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Show A Neguo "Fetich Ball." In the Herald library we have a veritable fetich ball. It is a stangc mixture cf white and speckled feathers ana cloth, and saturated with some liquid which has dyed it a pale yellow. The feathers feath-ers are stuck loosely to the cloth, and the whole is wrapped into an oblong ball, about four inches in length and two in diameter. This foolish object of feiichism was discovered in a pillow of one of our esteemed acquaintances iD the country near the city. It was taken out, and while being examined by the planter he was told by a negro that it was reverenced by large numbers num-bers of negroej, who beleived that it possessed power to give those who used and "fetichised" it control over the actions of those againet whom it was directed. For instance, the negro who placed the ball we have now in our possession in the pillow thought that he could thus control the actions ol the person who slept on the pillow. This belief is so Btrong among some of the moat iguorant blacks that if one ball fails the quantity is increased. In one instance, in-stance, well verlified bv indubitable proof, in the southern part of Louisiana, Louis-iana, a sugar pl.ntcr discovered one , hundred and thirty-six of these bails in one feather bed. This planter is represented as very strict with his laborers, and it was evidantly desired to control him heyond any possibility 1 of a doubt. Vicksburg (Miss.) Herald. |