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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1937:

IN

VOODOO CULTS

LOUISIANA SWAMPS Cheap Racket That Costs Negroes

Fortune Each Year

New Orleans, Mar. 20.

From lonely Louisiana swamps where the moon sends silver streamers through mossy cyprus trees and rafia rum

razor-keen, cane knife decapitated;

the

rooster, and the dancer thrust the squirming neck into his mouth and drank the spouting blood.

of

It is doubtful if the rites Marie Lavenu all are performed. But. stronge tales draft in from the almost impenetrable swamps.

City Negroes either laugh away sugges- ilons of voodoo or disclaim knowledge of it. Nevertheless, minor rackets of "spells and charms" and thie voodoo doctors who journey in from their swamp towns for "gris- gris" materials bear evidenco the

any

occult rites continue-United Press.

flows freely, new reports are coming that Negroes still Court Battle

practise the arts of black magic-the ritual of the coq blanch and the granʼ zombi.

From time to time in New Orleans, mecca for purchase of

For New

"gris-gris" supplies, voodoo doctors are haled into court. Latest Film Process

of these is "Dr. Singleton," who sold James McGeo a potion to bring luck when rubbed on the hands.

McGee's good luck failed to arrive. He complained to recorder Gaston Rose and an investigating officer corroborated his charge. "Dr. Singleton" is spending 30 days in gaol

Sprinkle the black quid on an enemy and he's a dead one.

NEW THREE-COLOUR MOVIES

Hollywood, Apr. 1. Voodooism, although not the wash." Sprinkle the first on one's

High-priced lawyers for major racket it was at the turn of the self, and it brings good luck. Hollywood film interests are off century, lingers for the "poor

on a court battle over who owns whites," low caste Italians and

Last of the big scale gris-gris the new three-colour film process the easily duped Negroes who makers was the famed Marie Laveau. that is one of the latest develop- pay big prices for worthless Her mother and mother's mother ments of motion pictures: charms and potions. It remains, before her were

voodoo queens. Tricolour, Inc., is suing in too, in superstitions and prac- The last Marie Laveau is buried in federal court against Techni one of the old St. Louis cemeteries

Walt Disney tices of many Orleanians.

here. The bricks of her crumbling colour. Corp., "In the Vleux Carre, for instance, tomb are marked with scratches of Productions, which is using

who traced

said a cartoons comics in colour, 20th- short wooden steps leading to the those streets are worn white and scamy prayer and slipped away.

Century Fox, which recently. from daily scourings infentionally or On St. John's even, in June, the brought out "Ramóna" in the houses are greatest of all days for voodooism, colour, Warner Bros., First Na- not, occupants of followinging a practice established to Marie Laveau and her followers

Goldwyn, ward off a voodoo spell. In days went into the swamps and performed national, past, disaster impended for him who the mystic riles, always ending. It RK.O., M.G.M., and others. found dirt from a cemetery, salt, or is sald, In licentious orgy.

Presenting as a witness Charles F. feathers tied with a red string on his Coq blanch, a white rooster, and Jones, who claims to have invented

ran' zombi, a doorstep.

gran'

Only remedy was to wash the step snake

with nine buckets of water-or obtain a stronger anti-voodoo token.

those

in

a cross,

gured promineng king the

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disputed process, Tricolour

In the chartes the users of Technicolour

The Negroes kept up infringed on its patents. Tricolour tive asks the court to halt others from drums with their knuckles and the using the process and seeks an in-

certs yeal on primitive i

Voodoo as a cure for ills of body, hoof of a mule. Added to the dinonite sum for dansics an mind and heart pracused widely. were

particularly Drug stores, poor neightbourhoods and in the old French quarter, have a steady stream of customers buying materials with which they, make “gris-gris."

uny

whining sounds from n Inasmuch as the gourd fiddle and the swish of gourds accounting of the profits poured in filled pebbles.

led with pointed faster and by the popular colour pictures, and e faster as the orgy neared its climax. suffered by the alleged infringement, A larger black held the coq blanch lawyers sold the amount involved Many stores sell the finished pro- | high aver his head. He lowered runs into the millions. ducts. A popular one is "gumblers" the Fooster and the drums beat Defendents claim they are using a luck." It is a pink fluid. Another faster, the shouting became more colour process patented two years -even more-precious-is-enlled “black intense. Another Negro with a before doren - United Press

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