Summary

Chapter Six begins with narration focusing on Rudy, his impatience growing in the aftermath of his capturing Tony. He tells Tony, motionless because of a potion that Rudy had given him, that he (Rudy) is angry, but still needs Tony to get the heart for him, because to do it himself would mean a smaller fee. He explains to Tony how he got his power – after his wife (whom the reader knows is Mami) kicked him out of their home, he became addicted to buff and got into trouble with the posse, who beat him up. He describes how he used what Mami had taught him about communicating with spirits to bring a spirit to him and eventually manipulated the spirit into telling him how to enslave another spirit, which Rudy does – perform a ritual to create a “duppy,” a...