The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-09
Over the Nuts and Wine
By FRANCES coURTENAY BAYLOR.

u spill salt. only they added corn and
| Wine and oil. which they regarded as
sa'r Of Ff s Of ss
| added the pinch that was to be thrown
oyer Dyer, the left shoulder to make 1t all
threeatcncd the hearth The Roman
bride to whom wedding bread and
c csns mat were burnt were offered
r wine was split at the wedding fea ST
they looked for everything that was
terrible: while in Norway and Sweden
and ana Denmark. IL the nrst fire lit after
refused to burn. cheeks grew pale and
eyes dilated while heads went to-
OF strife and want and woe" and the he
company often broke up and departed
>, Looking at the New Moon.
mo -" MAKE maze a wish with every new
moon. expecting TO have 1t fulfilled 10
,cXperience Of youths and maidens in
G ,ideHoa fT5l r, !, seem to lose con
though they teach it to their children
iohE after they have ceased to look
~ me halves Of the broken silver six
,,lcnmr and Jessamy when scparated@
ne perhaps. in the East Indies. and
f fn, N H. tn y; And the amusing race
mere by newly-wedded couples.
course of several miles. with ali IN.
lm nd n, farmers Of the ncighborhood
stts that fitch rules the roost and
OUT OF IL. in any event, everybody gets
Tor the them e ni1 immfh !, is great fun
IS young and fleet of foot and the
husband either-perhaps very stout
or or vice versa when very buxom
young woman tries to outrun a fins
sum SIM youth 1t forms a good solid basis.
About air NE T. e ,mkes Of ne parish TO and
IN trnll
mas. yell not be givin' in to your wife
ahout this new cloak shes wearvin vol,
LOT when II was YOU that got III,
!,itch. and the like feathcred tests, al.
NAYS make an arrow that hits the
Dull S-cye every time, rs surely as tbs
archers Of England did with Their
f nr;,i shafts when the Black
France
Irclnnd's Bnnshcc.
Like the belief in kobolds. mixes ano
b pan, OF Germany. the existence of the
most deerly embedded in the whole
nation The whole bench OF bishops
the lawyers and doctors and professors
might argue and reason and prove for
hiiS years running that there couldn't
ne panshee. without convincing one
irish neasant, "Tarlkin' is but tarlk.
IN he would say. olive heard the
panshee wailin' for three generations
OIL my people and know different"
The old superstition of believing that
Inc touch of an anointed king would
llsal leprosS. scrofula and various 9th
t ir, alSea ses. so powerfully affected thu
INA slhations OF people as late as when
Napoleon was at jana that cures Of
course. followed. He touched lcpers in
ne ne hospital there without the least
tear Of the consequences and so pitied
me Door doomed ones that he said TO
MS medical director. Corvisart: Doc
tor. San you relieve these unhappy
= Ix-ff Il q
wholly misundersto 900 in Paris. and in
terpreted by his enemies into suggest
ing that the patients should he killed
and got out of the way Is il not !,
terrible thing 10 think tha, there are
| ,oooo of these living deaths in India
alone. and that they are so commonly
iound In the East that many travellers
iear % go there at all. or even to buy
| Eastern rugs. lest they should have be.
| come infected, knowing that our idea.
IA medical matters segregation dis
| never practiced there? II is touching Ia
see survival Of this superstition now
n In,cg me famine stricken people near
licking, who refuse 10 leave that place
because. the Emperor is there. agalns,
whom they believe disease cannot IRE.
Han. Indeed. it is all Infinitely touch
sick, ,imid mortal men and women to
set rid Of evil The millennium viii
/ The Eject Of Imagination
| There could be no more remarka lie
| proof Of the power of mind over mat
ter in these things than was afforded
once IN Paris, where the doctors took
2 condemned criminal, told him tina,
! ne had been turned over to them nv
| the authorities 10 bleed 10 death nut
MN IN a high dentists chair, blind
OF lancet against his wrist and then
| poured warm water over it steadily
| ~ lrst he stood it very well. for he
| was young perfectly Well. and noted
|
drop teil into basin, he grew paler
ana pa!er. And In an hour he was
dead. There had been no real pune
YET the experiment killed him through
ms brain and nerves The "maladc
imag inairc" is the mos, difhcult pa
| orally SAYS. All a notion contcmnt,i-
ousy. when lie finds that tho dlssa so
:: Is quite beyond the reach OF his drugs
| and diagnosis
This is the faculty that the voodoo
priestess Of the black belt SO succe As .
,nily appeals To- She LAYS a train or
on the steps OF the house for r. months TN
somet,mes. She puts skull in the
bed She rolls her black eyes at them
and mutters incantations when they
mec ~ S la, appears on the premises
:.
nolnt The poor creatures give her
ihelr last cent to stop. or for rabbits
to"l 70 nentfalizc evil, or they are
tright,rned out Of their wits, en-
actually die in commissions after y
quarrel with her from sheer horror
was IN street car once in New Or
!canS with the most noted Voodoc
priestcss In the state, and every Negro
20, of ~ once with the most pro
/ found Salutations. slipping a BIT al
money into her hand. where she SAT
by the door. save those who wer.
afraid 10 do so, and covered into cor.
ners: held their fans fevcrybo thcr,
carries a palmctto) before their faccs
10 avoid tho evil eve bent down thei,
heads in pretended study OF the floor
and turned ashy when she looked o,
. SPOKE 70 them. She was a tall ncgress
well dressed Very erect In her ca
riage and commanding In her manners
she Wore a Very imposing turban ant
acted We'll her part of Dea OK machIna
he terror she inspired filled her Will
4 GlOOmN diEnitV--the fear Of hnr ~