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‘White’ witch doctor critical of ‘root doctor’
By The Associated Press
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74-year-old South Carolinian
who has been casting out evil
spirits in the state's lowcountry
for more than 50 years.
Ed McTeer is a former sheriff
of Beaufort County, a de
scendant of Declaration of In-
dependence signer Thomas
Heyward Jr., and a practitioner
and expert on witchcraft. He
has written several books on the
subject, the latest being “Fifty
Years As A White Witch
Doctor.”
A native of Beaufort County,
where many of the state’s folk
medicine users are located,
McTeer is a witch, or “root”
doctor. But, he emphasizes, he
is a white witch doctor. He does
not accept money for his deeds
and works to undo the hexes
cast by black witch doctors.
“Black” and “white” refer to
the “modus operandi” and not
race.
McTeer, who lives on a plan
tation near the small commu
nity of Frogmore, says witch
doctors work through the mind,
not through mysterious reme
dies. They cure illnesses be
cause people believe in them.
McTeer says he would never
prescribe the treatment report
edly given the New York wom
an and neither would any legiti
mate witch doctor.
Authorities in New Jersey are
investigating the death of Cath
erine E. Council, 22, who died
after a root doctor reportedly
performed a ritual to rid her of
demons. The root doctor has not
been identified.
Authorities say the woman
died after a scarf soaked in tur
pentine and ammonia was tied
around her mouth and nose. The
wrapping, authorities say, was
prescribed by the Moncks
Comer root doctor. Her mother
was being held on a man
slaughter charge in Mt. Holly,
N.J.
McTeer, who is one of the few
white practitioners of folk
medicine in the area, says he
does perform a kind of exorcism
to cast out evil spirits. However,
he says, he does not do anything
to the person being exorcised.
Instead, he recites incantations
and moves objects about
through what he calls his kinetic
powers.
“The main thing is for the
patient to believe in you and see
the evil leave him,” he says.
He also does not prescribe
medicines or treatments. “The
only thing I give them is a little
amulet to wear with things I put
in it...my force and their force.
It gives them peace of mind.”
Being a white witch doctor,
McTeer does not accept money
for his services. “I tell them, if
they pay me, the spell would
turn on me and them both.”
But, he says, black witch doc
tors charge a “big fee. In terms
of money, they might charge
SSOO to $25 for putting a spell on
someone.”
Among other things, black
witch doctors “can make you
die, make you commit suicide,
or bum your house down,” he
said.
They also perform sacrifices.
“They might kill a white rooster
to purify someone or make a
person drink goat’s blood,” he
said.
McTeer says he gets calls
from all over the country from
persons who feel they are hexed
He took up witchcraft to help
such persons. “Coming along, I
saw people bum down their
houses and sometimes die be
cause they believed a hex had
been placed on them,” he says.
No one knows how many
witch doctors there are in South
Carolina, but they are
concentrated in the sea islands
near the Gerogia border, where
the population is mostly rural
blacks.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—l9-year-old Kathleen Donovan slips the bottom of her polka dot
bikini into the Bicentennial time capsule here Tuesday shortly before it was sealed by
Florida’s Sec. of State Bruce Smathers, right. The Bikini will be one of the first of some 65
items representative of 1976 culture that 21st Century Floridians will see when its opened on
July 4, 2075 as part of the nation’s tricentennial. (AP)
— Griffin Daily News Wednesday, January 12,1977
