Negro Superstitions

We Tused to gay oí our servante : "Beeky is goiaig to cut up to-day. She feil down in a trance last night at a meeting and had to be carried out." And ehe did cut up. She was tlie Jïurse for four children and they liad to keep away f rom lier uut il ?lie got over lier fit . 8he ivas accused of being a conjurer, and a black negro iiamed Luke Bwore out a warrant for lier, land Toni Percy the 'Squire, issued it, just to see -what Luke could prove. He saiil l.Iiat she made him sick in tlie back and kept liiim sick, and he handed the 'Squire a (lime that she gave him for a ehicken, and pointed out a spot on it that was the sign - the proof that she had conjured the money before she paid it to Mm. Tliat vras all. '■AVhat flo you wish done with her?" said I. "She have to swaller de dime," he said, "and dat break de spell. I tried rabbit foot, and I bury llzard under de door, and I plant de ole mare's mane wlien de roosters crow for midmight, buf it don't do no good. I is dytai' every day." But Luke g'Ot well and Becky didn't swallow the dime, either. One of my father's negro women got jealous of Minty, the cook, and detenmined to poison or conjure her to death. Mbity got eick and my íatJier told Juno to miake her some ehicken eoup. She got irom an old rag a red corpion's liead, a üzard's leg, a bat's wing, a beetle bug, and tiiree or four centipedes, or thousand legs, as -ve cali tlieiu, and the tail of a green snake, and had the horrible mess oookhig in a uaucepan, "vhon my mother happoiiod üi to see hoiv Minty was and took t,he top off the pan to look at the toup. Juno confessed that Khe had been g-athertng material for that soup a good while, and she -sva&n't mnoli disturbed at the diseovery. &he üeclared that Mülty had "cunjud" her husband ond I reckon she had. So my iather had to separate .the families. Xow, did Shakspeare get lus witches' caldron and its Tenoinjous oontents irom the old Africa-ns of Englaaid ? Fillet of a íemny snake, Ia the caldron boil and bake ; Eye of newt and toe of fróg, Wool of bat and tongne of dog ; Adder's iork and blind worm Rting-, Iizard's leg and owlet's wing.