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Travellers of late have told us enough and too much for our comfort of mind of that prevailing dread of poison as well as of magic which urges the African Negroes to deeds of horrible cruelty; and the fact that these African Negroes, up to the very latest importations, are the special practisers of Obeah, is notorious through the West Indies.
Yet the warning echoed loudly through Madison Forest; and the obeah hesitated. The tone, perhaps, conveyed some meaning to that brain behind the sloping forehead.
But if you are willing that Civilization and Religion in short, all the highest developments of individual and social life should at once be swept away by a desolating vandalism of African birth; if you do not recoil from the blood-guiltiness that would stain your consciences through the massacre of our fellow-countrymen in the West Indies, on account of their race, complexion and enlightenment; finally, if you desire those modern Hesperides to revert into primeval jungle, horrent lairs wherein the Blacks, who, but a short while before, had been ostensibly civilized, shall be revellers, as high-priests and devotees, in orgies of devil-worship, cannibalism, and obeah dare to give the franchise to those West Indian Colonies, and then rue the consequences of your infatuation!...
Obi or Obeah, is the name of the witchcraft of the negro tribes; and the practitioner is termed an Obi-man or Obi-woman. They practice it at home in Africa, and carry it with them to continue it when they are made slaves in other lands.
A twitching grin of passion distorted the huge, wounded gash of the mouth. He screamed. Up came the stone ax. "Again!" shouted Stern. "Give it to him again!" She fired on the instant. But already, with a chattering howl, the obeah was running forward. And after him, screaming, snarling, foaming till their lips were all a slaver, the pack swept toward them.
'Have you heard of Obi? 'I have. 'I have been told that an Obeah man can put a spell upon a person which compels a person to see whatever he the Obeah man may please. Do you think that's possible? 'It is not a question to which I should be disposed to answer either yes or no. He looked at me out of his half-closed eyes.
"And that he knows something of the nature of Camber's studies his remarks sufficiently indicate," added Harley. "The whole theory to account for these attacks upon his life rests on the premise that agents of these Obeah people are established in England and America.
Here perhaps I may be allowed to tell what I know about this curious custom of Obeah, or Fetish-worship.
The Obeah man has an hereditary power that comes to him in advanced age, and that, when at its strongest, enables him to send an evil spirit into any object he pleases. Not only do the people believe in him, but he has the fullest faith in himself.
So close, that Stern could hear the soughing breath between those hideous lips and see the twitching of the wrinkled lid over the black, glittering eye that blinked as you have often seen a chimpanzee's. All at once the obeah stopped. Stopped and leered, his head craned forward, that ghastly rictus on his mouth. Stern's hot anger welled up again.
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