~x-.slRve Stories	~ Pace Three è‘,
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dusts out dere faster den a wink. Bat broke up he pravin‘ under dat tree. t,1 never studied cunjurin1 ‚ but I knows dat scorripins ~nd things dey

cunjures with ~in powerful medicine. Dey uses hair ~nd fingernails and t~c~cs ~nd dry insects r‘nd worms and bat wings and sech. Mai~iny allus tie r leather string round de bi~bies~ necks when dey teethin‘, to make dem hrve easy time. She u.sed a dr~r frog or pi~ce nutmee~, too.

	“Mamiay alius tell rrie to keep from beix~‘ cunjure, I sing:


“‘Keep ‘way from me, hoodoo and witch,
L~r~d ray path prom de porehouse gate;
I pines for goiRen h~rps ~nd sich,
Lawd, 1111 jes‘ set dovin ~nd wait.
Old Satan am a lisr and cunjurer, too
If ~rou d on ~ t watch out ‚ e1 1 1 cun.j ure you •

	9flern cunjuremen shoe bad. Dcv make you have pneu.r~ony and boils and b~d luck, I carries rae a j~ck all de time. It ~m ~e ch~rin wrop in red flannel. Don‘t know what ara ~n it. t bossirian, he fix it for rrie,

	n ~ s1io~ can find. wat~r for de well. I got a li‘l tree limb wh‘~t am like a V. I driv de nail in de end of e~ch branch and in de crotch. I takes hold of each branch and iffen I w~1ks over water in de bround ‚ dp.t lirab gwine turn over in my hand. till it points to de ground. Iffen money am bur~ed~ ~rou can find it de same w~r,

	“Iffen you fills a shoe with ~alt ~ burns it, dat c~1l luck to ~rou. I wears a diiie on ~. string round ~e neck and one round de ankle. Dat to keep ~my conjurem~n from sottin‘ de trick on m~. Dat dirne be bright ii‘fen my friends am tru.e. It SilO1 gwine ~it dark iffen dey does me wrong.

	“For to make a jack dat ai~ sho‘ good, git sna~eroot and sass~fras and
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