Avoiding Trouble with Law Enforcement

To avoid trouble with the law, or those who might bring the law, a person can get some hickory and burn it. This wood could come from any of the hickories, including "Carolina hickory" (Carya ovata var. australis), "swamp hickory" (Carya glabra), "scrub hickory" (Carya floridana). The ashes are mixed with laundry bluing. The mixture is ] kept over the door in a match box or other small container.

Jim Haskins, Voodoo and Hoodoo, Their Tradition and Craft as Revealed by Actual Practitioners, 1978, 1990.

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