NEGROES FEAR VOODOO SPELL.
Sorceress Is Said to Be at Work Near
Eighteenth and Flora.
Considerable excitement has been caused in the negro colony adjacent to Eighteenth street and Flora avenue because of the alleged attempt on the part of unknown persons to cast a voodoo over the dwellings of many families. Yesterday afternoon a crowd of negroes gave chase to a woman thought to be responsible for the work, but she disappeared before being overtaken. The woman, who is well advanced in age, is said by the negroes to have come here from the South, for the express purpose of casting the voodoo.
The voodoo, according to the superstitious belief of the older class of negroes, is brought about by a mixture of vinegar, sale and sugar with an equal portion of a hog's internal organs. This combination, according to belief, if splattered on the front door of a house will bring about the voodoo, and bad luck will thereafter follow every member of the family.
Several doors in the negro district are said to have been smeared lately, but every effort to detect the guilty persons at work has proved unsuccessful.
