This chapter focuses on stories about hoodoo that Zora has heard and shares with the reader in order to demonstrate the perspective of African Americans in the Southern United States towards this topic.

An elderly woman named Celestine borrowed some money from a neighbor. Later, the neighbor learned from a friend that Celestine may have borrowed the money with the intention of cursing her using a hoodoo ritual. The neighbor and her friend secretly entered Celestine's room and discovered her performing a ritual with the borrowed money. Zora reported that there was a big commotion among the residents of Treme, the French quarter of New Orleans, when a fight broke out between the two women.

Mrs. Grant was a female follower of a well-known practitioner of hoodoo. She caught another woman placing a curse on her doorstep and performed a complex set of rituals to get rid of it.

A man named Dave, who was knowledgeable in hoodoo, sought revenge against a racist Georgia landowner who had killed his daughter. Knowing that the legal system would not offer recourse, he turned to hoodoo to get a type of justice. As a result, the landowner and his family went insane, and suffered from a series of calamities.

Pierre Landeau of New Orleans shared a childhood story where he became ill with a fever after he disturbed some belongings of a hoodoo doctor.