| | equally as mysteriously, during the dead of the night, place on his or her door steps a little red flannel sack containing a peach kernel, a piece of bone, a few goods feathers, a lizard's tail, the bill of a chicken, and a pinch of sulphur, or other similar articles, then sprinkle any old kind of dust about the sack, on the door step of the person to be "hoo-dooed." That nigger, when he or she wakes up in the morning and finds the "hoo-doo" has been at work on him or her, will take sick in nine cases out of ten, and remain under the doctor's care for weeks....
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| | There is no law prohibiting the practice of "vou-douism" in this state or city, but the police when complained to of persons practicing the dark art, "kungerin' de spurits," as the negroes term it, and when they are reasonably certain of the guilt of the person accused or suspected of the "hoo-dooing," generally
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| | Arrest the Practioner of Witchcraft and incarcerate him or her on the charge of malicious mischief and disturbing the peace. Recorders have frequently had to deal with this and ... to pass upon the cases of alleged "hoo-dooing."
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| | .... Lovers "hoo-doo" their rivals and the dusky damsels who may have jilted them; "hoodoo" their creditors and those of their relatives who may have quarreled with them; "hoo-doo" their landlords, their wives and their children, and ''hoo-doo" their sweethearts to make them return their love!
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| | .... To fully appreciate the astonishing extent of the belief of the negroes in the efficacy of the
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