Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition ...

Index 217
homeopathic, 96; inadequacies of,
103; items used in healing practices,
26
“medicines,” in spiritual artifacts, 46
mediumship, 50, 115
Memphis (Tenn.), 109, 110, 111
merchandise, supernatural/spiritual, 116,
136, 143, 152
meteor showers, 45
Methodist churches, 65, 114, 143, 178n15
Methodist Episcopal Church, 75
Metropolitan Spiritual Churches of
Christ Association, 195n48
Miami, 37
microcosmos vs. macrocosmos, 38
Middle Passage, 41
migration, urban. See Great Migration;
urbanization, African American
Miles, Lizzie, 145
military tuberculosis, 179–80n23
Millegan, Jasper, 102
Millegan, Rosa, 103
ministers, 14–15, 29, 31
minkisi, 36–37, 46, 47, 48, 49, 182n35
miracles, 2, 110, 111, 123, 152
missionary efforts, Christian: in Africa,
40, 171n23; colonial American, 41–
42; at Hampton Institute, 131–36;
post-Emancipation, 25, 99, 124,
125–28
Mississippi delta songsters, 145
Mitchell, Henry, 158n7
Mohammedan, 142
“Mojo Hand Blues,” 120
mojo/mojos, 47, 55
Monisha, 121
monotheism, 7
Moore, Ruby Andrews, 201n28
Moore, William H., 24
Moreau (slave), 71
Morgan, Philip D., 174
Morganfield, McKinley, 148
Moses, 25, 29
Moses, Patsy, 47, 93, 96
Mothers, Spiritualist, 115
Mother Turner, 140
Moton, Robert Russa, 124
Mount Zion African Methodist
Episcopal Church, 143
Mount Zion Holy Trinity Spiritualist
Church, 91
Mtibi, John, 38
Müller, Wilhelm, 40, 50, 167n9
murder, 81, 152, 153, 206n3
Murphy, Jeanette Robinson, 30
Murphy, Joseph, 40
music: African American spiritual, 137,
138; blues, 6, 8, 144–49,
204nn49,51, 205n59; Conjure in, 8,
119, 123, 152; “race records,” 144
Muslim faith, 46, 114
nail fetishes, Kongolese, 47
nails, human, as charm ingredients, 48
Nashville (Tenn.), 116, 118, 196n52
Native Americans: as Conjurers, 174n40;
herbalism of, 93; in New York
Conspiracy, 61; as source of
Conjure, 56, 169n16, 173n31
Native Baptists, 68
natural elements, 35–36, 44–45, 146
natural science, 192n36
Navajo people, 85
Neau, Elias, 176–77n8
Negro Act of 1751, 70
Negro Consumption, 69, 179–80n23
Negro Nero, 73
“Negro Numbers,” 201n28
Negro Sampson, 51
Nelson, Christine, 85
neo-Puritanization, 125
neuralgia, 104
New Age spirituality, 152
Newell, William Wells, 135
New England, 42, 49; American Baptist
Home Missionary Society of, 124;
divination in, 50, 51, 55; witchcraft
in, 83
Newkirk, William, 95
New Orleans: in literature, 137; as mecca
of Conjure, 6; Spiritualist churches
in, 114–15, 116, 118, 196nn51,53;
tales of Conjure in, 30, 31, 81,
186n63; urban Conjure in, 142;
Voodoo in, 37
New Orleans Medical and Surgical
Journal, 69
Newport (Ark.), 145
New Providence (Bahamas), 35
newspapers, 141
New York City, 139, 142
New York Conspiracy of 1712, 61,
175n3, 176n8
New York Times, 31, 137
Nigeria, 166n1
nkisi, 61, 171n23
Nommo, 167n4
Norris, Thaddeus, 31
novelties, supernatural, 143
numbers game, 144
numerology, 141
oath taking, 60, 61–62, 175n3, 176n4;
depiction of ritual of, 58; Gullah, 67
obeah, 31, 66, 177n9, 182n36
“Ober Negroes,” 55