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From: Sheila Herndon <skherndon at yahoo.com>
(oh shoot, it's been so long since I've read that,
that maybe I'm remembering the wrong myth entirely
and not to mention incorrectly!)
Never fear. You have the right myth. Tim Powers has also explored this territory, most notably in On Stranger Tides, which is about Blackbeard and voodoo and certain interesting spots in Florida.
-- vizcacha
(aka Dave Lebling)
*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.