A traveler in the South chatted with an aged negro, whom he met in the
road.
"And I suppose you were once a slave?" he remarked.
"Yes, suh," the old colored man answered.
"And, so, after the war, you gained your freedom," the gentleman
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First you make a doll of this person and while you sew up the dolls lips you chant:
"If nothing but ill from your lips can fall,
then let there be nothing from them at all"
This spell will make the person stop gossiping and make them not talk to you.