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Show ""'"" W"MMin.Hiiiiiiniim in EF1IVES OUT SPIRITS HOW "HOSD.-O "CCTCr." TRIvrS HIS PAritiNTS. K ;-ro People Meetly Ara Firm Ccllsv eia in t-lia Pi.vii" to Oavo from Cfi'ceto ti Estna Conjured Con-jured by Snttmy. O'er tlortor.i .hit cu u you If yot '" -trlrUea . '.; i mo disease, bill "..i' U only i.. Uvwur who can cur you if you nro really "hoodooed." The "hoodoo doctor" la a tall, gaunt mill cadaveroi.s looking negro with a wealth of long wavy hair, and ho live! tu the West si le. says tlio Kansas City Star. Ho is a familiar figure on the streets of but.i cities, nud Inviirlably carries a little black hand Batchel The hoodoo doctor Is hold In uwo by n.nc-tcnths of tho i;;ro population and his services are In demand by the people of his race. "You may laugh at us for behoving In our lioodi-o doctor," :.ald one colored woman, 'but what i iho differenco between be-tween him and tho dlvlno hcalcru ol white folks?" Tho negro people, tr at least a great majority of them, aro firm believers In tue power of tho ovll spirit and go sc far as to credit sonin of their race with tho power to "conju.'o" an enemy, oi one of whom tho conjurer is Jeal ous. When such a pe.:ion pays a social call to a supposed frliad the tlrst thing n'"t aary after tho visit, according tc the hoodoo doctor ! , to throw coarse salt over tho lloor n the room Jn which !the alleged conjuiur has visited, and then, with a vigorous movement, sweep the salt east, and wo3t and north and south, the whllo tho sweeper iuut ( tors ah Incantation known only to the hoodoo doctor and to his patients, Tho next stop Is to Bend for tho hoodoo hoo-doo doctor tho quicker tho better, In order that tho conjuror may not have tlmo to get in his deadly work or tc work any material harm to tho health or tho happiness of his victim. When the hoodoo doctor arrives ui "n tho scene ho to- through the salt sweeping precox aMn anil cnlli upon tho ovll spirits to depart In- stanter. His visits are preforably mado at night, but whore this is lm practicable tho room whcrolu llos the victim of the dread hoodoo Is darken ed. Tho hoodoo iketer then proceeds to rub his patient alv,aB In tho dark j and the ovll spirits ho robs out of a I conjured patient are oald to bo mar- velous In size and hideous to behold I After the rubbing process Is over the hoodoo doctor prepares a concoction of hard boiled eggs, fresh grass In sum i mer or tho dried nrtlclo In winter, a ; handful of twigs and sevoral othei i mysterious and moro or lcs3 unpala- ! tablo Ingredients, tho concoction a so- crot known only to the hoodoo doctor This ho feeds in tablespoon doses un- t.l he Is assured that tho work of the ' conjurer has been destroyed and his i patient free from all tho wiles to ! which victims of tho ovll spirit arc , heirs. Once a negro has been hoodooed h3 j Is apt to havo u recurrent attack al i any time, always being moro or Icsf susceptible to the wicked conjurer. Thus Is tho hoodoo doctor In such I great demand. ; "I'ooplo can bo hoodooed In different ' ways," said tho hoodoo doctor. "They ! can bo 'llxcd' so thoy can amount tc j anything or havo any success In business busi-ness Or lovo cr bo able to keep In fair-1 ly good health, and thev Just got to got that hoodoo out of 'cm boforo thoy over will bo any good. That's what's tho matter with lots of tho white folks' failures, only they think they are too Bmart to bother with tho hoodoo doctor." |