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mupa tile strangest thing about Aunt Droaa la bar diet. which condsta principally of anakea, gwaShopptra, worm* »nd bup of oil kinds, Ilsxarvls, and, In fact, nearly every kind and aped* of reptile or ti»-eat. She haa never been known to eat any kind of fresh or and nwut, nor wna She ever known to eat bread. Her substitute fir bread U awcet potatoes and lye hominy that are given In exchange for the conjure bags and nostrum* wtien the negroes do not have the ready cash, as A in* Do aw* does not do a credit IniRlnees.Aunt Doran my* tbit there are very few snakes that are poisonous and th»t If people couM once be Induced to try them they would be regarded as great de'.lencfca. DixmW. too. she aays are very nne. but as ahe to gening very old now she flml* it hard to natch them. Gmiuh 'ppera, however, are her favorite dLSh, and sb«* even smack* her Itpi when • pci king of them. In the winter Ume her wipply of reptile* and lda«\« an* very limited end she U often compelled to live fur week* on sweet pots-toe# and lye hominy, with roaated acorns ami beet* rnuM «vcaalon».y. Her method of preparing the rets lie* and Inn'.’ta for eating Is to steweiuch as snake* and Hxzania. but grvsihop-pers and hutterflb* ar» sten raw.Aunt rvwxaV bent form and enfeebled condition indicates that *he wilt not be hem many more wimera even If she survive* ttds one, and no doubt her death would be « great relief to the-negroes who know her, as they live in cooaennt dread of her, not knowing when by thought or act they might tocejr her displeasure and have a “apeli” put on them, Her money. If ahe haa any, will probably never, or If found will l-ihapa not amount to nearly ao much a* eup»*ed.
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Macon Weekly Telegraph
Macon, Georgia, US
Thu, Feb 08, 1894
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