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‘$1 bought a luck~r sti ck from a man onot. It looked j est lak a candle,

only it WUZ smaU~ but he did have some sticks as large as candles and he called.

them 1U01Ç9 sticks, too, but you had to burn them all night in your room. He also had some that looked jest lak buttons, axnafl and round.~

The to llowing are two stories of conjure told by ~s . Avery:

~I knowed a man onet long ago and. he stayed sick aU. der time. He had. the

headache frOm morning till night. One day he went to a old man that wu~ called. a cOnjUr6~‘ ; this old man told him thet somebody had stole the sweat-band. out of his cap and less he got it back, something terrible would happen. They a~ this

~	~an had bean going with a ‘oman and she had stole his sweat—band. Well, he never did get it, so he died.

	t, I had a cousin na~d Alec Heard., and he h~ a wife n~ed. Anna Heard. Anna st~yed sick all der time aluiost;fer two years she complained.. One day i.a old eo~Lj1.n~er caine to der house and told Alec that Anna wuz poisoned, but if he would give ~1i~ ~5.OO he would corne back Sunday morning and. find the conjure. Alec wuz wise, so he bored a hole in the kitchen floor so that he could. jest peip through there to der back steps. Sho nuff Sunday morning the nigger con~e back and as Alec watched :~iiu he dug down in the gound a piece, then he took a ground. puppy, threw it in the :~ole and covered it up. £11 ri~it, he started digging again and all at onet he jumped up and. cried.: ‘Here ‘tisZ I got it. ‚„ ‘Got what?‘ Alec said, n~nuing ~ tb~e door with a piece of board.. ‚ I got the ground puppy dat ~Uz buried fer her •‚ ~lec wuz so mad he jumped on that man and beat him most t, death• They a~ he did th at aU the time and kept a lot o~ ground puppies 1‘er that purpose . „ Continuing, she explained that a ~ound puppy was a ~rm wi~th two small horna, They ~s dug up out of the ground, and there is a belief that you will die it Oflø barks at y~x.

Mrs. Avery related two ways in Wiioh you can keep frai being conjured by anyone.
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	“One thing I do every morning is tsr sprinkle ohamber..ly.Awith salt and then

tnrow it all around my door. They aho can‘t fix you if you do this. Anudder thing,