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She kept still more at home, brooding, planning, yielding farther and farther to the evil suggestions that her repute as a voodoo priestess offered to her, yet keeping one place in her heart even warmer than before, the place filled by her daughter, Juanita. This girl of fifteen or sixteen was not black, like her mother. She was a handsome mulatto.
The only real difference between the Voodoo and Pow-wow practices is that the former is, so to speak, the blacker and more revolting. This is because a low state of culture has induced the believers in it to retain more of the coarse witchcraft on which Shamanism was based, or out of which it grew.
"And you can't do it with a gun, because they tell me the president isn't afraid of anything except a voodoo priestess. What is your secret?" coaxed the consul. "If you'll only sell it, I know several Powers that would give you your price." Billy smiled modestly. "It's very simple," he said.
Among its lower ranks come members of the negro race who practise the ghastly rites of the Obeah or Voodoo schools, and the medicine-men of many a savage tribe; while higher in intellect, and therefore the more blame-worthy, stand the Tibetan black magicians, who are often, though incorrectly, called by Europeans Dûgpas a title properly belonging, as is quite correctly explained by Surgeon-Major Waddell in his recent work on The Buddhism of Tibet, only to the Bhotanese subdivision of the great Kargyu sect, which is part of what may be called the semi-reformed school of Tibetan Buddhism.
"For a stranger, you go fast." "No; oh, no!" he protested. "Nothing so familiar. I'm offering you a bribe for conversation at the price of, say, five hairs, if you can sacrifice so many." "It sounds delightfully like voodoo," she observed. "What must I do with them?" "First, catch your hair. Well up toward the head, please. Now pull it out. One, two, three yank!" "Ouch!" said the voice above.
The epoch of negro emancipation was also the epoch of negro melodies. Those who wept over Uncle Tom also laughed over Uncle Remus. And just as the admiration for the Redskin almost became an apology for scalping, the mysterious fascination of the African has sometimes almost led us into the fringes of the black forest of Voodoo.
They galloped on as before. A few miles from the town, Stuart snatched at an idea which flashed upon him suddenly. "Hippolyte," he said. "You want to get back for the voodoo dance?" "But, Yes!" "You'll be too late if you take me into town. See." He showed his watch and held out a twenty-five gourde bill. "Suppose I give you this. It's all the money I have.
Colin Camber, the American authority, offered some very curious particulars in support of a theory to show that whereas snakes and scorpions have always been recognized as sacred by Voodoo worshippers, the real emblem of their unclean religion is the bat, especially the Vampire Bat of South America.
It is my enchanted looking-glass my fetich my voodoo charm." That was too much for Julius. With a wild scream he jumped for the door; but it was locked, and he could not get out. "Now watch," continued Jack, who knew that he would get at the truth of the whole matter in a minute more.
But this is in essentials what has happened; and one could almost fancy some negro orgy of triumph, with the beating of gongs and all the secret violence of Voodoo, crying aloud to some ancestral Mumbo Jumbo that the Poor White Trash was being treated according to its name. Fads and Public Opinion A foreigner is a man who laughs at everything except jokes.
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