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	sI know more about conjuration than I~].1 ever be able to tell. I didn‘t believe in it at one time, but I‘ve seen so much of it that I can almost look at a sick person and tell whether he is conjured or not. I wouldn‘t believe it now if I hadn‘t looked at snakes cone out of my own sister‘a daughter. She married a man that had been goin‘ ‘round with a old woman who wasn‘t nothin‘. Well. one day this woman and my niece got in a fight ‘bout him, and my niece whij~ed her. She was already mad• with L2~ nie ce ~ bout him, and a~fter she found she C ouldn‘ t whip bßr she decided to get her some way and she just conjured her.

	“My niece was sick a long time and ~‘re had ‘bout seven or eight diff‘ttnt doctorB with her, but none of ‘em done her any good. One day us was sittin‘ on the porch and a man walked up • Us hadn‘ t never see n him be fore ‚ and he said he wanted to talk with the lady of the house. I tvjted him in and he asked to speak to me alone. So I went in the front room and told him to come on in there. When he got there he said just like this: ‘You have sick.ness don‘ t you?‘ I said, tyes.t Then he said: ‘I know it, and I come by here to tell you I could aura her. All I want is a chance, and you don‘t have to pay me a cent ‘tu I get her back on her feet, and. if I don‘t put her back on her feet you won‘t be out one cent. J~ust promise you‘ll pay ie when the work is done.‘ I told him to come back the next day ‘cause I would have to ta].kwith her husband and her mother ‘fore I could tell him anythin‘ .
“Us all agreed to let him doctor on her since nobody