3840. Hoodoo a person by putting a shoe with a dead rat in it on his door step.........Western Kentucky

3841. To hoodoo a person, shake down dust on him through a crack in the ceiling.. Blue Grass Negroes

3842. To hoodoo anyone, put snake dust (that is, the dust made by pulverizing a dried snake) into his shoes ..........................Blue Grass Negroes

3843. To hoodoo a person, put an old shoe full of red pepper under his house....North-eastern Kentucky

3844. To do harm to a person, take a lock of his hair, burn a part, throw a part to the wind, and bury a part.

3845. A hoodoo bag is a red flannel bag about six by four inches in size, containing a pinch of salt, a pod of red pepper, a rabbit's foot, a chicken spur, and some ashes. It must be "made in dead o' night, widout a spec' o' light." Central Kentucky Negroes

3846. A blue-gummed negro is dangerous. He has the hoodoo power.

3847. To keep a person from hoodooing you, wear red pepper in the heel of your shoe...........................................Blue Grass Negroes

3848. Put red pepper in your shoe, to keep off a conjurer's work..........Central Kentucky Negroes

3849. If you wear a silver dime in your shoe, you cannot be hoodooed.................Louisville Negroes

3850. Wear a piece of silver about each ankle to keep from coming under the power of the hoodoo.........................Central Kentucky Negroes

3851. Negroes keep chickens with the feathers turned back the wrong way, to keep away the hoodoos... ....................................Negroes

3852. Hoodoos can often be warded off by a change of the victim's home or room.........................................Western Kentucky Negroes

3853. The victim of a hoodoo may break the charm by giving up a sweetheart or a lover.................................Western Kentucky Negroes

3854. To overcome a hoodoo, kill a scorpion, dry it by smoking it, beat it to a powder, mix the powder with whiskey, and drink the mixture...............................Central Kentucky Negroes

3855. Hoodoo doctors, as they are commonly called, are considered able to break hoodoo charms and also to cure illness ..........................Negroes

3856. A certain arrangement of sticks in a path that leads to a house may cause a hoodoo. A hoodoo doctor sometimes has all the sticks in such a path removed before he attempts to treat an illness that is due to a hoodoo..........Central Kentucky Negroes

3857. If anything is placed in a so-called conjuration hand, the hand will move in such a way as to indicate whether good or bad luck will follow....................................Louisville Negroes

3858. Negroes are said to be able to find "hoodoo tracks" in ashes of the fire, which show that some kind of disaster is coming to the house..........Negroes