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The Mistress Who Mocked a Dying Slave: The Curse That Made Her Crawl for Mercy, 1856

In 1856 Georgia, plantation mistress Victoria Ashford made a fatal mistake when she spent three days mocking the death agony of Mama Celia, an elderly enslaved conjure woman who she had ordered whipped for practicing African healing traditions. As Celia lay dying in the courtyard dirt, Victoria laughed at her suffering and made cruel jokes from her veranda—but the dying woman used her final breaths to unleash the most powerful curse in Southern history. Within days, Victoria's legs became paralyzed. Within weeks, she was forced to crawl on her hands and knees through the same courtyard dirt where Celia had died. This is the shocking true story of a dying curse that proved devastatingly real, how supernatural forces reduced a cruel mistress to total paralysis that lasted seventeen years, and why Victoria spent nearly two decades completely helpless and dependent on the very people she had tormented. Discover the conjure traditions that made such curses possible, the spiritual power of dying words spoken with righteous rage, and how this story inspired resistance movements throughout the South by proving that oppressors were more vulnerable than they appeared. From the laughing mistress to the crawling supplicant, this is ultimate supernatural justice.