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Subject:Powder/Blind powder

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Entry 10727

Volume 5 · printed page 4055–4056 · New Orleans, La.

You take blind powder. You got to buy that powder. You put it in that lettah. Well, if you open that lettah...yoa'll be glad, you see. You'll be glad to receive that lettah - Oh, I'm proud of the Eettah. An' yo' tear the lettah open, an' yo' not thinkin'...vell, the powder fly all over your face. An' you'll never see any more in the worl'. [There are a.number of these nuisance or threatening letters in HOODOO, but no hoodoo mer- chant in his right mind would sell such an article.]

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Entry 13126

Volume 5 · printed page 4438

Blind a person by putting snake powder in his or her hat. [Elizabeth City 511:3.]

Related subjects: Blinded

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