Many thanks for the guidance and information on this query.   As always, I’m impressed by the depth of knowledge and the generosity of the members of the List.   I have much now to read and contemplate.



I think what Munford was describing was closely connected to Hoodoo, which is an aspect of the religious landscape where the Bray School was sited that I was wholly ignorant of.



(The Wikipedia article on Hoodoo, btw, is interminable, almost unreadable, but …..  412 citations!).



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