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BURY SHOE
Volume 3, entries 5113. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → SWEAT → SHOES. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 5113
[There are many more shoe-bury- ing rites than those given here.] IF HE'S ON A LONG VOYAGE, DE WAY MAH GODMOTHAH USED TUH DO, dey'd take her lef'-foot shoe. [This is the first appearance of the word godmother in HooDoO. Surely she took his shoe. Not necessarily 80. Everything in hoodoo bows before intention and desire.] In one instance, dey'd bury dat shoe right at de back of dere house like dat. Now, in anothah instance, dey would take dat shoe an' burn it. An' dey'd take de ashes of dat shoe an' wear it aroun' dere wais' an' continly [continually] pray.
(To make that man come back to you.)
He'll come back. (How would they bury that shoe to make that man come back, if that's what they do?) Dey would bury dat shoe wit de heel tuhwards de east, de toe tuhwards de west, jis' like ah'd have de shoe on an' it would be pointin' dataway.