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HOT-FOOT OIL - HOT-FOOT POWDER - IN SHOE

Volume 3, entries 5150. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → SWEAT → SHOES. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.

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Entry 5150

Volume 3 · printed page 2770 · Vicks- burg, Miss.

Take yore shoes an' put some hot-foot powdah inside de inside sole of yore shoe. Dress dat shoe fo' yuh, dey kin put yuh walkin'. Dey kin dress dat shoe fo' yuh an' give yuh spells. Ah had a woman las' yeah dat went tuh a lady an' she tole her tuh - give her some oil an' tole her, say, "Now, yuh kin gain 'im if yuh git 'im drunk an' git dis in 'is shoes. Yuh git dis in 'is shoes. Git 'im drunk, unless dat he wise. He got plenty sense." Say, "Yuh git 'im drunk an' git dis in 'is shoe." An' say, "Yuh have 'im like yuh wanta." Say, "He'll leave his wife an' come an' stay wit yuh."

(What kind of oil was that?)

It was hot-foot oil.

(For you [the man] to come to her.)

[HOT FOOT POWDER (see p.590 and elsewhere) is used to run 'em 'way from dere. HOT FOOT OIL, not so common as hot-foot powder, runs a woman's husband away to a woman working the spell under the direction of a lady, a hoodoo worker.]

Related subjects: Magic, Hot-foot oil, Hot-foot powder, Shoes, Walk

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