The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-12-01
SHE KNOWS Hoopoo
Old Time Negress Explains 1t in De-
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Genuine hoodoo doctors are rare in
these days of positive science. and even
I folks that have been '-hoodooed" are
/ few. But in a colony of coiored folks in
/ New York are few veterans left who
Know how to apply and how to avoid the
evil medicine. Aunt Belinda Babcock
can hoodoo you. The little picaninies
know that But the older folks know
that Aun Belinda never exercises her
power except to ward off evil.
"Hoodoo * terrible thirgs, says Aunt
E-!inGa. shas ng her head. An Ill tel
lou how I Saows. When vas young
gai. Twin j. New Orlean.. bet IRE the
sr. when 1 was amIy ssvant met
a hoodoo man. OF co Sc 1 had my beau
in them days. Another colored gal tried
10 sit him away from me and make love
10 him. so We all come together one day
and had terrible strong arguments. When
she found she couldn't win him she says
to me- III fix you yet" she says. But
I only laughed. I wouldn't have laughed
if I had knowed what she would do.
This is some of the hoodoo she done
for me. That sal got the hair switch
wore, an she got three needles and three
pins an three eggs, an she stuck them
pins an nedles in the eggs an wound the
hair around them an buried them under
my doorstep. where had to cross them
every day.
Il began to feel as though I was burn
ing up: L jes got crazy. raved
around all the time So l see l was
hoodooed. an went to hoodoo doctor
to see what was the matter and if there
was any way to git even, and he says
there was.
Then l had to get nine ground puppies
nine puppies that had been killed and
dried in the sun and powdered up. These
puppies are mighty important. After
ground up the dried puppies like pepper
put them in jar for nine days and then
he told me TO hurry them in a convenient
place where we three could meet again,
and I did it. / put them in the ground
and got my beau to meet me. an Of
course she come along to see what we
was up to.
well there was terrible time. AS
soon as she come where the ground pup
pies was buried the earth began to crack
open. and she was awfully taken. She
tore her clothes all TO rags In her terror
and she ran franticslly through the
streets of New Orleans till she come to
the Mississippi river and she jumped in
and was drowned and the hoodoo was
token away from me.
"Then ] began to study. I learned
about the Devils Lynxes. When YOU
want to git rid Of an enemy you got TO git .
a snake and kill it and dry it in the sun
and grind it up into powder and sprinkle
it in the hallway of your enemy's house. +
Then most terrible germs viii invade her
system ard she viii die.
''Oh if you put it in anything she eats
snakes viii grow in her stomach and she
win die.
'Or if you rub it on her bare skin a
snake viii grow under the skin. which is
annoying. and she viii die.
And there is the baby hoodoo. If you
take baby that dies and leave it on
shelf to dry and then grind it up and put
he powder in your enemy's food it viii
loodoo her and she viii die.
III YOU drive a nail wrapped in the hair
# your enemy under her doorstep it will
,ause her husband TO leave her. Or If
you prick your finger till blood comes and
write your enemys name with Il on
ard and bury it she win die.
'.Hoodooism is terrible" says Aunt Be
linda Babcock. only you got TO believe
n everything You do and say Hoodoo
Won't work unless you believe in what
-ou're doing. I amt never hoodooed.
because I always carry a Decent piece
md pinch of salt in the toe OF my left
hoe
IF YOU want 10 ind out If you are ]
.oodooed. put Decent piece under your
ongue and 81 it turns black You are.
lr YOU can 60 20 hoodoo doctor ut
Midnight in the dark OF the moon and he
snl look through Won with burning cam :
he. and he can see the hodoo il there Is
ne But they amt many hoodoo doc
ors LETT 50 the Decent piece is the best
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