In Afro-American culture, witchcraft and conjuring have a great position. The female ancestors of Mama Day exhibited skills of casting spells and had remedies for healing. Mama Day reveals the power of witchcraft and healers in the form of conjure woman. She carries on the tradition of conjure which has passed down through the generations of the Mama Day family. Miranda goes down from a long line of conjurers both men and women. Her father John Paul was the seventh son of Jonah, who was also the seventh son. Jonah’s mother, Sapphira Wade was a commanding conjure woman whose inheritance powers took on god like qualities. She had the skill to read signs and could feel changes in nature that communicated to her the signs of unpredictable events.