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UU.When such a person pays a social call to a supposed friend the first thing necessary after the visit, according to the hoodoo doctor is to throw coarse Balt over the fioor of the room in which the alleged conjurer has visited, and then, with a vigorous movement, Bweep the salt east and west and worth and south, the while the sweeper mutters an incantation known only to the hoodoo doctor and to his patients.The next step is to send for the hoodoo doctor—the quicker the better, in order that the conjurer may not have time to get in his deadly work or tf work any material harm to the health or the happiness of his victim.When the hoodoo doctor arrives upon the scene he goes through the salt sweeping process again and calls upon the evil spirits to depart in-stanter. His visits are preferablymade at night, but where this is impracticable the room wherein lies the victim of the dread hoodoo is darkened. The hoodoo doctor then proceeds to rub his patient—always in the dark —and the evil spirits he robs out of a conjured patient are said to he marvelous in size and hideous to behold. After the rubbing process is over the hoodoo doctor prepares a concoction of hard boiled eggs, fresh grass in summer or the dried article in winter, a handful of twigs and several other mysterious and more or less unpalatable ingredients, the concoction a secret known only to the hoodoo doctor. This he feeds in tablespoon doses un-U he is assured that the work of the conjurer has been destroyed and his patient free from all the wiles to which victims of the evil spirit are heirs.
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Lardo Long Valley Advocate
Lardo, Idaho, US
Thu, May 09, 1907
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