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   A cow licks her hair and that hair goes down in the left
   side of the pouch and forms a ball, and if you have one of
   those in your hand you can bewitch anyone.
   
   A evil person can take the length of your fingers and hoodoo
   you in two days, to make you do what ever they want.
   
   A hoodoo bag can contain salt, pepper, chicken feet, a
   rabbit foot, ashes and a piece of a razor.
   
   A hoodoo can rub their hand over your head and make you
   bald-headed inside of two weeks.
   
   A hoodoo person can let you bite a piece of an apple and all
   your teeth will fall out of your head.
   
   A hoodoo person can take your old clothes and run you
   insane.
   
   A hoodoo woman could rub her hands over your eyes and you
   will go blind in one night; and she can rub them again over
   your eyes and you can see.
   
   A love powder is a half teaspoonful of sugar, teaspoonful of
   peppermint and a teaspoonful of grated candied orange peel;
   give a teaspoonful of this mixture in a glass of wine and
   the person will love you forever.
   
   A person can take some of your hair and make you go crazy.
   
   A person can take one of your shoes and bury it and make you
   walk all the time.
   
   A person can make you get very thirsty by putting a whiskey
   bottle under your porch for three weeks, and then throwing
   the bottle into a fire which will make you very thirsty for
   whiskey.
   
   A sure way to hoodoo a person is to catch their eyes when
   talking to them and don't let them go.
   
   A witch can cure her pain by rubbing sugar, salt, vinegar
   and hot water over her pain.
   
   A witch doctor can tell if you are bewitched when he looks
   at you, for if you are, he will see white clouds floating
   around you.
   
   A witch is one that sells her soul to the devil and she has
   to keep someone in her power all the time; if not, the devil
   will make her suffer untold agony.
   
   A woman should take her first urine on Monday morning, put
   it in a jar and place it under the bed for nine days and it
   will hold her husband.
   
   Always carry a black cat's bone in your pocket, if you think
   someone is bewitching you.
   
   As you eat the wing of a chicken, take the little bone that
   is near the end and drop it into the pocket of the fellow
   you are going with, without him knowing it, and he will ask
   you to marry him.
   
   Boil a black cat until all the meat comes off and take the
   bones to the four corners of the road and you will meet the
   devil.
   
   Burn a black cat up and there will be one bone that will not
   burn up; that is called the lucky bone, and if you carry
   that bone you will never have bad luck.
   
   Burn your shoes as soon as you are through with them and you
   will never be bewitched.
   
   Bury some hair from the top of your husband's head under the
   front doorstep and he will never leave home for good.
   
   Bury your husband's shoes in the front yard with the toes
   toward the door and he will never leave you.
   
   Carrying a rabbit's foot keeps all evil away.
   
   Clean out the stables between Christmas and New Years, and
   the witches will not hurt your stock during the year.
   
   Cut some hair from your private hair and some from your
   man's head, and tie it all together to wear in your left
   shoe and make him crazy about you.
   
   Every seven years the witches come to life.
   
   Get a pair of old shoes and put pepper inside, then send
   them to a person and it will give them the rheumatism.
   
   Grave dust is what a witch uses to hoodoo you, and you will
   conquer her if you get some and wear it.
   
   Hang black coats over all the outside doors at night, to
   keep witches out of the house at night.
   
   If you don't want your man to talk to another woman, take a
   nail and drive it at the end of his heel prints, and he will
   run from her the next time he sees her.
   
   If you take a strand of hair out of a person's head and wear
   it in your pocket for two days, it will give that person the
   headache.
   
   If your husband is running around, take some of his hair and
   a piece of his necktie and put them in a bottle, then throw
   that in the river; and when that necktie rots, that will
   change him.
   
   If a hoodoo person wants to show you something, let them put
   their own hand on it, for if you touch it they can poison
   you.
   
   If a man carry a gun all the time, he will kill someone
   soon; because a gun can hoodoo him.
   
   If a man get your hair and put it in a bottle of vinegar, it
   will make you crawl on your stomach for him.
   
   If a man loves you and you love him, don't let him get a
   strand of your hair; for if you do, he will run you crazy.
   
   If a man sees a woman he wants, he can get her by taking a
   picture of her and sleeping with it face down under his head
   for a week; and she will look for him until she finds where
   he lives.
   
   If a man wants to get rid of his wife, he should make a hole
   in a tree, then put her monthly rags in that hole and stop
   it up; which will kill the tree and his wife will die.
   
   If a man wants to run a woman crazy, he can take a strand of
   her hair and wear it in his shoes for a week.
   
   If a person is bewitched and the witch dies, the witch must
   be dead a year before the spell is broken.
   
   If a person is in bed and you don't want them to wake up,
   just hang your nightie over their head so they can inhale
   the perfume and they will sleep until morning.
   
   If a person kill somebody and get way, a hoodoo can take one
   of their letters and make them surrender in one week.
   
   If a person keeps coming to your house and you don't want
   them to come back any more, just pour some salt over the
   doorway and they will never come back again.
   
   If a person leaves you and you want them to come back, just
   take their picture and turn it upside down, and they will
   come back to you.
   
   If a person try to hoodoo you in leap year, put a horseshoe
   over your door and they can't hoodoo you.
   
   If a person wear your coat and give it back to you before
   the time is up, they have hoodoo the coat; and if you wear
   it you will get hoodoo.
   
   If a witch comes to your house, say, "Kiss my ass" three
   times under your breath, and she can't harm you.
   
   If a woman can get a little of your blood on a piece of
   cloth and tie it up in a bag and wear it on her leg, she
   will run you crazy in nine days.
   
   If a woman don't know you and try to rub her jaw against
   you, she will hoodoo you if you let her.
   
   If a woman kisses you twice on one cheek and once on the
   other cheek, she is trying to hoodoo you.
   
   If a woman sprinkles some salt from her house to yours, it
   will give you bad luck until you clean the salt away and put
   pepper over your door sill.
   
   If a woman wants her husband to stay away from other woman,
   she can do so by putting a little of her blood in his
   coffee, and he will never quit her.
   
   If a woman's husband dies and you don't want her to marry
   again, cut all of her husband's shoes all in little pieces,
   just as soon as he is dead, and she will never marry again.
   
   If another girl is after your boyfriend, get some of her
   clothing with monthly stains on it and throw the clothing in
   running water; when the stain fades she will fade out of his
   mind.
   
   If anyone finds your monthly cloth and buries it, when the
   cloth rots you will die.
   
   If anyone puts your hair up in a tree when the sap is coming
   up, you will be hoodooed and not get well.
   
   If someone always comes to the house at dinner time, place a
   bottle of castor oil by their plate which will make them so
   sick they will never impose on you again.
   
   If someone bewitched you, put a piece of red flannel in hot
   water on the back of the stove and let it boil; so the one
   that has a spell over you will come and ask for forgiveness.
   
   If someone comes to your house and you don't want them to
   come back, find their tracks and nail them full of nails and
   they will just keep walking and walking; and will not be
   able to come back.
   
   If someone dislikes you, break an egg into a glass half full
   of water, put a needle in it and place the glass under your
   bed to take that person's anger away.
   
   If someone does you harm and you wish they would live a lot
   to suffer, they will die before you.
   
   If someone does you dirty and you don't want them to come to
   your house, drop some some salt back of them.
   
   If someone has put something down for you to walk over,
   place a brown paper packet of red pepper in your shoes so
   walking will do you no harm.
   
   If someone hoodoo or bewitch you, if you are a woman, you
   must go to a man to take it off; and if a man, you must go
   to a woman.
   
   If someone is going with your husband or beau and you don't
   want them to go, go to their house and throw red pepper and
   salt in front of the door so they will walk over it; which
   will start them quarreling and they will fall out.
   
   If someone is putting an evil spell on you; sit for an hour
   and close your eyes while imagining that everything around
   you is orange in color; which will break the spell.
   
   If someone is bothering you, take a handful of salt and call
   their name and throw it over your right shoulder, and they
   will not bother you.
   
   If someone shit in your front yard, take it up on a shovel,
   put turpentine on it, burn it, and their ass will burn
   forever.
   
   If the law is after you, go and sleep in a cemetery
   overnight; and the next morning you can get up and the law
   will not be looking for you.
   
   If the wife don't like her husband and she is pregnant, she
   should turn her back to him and make a wish for the child
   not to like the father, and the child will never care for
   the husband.
   
   If two people are running around together and you want to
   break them up, take salt and pepper and mix it good, then
   put it down for them to walk over; and it will start them to
   fussing.
   
   If you are blind this hoodoo woman can make you see in two
   days.
   
   If you are going with a man and you don't want him to come
   back, get some of his hair and put it in a bottle, then go
   to the river and throw it in, and the man will go whichever
   way the bottle goes.
   
   If you are going with someone and want to stop, get a can of
   acid and pour over their picture; and it will burn you
   apart.
   
   If you are going with a young man and you don't want him to
   come back, put some red pepper and salt right in his foot
   tracks, and he will never come back again.
   
   If you are going with a fellow and you can get one of his
   socks he has worn but never washed, and sleep with that
   under your pillow, he can never get away from you.
   
   If you are going with a man and you want him to come back,
   spit on his back just as he is leaving the door.
   
   If you are rich, this hoodoo woman could put her hand on
   you, and you will get poor in one hour.
   
   If you can bury anyone's dirty clothes down by a stream of
   running water, when that cloth rotes they will start to fade
   and die.
   
   If you can get someone's hair and bury it by a running
   stream, it will make them fade away and die.
   
   If you can keep chickens with the feathers turned back the
   wrong way, you will never be hoodooed.
   
   If you can't sleep at night, put some blessed water under
   your bed, and the witches will not bother you.
   
   If you chew gum and lay it down around and a person don't
   like you, they can take your gum and hoodoo you if they want
   to.
   
   If you do something to a person they don't like, they can
   drive a nail in your footprint and it will make you walk
   yourself to death.
   
   If you don't like someone, take some of their hair and nail
   it on a tree; when that hair starts to grow, they will die.
   
   If you don't like someone, take a rattlesnake and kill it,
   dry the snake and make a powder of it which, when placed in
   their coffee, will make them full of little snakes.
   
   If you don't want anyone to live in a house, put rusty nails
   under their front doorstep and they will not live in that
   house over three days.
   
   If you don't like a person, take a tintype picture of that
   person and bury it right where they walk over it; when it
   fades, they will die.
   
   If you don't want someone to come back to your house, stick
   three nails in their heel of their shoe where they leave a
   track in the yard.
   
   If you don't like someone and don't want them to come to
   your house, hang a bottle of blue vitriol by the porch or
   door and they will not come in your house.
   
   If you don't like someone and can get a tintype of them, and
   put it in the cemetery, they will die.
   
   If you don't want your friend to come back to your house,
   put his picture in the ground in salt, with the face down
   touching the salt and the head away from the house, and he
   will not come back.
   
   If you don't want a girl to marry another man, just get her
   engagement ring and wear it for three days, then give it
   back to her; and she won't marry that man.
   
   If you don't want your husband to have any nature for you,
   when he is sleeping measure his privates with a cord string
   and tie three knots in it; hide the string in the house and
   he will not have any desire for you.
   
   If you don't want someone to come to your house, put red
   pepper, black pepper and salt under your door, and they will
   not come back.
   
   If you don't want enemies to come around your house and put
   a spell on you, wash your front doorstep every Monday
   morning with pee.
   
   If you fall out with your sweetheart, get up on a Friday
   night at midnight and put his picture on a cross and burn it
   up, and he will come back to you.
   
   If you fall out with someone, and want them to come back,
   place their picture upside down while looking through a
   glass of water in front of a looking glass; which will make
   them come back.
   
   If you find a rag in your feather bed with needles and
   thread just stuck in it, some old woman will come dressed in
   black and want to buy bottles or fruit jars at your house.
   
   If you get a man's foot prints and put a rusty nail in it,
   his foot will burn him all the time.
   
   If you get someone's sick clothes that you don't like, and
   bury them in an old hollow tree, they will start to bloating
   and never will come sick again unless you take the rags out
   of the tree.
   
   If you get the eye of anyone and can hold it, you can make
   them do anything.
   
   If you get the hat of someone and put vinegar and red pepper
   in it, then bury it, that will make them never satisfied
   with anything.
   
   If you go somewhere and think you will be hoodooed, always
   carry a piece of bread in your pocket.
   
   If you hang a bottle of bluing down a fireplace, it will
   keep Satan away.
   
   If you have an enemy and don't want them to come around your
   house, wear salt nd pepper in your shoes.
   
   If you have a woman and don't want her to go with anyone,
   just give her a stick of powder chewing gum, and she can't
   leave you.
   
   If you have a beau and he leaves and you don't want him to
   come back, throw a small bag of salt at him as he leaves the
   house.
   
   If you have company and you don't want anyone to stay, try
   and get back of them and sprinkle a little salt on their
   left shoulder and they will leave.
   
   If you have got it in for someone, take their dress or (if a
   man) pants and bury them; and when the clothes rot the
   person will die.
   
   If you have it in for someone, get red pepper and have it
   cursed, and sprinkle it around their house so they can walk
   in it; it will make them very sick.
   
   If you have not seen anyone for a long time, take their
   picture and set it up against the wall on the floor and you
   will see them soon.
   
   If you have not seen anyone for a long time, take their
   picture and put it behind the looking glass and they will
   come soon.
   
   If you have trouble with your beau and want him to come
   back, take his photo and bury it face down, wishing he will
   come back; and he will sure come back in three days.
   
   If you keep a silver dime in your mouth, no one can poison
   you.
   
   If you like someone and you want them to return, take a pin
   and lay it down with the point toward your front door, and
   leave it there nine days; and they will return.
   
   If you love someone and they are indifferent to you, get a
   piece of their clothing that they have worn next to them and
   pin it next to the clothing you wear next to you, and they
   will soon grow to love you again.
   
   If you love someone and want to bring them back, take a
   piece of cream cheese and some flour and make a ball of it,
   and drop it in their pocket without them knowing it.
   
   If you meet someone with whom you are not acquainted, and he
   wants to pin a lower on you, he intends to bewitch you.
   
   If you put your stockings on wrong side out, the witch will
   get you.
   
   If you put a horseshoe over your door with the points down,
   a witch will never come under your door.
   
   If you put salt and pepper in front of a house, it will
   bring bad luck to the people that live in the house.
   
   If you put some vinegar and pepper in a man's pants, he
   won't be able to sit down in four weeks.
   
   If you room at a house and leave your clothes there, they
   can fix you so you can't leave if you wanted to.
   
   If you rub hot ashes on the inside of a person's shoes, it
   will make their arches fall.
   
   If you see a witch coming, run and put the broom down in
   front of the door and say, "Kiss my ass" three times and she
   will not be able to step over the broom.
   
   If you see someone on the street and they are very beautiful
   and look real strong at you, you had better turn around and
   spit three times, for they may have the evil eye and will
   throw a spell on you.
   
   If you see someone coming to your house and you don't want
   them, sprinkle some red pepper in the doorway and they will
   not come in.
   
   If you sleep with a Bible and a pair of scissors under your
   pillow, the witches cannot bother you.
   
   If you sprinkle salt down every morning, anyone you don't
   want to come in your house will not walk over that.
   
   If you steal something, put red pepper in your shoes and
   they will not catch you.
   
   If you take a wishbone out of a turtle and put it in a man's
   pocket, he can't leave you: He will just cling to you.
   
   If you take someone's picture and turn it upside down so the
   party is standing on her head, facing a looking-glass; and
   she will feel just the way people are talking about her.
   
   If you think you are hoodoo, put a dime in your right shoe,
   and if you are, the dime will turn black.
   
   If you think someone is talking about you, if you will put
   some salt on the stove and let it burn, they will stop.
   
   If you think your beau is going back on you, put a
   teaspoonful of your monthly in a glass of wine and let him
   drink it; then he will not leave you.
   
   If you think someone has a spell on you, take a fork and a
   rusty nail and cross them and stick them in the ground to
   break the spell.
   
   If you think someone is bewitching you, make a cross and go
   to bed, and the witches will not get you.
   
   If you think your are bewitched, go to the priest and he
   will pray a certain prayer over you.
   
   If you throw flowers or a note into the grave, the party
   will not rest until he or she does what you want them to do.
   
   If you tie a dime around each ankle, you can't be hoodooed.
   
   If you want a man and his wife to separate, take some dog
   hairs, some cat hairs and salt and black pepper and a little
   dirt, and mix that all together; then put in on their front
   doorstep, and they will start to fussing and at last
   separate.
   
   If you want a man to leave you, take the pockets out of his
   pants and he will go away.
   
   If you want a man to stay with you, take chamber lye and put
   it in his pancakes twice a week, and he will never leave.
   
   If you want someone to die, drill a hole in a tree, then
   take some hair off the back of their head and put it in this
   hole, then plug it up; and they will start to fade and then
   die.
   
   If you want someone to die, make a hoodoo ball out of a
   ground puppy head and something they wear, roll it in sulfur
   and put it where they will walk over it and the ball will
   make them die.
   
   If you want someone to die, take two white mice and put them
   in a box and wish that when those two mice starve to death
   the person will die that you want, and they will.
   
   If you want someone to die, take a tintype picture of them
   and put it in water with the face down, and when the picture
   fades they will die.
   
   If you want someone to move on, pour turpentine in their
   tracks and they will start to running.
   
   If you want someone to do as you say, take a piece of rag
   and let them spit on it, then bury it; and you can make them
   do what you want.
   
   If you want someone to die, put salt, red pepper and
   strychnine and a little dirt together, and put that on their
   steps and they will die.
   
   If you want someone to die, place a sprinkle of snake dust
   around where they will walk over it and they will die.
   
   If you want someone to love you, take their handkerchief and
   bury it under a bean hill just at nine o'clock at night, and
   don't tell anyone.
   
   If you want some particular person to come to your house,
   just get a snapshot of them and lay it face downward on your
   dresser under the cloth, and they will come inside of three
   days.
   
   If you want to find out if anyone is a witch, place a pair
   of open scissors under her chair; and if she is a witch, she
   will not be able to get up out of the chair.
   
   If you want to make a person sick, take a piece of their
   clothing and put sulfur on it, then bury the piece of cloth.
   
   If you want to put a spell on someone, put a penny and two
   cockroaches in a bottle on their doorstep and when they pick
   it up you will have a spell over them.
   
   If you want to keep somebody from coming to your house, just
   get and put some of their hair under your doorstep.
   
   If you want to make someone lose their mind, throw some of
   their hair in running water and their mind will wander on
   just like the hair is wandering on in the water.
   
   If you want to get even with someone who is always getting
   ahead of you, tie a yarn string across the path they will
   walk and when they stop to step over the string, you run and
   jump over it first and you will then conquer them every
   time.
   
   If you want to make a person restless so they can't stay in
   one place long, just sprinkle some salt and pepper in their
   footprints, and they will keep moving.
   
   If you want to make someone suffer, put salt and pepper in
   their tracks and they can't stand still.
   
   If you want to make someone's hands ache, put acid in their
   hand prints.
   
   If you want to fall out with someone, give them an apple to
   eat with quinine and let them bite into it, and the person
   will soon get sick and fall out with you.
   
   If you want to keep your beau or husband, take two drops of
   blood out of your arm and put it in his coffee, and they
   will love you forever.
   
   If you want to leave a woman and can't, get you some gopher
   dust and spread it over her chest and she will run you away.
   
   If you want to keep your husband from running around, when
   he is asleep cut off some of his hair on the top of his head
   and wear that in your right shoe, and he will never leave
   you.
   
   If you want to marry a certain woman, just you get a
   lodestone ring and let her see you wear it, and she will
   follow you any place in the world and marry you.
   
   If you want to get rid of someone, write their name three
   times in red ink on a piece of paper, then throw the paper
   in running water.
   
   If you want to get rid of your sweetheart, just turn his
   picture upside down and he will die.
   
   If you want to make someone love you, take and get their
   picture and some of 
   
   their hair and bury it.
   
   If you want to get rid of someone, start at the head and end
   at the feet with pins, 
   
   then put the picture away in a box and in no time at all
   they will die.
   
   If you want to get rid of someone, let them sleep on a wet
   pillow.
   
   If you want to make a person leave town, just drive nails in
   his footsteps in the ground.
   
   If you want to keep your husband, bury an old pair of socks
   and he will not leave.
   
   If you want to keep your husband home, take his old dirty
   socks and hang them 
   
   up behind the dresser, and don't let anyone know it; and he
   will never leave the house.
   
   If you want to get rid of your beau, take and put his sock
   on a railroad track; and when the train runs over the sock,
   he will travel the same way the train went.
   
   If you want to get rid of someone, take their dirty sock and
   throw it in running water, and they will never bother you
   again.
   
   If you want to keep the desire of your husband, take a white
   cord string and tie nine knots in it and wear that next to
   your body.
   
   If you want to kill a witch, draw her picture on a large
   cardboard and drive a nail through her heart; every day for
   nine days hit the nail on the head and on the ninth day she
   will drop dead.
   
   If you want your man under your control, take his hair make
   a bag and wear it on your leg, and he will be easy to
   handle.
   
   If you wash your front door every morning with your pee, it
   will draw men to your house.
   
   If you wear a dime in the heel of your shoe, your enemies
   cannot put a spell on you.
   
   If you wear a piece of rattlesnake skin in your clothing,
   you cannot be put under a spell.
   
   If you will put a pair of scissors under your pillow, open
   with the points to the head of the bed, no one can harm you
   or bewitch you.
   
   If you will take a dime and bore a hole in it and wear it
   all the time on you somewhere, you can't be hoodoo.
   
   If you will wear black pepper and salt in your shoes, you
   can walk anywhere and not be hoodoo.
   
   If you want to get a fellow out of town, take his right shoe
   and pin it under a box car that is leaving town, and he will
   leave and never come back.
   
   If your beau is staying away from the house, put some of his
   hair in a bottle of alcohol and set it in the closet so he
   will come back to you.
   
   If your beau leaves you and you want him to come back, write
   his name on a piece of paper three times and wear this in
   your left shoe, and he will come back to you.
   
   If your boy friend has left you and you want him back, put
   your dish rag under your steps; and when it rots, he will
   come back.
   
   If your husband don't give you his money, take your urine
   and put red pepper in it and sprinkle it through the house,
   then sweep it up into one corner of the room for three days
   and he will give you his money.
   
   If your husband is running with another woman, before bed
   sprinkle salt on the cookstove and hang his pants on the
   foot of the bed for nine nights; and he will stop seeing the
   other woman.
   
   If your husband is going back on you, put a teaspoon of your
   urine in his coffee for several nights and he will come
   back.
   
   If your man is going away from the house and has another
   girl, you can bring him back by tying his necktie for him
   every time he puts it on.
   
   If your man runs with another woman, when he is sleeping
   take the quilt that he is sleeping under and take your right
   hand, pass it over your left hand and turn the quilt over;
   and he will not run with her again.
   
   If your sweetheart gets another girl, take his picture and
   place it upside down on the wall; and when the picture
   fades, he will come back to you.
   
   If your sweetheart goes away and you want him to come back,
   write something real nice about him on a slip of paper and
   bury it; and when the paper rots, he will come back.
   
   It is bad luck to tell people your right age, because they
   can take your age and hoodoo you by numbers.
   
   It is possible for a hoodoo person to take your hat and
   cause your hair to fall out in three days.
   
   Keep a penny in your pocket and you cannot be bewitched.
   
   Keep onions in the house to keep the devils out.
   
   Keep red pepper in the house so you will have good luck and
   not be hoodooed.
   
   Let a woman write her sweetheart's name with some of her
   menstrual blood, and he will fall in love with her.
   
   Make vegetable soup and put something red in it, like
   tomatoes, and a few drops of your blood, and it will make a
   man love you forever.
   
   Many woman think the best way to hoodoo a man is put powder
   and paint on him.
   
   Never allow a child to take money from a stranger, for a
   stranger may use black magic on him.
   
   Never be too quick to kiss a girl because she can hoodoo you
   through the lip stick on her mouth.
   
   Never drink wine on a night party with someone who wants to
   get you; if you do they will hoodoo you with the wine.
   
   Never eat in an evil person's house for you might get
   hoodoo.
   
   Never let anyone have salt because it will bring you bad
   luck for some salt borrowers can bewitch you.
   
   Never take a cigar from an evil person, for it may be loaded
   with dope, and they will hoodoo you.
   
   Never taken anything a hoodoo person give you, for you may
   not be able to raise you hand any more.
   
   Never tell a woman you don't love her, because she will
   hoodoo you and you will have to love her then.
   
   Never visit hoodoo people to find out things, for they will
   hoodoo you.
   
   Picking up things on the street is bad because someone may
   be using it to bewitch you.
   
   Put a piece of rattlesnake skin in your shoe to keep the
   witches away.
   
   Pull a few hairs from your privates and put them in the
   hatband of the man you want to love you; and the hairs
   against his brain will make him crazy about you.
   
   Pull a hair from the head of someone you wish to love you,
   and bury his hair along with one of yours and he will love
   you forever.
   
   Put a person's photograph on the wall and drive a tack into
   the heart and he will die.
   
   Put a piece of silver under your head at night and witches
   will not bother you.
   
   Put sugar, coffee and salt on the stove and burn it, which
   will bring you anything you wish for if you do this on a
   Friday morning between six and twelve o'clock.
   
   Put your sweetheart's or husband's picture behind the
   looking glass, then stick a pin through his heart and he
   will never leave.
   
   Sew some salt in a man's pants pocket without him knowing it
   and he will not leave you.
   
   Should someone leave you, take a piece of their clothing and
   scald it good, then hand the clothing up to dry and they
   will soon return.
   
   Should someone leave the house, that you want to be sure
   will return, take one of their socks and put that under the
   carpet by the front door with just the toe sticking out, and
   they will come back.
   
   Should someone come to your house to hoodoo you, put salt
   around the door and they can come in but they cannot hurt
   you.
   
   Should you think a visitor is a witch, lay an old shoe in
   the door; and if they are a witch they cannot step over the
   shoe.
   
   Should you want to get rid of someone, take a pair of their
   old shoes and burn them, wishing they will leave, and when
   they burn up, they will leave you alone.
   
   Should your husband be running with someone, take some of
   his hair out of his head and boil it in some of your urine,
   then bury it under the door and he will not go out with her
   any more.
   
   Should your sweetheart or mate go away and leave you, take
   his left foot sock and boil it for twenty-four hours; and it
   can't help but bring him back to you.
   
   Sleep with a Bible under your head and a witch will not
   bother you.
   
   Some people believe they can hoodoo with a cup of coffee by
   putting something in it that came through a woman's monthly
   sickness.
   
   Some people have to have their teeth pulled out because they
   are hoodoo.
   
   Some woman believe that if you don't want a man to leave
   you, get a mole toe bag (place a mole's toe in a bag) and
   wear it on your leg.
   
   Some woman put gopher dust in your coat pockets and it will
   make you go back again in three days.
   
   Some woman say that if you don't want a man to quit you,
   just buy him a suit of underclothes and wear it before he
   puts it on.
   
   Some women use their unwell days of which they add to a cup
   of coffee and give it to their husband, which is the cause
   of some men going crazy.
   
   Someone can put a hoodoo ball under the front doorstep and
   when you try to go through the door you will not be able to
   move.
   
   Sprinkle black pepper and salt around your house, then sweep
   it up and burn it to keep your enemies away.
   
   Squeeze a snake, a lizard and a mole until they die, dry the
   bodies and grind them to powder which is put in a bag; throw
   the bag in front of someone you do not like and the animals
   will enter their body.
   
   Take a dime and put red pepper over the dime, then wrap it
   up in brown paper and wear it in your shoe, and you will not
   be hoodoo.
   
   Take a lock of your hair and put it in your sweetheart's
   hatband so he don't know it, and let him wear it; and he
   will always love you.
   
   Take a person's picture or photograph out into the yard at
   midnight, burn it and the person will die.
   
   Take a sack of salt and make a cross on it and put it under
   the front doorstep, and you will keep away all evil.
   
   Take someone's old shoe and put hot ashes in it and bury the
   shoe to make that person's feet burn all the time.
   
   Take nine drops of your menstrual blood and put into
   something your husband eats or drinks, preferably in his
   coffee, and he will never leave you.
   
   Take nine drops of your first urine in the morning, put into
   your husband's coffee, and you will hold him.
   
   Take the heads of a scorpion, lizard and a snake and dry
   them, then make a powder with which you can hoodoo anyone.
   
   The devil will give you power to do evil things, if you sell
   yourself to him.
   
   The left hind foot of a graveyard rabbit killed at midnight
   in the full of the moon is good luck to the man who carries
   it.
   
   Tie some of your lover's hair, and some of yours, into a
   knot and keep it in a bottle because as long as you keep the
   bottle, you will keep your lover.
   
   To burn old shoes is to keep the witches away.
   
   To find out if you have an enemy in the house, sprinkle
   black pepper on the stove and as soon as the pepper begins
   to burn your enemy, if you have one, will leave the house.
   
   To get rid of a husband or wife, always throw a little salt
   at them when they leave the house or come into the house,
   and you will soon be rid of them.
   
   To get rid of a husband, a woman can put salt in pepper in
   his socks, bury them for five days then throw them into
   running water; and she will never see him again.
   
   To give your former beau a life-long heartache, take his
   picture and stick two needles through his heart one way and
   one needle the other way.
   
   To keep a departing guest from ever returning, place a live
   spider on his back as he is leaving and he will not come
   back.
   
   To keep a man, take three hairs from his head and three from
   your private area, tie them together and bury them.
   
   To keep a person from hoodooing you, keep red pepper in your
   shoe all the time.
   
   To keep from being bewitched, a newly married couple should
   step over a broom entering the house for the first time.
   
   To keep the witches out of the house, place a dime under the
   fireplace.
   
   To keep your sweetheart from going with another woman, take
   the right sleeve out of his undershirt and wear the sleeve
   around your waist.
   
   To keep your enemies out of the house, put a tablespoon of
   vinegar and a tablespoon of sulfur in a little can and keep
   that in the house, and they will never bother you.
   
   To make a man think the world of you, take a few drops of
   your menstruation period and put it in liquid, wine, coffee
   or anything they drink.
   
   To make someone love you, take the blood out of a live
   pigeon and some of your blood and write your beau's name and
   your name with that blood on your arm or forehead, crossing
   the writing of the names, and he will always love you.
   
   To make someone fall in love with you carry a stick of
   chewing gum in your pocket for ten days, give it to them and
   when they start to chew they will begin to love you and no
   one can take them away.
   
   To make someone come back to you, take their picture and sit
   it down over a glass of water in a dark place without anyone
   knowing it, and they will come back.
   
   To overcome a hoodoo, kill a lizard, smoke it dry, beat into
   a powder and mix with whiskey to drink and cure the hoodoo.
   
   Turn your boy friend's picture upside down in front of a
   mirror, if he has left, and he will come back to you.
   
   Wash an apple in water containing gopher dust and the first
   person to bite that pple will lose their teeth in five days.
   
   Wear a dime in each shoe to keep the witches away.
   
   Wear your pockets inside out to keep the witches off.
   
   When a person leaves your house and you never want him to
   return, throw a handful of salt after him.
   
   When someone in the house is bewitched, use a big butcher
   knife to stab the feather bed dozens of times to kill the
   witch.
   
   When someone is hoodooing you, just before you return to
   your house take and light a piece of paper, and burn around
   the key hole; and that will burn away the evil spirits.
   
   When someone is hoodooing you, burn sulfur and salt every
   day; and open the door and your trouble will blow out.
   
   When you are going before the judge, if you will hold a
   needle in your mouth you will get a light sentence.
   
   When you don't want anyone to come back when they leave the
   house, throw some salt on their back.
   
   When you lose a beau, and want him back, take a needle and
   thread and go the front gate and sew his footprints toward
   the house; which is sewing him back.
   
   When you meet a man or woman who you think is a witch, make
   the sign of the cross three times and they can't harm you.
   
   When you want your beau to come back, after he has begun
   running with another woman, sprinkle some of your urine
   under your bed every night until he returns.
   
   When your husband is running with another woman, use a red
   string to measure his privates while asleep nine times, and
   tie nine knots in that string and wear it around your waist
   and he will stop seeing the other woman.
   
   When your man is running around with another woman, stick a
   needle in the collar of his freshly ironed shirt so he will
   have to pull it out, and he will give the other woman up and
   come back to you.
   
   Write the girl's name you want on a piece of paper and sleep
   with that under your head, and she will come to see you in a
   month.
   
   You can bite something a hoodoo gives you and have a
   toothache.
   
   You can give someone a headache by taking and turning their
   picture upside down.
   
   You can harm a person in whatever way you want to by getting
   a lock of his hair and burning some and throwing the rest
   away.
   
   You can make a farmer's well go dry by putting some soda in
   the well for one week, each day; then drawing a bucket of
   water out and throwing it in the river to make the well go
   dry.
   
   You can put a hoodoo on a person by filling an old shoe with
   red pepper and placing under their house.
   
   You can put a person to sleep, if they chew tobacco, by
   putting some turpentine on it; when they start to chew they
   will get sleepy and go to bed.
   
   You can take two hat pins and call up the devil by rubbing
   them together and cursing God.
   
   You can take a black cat bone out of the rectum and wear it
   and become invisible.
   
   You can take a piece of rosin and by putting that on their
   bed clothing it will paralyze a person.
   
   You can talk to the devil face to face, if you sell yourself
   to him.
   
   Your husband or lover will not leave if you wear three
   stands of his hair and three strands of yours between gold
   and silver.
   
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