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famous.
Thousands of people would gather to watch them perform their
rites.”
    Damn, if all this wouldn’t make a great
story, I thought, making another mental note to see to it Nicky
included his Aunt Liza’s background in a future book. I sipped my
tea, ready to hear more.
    “ That’s not all I learned
that fateful day. The Marie I was walking with was the
great-great-great granddaughter of the original Marie
Laveau.”
    “ Wow! Fascinating! So, I
take it you began to learn Voodoo from your Marie?” I asked, needing to rush
this history lesson a bit to get to the gist of what she’d done to
our exes.
    “ Yes. That’s when I first
began to play around with it. At first, Marie only shared bits and
pieces, but as she got to know me better, she began to open up
more.”
    “ Maybe we should start with
how these spells work,” I suggested, honing in on the exact scoop I
needed to begin to figure out how to fix this hex mess.
    “ Work? Well, they’re all
supposed to work in different ways.”
    “ What do you mean in
different ways?”
    “ Just what I said. Each type
of spell has its own peculiarities. But...I’m not always certain
how they’re going to work out.”
    Nice . Real nice .
So, you just cast a spell on some poor sucker and don’t have a clue
as to what the consequences will be. That’s comforting.
    “ How about filling me in on
the particular spell that you were using earlier today?”
    “ Well...”
    “ What is it, Liza? Why are
you hesitating? Because of your spells, we’ve got two guys in the
hospital who are lucky they didn’t end up in a
cemetery.”
    “ It’s just that Marie asked
me not to share information about the spells. She said that if the
details fell into the wrong hands, then terrible things could
happen.”
    Wrong hands? That’s rich coming from
Liza, I silently harrumphed. I wondered if Marie had any real
notion of the type of person she’d decided to share with back in
New Orleans.
    Knowing I needed to put Liza’s mind at
ease in order to drag this information out of her, I decided not to
voice my concerns regarding Marie’s lack of discretion.
    “ Listen, Liza, I don’t need
you to tell me how you go about casting these spells. I’m sure not
looking to get into the Voodoo business any time soon.”
    Or ever, to be perfectly honest, now
that I’ve seen your handiwork, I thought, again without uttering a
word coming from my bitchy subconscious.
    “ I’m just trying to get a
handle on what you were trying to accomplish and then, from there,
what might have gone wrong. That’s all. Do you think you could help
me out?”
    “ I suppose so. I’m not sure
what that could hurt. Where to begin...okay...first of all, despite
what most people have picked up from movies, Voodoo spells
generally aren’t for hexing others or for revenge. And the whole
thing about sticking pins in dolls to cause an enemy physical pain?
That’s pretty much a Hollywood thing too.”
    “ So then, what are these
spells used for?” I asked, willing to admit I didn’t know anything
other than what Hollywood thought it knew about Voodoo.
    “ Voodoo spells are generally
used for positive reasons: to get a lover back, success in
business, good luck in gambling, personal protection, healing, you
know, that sort of thing.”
    “ But none of those positive
reasons sound anything like what you were trying to accomplish
today.”
    “ No. You’re right. The truth
is, when it comes to Darryl, I usually try to tweak one of the
common spells to...well, to mess around with him in a
not-so-positive way.”
    “ Tweak a spell? How do you
do that?”
    Great . Now I had to learn the basics of Voodoo plus the tweaked
version too.
    “ It’s not an exact science.
I try to figure it out by trial and error. I started by combining
what I learned from Marie with the Santa Muerte rites.”
    “ Santa Muerte? Isn’t that
the saint associated with the Day of the Dead in
Mexico?”
    Oh boy. We’d shot straight out