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Southern Star, v. 1, issue 2, June 1941
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BLACK MAGIC AND E. S. P. by - Tennessee - JIM TILLMAN - Article - Not very long ago, I read a very interesting book about dolls.And because of some of the things that the author had to say about dolls I re-read Professor J. B. Rhine's "New Frontiers of the Mind". At first glance, dolls and parapsychology don't seem to have much in common, but they do. If a card with a cross on it can send out a wave or emanation that the mind can receive without the aid of the normal senses, why can't a doll? No good reason at all. And if a doll can . . . William Seabrook, the author of the book on dolls didn't believe in Rhine's ESP. Maybe he didn't want to. His own explanation of the things he relates in "Witchcraft, It's Power in the World Today" is bad enough, and if Rhine is right, and extra-sensory perception is a fact, it becomes worse. For Seabrook shows that a doll can be a deadly weapon, even if those weilding it are mistaken about just what it is they are using. There's nothing supernatural about a doll with a needle through its heart, but it can, and does, kill a person. person by poisoning his mind. Seabrook had a good illustration of the scope of Black Magic. If Humpty Dumpty is an egg balanced on a wall then all the Black Magic in the world can't make Humpty Dumpty even wobble. But if Humpty Dumpty has a mind, then Black Magic can smash him into a hundred pieces. All that's needed is to make Humpty Dumpty sure he's going to fall, and he will. Merely not believing in the power of Black Magic is not enough. Seabrook mentions a garage mechanic in France who was put into a hospital by a doll. Seabrook smashed the doll, and the mechanic recovered but never did acknowledge that the doll had anything to do with his illness. Maybe not. But a doll killed a Belgian hunter named Tellier in Africa. Albrecht Tellier was a commercial hunter, and was rather careless about the way he treated the natives. They got rather peeved at him, and removed him from the scene permanently. At the time Seabrook was in Africa studying the native magic under the Ougun Nahaou don bu. He was present during the ceremonies attending the ouanga (death-sending). Back in the mountains the witch doctors had set up a corpse. It hadn't been dead long, and so hadn't started to rot. The corpse had been re-abptized Albrecht Tellier, and it had one of Tellier's shirts on its back. In its hair was twisted a lock of Tellier's hair, and some of Tellier's finger pairings were stuck beneath the finger nails of the corpse. (An application of the laws of both similarity and contagion. See "Mathmatics of Matic"). ((Fletcher Pratt-De Camp, Unknown, August '40. JG)). The corpse was fastened in the open, where the weather would cause it to decay in the shortest possible time. Of course, there was a big ceremony ---- dancing, drum-beating, chanting, and all that. Seabrook's translation of the chant is: "A little pain, a big pain, A small pain, a great pain, Growing her and growing there, While a dead man lives, And a dead man dies." Rather a large and complicated doll. The idea was that as the corpse rotted, the soul of Albrecht Tellier would also rot. It did.
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BLACK MAGIC AND E. S. P. by - Tennessee - JIM TILLMAN - Article - Not very long ago, I read a very interesting book about dolls.And because of some of the things that the author had to say about dolls I re-read Professor J. B. Rhine's "New Frontiers of the Mind". At first glance, dolls and parapsychology don't seem to have much in common, but they do. If a card with a cross on it can send out a wave or emanation that the mind can receive without the aid of the normal senses, why can't a doll? No good reason at all. And if a doll can . . . William Seabrook, the author of the book on dolls didn't believe in Rhine's ESP. Maybe he didn't want to. His own explanation of the things he relates in "Witchcraft, It's Power in the World Today" is bad enough, and if Rhine is right, and extra-sensory perception is a fact, it becomes worse. For Seabrook shows that a doll can be a deadly weapon, even if those weilding it are mistaken about just what it is they are using. There's nothing supernatural about a doll with a needle through its heart, but it can, and does, kill a person. person by poisoning his mind. Seabrook had a good illustration of the scope of Black Magic. If Humpty Dumpty is an egg balanced on a wall then all the Black Magic in the world can't make Humpty Dumpty even wobble. But if Humpty Dumpty has a mind, then Black Magic can smash him into a hundred pieces. All that's needed is to make Humpty Dumpty sure he's going to fall, and he will. Merely not believing in the power of Black Magic is not enough. Seabrook mentions a garage mechanic in France who was put into a hospital by a doll. Seabrook smashed the doll, and the mechanic recovered but never did acknowledge that the doll had anything to do with his illness. Maybe not. But a doll killed a Belgian hunter named Tellier in Africa. Albrecht Tellier was a commercial hunter, and was rather careless about the way he treated the natives. They got rather peeved at him, and removed him from the scene permanently. At the time Seabrook was in Africa studying the native magic under the Ougun Nahaou don bu. He was present during the ceremonies attending the ouanga (death-sending). Back in the mountains the witch doctors had set up a corpse. It hadn't been dead long, and so hadn't started to rot. The corpse had been re-abptized Albrecht Tellier, and it had one of Tellier's shirts on its back. In its hair was twisted a lock of Tellier's hair, and some of Tellier's finger pairings were stuck beneath the finger nails of the corpse. (An application of the laws of both similarity and contagion. See "Mathmatics of Matic"). ((Fletcher Pratt-De Camp, Unknown, August '40. JG)). The corpse was fastened in the open, where the weather would cause it to decay in the shortest possible time. Of course, there was a big ceremony ---- dancing, drum-beating, chanting, and all that. Seabrook's translation of the chant is: "A little pain, a big pain, A small pain, a great pain, Growing her and growing there, While a dead man lives, And a dead man dies." Rather a large and complicated doll. The idea was that as the corpse rotted, the soul of Albrecht Tellier would also rot. It did.
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