Crossword-Solution: SAPHIE 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Some of the Negroes wear them to guard themselves against the bite of snakes or alligators; and on this occasion the saphie is commonly enclosed in a snake's or alligator's skin, and tied round the ancle.

About midnight, when the Moors had left me, he paid me a visit, and with much earnestness desired me to write him a saphie.

His knowledge of the world has not lessened that superstitious confidence in saphies and charms, which he had imbibed in his earlier years; for, when he heard that I was a Christian, he immediately thought of procuring a saphie, and for this purpose brought out his _walha_, or writing board, assuring me, that he would dress me a supper of rice, if I would write him a saphie to protect him from wicked men.

When he was about to depart the next morning, the landlord begged him to give him a lock of his hair, understanding that white men's hair made a _saphie_, or charm, which would bestow on the possessor all their knowledge.

Finding that his guest was a Christian, he immediately desired him to write a _saphie_, saying that he would dress him a supper of rice if he would produce one to protect him from wicked men.