The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-19
WORK FOR THE 100000 DOCTOR.
How He Removes the Hunger
 Spells From His Patients.

How He Removes the Hunger
 Spells From His Patients
 Other doctors may cure you if you are stricken with some disease, but there is only one doctor who can cure l you if you are really "hoodooed." i The "hoodoo doctor" is a 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 a familiar figure on the streets of both cities, and invariably carries a 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 hoodo doctor" sad one colored woman, 'but what is the difference be- tween him and the divine healers of white folks?"
 The negro people, or at least 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 jealous.
 When such a person pays a social call to supposed friend the first thing ne- eessary 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 mutters an in cantation known only to the hoodoo Idoctor and to his patients.
 The next step is to send for the hoodoo 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 hodoo doctor arrives upon the scene he goes through the salt sweeping process again and calls upon the evil spirits to depart instanter. His visits are preferably made by night, but where this is impracticable the room wherein lies the victim of the dread hoodoo is darkened The hoodoo doctor then proceeds to rub his patient always in the darl5-and the evil spirits he rubs out of conjured par tient are said to be marvellous in size and hideous to behold. After the rub ping process is over the hoodoo doctor Iprepares a connection of hard boiled eggs. fresh grass in summer or the dried article in winter, handful of twigs and several other mysterious and more or less unpalatable ingredients, the concoction a secret known only to the hoodoo doctor. This he feeds in tablespoon doses until he is assured that the work of the conjurer has been destroyed and his patient free from all the wiles to which victims of the evil spirits are heirs.
 Once a negro has been hoodooed he is apt to have a recurrent attack at any time, always being more or less suscep- tible to the wicked conjurer Thus is the hoodoo doctor in such great de- mand.
 People can be hoodooed in different ways" said the hoodoo doctor They can be fixed so they never can amount to anything or have any success ir business or love or be able to keeT even in fairly good health, and they Ijust got to get that hoodoo out of 'em before they ever will be any good That's what's the matter with lots of the white folks failure, only they think they are too smart to bother with the hoodoo doctor'