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“Of course. Marie was a fortune-teller. She dealt in charms and curses and gris-gris. I am the goddess of magic.”

Ham is bound by old gris-gris magic to New Orleans, Miss Pearl, bad habits and false realities.

The “resourceful” grandchild of a “well-heeled gris-gris queen of some renown,” Miss Pearl “wasn’t above adapting one of her MeeMaw’s charms to assure order was fixed in the world she ruled.”

From 1982, "I'll Scry Instead" by London's Monochrome Set is an irresistible little tune, wryly breezing through a laundry list of pseudoscientific superstitions: astrology, palm reading, birth charts, crystal balls, gris-gris, etc., as the luckless and lovelorn narrator sends money to a charlatan hoping for guidance:

“In New Orleans we only have food, music, culture. It’s what keeps this city alive, and what feeds the state,” said Cook of Gris-Gris.