Some Strange Corners of Our Country the Wonderland of the Southwest
Some Strange Corners of Our Country the Wonderland of the Southwest
Charles Fletcher Lummis
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These are fair samples of unnumbered thousands of stories which illustrate the firm faith of my neighbors in witchcraft. 7 74 SOME STRANGE CORNERS OF OUR COUNTRY. It seems fairly cliildish to speak of them soberly, and yet they are imphcitly believed by more citizens of the United States than there are in any New England city outside of Boston. In this strange corner of our country witchcraft is a concern of daily thought and di'ead, as it was in the older world a few centuries ago, when the sa...me superstition splashed all Europe with the l^lood of unfortunate T\Tetches. I have had even more intimate concern with witchcraft, both as accused and as victim. My photograpliic and other mysterious work has more than once led suspicious Indians to view me as a hecliicero; and it is still the common belief among my abo- riginal friends that I have been beAvitched l)y some even more powerful wizard. A stroke of parah^sis in 1888 rendered my left arm power- less for more than three vears and a half.
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