Who Do Voodoo?
100 Years Ago
Lumusi gave the grigery talisman to Yaa as a good luck charm, because Yaa believed in that kind of stuff. So did Mr. Horne, however, and suspecting the girl of being evil rather than simple drowned her in the stream one evening.
Lumusi was pushed down the stairs by a hired brute under orders from her Master. The object was to provoke a miscarriage, but she broke her neck and died before she hit the bottom, taking her unborn child with her. She was buried in the orchard, and the break in staged to hide her murder. The child's father was Mr. Horne. It was not the first child he had fathered on one of his female slaves.
The poison was not actually in Mr. Horne's food, but in his cognac. None of the slaves did have access to that. His wife did.
Other notes:
Kibwe's mom was big on honouring your roots. She saw voodoo as part of their cultural heritage.
"Aphrodesia passion tea" apparently doesn't work too well on demons.
Yaa means Thursday's child in Akan.