Sentence examples for conjure men from inspiring English sources

Mudbone spoke with a strong Southern dialect and his tales were directly descended from the slave narratives that told (as the critic Darryl Pinckney described them) "of spirits riding people at night, of elixirs dearly bought from conjure men, chicken bones rubbed on those from whom love was wanted".

The day of my visit, in 1997, even as the theater awaited the arrival of Julie Taymor's production of "The Lion King," it wasn't hard to conjure men in top hats and women in ankle-length gowns sweeping into the playhouse and taking their seats under a ceiling that glowed with hidden lamps.

In 1932 Fisher brought out The Conjure Man Dies, often referred to as the first African American detective novel.

Bynum, the conjure man in Wilson's "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" (1988), might have described King as a man who has forgotten his song.

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.

Loomis is not only unmoored ("I been wandering a long time in somebody else's world"); he is a dismantled man "who done forgot his song," as the resident boarding-house conjure man, Bynum Walker (the vivid Roger Robinson), tells him.

THE CONJURE MAN DIES A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem By Rudolph Fisher; directed by Clinton Turner Davis; sets by Kent Hoffman; lighting by Shirley Prendergast; costumes by Evelyn Nelson; sound by Sean O'Halloran; technical director, Green Turtle Productions; property mistress, Sarah Jorgensen; production stage manager, Ken Hall.

Written by Rudolph Fisher, a Brown graduate, radiologist and hospital superintendent whose novels, "The Walls of Jericho" and "The Conjure Man," made him a noteworthy figure in the Harlem Renaissance before he died at 37, this adaptation was first produced posthumously in 1936 by the Federal Theater Project at the Lafayette Theater in Harlem.