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Extracts from the Trial Book of Slaves, kept at the Vestry Office at Morant Bay, Jamaica, reproduced in Appendix O of Lights and Shadows of Jamaica History: Being Three Lectures, Delivered in Aid of the Mission Schools of the Colony

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"Evidence: Deponent, on searching prisoner's house, found sundry matters such as egg-shells tied up in plantain trash, fowls' feet, fish-bones, feathers, and sundry other matters in a basket; also a coney-skin, or some such thing, stuffed in a bottle, which those who practise Obeah commonly make use of, &c.."