Word: voodooed
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...sanity and a psychic poison which she hopes to distill to a potency that will humble Richard Pride. Their daughter, Janet, flowers like a enamel blossom. Wilfred Hough is the bloodless wraith of what was a bright young secretary a few years ago, before Miriam used him. A young voodoo Negress moves through the house, darkness serving darkness in silence, and with a small drum. Finally, there is the narrator, Oscar Fitzalan, a youth engaged to furnish musical accom- paniments for Richard Pride's mysteries...
...dubious. Then Captain Lawry and Mate Mortimer felt strangely ill. They were swelling, swelling. They bloated all over to "twice natural size." Fortified with strychnine, Captain Lawry staggered forward to berate Codjo, whom he found, sick as himself, lying naked in a bunk conjuring with three little sticks, a voodoo curse on the ship...
...revue that "does" Manhattan, from the yeggs of the Bowery to the shades of Gramercy Park aristocrats. In its course it sings sentimental ballads, burlesques the Gay Nineties in the lank, laughing person of Eleanor Shaler, stops off at a night club long enough to see a vivid, dramatic voodoo dance in silhouette, trails off into close harmonies and ends up about a mile ahead of anything Times Square has confected this midsummer, with the possible exception of Texas Guinan's Padlocks...
...choice of subject-the Southern U. S. Negro. Author Em Jo Basshe is by birth Russian, which is merely incidental to the fact that he has not lived long among the blacks. Therefore, it is not strange that his main character, a woman who is torn between voodoo magic and hysterical Christianity, distracted by the death of her six children, driven finally to loud rebellion against all the Powers of Destiny, should represent man in the primitive rather than in the African type. In the end she is slain on a mountain top by the fanatics whose beliefs she challenges...
...Creoles, is betrayed by his mistress, seeks another, finds Mugette, lovely, desirable, almost white. Strangers happen by Kentuckians, staggering drunk but thirsty still for liquor and for women like their own to be their slaves. Pistol shots; and one intruder is dead, the other enamored of Mugette. A voodoo scene, and Mugette begs a charm to win her lover, follows her most savage instincts until, despairingly, she turns to God. The wrath of the devil-worshipers and then - the Quadroon Ball, graceful, gay at first, then bloody, riotous. M. Brusard and the lover from over the mountains are killed. Only...