The "Priest" was a character who appeared in a recurring nightmare that plagued former deputy Cecil Price. In his dream, the Priest was the local recruiter for the black supremacist group, the Black Knights of Voodoo. He hated whites, and did much to insure the racial hierarchy that kept whites oppressed in Mississippi remained in place. In Price's nightmare, after he, Muhammad Shabazz and Tariq Abdul-Rashid were detained by a Neshoba county deputy sheriff and held in Philadelphia, Mississippi, the deputy went directly to consult with the Priest, which Price took as a bad sign.