Note 1 — Chapter X · A CHARM TO CLIP GHOST WINGS

While the name is necessarily changed, there lives, in the Hudson River valley an aged Indian “medicine man” whose herbal remedies and other curative methods are famous over a wide area: his “magic” is less widely known, but is in line with the possession of certain secrets of Nature and of mental ability of a high order and amazed the youth by his businesslike and plainly successful methods.