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Updated: June 14, 2025
From Collier's, The National Weekly "... The Naytives of the Seacoast told me many fearsome Tales of these Magycians, or Voodoos, as they called Them. It would seem that the Mystic Powers of these Magycians is hereditary, and that the Spells, Incantacions, and other Secretts of their Profession are passed on One to the Other and holden in great Awe by the People.
But beneath the finery and the chatter ran a subtle under-current of foreboding, for your negro is superstitious, and, well, Voodoos are Voodoos! Dominique Raffin, dressed in somber black, went to the club alone and unattended save by Miss Aphrodite Tate.
I really think their compelling emotion was that of curiosity. They wanted to see. It needed a definite impulse to change that desire to one of greed. The impulse came from Percy Darrow and his idle talk of voodoos. As usual he was directing his remarks to the sullen Nigger. "Voodoos?" he said. "Of course there are. Don't fool yourself for a minute on that. There are good ones and bad ones.
But, mark you this! It is only those who believe in, and fear, the power of the Voodoos that are so affected. In Hawaii, the Kahunas or native magicians are renowned for their power to cause sickness and death to those who have offended them; or to those who have offended some client of the Kahuna, and who have hired the latter to 'pray' the enemy to sickness or death.
Before we go any farther, why?" "Twenty years ago in the West Indies he had shot an important member of this sect." "Twenty years ago?" "According to a statement which he made to me, yes." "I see. Then for twenty years these Voodoos have been trying to kill him? Then he comes and settles here in Surrey and someone nails a bat wing to his door? Did you see this bat wing?" "I did.
"You gennlemen kin'ly correc' me or bear out what Ah say. Leavin' aside all argument whether they is sech things as Voodoos, Ah guess any of you gennlemen from the South will remember Aunt Belle Agassiz and Tom Blue. Ah guess yo' mammies all done tole 'bout the African Voodoos, an' how ebery now an' den one of 'em crops up still.
It contains four cartridges, three undischarged, and one discharged. He had not even troubled to eject it." The Inspector dropped the weapon into the bag with a dramatic movement. "Fancy theories about bat wings and Voodoos," he said, scornfully, "may satisfy you, Mr. Harley, but I think this rifle will prove more satisfactory to the Coroner." He picked up the bag and walked out of the library.
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