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DRIVES out spiritsHOW•‘HOODOO DOCTOR” TREATSHIS PATIENTS.Negro People Mostly Are Firm Believ crs in His Power to Save from Effects of Being Conjured by Enemy.Other doctors may cure you if you are stricken with some disease, but there is only one doctor who can cure vou if you are really hoodooed.”The hoodoo doctor” is a tall, gaunt and cadaverous looking negro with a wealth of long wavy hair, and he lives in the West side, says the Kansas City Star. He is a familiar figure on the streets of both cities, and invariably carries a little black hand satchel. The hoodoo doctor is held in awe by nine-tenths of the negro population and his services are in demand by the people of his race.You may laugh at us for believing in our hoodoo doctor.” said one colored woman, but what is the difference between him and the divine healers ofwhite folks?”The negro people, or at least a great majority of them, are firm believers in tue power of the evil spirit and go so far as to credit some of their race with the power to “conjure” an enemy, or one of whom the conjurer is jeal-Ever of chai whichperson:Noisescause,smallWrilCoffee,/To end t inent peal lresh to lifSpentbCl*OUS.■Ui toes 1 also s stay : this a I had sever hund but t’ I hav dies whicl that ness. I ha« and icura
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Lardo Long Valley Advocate
Lardo, Idaho, US
Thu, May 09, 1907
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