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"It's a bad habit. Don't do it when I'm around. All hoodoos talk to themselves and in their sleep." The show was started off with a rush, the Grand Entry having been cut out again, as is frequently the case with a show where there is a long run ahead, or a storm is expected. That night those in the dressing tent could only surmise the reason.
Neurotics, hoodoos and fakirs are worse than a plague; there's contagion in their fooling." "How would you define them? Those who don't fit in with your ideas of the normal?" "I know a clean, straight man when I meet him and that's enough for me." "I imagine that cleverer people are now and then deceived," said Clarke, who moved away.
I'se got dat same wife today. She was born a slave, too. I didn' have no chillun, but my wife did. She had one gal-chil'. She lives at Westonia an' is de mammy o' ten chillun. She done better'n us done. I'se got a lot o' gran'-chillun. What does you call de nex' den? Lemme see, great gran'-chillun, dat's it. "I never did b'lieve in no ghos' an' hoodoos an' charms.
"Oh, Alice!" protested Ruth. Mr. Sneed was observed to be walking about, peering at the various sign boards on which the destination of trains was given. "What are you looking for?" asked Russ. "I want to see that we don't start out on track thirteen as we did when we went to Oak Farm, and had the wreck," the actor answered. "I've had enough of hoodoos."
Size o' them five he's got must 'a kept her settin' up nights to make 'em ever since Circuit jumped the hum reservation. Did you ever hear of a feller gettin' five letters from a gal to wonst?" "I shore never did," answered Ben; "Circuit must 'a been 'prentice to some big Medicine Man back among his tribe and have a bagful o' hoodoos hid out somewhere.
The man dropped his broom and straggled to his feet. "Can ye give me somethin'? I been a-tryin' everywhere, but this kind o' work hoodoos a man, and they won't give me no ref'rence 'cause I don't git more'n my board and they don't want to lose me. And then" here he winked meaningly "I know a thing or two. But, say, do ye mean it? I'll go anywhere you want."
Behind every battle-line in Europe you may see the priests of the Babylonian Fire-god with their bronze images and their ancient incantations; you may see magic spells being wrought, magic standards sanctified, magic bread eaten and magic wine drunk, fetishes blessed and hoodoos lifted, eternity ransacked to find means of inciting soldiers to the mood where they will "go in". Throughout all civilization, the phobias and manias of war have thrown the people back into the toils of the priest, and that church which tortured Galileo in the dungeons of the Inquisition, and shot Ferrier beneath the walls of the fortress of Montjuich, is rejoicing in a "rebirth of religion".
"I can't understand how those little middies managed to treat us quite so badly." "I can tell you," retorted Anstey. "Then I wish you would," begged "Doug." "Go ahead!" clamored a dozen others. "I don't know whether you fellows believe in hoodoos?" asked Anstey. "Hoodoos?" "Yes; the Army is under one now." "Pshaw, Anstey!" "Explain yourself, Anstey!"
"Well, the visitors had made a hit, but Rosy's photographs made a bigger one. The queen and the head men of the village pawed over 'em and compared 'em with the originals and powwowed like a sewing circle. Then they called up the Kanaka sailor, and he preached witchcraft and hoodoos to beat the cars, lying as only a feller that knows the plates are warming for him on the back of the stove can lie.
"Dey's two kinds ob hoodoos," she said, "de libin' an' de daid. De daid ones is de easiest to lift, 'ca'se dey answers to charms; but nobody can lift a libin' hoodoo 'ceptin' de one dat laid hit on. I been a-steddyin' an' a-steddyin', an' de signs claim dat dis heah hoodoo ob yourn ain't no daid hoodoo."
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