conjure man

For the domination of a conjure man is a thing hinged on a hair-trigger.

Like them gypsy palm readers, an' the conjure men!"

I knew I looked upon Saul Stark, the conjure man.

"He cast the conjure men in a negative light, but he was a product of his time," she said of Joplin.

There's your conjure man.

"Here comes that King Jolito conjure man!

Treemonisha is kidnapped by the so-called "conjure men," but is rescued and returned home, where she becomes a leader among her community.

"Orpheus" is an unwieldy mix of myth, ritual (a conjure man included), social realism and bluesy poetry.

There wasn't much call for a professional death squad leader, so Obeah became a professional killer- and a conjure man on the side.

As the conjure man, Mr. Hall quietly incarnates the mythical dimensions of the August Wilson play.

The hoodoo "Conjure Man" could be black, native American or white as the legend of the famous "Doctor Buzzard" points to.

The Nullifiers try to stop them, when the heroes are saved by The Streak, Conjure Man and Imitatia.

His sensual descriptions of the instruments are capable of conjuring Man Ray's famous photograph of the nude with F-holes stencilled on her back.

The "conjure men" who kidnap Treemonisha represent the old slave superstitions rejected by Joplin, a bookish man who favored suits and ties.

Rudolph Fisher - The Walls of Jericho (1928), The Conjure Man Dies (1932)

But 65 years after it was first presented, "The Conjure Man Dies," subtitled "A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem," remains no more than an interesting curio.

(Ages 5 to 9) A storybook version of the opera about Treemonisha, the pretty college graduate, who returns home to confront evil in the form of Zodzetrick, a conjure man.

Izayus uses the Artifact's red half to transform Rikio, Ozubo and Anna into their respective superhero forms, The Streak, Conjure Man and Imitatia.

- "Cotton Comes To Harlem," Chester Himes (Random House, 1988) - "The Conjure Man Dies," Rudolph Fisher (Ann Arbor, 1992) - "Concourse"

He learns that the local blacks are now being led by a strange "conjure man" named Saul Stark, who has vowed to kill all the whites in Grimesville and set up a black empire in America.

As the opera begins, Zodzetrick, a local "conjuring man" who takes advantage of people's superstitious natures, approaches Monisha, the gullible mother of young Treemonisha, with an offer: I want to sell you dis bag o' luck, Yo' enemies it will keep away.

It's a fleeting image, because "Real Black Men," which then begins with a burst of rhyming verses delivered, not always clearly, by a conjure man (Arthur French) in tails and top hat, concentrates its considerable energies near the midpoint of the 20th century and through the 90's.

That sentiment is prompted by "The Conjure Man Dies," the unexciting Depression-era mystery about murder and a seemingly resurrected victim that has itself been brought back to life for a run through Feb. 11 at the Henry Street Settlement on the Lower East Side.

Lee Barlow's "Reclamation Act," an old sewing machine wrapped in twine, conjures Man Ray's iconic "L'Enigma d'Isidore Ducasse," while Polly Apfelbaum exhibits a string of cast copper wishbones titled "Diagram of Bones for Mme.

Rather than ratcheting up its tension as it approaches its bullet-riddled climax, "The Conjure Man Dies" dissipates energy on some windy philosophizing about determinism and free will and then provides a solution to its puzzle that is undermined by the fact that most members of the cast are playing more than one role.