Language of the Blues - Edmonton Blues Society

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consult a root doctor to find a way out.
By the 1950s, mojo was also sometimes used to refer to narcotics. From this association
preventing them from going into withdrawal.
Songs:
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-Bone Walker
(Aaron Thibeaux Walker)
- Barbecue Bob (Robert Hicks)
- Johnny Winter
F O O T T R A C K M A G I C (see also ST O N ES IN PASSW A Y)
Foot track magic is a hoodoo practice. It involves jinxing by a wide variety of methods,
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bottle. The resulting curses can range from giving the person bad luck or memory loss to
causing incurable disease and death.
These practices were common enough in Mississippi in the 1920s and 1930s that Delta
blues artists made reference to them in th
In her wonderfully comprehensive online book, Hoodoo in Theory and Practice: An
Introduction to African American Rootwork, Catherine Yronwode described foot track
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Interestingly, the most common symptom reported by people who believed themselves
victims of foot track magic is painfully swollen legs and feet, a symptom of diabetes.
Yronwode divided foot track magic into two categories:
Curses that involve putting goofer dust or something similarly noxious
path so they cross it or get it on their feet or shoes
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