Forever
“The two girls crouched in the dense undergrowth, the hems of their long skirts wet with mud, foetid with rotting vegetation. They had long since regretted their high-spirited impulse. Now, terrified that movement would lead to discovery, they clung together, their eyes widening and their horror mounting as they witnessed the spectacle taking place in the forest clearing only yards before them.
It was well known in the New Orleans of the early nineteen-hundreds that voodoo rites were rife in... the bayous. Sluggish, numberless tributaries of the great Mississippi, the bayous laced the tropical surroundings of the city; were rarely visited places where gigantic trees loomed from stagnant water, their branches draped with Spanish moss, their dense canopy of leaves allowing little light to penetrate.
The bayous were the home of alligators: of eagles: of spiders as big as a man’s hand, and of the voodooiennes, the Africans who had long lived in New Orleans but had never forgotten their ancient rites.MoreLess
It was well known in the New Orleans of the early nineteen-hundreds that voodoo rites were rife in... the bayous. Sluggish, numberless tributaries of the great Mississippi, the bayous laced the tropical surroundings of the city; were rarely visited places where gigantic trees loomed from stagnant water, their branches draped with Spanish moss, their dense canopy of leaves allowing little light to penetrate.
The bayous were the home of alligators: of eagles: of spiders as big as a man’s hand, and of the voodooiennes, the Africans who had long lived in New Orleans but had never forgotten their ancient rites.MoreLess
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