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It will of course be conceived, that the practice of OBEAH can have little effect, unless a negro is conscious that it is practised upon him, or thinks so; for, as the whole evil consists in the terrors of a superstitious imagination, it is of little consequence whether it be practised or not, if he only imagines that it is.
Inspector Aylesbury turned to me ponderously, raising a fat hand. "One moment, Mr. Knox, one moment," he protested. "The evidence of one witness at a time." "We were keeping watch," said Harley, deliberately echoing my words. "Why?" "More or less we were here for that purpose. You see, on the night of the full moon, according to Colonel Menendez, Obeah people become particularly active."
Mitchell says, all belong nominally to some denomination of Christianity; but their lives are more influenced by their belief in Obeah. While the precepts of religion are little regarded, they stand in mortal dread of those who practise this mischievous imposture. Well might the Commissioner say, in 1867, that several years must elapse before the chaos which reigned could be reduced to order.
On talismans some curious natural ones, etc. On the medicinal powers attributed to music by the ancients. Presages, prodigies, presentiments, etc. Phenomena of meteors, optic delusions, spectra, etc. Elucidation of some ancient prodigies. Magical pretensions of certain herbs, etc. The practice of Obeah, or negro witchcraft charms their knowledge of vegetable poison secret poisoning.
There are regular professional man-witches among them, persons a little shrewder and more cunning than their fellows. The very ignorant believe in a sort of fetichism, so that when a boat starts on a sponge-fishing trip, the obeah man is called upon for some coöperation and mysticism, to insure a successful return of the crew.
The other gripped the heft of a stone ax, one blow of which would dash to pulp the stoutest skull. This much Stern noted, as in a flash; when at his side the girl's revolver spat. The report roared heavily in that constricted space. For a moment the obeah stopped short. A look of brute pain, of wonder, then of quintupled rage passed over his face.
A negro, under the infatuation of Obeah, can only be cured of his terrors by being made a Christian: refuse him this boon, and he sinks a martyr to imagined evils. A negro, in short, considers himself as no longer under the influence of this sorcery when he becomes a christian.
"For true, dat leetle man of war buccra must be Obeah man: how de debil him come to sabe dat it was stable boy Homer who broke de candle shade on massa right hand, dat one wid de piece broken out of de edge?" and here he pointed towards it with his chin a negro always points with his chin.
She cared less for her friends, and went to church less often, a suspicious circumstance, for when a negro failed to go to mass, and kept away from confession, it was surely because he had something mischievous to confess. The rumor got about that Maumee Niña had become an Obeah woman, a voodoo worker, a witch. It is not unlikely that the accusation inspired her to live down to it.
In a case which happened very lately, an Obeah-man came into the country, put the Obeah into a fresh monkey's jaw-bone, and made the people offer to it fowls and plantains, which of course he himself ate. Such is Obeah now; and such it was, as may be seen by De Bry's plates, when the Portuguese first met with it on the African coast four hundred years ago.
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