Fiction - Frederick Brown: "Voodoo"

  FREDERICK BROWN
  Voodoo

  Mrs Decker has just returned from
Haiti.  She was resting alone - this
should have cooled the passions of the Dekkers
before a serious conversation about divorce.
  Not so.  Passions are still there
were seething, that is, the spouses hated each other
friend even more than before.
  “Half,” Mrs.
Dekker.  - You'll get a divorce if I
I will receive half of all money and property.
  “Don’t be ridiculous,” Mr. Decker waved him off.
  - Wait, laugh.  I could get
everything - and without the slightest difficulty.  Not
Do you understand?  The fact is that in Haiti I
studied voodoo witchcraft.
  - Nonsense! - Mr. Decker announced.
  - This is not nonsense. You're lucky that I
a decent woman; another one would kill you
- and ends in water.  And I would get everything
money, all property and all real estate,
and with complete impunity - such
no doctor can distinguish death from
heart attack.
  - Nonsense! - Mr. Dekker snapped.
  - You are sure?  Do you want me to prove it?  Hairpin and
I have wax on hand. Give me some
your hairs or a piece of nail - this
should be enough.
  - Game! - Mr. Decker barked.
  - Then what are you afraid of?  I know what
the matter will end, but if you stay in
alive, I will give you a divorce and will not take anything
cent.  Well... in another case - just
I will inherit everything.
  “Okay,” agreed Mr.Dekker and
looked at my nails.  - Too
cropped short, I'd rather give you a pair
hairs Get your hairpin ready.
  He went out and soon returned with a bottle
from an aspirin bottle containing several
short hairs.  Mrs. Decker to this
I've already kneaded the wax for a while. She got mixed up in
her hairs and molded her into a clumsy doll.
  “You’ll see...” she said and
stuck a hairpin into the doll's chest.
  What Mr. Decker saw will continue to be
surprised him, but rather pleasantly.
Of course, he is not into any witchcraft
believed, but had long been accustomed to doing without
unnecessary risk.
  Besides, he was annoyed that his wife was so
Rarely cleans his hair brush...