POLK $~U??, FLORIDA ~.
“Hante ~
	~	~	J*eephins Andersr*
			Teapa, F1ori~&
			Oato~.r 20, 1937
			J~1i3.~.m A. Frost


an a look o‘ your hair wrapped rotin sona black rooster feathers. Den you spit whiskey on es an wrap sa in red flanne3 an uw it in‘t o a 1~a1l bout dat big. Den y 3U hang ~ it under y our r i~ht armpit ~ an ever week ;ou give it a drink o i~iekey, to keep it strong an pc~wfu1.


	f,i~t keep c~e wit ehea furn ridin y ~ u ; but nary one o ‚ des. chenu work wict dia old witch. I got a purty good iee who she is, erz she got a charm powfuil.r dan both of den. But ehe kamt git acrosst fiez‘ßeed, not till she coumt ever seed. ~u do~n bli,i• d*t~! Huhi I reckon I know~~«~-I done tried it out. I gite ass iii beg.‘ pure fresh flaxaoed, ar~ I sprinkle it ail roun de bed; den I put soas on top of de mattress, an under de sheet. Den I goes to bed an sleeps 11k. a baby, an dat old witch dean bother we no wore.


“Ony crnc~st. Soon‘s I ~ak. up, i light as a lanp an look on de

floon an dere, eide o‘ my bed eis ix~y dr~as, layin right over dat flax‘eeed, so‘s ehe c~u1d ~aik ever on de dresi, big as life. I snatch up de dreae an throw it on de bed; den I go to sleep, an I ein ~ been bothered no wore.


~SQMe folks reads de ~ib1s backwards to keep witches tua ridin

*~rn, but &%t dQan do as no good., caties I kamt read. ~ut flazseed work ~1o goc~d I ~ioan be etudyin niglit-ridin witches no more.~