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248 The one held by our honoured Vice-President, our Romany Rye, our Oriental scholar, our world-known Hans Breitmann, our Voodoo King, was stolen from its unworthy owner, a dissipated and malicious negro, who practised on the superstitions of his race that he might live in a brutish and debased idleness. It fell into my hands. I brought it overseas to Mr. Leland.

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The, in opening the discussion, said that the incantation of "God before me or above me, at the right and at the left, and everywhere" also occurred in one of the oldest prayers to St. Patrick, and also in the Welsh literature.

Mr. explained that in the old Armenian language the word "Woo-hoo" meant sorcerer, which word had also passed into Turkish.