“. . . so she kept running until she came upon a collection of conjure women, each one stronger than the one before, and said I am being pursued by a demon of some power, can you help me, please, and so they question her, what type of demon, what do the demon do, what are the demons weaknesses, she say she notice the demon avoids water, so they build a ditch and they fill it with water, then they use their powers to bring it to a boil, and when the demon crested the hill there they were, singing and dancing and provoking, and the demon surged and fell and boiled to the spells of dancing women . . .”

—A.R. FLOWERS, The Hoodoo Book of Flowers