HKB
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Often appears with: slavery and bondage · religious superstition · religious persecution and toleration · magic, witchcraft, and the occult · herb root protection · covey’s reputation
Usually: dialogue (1) · the test or trial (1) · curiosity (1) · detachment (1)
Sandy advises Douglass to use an herb root as protective “magic” against Covey, claiming it will prevent whippings, while Douglass initially rejects superstition but eventually accepts the root.
There was the Chesapeake bay to the right, and “Pot-pie” river to the left, and St. Michael’s and its neighborhood occupying the only space through which there was any retreat. I found Sandy an old advisor. He was not only a religious man, but he professed to believe in a system for which I have no name. He was a genuine African, and had inherited some of the so-called magical powers, said to be possessed by African…