The Dickinson press., 1889-11-09
WITH A DREAM SIBYL.
THE PECULIAR TRANSACTIONS OF
VISIONS OF THE NIGHT.

several A-0O1e6 ray the OAd Fortune Teller
q visit-She Dared Not Take Money for
Exercising Her Gift, but She Had q
"'varsal Remedy" for Sale.
docs Mrs. - live here?"
Mrs. - is an old colored m
living in the vicinity of the Central
market, who dreams dreams, and inter.
prets other peoples dreams, and is held
in great veneration by all her own race
for her wonderful power as a hoodoo
conJurer. She has dreams as long and
wonderful as the Book of Revelations,
which she explains to visitors in a sort of
trance state. A few years ago she had
strange dream about a son who was liv-
ing with her. On relating it to him he
was so impressed with it's truth that he
vent to an undertaken ON Gratoit av-
enue and was measured for a coffin.
This was the mothers dream:
HER DREAM CANE TRUE.
She dreamed that she saw a white
mouse; that it ran up to her and was very
friendly; that a black cat she dreamed
the possessed killed the mouse, and that
while she was looking at it as it lay dead
ut her feet she saw a luminous finger
write the name "Jamcs." She then
awoke impressed with the idea that her
son, who wa out of health, would die,
and upon telling him the dream con-
veyed the same impression to him. 1t is
a fact that within three months he occu-
pied the coffin he had ordered.
Some Detroit ladies heard of this and
thought that it would be a great lark to
visit the old dreamer and have their for
tunes told. Only two of them had re-
markablc dreams, but the other two
composing the quartet went along to see
the fun. The place is a tumble-down
old house that has such'a low portal and
long narrow entrance that it is like an
illustration of the legend of Dante. The
dreamers did not abandon hope, how
ever. They secured a small boy i'll a
drug store, to whom they promised a
quarter If he would accompany them
and run for the police if there was any
disturbance. Thus re-enforced they pcnc-
trated to the rear room. where among
old clothes, old bottles and dilapidated
furniture by Il back window, covered
with the dust of ages, they found the
dream sibyl. She had a number of small
bottles filled with some colorless liquid
before her, which she was examining
through an immense pair of steel bowed
glasses. AS she saw the quintet she
looked at them threateningly and asked
i'll q severe voice:
"Ilow did you hear tell of me?" They
assured her that her fame was well
known in Detroit, and explained their
GRAND and took out their pocketbooks,
at least the spokeswoman did.
81 don't want no money! said the
weird oman II done got enuff. What
you dream%
81 dreamed" said one of the visitors
in Il trembling voice, THAT there was
some horrid thing done up in Il canvas
bag. 1t was alive and had IL snakes
head. could see the whole mass squirm
rs thrust a long, sharpsword or dagger
through and through it,"
"You sawed a snakes head?'
"Ycs, and the thing itself seemed to
he a great soft heap of something that
squirined like snakes, and l could not
kill it. Every time I tried to it moved
again."
"Now you don't ieE1mc think"
The old woman, who was very large,
closed !nr eyes and began to sing softly
to herself. 1t was a sort of chant-a
song without words. Pretty soon she
delivered herself of this oracular speech:
THE INTERPRETATION.
ITO dream about snakes forebodes
that some man will treat you awful bad.
An there is jealousy as sure as the grave
from some wonan Eff yer had killed
them snakes the good Lawd git you
vict'ry, but if you not kill them then it
means sickness and death. Somebody
been telling bad stories about you if you
sawed de head. Dat was a mean dream"
She opened her eyes when she said this
and began working at the contents of
the pitfalls again. The unfortunate
dreamer sat with blanched face and
specialized Oh her probable ill luck.
"Mill you tell mine, aunty!" asked our
youngest and fairest and the only one of
tho number who was not married-ex-
cept our champion boy.
I'm not your aunty," gruntcd the old
woman. Don you call me dat again, l
isn't once of dat sort. What you dream:'
81 dreamed of seeing a dead person."
Again the sibyl composed herself as if
to sleep. Pretty 500 her voice, rather
husky and asthmatic, announced the
following: dat az am a good dream.
Eff you dream of SEEM acorpse you suah
to lib a long life an go off peaceful like
at Gle end. Dat is, if you'se a married
'owan. Eff you is single den you sweet
hearts love done gone cold. He hab
fall in lub wifi some oder oman"
IL don't believe it," said the dreamer
anwrilv. Then she blushed and looked
provoked.
IL tell you truly, lady. Dere comoa
man yere, he say to me, Mrs. u
dream white boss ono times, two times,
three times, VIVA it mean?' | tell dat
Il you gwine to a %fun'ral, an you
won't come back again, suah enuff. He
out riding by de River road and he fell
out an break he neck. Dat dream tell
me. but de usual 'tcrprctin Of white
i.osses is good luck an money. Some
times it means one ting. sometimes
nouer.
Hoy do you know these things:' one
OF The party ventured to ask.
..i)e good Lawd tell me, chile. Why,
been up to heaven in de chariot Oh
Israel times and times and see villa de
Lawd got all de po' sinnahs who repent.
1t am u gif. a great gift, an ! doan take
no money foh dat, but if you libber
loan work right or you hab de heart dis
ease l glib you what make you well right
away an l takes de money 70 dat. l
has a 'varsal remedy for all de miseries
in the human body."-Detroit Paper.
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