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Varieties of this activity like the “seven finger high-glister” are practiced by Maudy Ghamus and Gamby Gholar in a cave home to a giant, lazy snake. In a book titled for this activity, moaning and groaning in the walls of Marrabo McSwayn’s new kitchen leads it to be torn down and its wood used for a schoolhouse. A practitioner of this activity helps solve his own murder before actually being shot by a railroad man in a Rudolph Fisher novel. The title character learns this activity in the (*) Great Dismal Swamp in Blake; or the Huts of America by Martin Delany. A collection titled for this activity includes “Po’ Sandy” and a story in which a man anxious to protect his crop of scuppernong asks Aunt Peggy (10[1])to make it poisonous to interlopers. For 10 points, Uncle Julius tells stories like “The Goophered Grapevine” in a Charles Chesnutt collection titled for a woman who practices what magical art? ■END■

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