Unnamed Half-Crazed Woman

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Unnamed Half-Crazed Woman
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Unnamed Half-Crazed Woman
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Female
Class: 
Poor White
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
Occupation: 
Sales and Service
Specific Job: 
Conjure Woman
Biography: 

This "old half-crazed white woman" is one of Jefferson's most eccentric inhabitants (200). The physical description of her is equally striking: her "lank grayish hair" hangs beside "the glittering collapse of her face" (201). She is reported to make her living by "manufactur[ing] spells for negroes" (200), though her house was also once raided by "officers searching for whiskey" (201). Horace arranges for Ruby to stay in the "lean-to shed room" attached to her house. (This woman may recur as "Mrs. Downs" in Intruder in the Town; at the very least, the two women are essentially the same character.)

Disability: 
psychosocially impaired
Individual or Group: 
Individual
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