[kirklancaster]

...of how relieved they all were that Old Dixie was finally gone, of how they would feel safer at night now. I never witnessed as much hysteria, and even though I was a relative outsider having lived in the town for only six years, I never understood why this old recluse struck such terror into these backwoods folk. Oh, I had heard the stories; of how Dixie was over a hundred and twelve years old, how he was the product of his Creole mother being raped by the local plantation owner, and how the feared 'Voodoo Queen' Marie Laveau, herself, had invoked 'dark' spirits to protect the newborn child throughout his life.

Nothing but ignorant 'Mumbo Jumbo' as far as I'm concerned.... 'though there is the local legend of the Halloween night when three local boys broke into Old Dixie's cabin for a prank.....