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As regards the name, I dare say it was something huggermugger in the mere sound something that I classed, for no particular reason, with the dark and ignorant sort of words, such as "Obi" and "Hoodoo." I only know that after I learned that his name was Rooum, I couldn't for the life of me have thought of him as being called anything else.
Again, "Who's the hoodoo on number seven furnace? four accidents in six days is going some better look around for your Jonah." And again, "I heard about that stunt of yours, Bill; the kid would have been killed sure if you hadn't kept your head and nerve. It was great work, old man." And to a lad farther down the line, "You'll know better next time, won't you, son?"
Oh, only out in the woods, of course, but it was sport, and I caught fish! It's skirts that hoodoo the catch. I have come to that conclusion." "In what woods did you wear overalls?" and Dorothy looked almost frightened. Might Tavia have the garb with her? "Oh, away out Mushroom way. And I stretched out just like any respectable boy, and cast the line! Dear me, Doro!
This time the huge negro pumped at the handle of the magneto until he was all but out of breath. Several dozen shoves he had administered before he halted, let go of the magneto and raised himself to his full, majestic height. "Some black witch hab done gwine wish a big hoodoo on me!" grunted the negro suspiciously. "Dis am do fust time dat de magernetto gwine back on me like dis!"
I woke him up and he sat up in bed, his eyes glistening with radiant expectation, and began hauling things out of his stocking. The first parcel was bulky; it was done up quite loosely and had an odd look generally. "Ha! ha!" Hoodoo cried gleefully, as he began undoing it. "I'll bet it's the puppy-dog, all wrapped up in paper!" And was it the puppy-dog? No, by no means.
It was a young curate with a lisp who told you, I'll wager." "Very warm!" she laughed, struck again by his astuteness. "It was your hoodoo Dr. Vivian! And, oh, now that I think of it, he gave me that other pointer, too, about giving away money."
I am not dead yet. Wait! 'I will, and some day, when I am walking along Piccadilly, a passing automobile will splash me with mud. A heavily furred plutocrat will stare haughtily at me from the tonneau, and with a start of surprise I shall recognize 'Stranger things have happened. Be flip while you can, sonny. You win so far, but this hoodoo of mine can't last for ever.
"No sensible man has any use for hoodoo tricks and the people who practise them," Harding said. "They're frauds from the start." "Don't know what you're talking about!" Benson broke in. "Not all tricks. Seen funny things in the East; thingsh decent men better leave alone." Letting go the post, he lurched forward; and as the light fell on his face Blake started.
The only class of original contributions made by the negroes to our stock of superstitions is that of the hoodoo or voodoo signs which are brought from Africa by the ancestors of the present colored people of America. On the arrival of the negro in America, his child like mind was readily receptive to the white man's superstitions.
"A lodge at last! We've had well, a fragmentary time of it, haven't we?... That chap with the game foot is simply my hoodoo." Carlisle winced a little. "Oh! Then you did remember him?" "Could I forget my Beach supplanter, my giver of colds in the head? What's wrong with the fellow anyway?" "Everything," said she. "Let's go into the library."
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