Browse:Hot-Foot Powder (Volume 1, entries 2012–2015)
Hot-Foot Powder
Volume 1, entries 2012–2015. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → HANDS: MAGIC HELPERS. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
Entries
Entry 2012
(What is the name of that powder?)
Hotfoot.
(Hotfoot. What do they do with that?)
Yo' sprinkle it around on dere door, cashly [casually]. Well, den dey walk over dat. Well, you see, natch'ly you put it on dere doorstep. Well, dey'll either walk over it goin' in or going out, but they will be movin' when dey do; and whatever happens, why dat causes dem to move. (That makes them move out of the house. What is hotfoot powder? How do they make that?) Well, ah don't know jest exactly how it's made. Yo' more or less buy it from de place that they sells it - this trick stuff, jes' like John de Conker.
Entry 2013
Then dey go to diff'rent places and ah've seen 'em use powder - some kin' of powder dey calls hotfoot powder. Ah have never used it but ah have seen 'em use it. Some of 'em if dey would git a chance, dey would sprinkle it around yore door an' inside yore door - anything like dat.
(What would that do?)
Dat was fo' tuh run 'em - run 'em 'way from dere.
Entry 2014
Ah see dat done, too - easy. Yo' has enemies an' dey want chew tuh move outa yore house, leave. Goes tuh work an' git yo's a powder dey calls de hotfoot powders - yeah, hotfoot powders. Hit's in de worl', anybody sell it to yo' dat kin git it - hotfoot powders. An' when yo' git dat hotfoot powders it looks white like sugah. Yo' take dat stuff an' go tuh his house by night - like dat's de house dere an' he stayin' in de house, he hard asleep jes' twelve or one 'clock in de night. Jes' go along an' put it down dere where he comin' out; if he comin' de fust thing in de mawnin' he done steps ovah it. You jes' sprinkle it right 'cross de do' lak dat. See. An' tell it, 'Ah lay yo' heah tuh work, do whut ah tell yo' tuh do." An' yo' walk right on - turn right aroun' an' walk on an' don't say anothah word. Walk right off an' leave dere an' don't say anothah word. An' ah heah, den yo's enemies goin' leave de house in nine day's time - he'll move, git off. [For nine day's time, see No. 1955, p.573.]
Entry 2015
Yo' kin git graveyard dust an' mix it with some of this heah hotfoot powder an' it will give yo' ill luck.
(How would they handle that? What would they do with that after they mix it?)
Dey tell me now that they jis' sprinkle it aroun'.
(What would happen then?)
Well, de individual dat livin' in dere, dey tell me, would move or some ill luck would happen to 'em.