Long Valley advocate. (Lardo, Idaho) 1904-1907, 1907-05-09
DRIVES OUT SPIRITS
ou nHoODOO DOCTOR" TREATS
HIS PATIENTS.
.,.aro People Mostly Are Firm Believ-
ers in His Power to Save from
Effects of Being Con-
jured by Enemy.

o+ber doctors may cure you ii you |
30 stricken with some disease, but |
thore is only one doctor who can cure |
.-or if YOU are really 'hoodooed."
rho "hoodoo Doctor is tall, gaunt |
md cadaverous looking negro with a
rroa1th 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 a little black hand satchel.
The hoodoo doctor is held in awe by
nne-tenths of the negro population
and his services are i'll 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 Z?
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, or
one of whom the cOnjurer is jeal-
OuS
When such a person pays social
call to a supposed friend the first thing
necessary after the visit, according to
the hoodoo doctor is to throw coarse
salt over the floor of the room in which
the alleged conjurer has visited, and
then, with a 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 a
conjured patient are said to be mar
velous in size and hideOus to behold
Alter the rubbing process is over the
noodoo doctor prepares a cOncOctiOn
OF hard boiled eggs, fresh grass in sum
mer or the dried article in winter, q
handful of twigs and several other
mysterious and more or less unpala
liable ingredients, the cOncOction a Sc
cret known only to the hOOdOO doctor
Inls he feeds in tablespoon doses I'm
I'll he is assured that the work of the
conJurer has been destroyed and his
patent free from all the wiles tt
which victims of the evil spirit arr
heirs.
once negro has been hoOdooed h
Is apt to have recurrent attack a
any time, always being more or les
susceptible to the wicked conjureI
mus is the hoodoo doctor in sucl
great demand.
Feople can be hoodooed in differen
ways, said the hoodoo doctor. "The
odn De liked so they can amount t
'nythlng or have any success in bus
ness or love or be able to keep in fail
y good health, and they just got t
SCI mat hoodoo out of 'em before the
.'er VIII be any good. That's what
Tue matter with lots of the white folk.
iaiiures, only they think they are to
tor"