First of all, why is it called a master key? Is it just to point out that the protagonist has opened a door that shouldn't have been opened? After doing a little homework, I found that this kind of master key is for dark locks. The reason why it is universal is that according to the mechanism of dark locks, all the serrations on the key corresponding to each lock are removed, so that the key can be directly inserted into the innermost door to open the door. . Karoline found that the door that could not be opened was stuffed with a key fragment, and after taking it out, the door was successfully opened.
This lock is said to have been widely used in the United States in the first half of the last century.
In addition to the keys, there are mirrors.
Why can't you look in the mirror? The protagonist always thinks that he will see ghosts and ghosts in the mirror. When the protagonist is taking a bath, a shadow in the mirror seems to walk past, which seems to confirm this. But after looking at it, you can be sure that there are no ghosts. This is the old lady, maybe even a lawyer who came quietly, to read the protagonist's stuff. So why is the stroke old man afraid to look in the mirror? Because what he sees in the mirror is not himself, the person in this old body is the lawyer, and he can't look at himself in the mirror with this appearance.
From another angle, the two hoodoo masters, justify and cecile, don't want to see the person in the mirror. He survived, but not in his own way. It might be better not to see that.
There is also a little doubt.
Why do you have to use justify's black disc for the ceremony? Can't you read it yourself? Why is that disc so important?
What is the specific role of the mirror in the final ritual? Need caroline watching all the time? It seems that the two children did not have a mirror when they performed the ceremony, which should not be a necessity.
Besides prompting the ubiquity of hoodoo and creating atmosphere, does the scene of the gas station have more meanings? Like an oyster biting a fly and an old man with a baby suddenly appearing?
After reading it, think about it. At that carnival party decades ago, a crazy white man hanged two black people, and by that time, the ceremony had already been completed. The two wizards watched the child's parents hang the child with their own eyes. . . Afterwards, the banker and his wife died unexpectedly. Did they know the truth and committed suicide in despair, or did the two witch doctors act?
Writing this, I remembered that the book "Black Hamlet" also described how many black witch doctors exercised spells and prepared potions, including intoxication and some psychic accounts. It was also a work from the early part of the last century, which is very interesting.
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