story revolves around the importance of creativity (in various forms) and presents it as the mechanism that permits the self to break away from the socio-political restrictions imposed by the status-quo and connect with the uncanny (the Grander Self), allows me to emphasize how the relational is deeply linked to a way of being and seeing that can only be attained when one allows a poetic insight to come in, when one breaks away from the chains of the dissecting and restrictive angle of knowledge apprehension imposed by pure reason. My analysis, also points to some similarities that exist between Couto’s writing with its close links to what I term African classical ontologies and epistemologies of holism and some aspects of Zen Buddhist philosophy and the philosophy of the French Feminist Luce Irigaray.