"You just do what I say. You say, 'Hello, Hairy Man,'" his mama said, "And he says, 'Hello, Wiley.' And you say, 'Hairy Man, I heard you the best conjure doctor around here.' And he say, 'I reckon I am.' And you say, 'Bet you can't turn yourself into a giraffe.' You keep tellin him he can't, Wiley," his mama told him, "and then he is sure to turn himself into a giraffe. Then you say, 'Bet you can't turn yourself into an alligator.' And he will, too. Then you say, 'Anybody can turn theyselves into somethin big as a man. But I bet you can't turn yourself into a possum.' And the Hairy Man will, and you grab him and throw him in the croaker sack." —“Wiley, His Mama, and the Hairy Man,”
Virginia Hamilton

Identify plot elements in the passage by completing the sentence.

Mama's instructions to Wiley are part of the
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