Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 24, 1882, Page 3

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STEELE, JOHNSON & CO., WHOLESALE GROCERS AND JOBBERS IN decSme2m Flour, Salt, Sugars, Canned Coods, and A VOUDOO PRIESTESS, The Miraculous Performances of Marie Leauveau, Charms That Will Make Lovers be True and Mother.in-Laws Sweet Tempered. New York Star, That strange mixture of religious belief and magical medicine practice which had its origin in Dahomey and Ashontee land a thousand or more conturies ago, has found its way into the United States through the slaves which were captured from those re- gions of Southern Afrion. During the slave days voudocism was prac- ticed considerably in several of the southern states, but as the negroes became more enlightened the mysteri- ous mythology, or whatever it really is, has fallon flat, and is dying the natural death of all superstitution at the hands of civilization and educa- tion. There has always been a super stitution among the lower orders of the negroes of Southern Africa that certain powers dwell in certain persons, The high priest in Voudooism must be a woman, and the belief is that in her hands is the power of life and death, and that the charms and reme- dies which she dispenses have won- derful power in them. Hence the high priest, or as she was sometimes called, the queen or mother of Vou- dooism, was quite an awful and ma- jestic person 1n ancient times, but of late years the high priest of the order in this country was shorn of most of her power. She was in fact glad to make a living by cooking or washing, and selling charms to such credulous persons as nursed a belief in her supernatural powers. The death in New Orleans recently of Marie Leau- veau, the Queen of the order in this country, recalls some interesting recol- lections 1n connection with this mys- terious belief. Or. J. B, Bass is about the only practioner in the voudoo line of med- icine in this city, and when asked to divine what voudooism really means, he said it consisted mainly in a thor- ough knowledge of vegetation. ““You see,” he said, ‘‘some people study herbs and plants and roots with one object in view, and some study them for other purposes. But, as this is a secret society, you must ex- cuse my saying any more about it.” “Did you know Mrs. Leaaveau?”’ he was asked. All Grocers’ Supplies. A Full Line of the Best Brands of CIGARS D MANUFACTURED TOBACCO. Agents for BENWOOD NAILS AND LAFLIN & RAND POWDER 00. W. B. MILLARD. B. JOENSON. MILLARD & JOHNSON, COMMISSION AND STORAGE! 1111 FARNHAM STREET, OMAHA, - - - _NEB. REFERENCES : OMAHA NATIONAL BANK, . STEELE, JOHNSON & CO., TOOTLE, MAUL & CO. 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She was a most wonderful woman in her way, and was greatly looked up to.” ‘Did she ever accomplish any won- derful cures?”’ “Yes, hundreds of them. She was well posted on all the secrets of the order, and sometimes effected cures which were simply marvelous.” ‘“Was she married, or are the high priests of voudooism allowed to de- scend to any such commonplace thing as matrimony?” ““Well,” replied the doctor, ‘‘that’s a dificult question to answer. You see its a purty hard matter to tell who is married and who isn’t nowa- days.” ““How used she to work?’§ ‘‘Well, she devoted herself chiefly to charms made from herbs, and be. fore the war she made piles of money by selling them to runaway slaves to prevent them from being captured.” Finding the doctor very reticent about the order, a visit was paid to another venerable son of Africa, who was for forty years a slave, and who was brought from Dahomey when scarcely 10 years of age. He ex- pressed his willingness to tell all he knew about the order, provided his name was not published. */Can you tell me of some of the remedies or charms used by the vou- doos to bring about cures and so forth!” the writer inquired. ‘“Yes, yes, to be suah,” replied the old man. “There is the toe of the frog and the hair of a black dog’s tail. They are powerful, I tell you; and the ears of a black cat and the black snail and the scorpion; but the snake is the great stand-by. He comes in handy on all occasions,. He am good for cramps and evory disease, in fact.” ‘“What kind of snakes are most in demand? Are snakes found in boots at all sought after?” “*Well, mostly every kind of snakes. There in the rattlesnakefjwith his rat- tles and buttons, and the copperhead, and the cottonmouth, and the chicken snake, and the garter snake, and the coach-whip snake, and the black snake, and there is the hoop snake. Perhaps you never met a hoop snake!"’ The Star reporter confessed that his personal acquaintance with the snake family was very limited, ‘‘Well, you don't want to meet him, then. He has a horn in his head, and when he goes for his prey he takes his tail in his mouth and rolls himself rapidly along the ground, making a bee-line for his victim. When he hits it instant death follows. Why, I seen a hoop snake strike a great oak tree that came in his way with his horn, and it died the very next day. Fact, T assuah you, young gemman,” ““Well, what other animals are used/" “The skin of a crocodile, lizards, toads, the horn of a goat, the hoof of an antelope, and hundreds of other things I can’t remember.” ‘Do you know the late Queen Leau- veau, who died recently in New Or- leans?” “Yes, indeed, I did; but she was a grund woman some thirty years ago. he had lots of money then, but has lived by scrubbing and doing odd jobs of late years, but she was the queen or high priest for all that,” “Did you ever attend any of the meetings when she officiated!” “‘Yes, honey, indeed, indeed I did. Iremember down near Bayou St. John, in New Orleans, I was at several gatherings held.” “‘Dpgcribe some of them if you can,” ‘‘Well, the queen, she occupied the only seat in the barn, and she was decorated up fine, of course. She had on her Sunday clothes, wore great brass ear rings, bracelets and anklets of the same precious metal, The first part of the procoedings was to offer the sacrifices, These con- sisted of chickens stolen from the neighboring hen roosts, pieces of money (very small) or fruit. A fire was lit in the center of the room and 1.JE OMAHA DAILY BEE FRIDAXY. FEDRUAKRY 24 1bbs. the queen is ready to dispense the charms, One man asks for a charm against an enemy, and the high priest takes an inch of the skin of the cot ton-mounth snake, the left ear of a the necessary incantations, and the man goes away happy. A peculiar feature of voudooism is that the in. gredients in the charms all must be either boiled or roasted, and animals are to be reduced to ashes,” said the old man, . “Do you remember any others!” “Yes; a wan wanted a charm to pre. vent his jealous wife from murdering him, and the queen was equal to the emergency, She procured a young rattlesnake and burned it to powder without allowing its ashes to mix with anything. This she put in a bag made from the skin of a squirrel, and the threatened husband was di rected to take a pinch of the ashes and mark the brow, the chin, and the cheeks of his sleeping wife with it, “Supposo the old Iady should wake up?” queried the reporter. “Impossible,” said the old -man; “tho charm made her sleep soundly, and deprived her of all power to harm ber husband.” “Could the queen give any charm or antidote agamst a ‘‘mother-in- law?" ‘*1 foar that even voudooism is pow orless there,” roplied the old man sad ly. “Igotacharm for that myself years ago, but before I could minister it sho woke up, and you see the re sult,”” pointing to the place where the left ear used to be. *“What other cures or charma do you remember?"’ ““Well, there was the charm much sought after by young girls who wanted to keep their lovers faithful.” “‘What was that made up of?” “‘An ounce of jimpson weed and four poke berries, boiled for one hour in the juice of two oranges. To this was added the ashes of the heart of a scorpion and the button of a rattle- snake. All the young girl had to do was to make her lover swallowa mouthful and he was to remain true to her forever.” “Did that charm always work?"” *‘Well, it's my opinion that it failed sometimes, for there was a young wench I knew who gave some of it to her lover, and he gave her the darnd- est licking a girl ever got, and then came north.” “‘Any other cures?"” “‘Yes, there is the antidote against sickness of all kinds.” ““Give us that, by all means.” **Burn to powder the toe of a bull- frog, the liver of a chicken, the hair of a black dog's tail, and the insides of one toad and half a copperhead, and sew the ashes in a pouch made from the entrail of a female monkey. This is cheap and said tobe very effec- tive. In case of plagues throw ina little sulphur or brimstone, some sassa wood and a scorpion’s tail. This should be keptZin every house in case of emergency, for we never know when a plague may break out.” The Star reporter then bade him adieu, and hurried away to buy up all the ingredients mentioned, so that he could make a corner in them whon the plague come: Sowing and Reaping. ‘When a young lady hems handkerchiefs for a rich hachelor, she sews thae she may reop. When seeds of distress are planted through over indulgence, you revent the undertaker from reaping the benefit by using SPrING Brossoy, Piice 50 cents, trial bottles 10 cents. 211w el s MARRIAGE IN JAPAN. The Simple Process by Which the Re- lations of the Sexes are Adjusted. Ban Francisco Chronicle. Marriage in Japan is an institution unknown as a religious sacrament, or as a legal contract, pronounced or rat- ified by any civil officor or court, It is the simplest form of matrimonial union that can be conceived under the name marriage. It is simply this: When the child is born and named in a chicken thrown in and burnt, Then Japan it is registered in the official register of the ken or district where the parents live. If at any time the person removes to another ken or province he takes his registration from where he is leaving and is registered at his new home, There is no Japanese living unregistered. When the man wishes to take a wife, and the consent of the selocted one is obtained, or that of her parents, the husband that is to be appears at the kencho, or cffice ot the registration, and there registers the name of the woman as hig wife, and the woman is then known and considered as his sacred property, to have and to hold as long as he likes, and no longer, If the man wishes for more female companionship than his wife affords him he contracts for and reg- isters another woman as his mistress, and she is thus known and regarded as a member of his household. The manner of divorce is just as easy as. the marriage; that is, if the man 8o desires, he only can divorce. All that is done is for the man to give the woman what is known as the “‘three-lines-and -a-half paper,” stating to her that she is no longer considered by him as his wife. She is then un- married, and can take her maiden name. The registry is made te show this fact, and the two are ‘“‘quits,” On the other hand there is no power on earth that can divorce the wife from the husband --the woman is owerless to ast as agaiost tho man, ivorce is the prerogative of the hus- band, uncontrolled by any power whatever; he alone binde, and he alone can loose, Experientia Dooet. We must tell some men & great deal to teach them a little, but the knowledge of the curativ ies of SPRING BLossoy in cases of aicl\c headache, indigestion, and biliousness is bought by experience, Price 50 cents, trial bottles 10 cents, 211w Tall 8t ories These. The western frontier of the United Btates is highly prolific in tall stories, Take the matter of hard blows, A man sitting in his house, eating pie, heard a storm coming, and run to the door, The gale first blew the house down, and then seized the man, car- ried him through the air a hundred yards or s0,and landed him in a peach tree. Soon after a friendly board from his own house came floating by, This he seized and placed over his head to protect himself from the rag- ing blast, and finished his pie. Out in Nevada it has been told that dur- ing a gale, while boulders as big as black cat, a lizzard's left eye, and after | burning them to ashes she pronounceés | pumpkina were flying through the air, and water pipes were boing ripped out of the ground, an old Chinaman, with spectacies on, was obterved in the enstern part of the town seated on a knoll,calmly flying his kite - an iron shutter, with a log chain for a tail There was a man from Boston who would not confess astonishmoent at anything he saw im Nevada. As he was passing a notel in Virginia City the cap blew from one of the chim- noys. It was a circular Eiocn of sheot iron, pamnted black, slightly convex, and tho four supports were logs. The wind carried it down stroet, and it wont straddling along like a living thing. The Boston man asked what it was. ‘A bedbug from the hotel,” wan the reply. *‘By George, 1 never saw anything like that,” he began, and then added; ‘“‘outside of Boston," A party of miners in the Black Hills compared eyes and ears over a camp-fire. One said: “When I was coming to the Hills, T looked for In- dians until T could see & mosquito a mile away.” Another said that his oyes were weak, but that he could hear gnats jumping on the rocks four miles away. The next man had lis- tened (nr%mhlms until he had heard the mountain sheep light on their horns n the Big Mountains, three hundred miles away. The fourth, with his head on his pillow, had strained his ears until he heard the Chinese nailing up tea boxes. The fifth, in crossing the Rocky mountains had found a petritied forest, the trees turned into solid stone. As heloiter- od on the edge a deer started across the valley and was transformed in a moment into stone. A bird flew past him, and perching upon a tree began to sing. Suddenly the bird was changed to stone. The song she was singing was also petrified, hanging down from the back of the bird—cold, cold stone. A Yankee who had settled in the west having told an Englishman that be had shot on one occasion 999 pigeons, his interJocutor] asked why he did not make it 1, at once. “No,” said he, “not likely I'm gomng to teli a lie for one pigeon.” Where- upon the Englishman, determined not to be outdone, began to tell a long story of a man having swam from Liverpool to Boston, “‘Did you see him?" asked the Yankee. ‘‘Of course T did; I was coming across and our vessel passed him a mile out of Bos- ton harbor.,” “Well, I'm glad ye saw him stranger, 'cos yer a witness that Idid it. That was me!”—[De- troit Free Press. Honorable Mention. 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