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in New Orleans, at the School of Liberty, in 1864-5, and it was from one of the Voupraux queens (Alice H n),—and Madame D 8, a victim, that I gained much of my knowledge in these occult points of black magic. I have known it to be practised for purposes of lust, pagsion, love, revenge, and pecuniary speculation, and always with a strange and marvellous success. Again, we are told that powers of evil guard hidden treasures, and successfully obfuscate and confuse the would-be finders. I believe it; and also believe that said obfuscation can easily be overcome by a timely resort to powers of a higher grade. People are wont to laugh at and deride all this, as superstitious folly and blind credulity, in spite of the fact that the loftiest minds earth ever held, from Hermes Trismecistus, and the AtcnEmists, down the ages, to the last elected members of the Sarsonnz, have believed, do believe it, and I glory in being found in such august company, including ALEXANDER of Russia, and Naproneon III.
In corroboration of what I have written, I beg leave to introduce, without comment, the following article concerning ‘* Voudooism,— African Fetich Worship among the Memphis Negroes,” from the ‘‘ Memphis Appeal” : —
“The word Hoodoo, or Voudoo, is one of the names used in the different African dialects for the practice of the mysteries of the Obi (an African word signifying a species of sorcery and witchcraft common among the worshippers of the fetich). In the West Indies the word ‘ Obi’ is universally used to designate the priests or practisers of this art, who are called ‘Obi’ men and ‘ Obi’ women. In the southern portion of the United States, — Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Georgia, — where the same rites are extensively practised among the negroes, and where, under the humanizing and Christianizing influence of the blessed state of freedom and idleness in which they now exist, and are encouraged by the Freedmen’s Bureau, the religion is rapidly spreading. It goes under the name of Voudooism or Hoodooism.
“The practisers of the art, who are always native Africans, are called hoodoo men or women, and are held in great dread by the negroes, who apply to them for the cure of diseases, to obtain revenge for injuries, and to discover and punish their enemies. The mode of operations is to prepare a fetich, which being placed
near or in the dwelling of the person to be worked upon (under the 2
in New Orleans, at the School of Liberty, in 1864-5, and it was from one of the Voupraux queens (Alice H n),—and Madame D 8, a victim, that I gained much of my knowledge in these occult points of black magic. I have known it to be practised for purposes of lust, pagsion, love, revenge, and pecuniary speculation, and always with a strange and marvellous success. Again, we are told that powers of evil guard hidden treasures, and successfully obfuscate and confuse the would-be finders. I believe it; and also believe that said obfuscation can easily be overcome by a timely resort to powers of a higher grade. People are wont to laugh at and deride all this, as superstitious folly and blind credulity, in spite of the fact that the loftiest minds earth ever held, from Hermes Trismecistus, and the AtcnEmists, down the ages, to the last elected members of the Sarsonnz, have believed, do believe it, and I glory in being found in such august company, including ALEXANDER of Russia, and Naproneon III.
In corroboration of what I have written, I beg leave to introduce, without comment, the following article concerning ‘* Voudooism,— African Fetich Worship among the Memphis Negroes,” from the ‘‘ Memphis Appeal” : —
“The word Hoodoo, or Voudoo, is one of the names used in the different African dialects for the practice of the mysteries of the Obi (an African word signifying a species of sorcery and witchcraft common among the worshippers of the fetich). In the West Indies the word ‘ Obi’ is universally used to designate the priests or practisers of this art, who are called ‘Obi’ men and ‘ Obi’ women. In the southern portion of the United States, — Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Georgia, — where the same rites are extensively practised among the negroes, and where, under the humanizing and Christianizing influence of the blessed state of freedom and idleness in which they now exist, and are encouraged by the Freedmen’s Bureau, the religion is rapidly spreading. It goes under the name of Voudooism or Hoodooism.
“The practisers of the art, who are always native Africans, are called hoodoo men or women, and are held in great dread by the negroes, who apply to them for the cure of diseases, to obtain revenge for injuries, and to discover and punish their enemies. The mode of operations is to prepare a fetich, which being placed
near or in the dwelling of the person to be worked upon (under the 2
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