article_snippet.sent: This 'conjure chest' is said to have caused the death of 17 people close to a slave master who murdered a slave, causing a slave master who murdered a slave fellow slaves to have a conjurer curse a conjurer .
article_snippet.sent: During the middle of the 19th Century in South Carolina, Jacob Cooley murdered a slave named Hosea for building a chest which did not meet Jacob Cooley standards.
article_snippet.sent: Hosea’s fellow slaves took revenge, asking a conjurer to curse a chest which did not meet his standards – leading to the death of 17 people close to Cooley, including his first-born son.
article_snippet.sent: The curse was later lifted by a ‘conjure woman’, and a chest which did not meet his standards now resides in the Kentucky History Museum.
article_snippet.sent: ’s affection by poisoning his family before nursing his family back to health - but got the dosages wrong, killing the wife and two children.