Atlantic Monthly Volume 46 (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ...with their hair square cut and "villainously low" on their foreheads, and their shapely persons loaded with the unclassified paraphernalia of a FrancoAmerican toilette.--To a stranger the South seems to be inhabited exclusively by judges, doctors, generals, colonels, and a few majors. Young men under thirty are called by their Christian names. At about that age they graduate into one of the above classes, according to weight, height, and bearing. After that, promotion is very slow. It is rare that a colonel lives to be a general. Conductors and engineers on railway trains are made captains without reference to age or size, and never promoted. My friend had received a medical education, and had thereby escaped the title of general, to which his appearance well entitled him. He had never practiced his profession, but had somehow acquired among the negroes a reputation as an exorcist of the "voudoo." It was believed that he could eject the most firmly seated devil, to whom the ordinary incantations were an object of derision. To be " voudooed" is to be bewitched by some enemy. It is a disease of the imagination, but I am told that the rural negroes are almost universally believers in it, and that one who conceives himself to be under the influence not unfrequently dies. The day after my arrival a stout young negro, who was badly voudooed, came to the doctor's house to beg relief. The poor fellow was evidently in a very bad way. His pulse was irregular, he could scarcely walk, and his skin, originally a jet, had become the color of dirty cream. He described himself as enduring a " pawful misery iuny back, and a pawful misery inny head, and a pawful misery inny mind," a complication of physical and mental disorders which w...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ...with their hair square cut and "villainously low" on their foreheads, and their shapely persons loaded with the unclassified paraphernalia of a FrancoAmerican toilette.--To a stranger the South seems to be inhabited exclusively by judges, doctors, generals, colonels, and a few majors. Young men under thirty are called by their Christian names. At about that age they graduate into one of the above classes, according to weight, height, and bearing. After that, promotion is very slow. It is rare that a colonel lives to be a general. Conductors and engineers on railway trains are made captains without reference to age or size, and never promoted. My friend had received a medical education, and had thereby escaped the title of general, to which his appearance well entitled him. He had never practiced his profession, but had somehow acquired among the negroes a reputation as an exorcist of the "voudoo." It was believed that he could eject the most firmly seated devil, to whom the ordinary incantations were an object of derision. To be " voudooed" is to be bewitched by some enemy. It is a disease of the imagination, but I am told that the rural negroes are almost universally believers in it, and that one who conceives himself to be under the influence not unfrequently dies. The day after my arrival a stout young negro, who was badly voudooed, came to the doctor's house to beg relief. The poor fellow was evidently in a very bad way. His pulse was irregular, he could scarcely walk, and his skin, originally a jet, had become the color of dirty cream. He described himself as enduring a " pawful misery iuny back, and a pawful misery inny head, and a pawful misery inny mind," a complication of physical and mental disorders which w...

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United States

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May 2012

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May 2012

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246 x 189 x 27mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

526

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978-1-235-87076-7

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9781235870767

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1-235-87076-6



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