![]() ![]() When Mama Frances at last tells Hoodoo the tale of his father’s terrible death, the boy realizes that it is his father’s hand that the Stranger wants. ![]() Hoodoo discovers an old folk magic spell book, and learns what the demonic visitor is seeking-not “Mandagore” after all but “Main de Gloire.” The Stranger wants the secret of the Hand of Glory, left hand of a man hanged for murder, with which an evil magician can call and control the dead. The Hand That Did The Deed,” says the Stranger. Then the Stranger comes to town-dark-cloaked, red-eyed, and cold-and fearful things begin to happen: swarms of flies, screams in the distance, and corpses in the graveyard dug up with all their hands chopped off. Mama Frances assures him that his time will come, but Hoodoo worries that his grandmamma is just trying to make him feel better. He got hoodoo in him.’ That’s how I got my name.” But, for all that his dead daddy was known as a powerful mojo man, at age 12, Hoodoo Hatcher is the only one of his family who can’t do any kind of conjuring or even cast a simple spell. When I got born, Mama Frances took one look at me and said, ‘That child is marked. ![]()
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