The Conjure Woman (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)

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The narrator, a grape farmer from Ohio who settles in North Carolina because of his wife’s ill health, buying a dilapidated plantation which has an old vineyard. He hires Uncle Julius and is regaled by the old man with stories of witchcraft. The narrator learns by experience that the stories are usually told for a purpose, most often to the benefit of the old servant.

Annie, the narrator’s wife, whose ill health causes her husband’s removal from Ohio to North Carolina.

Uncle Julius, an elderly black man who tries to prevent the narrator...

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