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A Relic of Barbarism Remaining in
Our Midst.
Voodooism and Witchcraft Among the
Negroes.
Among the immediate blessings which
'it may surely be hoped will follow the
emancipation of the Southern slaves, is
the death of that barbarous superstition
which still rules thousands of them, just
as strongly as it does the wholly uncivil
ized tribes of Africa. Alj over the South,
says a lady contributor to Appleton's
Journal, wherever the African has been
settled, he has carried with him the belief
in and practice of the necromancy known
in Africa as obi, and throughout the
Southern States as voodooism or ''trick
ing.”
In vain have religion and the white
man waged war against this relic of bar
barism ; it still nourishes, hydra headed,
and ever and anon the newspapers raise
an outcry as some fresh instance of its
power and diabolical results are brought to
light.
The negro witches have little m com
mon with the witch of our story-books ;
they never ride broomsticks, or resort to
the thousand and one petty arts of the
Saxton or Celtic witch. Thiers is a far
deeper and deadlier sorcery—a power
which the negro lirmly believes can waste
the marrow in the victim's bones, dry the
I blood in his veins, and, supply his life
| slowly and surely, bring him at last, a
l skeleton, to his grave. .
DIED OK 081.
I Nor is this a fable; there are liun-
V(1 reds of graves in the South on which
f might he placed the epitaph: “ Died
of obi."
“Well, honey,” said a shrewd old
negress to me once, when I had been
exerting all the eloquence I possessed to
convince her of the nothingness of this
terrible bugaboo—“well, honey, dey lnout
jes cs well kill you cs skear you ter detli.”
Potent among their charms is that of
the "evil eye,” which, fixed on a man
by one of these witches, his power to
thwart every undertaking in life.
His axe will not cut; his hoe will not
dig; his ploughshare will be broken
against the rocks ; his cows will go dry ;
plant he crops, they will not como up .
and, whatever he doetli, it shall not pros
per.
Mention has been made, in a former
article, of this terrible scourge of voodoo
ism. and the modes in which it is prac
ticed ; but no mere words can describe the
hold which it has on the mind of the
Southern negro, Once convince him that
he is “ tricked,” and, unless ho be able
to procure a “ trick-doctor,” whom he
considers more skillful than the witch
under whose spell he has fallen, no human
power can save him—he believes that he
must die, and die he will; a whole college
of physicians could not save him.
WITCHES IN TnK PILLOW.
A man was sick nigh unto death ; iiis
wife went to a witch-doctor, and received
orders to open his pillow'. She did so,
and within jt she found half a dozen or
more tiny conglomerations of feathers,
closely resembling the plumes on a hearse.
These were burnt, and the man recovered.
Another, very ill, w 7 as given an ointment
with which to rub his stomach and chest,
At the end of two days he vomited sev
eral hairy worms, and was cured. I know
colored people who would swear to the
truth of these statements, and I have my
self seen the little plumes ; indeed, learned
men have taken Ike trouble to try to ac
count for these last by natural causes.
These dread of “tricking” is a grievous
cross to the Southern house-keeper, since
it sometimes interferes with her changing
servants, as often they dare not take each
other's places.
I had myself a cook of whom I was
anxious to get rid. The woman had no
desire to leave, and told every other ser
vant whom I tried to secure that she did
not mean to go. I finally engaged one,
and this dread of obi was nearly the cause
of my losing her. I was forced to notify
the two women and their husbands that I
would not and could not keep the for
mer, if I had either to do so or to cook
for myself. Even then my new cook
remained under protest; and red pepper
and salt—potent countercharms for voodoo
—were freely used in my kitchen for the
next week or two.
SAD CASE.
It is painful—it is mournful—to see as
we Southerners have often seen, strong
men pining away under the influence of
this superstition, taking medicine with a
sorrowful smile, w'kispering perhaps in
awestruck tones, the dreadful secret that
they are “tricked,” and dying, at last, in
spite of all that medical skill could do
for them.
TIIE OLD CRONES.
Some of those old crones possess a mar
velous knowledge of the nature aud prop
erties of every plant indigenous to the
South. They have an herb lor every ache
or pain, and frequently prepare little bags
filled with dried roots or leaves to be worn
around the neck as a charm against dis
ease or the “evil eye.”
Some of the cures which they work are
really wonderful. I was sick once—had
taken a violent cold, aching in every limb,
and was booked, I felt sure, for an attack
ol pneumonia, or perhaps worse. My
"mammy'’ had a noted herb doctor for a
friend, and brought me a cup containing a
dark, bitter decoction. What it was I have
no idea, but I took it from mammy with
the same faith with which, when a baby,
I had taken catnip from the same hand.
In ten minutes I was in a perspiration,
aud free from fever; in five more I was
fast asleep ; and the next morning waked
as well as ever, and without a trace of
cold; but I never could find out the name
of my medicine.
1 have known a young athlete, a brawny
Uerculea, whose strength was the glory
of the plantation, who would shoulder a
barrel of flour, and then, picking up a keg
of nails, walk briskly up staira and deposit
Ins burden with a grin, and who was as
proud of his muscle as any wrestler of old ;
1 have seen him laid on his bed with pa
ralysis creeping from one member to an
other, until at last he only moved his eyes
and tongue—dying by inches of a disease
which the first phvslcians in the three
counties around could do nothing to check
or cure, and for which he and his fellow
slaves had only the one word of explana
tion —"tricked.” The doctors held & post
mortem examination, and reported, “Sin
gular internal discoloration, probably lead
poisoning in whiskey,” when the poor fcl
scarcely ever drank, and of numbers of
sots in the neighborhood not one was af
fected in like manner.
Not far from the Virginia farm-house
in which I was raised, just on the edge
of my father's plantation, an old woman,
renowned as a witch, owned a cabin aud a
little bit of ground,
She had a crippled daughter, whose
lameness was the result of white swelling
in infancy, but the negroes scouted such
explanation of the matter.
“White swelling,’-‘deed 1" said one of
my mother's sable handmaidens to her
mistress one day, with a toss of her tur
biined head which spoke voiceless —
" white swellin,” deed 1 Yowl white
folks kin b'lieve dat 1 Her mummy let'
summon her triek-mixcljers lftyin’ roun,
en de chile trend on utn 1”
A SIMPLE CURE.
A cousin and myseir were one day sent
to carry some wool to this woman to be
spun—for she spun beautifully, aud my
mother often employed her.
Our body-guard consisted of two col
ored girls, one an irrepressible mulalress,
the other a quiet, demure little black girl,
excessively timid.
The house was a double log cabin, with
two rooms. We were invited iuto the
first while the old woman went into the
inner chambers to get the yarn which she
had already spun.
Meantime the mulatto girl was in a
saucy humor, and amused herself by some
pert remarks about the “old witch,” which
distressed her companion so much that I
had to order her to hold her tongue.
Going home, Emeline probably hurt
her leg in climbing the rail fence around
the little yard ; at all events, she soon be
gan to complain of the limb, which grew
inflamed, and swelled so rapidly that be
fore we were half way home she could
scarcely walk. Both girls were much
alarmed, aud Emeline, weeping, hegged
piteously to know if I thought she would
be lame for life.
I had been reading Scott's “Day of the
Last Minstrel.” and, recollecting his ac
count of the superstition that no enchant
ment is proof against running water, I
made Emmeline bathe her leg for about
half an hour in a brauch which lay in our
path. Imagination aud cold water com
bined, served to relieve her, but she, no
doubt, believes to this day that she was
“tricked,” and considers me a marvel of
learning, because I knew how to deal with
her case.
TItICKED JIM
Shortly after the close of the war, a
near relative of the writer was teaching
in the mountains of Virginia. On the
farm of the gentleman in whose family he
resided were two laborers, Jim and Sam,
the former a pleasant-featured mulatto,
remarkably intelligent for a negro, and
extremely popular among his acquaint
ances ; the other an ugly, black negro,
with a hang dog expression. Sum had
with his own color the reputation of “voo
dooism,” and many stories were told of
his prowess in the “black art.”
One day Jim was taken sick and it was
whispered in the negro-cabins that Sam
had " tricked” him. The doctor was
called in, but could not classify his dis
ease, although the poor fellow was visi
bly drooping, and complained of pain in
the back and limbs, accompanied by great
langour, and the pulse was as feeble as an
infant's.
The doctor’s medicine did him no good ;
indeed it is doubtful whether he took
them ; and the case excited great interest
in the white family, and was freely dis
cussed among them.
At this juncture M (my friend)
begged permission to undertake the case,
and see if he could not effect a cure by
working on the man’s imagination.
It was readily granted, and he managed
that evening to waylay Jim in the woods
about dusk, and anxiously inquired after
his health.
“Polly, marster,” was the reply.
“Well, Jim, I have come to cure you.”
“You, master?” with a sad, incredulous
smile. “You can’t do dat; yowl white
folks don’t ’lieve in my sort er sickness.
Marster, I’se tricked.”
“1 know you are, Jim,” gravely replied
M , “and I do believe in that kind of
sickness, though I know there are not
many white folk* who do, and I can cure
you.”
AN ASTONISHED NEGRO.
Jim looked up astonished, while M
went on to detail his symptoms, which he
had learned at second-hand from Jim’s
wife—telling him how aud when he had
been taken, and how Ham had tricked him
—and drawing on recollections of Scott
and Mather, finally succeeded in convinc
ing his patient of his great skill and knowl
edge as a trick-doctor.
“ Now, you see, Jim." he said, “this
thing goes by weeks. Three weeks ago
Sam hid a bloody hand under your door
step ; two weeks ago you were taken sick,
and next week you will either be as well as
ever, or die. Now, 1 know more about
these matters than Sam docs, and I mean
to cure you ; so come to my school-house
to-night at twelve o’clock to see me, but
don’t tell anybody anything about it, or
the charm won’t work, and I can't do
anything for yon.”
Jim wns greatly impressed, and went
away fully (relieving in liis volunteer
physician, and promised secrecy the most
inviolable.
He was punctual to the appointment,
and M— received him in pitch darkness, !
and went through a series of impromptu
conjurations, which served to strengthen 1
the negro's faith no little. He gave Jim
a chalk powder, to be placed in each shoe,
and two huge, bloody bands—drawn in
! pokeberry juice on white paper—with di
-1 rections to burry them under bis enemy’s
] door step, gave him orders to walk home
backward, and finally dismissed him, fully
I convinced that Sam s power over him was
at an end, and that he was on the way to
recovery.
The next night he came to the rendez
vous in good spirits, and reported himßelf
much better; and, to make along story
i short, at the end of a week he was really
as well as ever; and M —— had the satis
faction of having, in Ml human probability,
\ saved the poor fellow's life.
But iu spite of his injunctions to secrecy,
J his fame as a trick-doctor went abroad m
MACON, (tA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1872.
the neighborhood, and he had numerous
applications from the atllicted for relief,
insomuch that he was forced to announce
officially his retirement from the profes
sion, and decline positively to practico on
any one.
SINGULAR MEDICINES.
1 knew an old woman who supported
herself entirely by her practice as a trick
doctor, and people came sometimes forty
or fifty miles to consult her.
The medicines which these people use—
if medicines they may bo called —are as
singular as the disense which they profess
to cure. A piece of bread stained with
the blood of a wart and buried in the
ground, will eradicate the wart (!). Chills
and fevers’eured (?) by blowing into the
mouth of a live frog, or walking backward
to a tree in a graveyard, and tying a string
around the trunk.
Darings from finger and toe-nails, hair
from the human head, blood from the tip
of a black cat's tail, snakes’ fangs, skins,
and dried heads, wool, that has been
charred by lightning, of which negroes
have a superstitious dread, believing
(many of them) that a tire kindled by it
can only be extinguished with blood or
milk, and the horrible looking insect
kuown as the devil’s horse, play an
important part in the science of obi.
Education and religion are doing gal
lant.warfare with this hideous form of
superstition ; still it yearly numbers its
victims by hundreds, aud it is probable
that it will be long ere it entirely disap
pears.
Is there really anything in it ? Are
these conjurers themselves deceived ? Do
they, in fact, know of such subtle and
deadly poisons, or is it all imagination,
proving only the power of mind over
matter. Who shall solve the mystery
for us ? -
A Beautiful Experiment.—The fol
lovviug|beuutiful experiment may bo easily
performed by a lady, to the great aston
ishment of a circle at her tea party : Take
two or three leaves of red cabbage, cut
them into small bits, put them into a basin
and pour a pint of boiling water on t|iem;
let it stand an hour, then pour it ofT into
a decanter. It will he a fine blue color.
Then take four wine glasses ; into one put
six drops of stroug vinegar ; into another
six drops of solution of soda; iuto the
third a strong solution of alum, and let the
fourth remain empty. The glasses may
be prepared some time before, and the few
drops of colorless liquid that have been
placed in them will not he noticed. Fill
up the glasses from the decanter, aud the
liquid poured into the glass containing
the acid will become a beautiful red . the
glass containing the soda will become a
fine green ; that poured into the empty
one will remain unchanged. By adding a
little vinegar to the green it will immedi
ately change to a red, and on adding a
little solution of soda to the red it will as
sume a fine green, thus showing the action
of acids and alkalies on vegetable blues.
A Davenport man, with three marriage
able daughters, has posted the following
notice over his bell-pull; Wood, s<> a
cold; coal 30 cents per bushel; gas dear
and bad. Parties staying after 9 o'clock
will please settle quarterly. N. 11. A re
duction made after popping, and the full
amount added to the bridal douceur."
Strain is a ridiculous word. When it
stands for a song it means sound. When
it stands for a strain it means unsound. It
may have a sound sense, but it has a deal
of nonsense about it too.
Theodore Hook observed, in the first
days of Warren’s blacking, that one of
the emissaries of that manufacturer had
written on a wall, “ Try Warren’s H
but had been frightened from his work
and fled. “ Tho’rest is lacking,” said the
wit.
Tom Moore said to Peel, on looking at
an Irish orator : “ You can see the very
quiver of his lips.” “Yes” said Peel, “and
the arrow coming out of it.” Moore was
telling this to one his countrymen who
said : “ He meant arrah coming out of it.”
A yankee having told an Englisman
that he shot, on one particular occasion,
nine hundred and ninety-nine snipes, his
interlocutor asked him why he did’nt
make it a thousand at once.
“ No said he, not likely I’m going to tell
a lie for a single snipe.”
Whereupon, the Englishman, rather
riled, and determined not to be outdone,
began to tell a long story of a man hav
ing swam from Liverpool to Hoston.
"Did you see him?” asked the yankee.
“ Why of course I did. I was coming
across and our vessel passed him a mile
out of lioston babor.”
“ Well, I’m glad you saw him, stranger,
cause you're a witness that I did it. That
was me.
FOR SALE.
A FOUR room dwelling and vacant lot,
also, splendid well of water hi the yard ;
fronting on Spring and Rose Streets, contain
ing one quarter of an acre. For sale cheap.
Apply to
GEORGE SCHMIDT,
nov. 25—lm. corner Third and PI um Streets.
Change of Schedule.
MACON AND WESTERN K. R. CO., I
Macon, Ga., October 31, 1873. f
ON and after Suoday November 3d, the fol
lowing schedule for Passenger Trains,
will be observed on this road:
DAY PASSENGER.
Leave Macon 8:15 A. M.
Arrive at Macon 3:05 a. m.
Leave Atlanta 8:30 A. M.
Arrive at Atlanta 2:40 p. M.
NIGHT PASSENGER AND FREIGHT.
Leave Macon 8:50 p. m.
Arrive at Macon 3:20 a. m.
Leave Atlanta 8:00 r. M.
Ai rive at Atlanta 4:55 A. M.
Making close connections at Macon with
Central Railroad for Savannah and Augusta,
and with Southwestern Railroad for points in
Southwest Georgia. At Atlanta with Western
and Atlantic Railway for points West.
A. J. WHITE,
nov3tf ' Superintendent.
Stockholder's Meeting.
Oppice Macon and Westkrx R. K. Cos., I
Macon, Ga., Nov. 30. 1872. f
The annual meeting of Stockholders of the
Macon and Western Railroad Company, for the
election of President and Directors to serve for
the ensuing year, and any other business that
may be brought before them will be held at the
office of the Company In thia city on Tuesday
the 7th day of January next al 10 o’clock A. M.
MILO 8. FREEMAN,
novSO-td Secretary and Treasurer.
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Building; Lot For Sale.
OITUATED near Tntnitll Square, within a
O fewatepa of Mercer University.
Address K. C., Box K.,
98tf Macon, Ga.
FOR SALE.
A COMPLETE OUTFIT OF HOUSEHOLD
FUKNITTItE.
A FAMILY designing to break up house
keeping on the lirst of October, now offer a
complete outfit of furniture for five or six
rooms, together with all necessary kitchen
utensels, for sale at half original cost. It con
sists of Mohair Parlor Chairs, Mahogany and
Black Walnut Bedsteads, Bureaus, Dining Ta
ble, Dining, Rocking and common chairs, Car
pets, Dinner and Tea Setts, and in short, almost
every article demanded in a house of live or six
rooms. The furniture lias not been used over
one or two years, is in perfect repair, almost
as good as new, coat #I,OOO and will now tie
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orupply at this THIS OFFICE.
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It A It & LAGER IIEEII SALOON,
(MAASJBT’B OLD WAND.)
Opposite Medical College, Mulberry St.
fTMlift Silicon is supplied with the best Wines.
1 Liquors ami Oigais in the market, sivtcl
sparkling Lager Jitter of superior quality. Free
lunch every <luy from 10 to 12 o’clock and
extra lunches served up at any hour in the day
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MISS M. A. DANIEL
WOL’LD respectfully inform the Ladies of
Macon and vicinity tint, i-hc has taken
rooms at Vo. IO Cotton Avenue fup stairs),
where she, i- prepared to do Duemh Making In
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ocusur.
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No. Xlf Third SlriTt,
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n jlpll | Tin AND GALVANIZED IRON CORNICES
nmi I v Executed at short notice and satisfaction
\ i| \ * 1 guaranteed.
'v j) y \|| 1 No. 10 Third Street, .llacon, Ga,
I | Particular attention given to Guttering put up
1 1 with
\ * WOODRUFF’S
V. IMTEYf HATH I’ASTiiNINGS.
EPEOVED ftlT (HUAI
?S< ! r nIITN<; TVEW.
SUPERSEDES ILL OTH H ffORSE POWER
IT IS NO HUMBUG!!
npilE Bcttlliu; of the; Gin Mouse floor Ims no died on the Geuri ; King PMt of Iron utul all
L the work bolted to iron.
IT LS MADE TO LAST, AND TO RUN TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT. LIGHTER THAN ANY
OTHER ROWER IN USE.
Call and bpc for yoim. If.
I Guild :t Portable Jlorse Power that cluillCD'all other MAKES, but it will not do the work
with the same Draft that my PATENT GIN GEAR will.
All kinds of Machinery made and repaired sit
IKO> WOKItN,
108-180 Near Brown House, Macon Georgia.
BBJDWFST GALLERY!
Wo. 8 Cotton Avenue,
Is the place where all the differ
ent styles of pictures are made
at greatly reduced prices. __
W. &E. P. TAYLOR
Cor. Cotton Avenue an<l Cherry Street,
DEALERS IN
Mil, CARPETINGS, IKS,
OIL CLOTHS, WINDOW SHADES, etc.
Metaiic Burial Cases & Caskets,
Fine and Plain Wood Coffins and Caskets.
Tytf
Order* by Telegraph promptly attended to.
jAjr.a a. mount. Isaac habdeman. ,
■ll.Ol IT A HARDEMAUf,
ATTORNEYS3AT SLAW,
MACON, GEORGIA.
OFFICE, at entrance Ralston Hall, Cherry
street. 4H-BWO
Barber Shop For Rent.
rpilE Basement room, formerly occupied by
1. Mike Napier, In Brown’s Hotel building la
for rent 'fill# Is one of the host stand# for a
Barber Shop in the city. Apply to
eep2stf BRAWN'S HOTEL.
Volume I.—Number 214
I‘NMAN LINE
ROYAL M4IE STEAMSHIPS.
rpHE Liverpool, New York and Philadelphia
X Steamship Company dispatch two steam
er per week. Tke quickest time ever made
across the Atlantic. Every comfort and con
venience. For further information apply to
eepS3-tf H. C. STEVENSON, Agent.
