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VYiiviv iVn KU.The few people who have talked toAunt Dorr.™ ».ty that she sleep* In the daytime end ruun» the nwnm[H nnlt;l cano braid's ut nigh*. That «c sleeps In a tHi tlnjc po»tilrv on a bed of mss that lias oesu in constant use llt;»ag before the war. when some of th© people now living in tihe neighborhood nr*t knew her.Aunt ftxoaa* only oocupatlon IsQUUiii vmuJimV Imp cnl iivmiwm fur the nefcYutis. W\un these conjure bags and ncwsruma are mid© of no one has ever been able to flnd out, but they are suppuo.il to be made of roots and herbs. The negroes have groat faith In Aunt Dorcas' conjure begs and medicines and buy them liberally. They regard her with the greatest superstition, however, and bellow Ah© has only to say one word to put a spell on them that la a thousand© times worse thtui death. When they approach hwr It la with the greaUMt dcfervac© and no queen ever held more complete nnd undivided control over her aubjecta than Aunt Dor-csa holds over the negroes in the lower part of Bibb county. They believe tout she can hoodoo them no matter where they are and thug she can road their very (noughts. It would be Impossible to get one of them to teK her a He, as they believe ghe would, by some nuglcrer with which she Is suppotel gifted, strike them dead in their tracks or put a spea on them by which they would die a lingering death and suffer the tortures or the damned.Whenever a negro In the neighborhood dies suddenly or Is sfflr.'ted with a loithsom© disease they behave Aunt Dorcas has put bar spell on him or her, and go to her to get ultaolutlon. By paying her a small price they are supposed to become .mature© for a stated period, and when ttse time of Immunity expiree those who rail to renew are avoided by those who do, as though me negro tu mug to renew bis or her Immunity was aitlluted with Axtutlc cholera or the smallpox. Few of them fail, tsowever. and in this manner Aunt Durcaa takes to a good many uMiicn and tackles, nan ane does wkH this money do one has over been able to learn, and the general betief Is that she has a large sum either In tho tree or burled close by. as she wws never known to spend a cent or to leave the neighborhood. As far as the negroes ore concerned. Uds money is perfectly wife, os there is not a negro w«o ever heard cf Aunt Dorcas who could be persuaded to touch one rent of her money for fear of being stricken down wh»:e in the act.
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Macon Weekly Telegraph
Macon, Georgia, US
Thu, Feb 08, 1894
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