Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-08-05

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sAs rhsss ways Of Casting . spsll-Hs-
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ons Method IL Quite Ean de siseis-Mss
- Learning Believe I'm the nubbish.
Mcderri occultism, or. to put it in dip.
s3ornatic costume, l'occultisme moderns,
= becoming decidedly aggressive, to say
tho least Of It, II we are TO believe La
Revue nlustree. Strange a. tho newl
may appear, IL Is nevertheless reported
athat the black art 10 fi~ourishing 6end-
tahly both In Europe and America.
Casting q spell upon an individual,
2 2 they say on the Bowery. ''hoodoo-
ing q fellow" has not, according to
La Revue. fallen into innocuoua des.
uetude. We all remember the scene
Depicted by Alexandra Dumas in
RENE Margot," in which the per.
fpmefof Catherine de- Medici plunges .
golden needle into the heart, or rather
the place whore the heart ought to be,
1of q little wax statuette modelled In the
Image of King Charles Tx. But the
magicians of the present day have
brought modern improvements into the
art They practice three kinds Of hoo
dooism, according to the caprice of the
client and the degree OF hatred with
which he is possessed. Inuene they use
a,toad. in another a doll and in q third
they operate a l'csprit volant, on, in
otherwofds, they remove the spirit and
place It temporarily just where they
want it.
Here are the prescriptions for the
three methods: You take a road, male
or female. according to the sex of the
person whom you wish to reach. You
baptize It n you would q child, giving
It the full name Of your enemy. While
you are committing this sacrilege you
must endeav0r to work yourself up into
. paroxysm Of hatred toward your vic-
tim, and you must sandwich the sacra-
mental words with the most horrible
imprecations. Then you inhict upon
the toad all the fortunes chat your imaQ-
ination can suggest, for your enemy Is
bound to suffer correspondingly.
1fSyou take an eye out Of the toad,
your enemy will lose an eye, etc. In
America, according to La Revue, the
Black Crooks have recourse to a more
SUMMARY ~expedient. They bury the toad
ht the threshold of tho residence Of the
person selected for a victim, with the
result that he dies as If suffocated.
! The doll method is the most ancient
and the most classic. It requires a wax
figure called q mamie, resembling the
victim as much as possible. 1t is also
necessary to have some little objects that
belonged to 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
hpdsbnptize it. Then, just like the poi
sQner Of Catherine de- Medici, you stick
spin infofhe figure. II at that moment
your enemy is ven flirting with q
young woman, he Immediately begins
to suffer from palpitation Of the heart.
naturally enough. ii he does not die
from sufKocation.
The proceeding I'esprit volant is the
lakest Improvement in this science, and
at1is the child Of hypnotism. In order to
execute it you must awe a subject whose
astral body, which we are told is Of q
fpid nature, will abandon the material
body on your order and transport itself
yeur victim. It slips into his
veins tho pOisons which You have learn
"a how to yolatiItze. The operation ter
minated, you return the astral body to
it, carial dwelling, and you tho
subject. Tho crime is committed with
out anybody in the world being able to
accuse you, and you are left alone with
yeuy conscience. But the conscience of
. Black Crook is particularly elastic.
Now, that il the way they work the
pachine, and L. Revue refuses to re-
veal the pieces where the ceremonies aae
rerforHaed for fesy Of leading its read
ers into temptation. 1t is better, ii says,
20 letaff6sm believe that the business OF
casting Hpells belongs to the domain Of
But the surprising thing about
IL q zthat;men Of learning and at parent
" endowed with common sense indulge
IN thiaskind Of rubbish.
Wx3lssses we'll worthy Of belief have
told extraordinary stories Of a certain
Colonel de Hochas--stories that can
outdo. the widest inventions ii the
s.Deyil on Two Sticks" Colonel de
Rochsax we are told, has discovered a
mathSl az s'exteriorizing the sensations
Of 4ndiyidRats. = Asmodeus nsed e pnt