Sapphie
What you goin’ do to ’im?
Granny
I goin’ lead ’im out tuh de i’un hitchin’ pos’ w’ut dey fas’en Sam ter an’ I goin’ tuh chain ’im da wif dese chains an’ I goin’ tuh bring ’im tuh ’imself an’ den I goin’ tuh bu’n ’im lak he gran’pappy bu’n Sam.
Sapphie
[With a scream.] You shan’t.
Pearl
You spose we leave you do hit?
[The girls start forward toward the doorway at left back. As they near Granny she swiftly seizes a handful of burning herbs from the brazier and waves them smoking across the faces of the girls under their nostrils, so that they breathe the fumes. They take a few steps farther, staggering, and then stand motionless and silent. She takes them by the hands and leads them back. The fumes of stramonium, solanum and other herbs have produced catalepsia. Granny goes to the fireplace at back and from the mantel takes a wooden bowl, a short stick and a large dry gourd. She returns, gives the bowl and stick to Sapphie, causing her to beat rhythmically on the inverted bowl with the stick, a motion which Sapphie continues in imitative hypnosis. Granny gives the gourd to Pearl, causing her to shake it. The gourd gives forth a dry rattle from seeds or pebbles within it. Granny then places the two girls on either side of the tripod and they continue their drumming and rattling rhythmically. She then takes her place back of the tripod and casts more herbs upon the fire.]
Granny