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I have been reading Seabrook's "Magic Island" and he writes some things which I should like to record. The Voodoo drum is called a Rada drum ..... Voodoo is primarily and basically a form of worship, and its magic, its sorcery; its witchcraft is only secondary collateral ...... Voodoo Gods - Papa Legba, guardian of the gates & most benevolent, Damballa Oueddo wisest & most powerful whose symbol is the serpent; Loco, [[strikethrough]] gua [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] god [[/insertion]] of the forests; Agoué god of the sea; Maîtress Ezilée, who was the mild Blessed Virgin Mary .............. houmfort (mystery house)..... Seabrook was in Haiti in the time of Borno ..... the use of the crucifix on Voodoo altar is reverenced as one god among many ..... Rada also the dance after Voodoo rites .... Congo dance, the usual type which everyone can see ...... Ouanga charms are charms of all sorts ...... he says [[underlined]] danghi [[/underlined]] fever ..... le culte des morts use corpses for magical purposes ....... the "corpses" are probably people who are drugged into trances ...... he spells Congo dancing BAMBOCHE ........ Zombie, a purely local Haitian ghost(?)....... it is a soulless human corpse, taken from the grave and 

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endowed by sorcery with a mechanical semblance of life ......... 1921 Sudre Dartiguenave was President ....... Celestine, daughter of President Antoine-Simone, was a dabbler in black sorcery ..... case of the goat in the coffin for which Antoine-Simone was almost excommunicated ........ he fled in 1911 to Jamaica ..... Hotel Montagne ...... Mme Shea proprietress ...... griffe, brownskinned, midway between black & mulato ........ to be anti American was to be anti-Borno ..... Lieutenant Faustin E. Wirkus, White King of La Gonave ...... Barker, Barnes, and Hayne Boyden are mentioned in the chapter "No white man could be as dumb as that" ........ Dr W.W. Cumberland Finance adviser said the above ......... Barnes & I in the ditch - ask Mr Barnes ....... 1914 Davilmar Theodore made himself president ........ In less than 3 months his General Guillaume Sam was President (March 1915) ...... Sam was disliked by intellectuals & he imprisoned many for his own safety ...... due to a mistaken order many were killed .... Sam escaped immediate death