Mojo/Hoodoo etc. (was Wizarding Businesses and more rambling.)

[Anne <urbana@charter.net>]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, > > bboy_mn wrote:
> Although, Mojo also refers to a charmed object. The only American
> > Juju/Mojo charm (charmed object) that I am familiar with is a 
Black
> > Hat Bone, which is exactly what it say, a black bone worn on your 
> > hat.  Don't know what it does though.

and "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) <catlady at w...>" <catlady at w...> 
replied:

> An interesting website to poke around: a Hoodoo practitioner 
explains 
> what classic Blues lyrics mean: http://www.luckymojo.com/blues.html

Which reminds me of that great song CASTING MY SPELL ON YOU (I'm most 
familiar with the recent version by American bluesman Coco Montoya):

"I took a black cat, (a cave bat) threw 'em in a pot pot, pot pot pot 
pot 
I took a green snake, (a blue snake), tied 'em in a knot knot, knot 
knot knot knot 
I took the dog's paw, (a calf's jaw) hung 'em on the line line, line 
line line line 
I took a horse hair, (a green bear) made a crazy sign sign, sign sign 
sign sign 

I'm casting my spell on you, casting my spell on you, casting my 
spell on you 
You'll never never be untrue, yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah,yeah 
yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah 
I took a ghost too, an old shoe, put 'em in the ground ground, ground 
ground ground ground 
I took and old dish, a dried fish, made a crazy sound sound, sound 
sound sound sound 

I took in a goose egg, a frog leg, put 'em in a sack sack, sack sack 
sack sack 
I got a Hindu, (a tattoo) a genie on my back back, back back back 
back 
I'm casting my spell on you, casting my spell on you, casting my 
spell on you 
You'll never never be untrue, yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah,yeah 
yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah 

I took a black cat, (a cave bat) threw 'em in a pot pot, pot pot pot 
pot 
I took a green snake, (a blue snake), tied 'em in a knot knot, knot 
knot knot knot 
I took the dog's paw, (a calf's jaw) hung 'em on the line line, line 
line line line 
I took a horse hair, (a green bear) made a crazy sign sign, sign sign 
sign sign 

I'm casting my spell on you, casting my spell on you, casting my 
spell on you,you'll never never be untrue, 
Casting my spell on you, casting my spell on you, casting my spell on 
you, you'll never never be untrue..."

Another great version of this appears on a 2001 CD called Young Texas 
Guitar Slingers, released by Texas Music Group.

Anne U
(wondering what happened to eye of newt, which doesn't make this list)