The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-07
REVIVAL OF THE BLACK ART.
The Three Ways Of Casting n SPELL
One of Them Quite Fin de Steele.
From the New York Sun.

One of Them quite Fin de Steele.
From the New York Sun.
Modern occuItism, or. to put it in dlplo-
matte costume, roccutlisme moderne. i.
becoming decidedly aggressive. to say the
least of it, If we arc to believe the Revua
Illustree. Strange as the news may an.
pear, it is nevertheless reported that the
black art is fiourishing fiendishly both in
Europe and America in this glorious month
of June, 1895.
Casting a spell upon an individual, or. az
they say on the Bowery. ''hoodOoing a fel.
low" has not, according to the Revue
fallen into innocuoyls desuetude. We ali
remember the scene depicted by Alexan.
DIRE Dumas in the r cine Margot, in which
the perfumer of Catherine Medicis plunges
a golden needle into the heart, or rather
the place where the heart ought to be. OF
little wax statuette modelled in the i'm.
age of King Charles TX. But the magl.
clans of the present day have brought
modern improvements into the art. They
practice three kinds of hoodooism, accord.
ing to the caprice of tho client and the de-
gree of hatred with which he is possessed.
In one they use a toad, I'm another a doll.
and in third they operate d resprlt yo-
liant, or, I'm other words, they remove the
spirit and place 1t temporarily Just whers
they want 1t.
Here are the prescripti ons for the thres
methods: You take a I BAD, male or fe-
male, according to the "a of the person
whom you wish TO reach. You baptize /.
as you would a child, giving it that full
name Of your enemy. While you are com.
hitting this sacrilege. you must endeavor
TO work yourself up into a paroxysm Of
hatred toward your victim, and you must
sandwich the sacramental words with the
most horrible imprecations. Then you in.
fict upon the toad all the tortures that
your Imagination can suggest, for your
enemy will lose an eye, etc. In America
If you take an eye out of the toad your
enemy will lose an eye, &c. In America,
according TO the Revue, the Black Crooks
have recourse to a more summary expe-
dent. They bury the toad at the threshold
of the residence of the person selected for
a victim, with the result THAI he dies as Il (
suffocated.
The doll method is the most ancient and I
the most classic. 1t requires a wax figure
called a mamie" resembling the victim as
much as possible. 1t is also necessary 70 E
have some little objects that belonged to 3
the victim, or better yet, one of his teeth,
portions of his nails. or one or two hairs Of
his head. You mix these things in with the
wax of the doll and baptize it. Then, jus, r.
you stick pin into the figure. If at that
moment your enemy is even flirting with
young woman, he Immediately begins 70
suffer from palpitation of the heart (natuF'
ally enough) If he does not die from sul'
location.
The proceeding a resprit volant is tho
latest Improvement in this science, and u
is the child Of hypnotism. In order to ex'
ecute 1t you must have subject whose
aafr Nuh fOI { D
fluid nature, will abandon the material r
body on your order and transport itseI
toward your victim. 1t slips into his veins
the poison you have learned how to vola
tie. The operation terminated, you re-
turn the astral body to its carnal dwelling
and you rouse the subject. The crime
committed without anybody in the world
being able to accuse you, and you are len
alone with you conscience. But the con.
science of a Black Crook Is particularly
elastic.
Now, that is the way they work the ma
chine, and the Revue refuses to reveal ths
places where the ceremonies are Performs
for fear Of leading it's readers into tempts
ton. It is better, it says, to let them be
lieve that the business of casting spells
belongs to the domain of fables. But Tho
surprising thing about it is that men
learning and apparently endowed WIZ
common sense indulge in this kind of ruO'
bish. Witnesses well worthy of belief haW
told extraordinary stories of a certain CO..
de Rochas, stories that can Guido the WIG
est inventions of the Devil on Two
Sticks" Col de Rochas, we are told ha
discovered a method of "exteriorizing tn
sensations of individuals" Asmodeus use'
to put the souls of Christians who died in
penitent into bottles: but NJ. de RochaA
more ingenius than Asmodeus, concer
trates and dissolves in glass OF wala
the senses of enjoyment and Of sufferls
of a subject previously magnetized.
this water is boiled, the subject writns
like ST. Laurent on his gridiron; ana
on the contrary, the water freezes, the "
fortunate victim becomes blizZardly coil
Like the story of Jack and the pee
Stalk" all this may not be as true as y
Bible, but in these days of advanceme.
why shouldn't the black art be reforms
and rejuvenated just like our own e'N
glorious city government?