Language of the Blues - Edmonton Blues Society

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flame of a black candle, or placing certain insects, spiders, snake dust, or stones in his or
her path. (see also stones in my passway
-luck powders thrown behind
their backs. 253
To remove a jinx, make a jinx-breaking mojo bag out of red flannel and dress it with
Stop Evil Condition Oil, Jinx Removing Oil, or Uncrossing Oil. There are many
variations on what goes in the mojo, but some recommendations drawn from the archives
Hoodoo-
Conjuration-Witchcraft-Rootwork, include 254 :
- roots from cramp bark or black haw; the long flexible roots are used
in many hoodoo spells to tri
Salt
A broken length of chain
Chicken feathers
Herbs
Songs:
- Bo Carter (Armenter Chatmon)
- Memphis Minnie (Lizzie Douglas)
- Charley Patton
JI V E
. David
jev, which means
someone. 255 Jive began as coded language used by enslaved Africans to communicate in
English (since their languages were banned) without being fully understood by whites.
Interestingly, the Efik-Ejagham (Cameroons) word jiwe m
represent the trickster that appears in African stories- sometimes as a small black man,
and sometimes as a monkey. This figure, according to scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,
crossed over to the continental United States and be
African American folktales. (Signifying is the use of jive, innuendo, and doubletalk that
By the 1930s, jive was also the name for uptempo, swinging big-band music and, by the
1940s, for a wild and uninhibited version of the jitterbug dance.
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