Are you writing a book? What is it about? voodoo. 'Voodoo!' laughed Conway. Are you telling me that someone is paying you to come here and write about voodoo? I know Haiti is not America, but voodoo! l thought people stopped believing in that years ago. oh, no,' said Karen. People still believe in it. You see, it works, and it can be very dangerous.' Surely you don't believe in voodoo, do you?' Yes, I do. We don't really understand voodoo in America. Most people think it's magic. They think it can kill people. That's right. I remember hearing about it. People who use voodoo get a picture of a person or make a doll, don't they? Then they put pins or knives into it, and the person feels terrible pain.
Yes, that's right,' Karen answered. "I have a photograph here in one of my books about voodoo. Look, there's one of the dolls. It's not a child's doll it's made from coconuts. You see, the face is a coconut, and someone has drawn eyes, a nose, and a mouth on it. And look, there's a pin in the doll's stomach. A few days later the man came to hospital because his stomach hurt. He knew that someone was using voodoo against him. The pain was terrible, but the doctors couldn't find anything wrong with him. In the end, he died.'