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chemical examination of them, he found them imbued with a very deadly poison.
*¢ Meanwhile, he told the affair to two or three neighbors, and getting out a warrant for the arrest of the malignant hoodoo man, they went to the hut to arrest him. The bird had flown, however, and could nowhere be found. Some of the negroes had, no doubt, earried word to him, and he had thought it best to clear out from that neighborhood. ‘The little patient, relieved from inhaling the poison in her pillow and bed, soon got well, and Mrs. A. has now in her possession the fetiches which came so near making her a childless widow.
“Tt may not be generally known to the public, but it is nevertheless a fact, that these barbarous African superstitions and practices prevail, and are increasing among the ‘freedmen,’ not only of Memphis and Tennessee, but of all the Southern States. It is the clearest proof of the inevitable tendency of the negro to relapse into barbarism when left to control himself.”
So much for Voudooism. I believe this story to be true, for I have myself been a victim to the thing, but the “‘ doctor ” who analyzed the stuff, and found “ poison,” is both a cheat and a sham to hide his utter ignorance. There was no poison about it. The whole thing is purely magnetic, as I can demonstrate at will, for I know this thing from end to end, and speak by the card.
But I have already exceeded the limits assigned to this part of my subject, and shall end it with a few words of advice to those who are mesmerized, who mesmerize others, and to that large class of persons who, unable to be put into the magnetic state themselves, or induce the sleep in others, yet have a constitutional tendency towards the occult,—a peculiar idiosyncrasy which admirably adapts them to the investigation of the inner mysteries of existence, —men and women, who have strange prophetic impulses, weird and arabesque dreams— people who feel strange mental depression without any apparent cause; persons who are strangely warned of impending death or danger, and before whose eyes fiery sparks glitter a moment and then vanish into the deep blank void again,— such persons make splendid seers through the magic crystals of Artefius and Dee, the Japanese crystal globes, and better still, the splendid magnetic mirrors of Trinvx, and the
chemical examination of them, he found them imbued with a very deadly poison.
*¢ Meanwhile, he told the affair to two or three neighbors, and getting out a warrant for the arrest of the malignant hoodoo man, they went to the hut to arrest him. The bird had flown, however, and could nowhere be found. Some of the negroes had, no doubt, earried word to him, and he had thought it best to clear out from that neighborhood. ‘The little patient, relieved from inhaling the poison in her pillow and bed, soon got well, and Mrs. A. has now in her possession the fetiches which came so near making her a childless widow.
“Tt may not be generally known to the public, but it is nevertheless a fact, that these barbarous African superstitions and practices prevail, and are increasing among the ‘freedmen,’ not only of Memphis and Tennessee, but of all the Southern States. It is the clearest proof of the inevitable tendency of the negro to relapse into barbarism when left to control himself.”
So much for Voudooism. I believe this story to be true, for I have myself been a victim to the thing, but the “‘ doctor ” who analyzed the stuff, and found “ poison,” is both a cheat and a sham to hide his utter ignorance. There was no poison about it. The whole thing is purely magnetic, as I can demonstrate at will, for I know this thing from end to end, and speak by the card.
But I have already exceeded the limits assigned to this part of my subject, and shall end it with a few words of advice to those who are mesmerized, who mesmerize others, and to that large class of persons who, unable to be put into the magnetic state themselves, or induce the sleep in others, yet have a constitutional tendency towards the occult,—a peculiar idiosyncrasy which admirably adapts them to the investigation of the inner mysteries of existence, —men and women, who have strange prophetic impulses, weird and arabesque dreams— people who feel strange mental depression without any apparent cause; persons who are strangely warned of impending death or danger, and before whose eyes fiery sparks glitter a moment and then vanish into the deep blank void again,— such persons make splendid seers through the magic crystals of Artefius and Dee, the Japanese crystal globes, and better still, the splendid magnetic mirrors of Trinvx, and the
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