The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-04-27
DRIVES OUT SPIRITS
HOW "Hoopoo pocTon, TREATS
HIS PATIENTS.
Negro People Mostly Are Firm Believ
ers In His Power to Save from
Effects Of Being Con.
jured by Enemy.

Other doctors may cure you II you
are stricken with some disease, but
there is only one doctor who can cure
you If you are really "hoodooed."
The "hoodoo doctor" is tall, gaunt
and cadaverous looking negro with a
wealth of long wavy hair, and he lives
In the West side. says the Kansas CITY
Star. He is familiar figure on the
streets of both cities, and invariably
carries little black hand satchel.
The hoodoo doctor Is held in awe by
nine.tenths of the negro population
and his services are in demand by the
people of his race.
"You may laugh at us for believing
in our hoodoo Doctor" said one colored
woman, but what is the difference be.
tween him and the divine healers of
white folks?"
The negro people, or at least a great
majority of them, are firm believers In
the power of the evil spirit and go so
far as to credit some of their race with
the power to "conjure" an enemy, OF
one of whom the conjurer is jeal
Gus.
When such a person pays a social
call to supposed friend the first thing
necessary after the visit, according tC
the hoodoo doctor Is to throw coarse
salt over the floor of the room in which
the alleged conjurer has visited, and
then, with vigorous movement
sweep the salt east and west and north
and south. the while the sweeper NUT.
tiers an incarnation known only to the
hoodoo doctor and to his patients.
The next step is to send for the hoo.
doc doctor-the quicker the better, in
order that the conjurer may not have
time to get in his deadly work or to
work any material harm to the health
or the happiness of his victim.
When the hoodoo doctor arrives
upon the scene he goes through the
salt sweeping process again and calls
upon the evil spirits to depart in
stanter. His visits are preferably
made at night, but where this Is i'm
practicable the room wherein lies the
victim of the dread hoodoo is darken
ed. The hoodoo doctor then proceeds
to rub his patient-always in the dark
and the evil spirits he robs out of 9
conjured patient are said to be mar
velous in size and hideous to behold
After the rubbing process is over the
hoodoo doctor prepares a connection
of hard boiled eggs, fresh grass in sum
mer or the dried article In winter, 6
handful of twigs and several Other
mysterious and more or less unpala
table ingredients, the concoction a Sc
| cret known only to the hoodoO doctor
| This he feeds in tablespoon doses un
| til he Is assured that the work of tn,
conjurer has been destroyed and hi!
| patient free from all the wiles t
which victims of the evil spirit ar,
heirs.
Once a negro has been hoodooed HI
is apt to have a recurrent attack a
any time, always being more or les
susceptible to the wicked conjurer
Thus is the hoodoo doctor in sucl
great demand.
| People can be hoodooed In differen
ways" said the hoodoo doctor. THE.
can be fixed so they can amount t,
anything or have any success in busi
ness or love or be able to keep in fail
ly good heath, and they just got t
get that hoodoo out of 'em before the
ever will be any good. That's what
the matter with lots of the white folks
failures. only they think they are to
smart to bother with the hoodoo doc
tor"