If you sweep trash out of the house after dark you will sweep away your luck.
A spider seen in the morning is a sign of grief; a spider seen an noon, of joy; a spider seen in the evening, of hope.
Take a lodestone and some brimstone to a crossroads at midnight. Light the brimstone with a match, and a spirit will appear and give you advice in gambling.
Place a dime under your client's tongue: If the client is under a spell, the dime will turn black.
To ensure the safety of your child, cut a lock of its hair while it is still a baby and keep it with you. The child must have all it's hair before it can die.
A evil person can take the length of your fingers and hoodoo you in two days, to make you do what ever they want.
A love powder is a half teaspoonful of sugar, teaspoonful of peppermint and a teaspoonful of grated candied orange peel; give a teaspoonful of this mixture in a glass of wine and the person will love you forever.
A person can make you get very thirsty by putting a whiskey bottle under your porch for three weeks, and then throwing the bottle into a fire which will make you very thirsty for whiskey.
A witch can cure her pain by rubbing sugar, salt, vinegar and hot water over her pain.
A witch is one that sells her soul to the devil and she has to keep someone in her power all the
time; if not, the devil will make her suffer untold agony.
Always carry a black cat's bone in your pocket, if you think someone is bewitching you.
As you eat the wing of a chicken, take the little bone that is near the end and drop it into the pocket of the fellow you are going with, without him knowing it, and he will ask you to marry him.
Burn your shoes as soon as you are through with them and you will never be bewitched.
Bury some hair from the top of your husband's head under the front doorstep and he will never leave home for good.
Bury your husband's shoes in the front yard with the toes toward the door and he will never leave you.
Carrying a rabbit's foot keeps all evil away.
Hang black coats over all the outside doors at night, to keep witches out of the house at night.
If you don't want your man to talk to another woman, take a nail and drive it at the end of his heel prints, and he will run from her the next time he sees her.
If you take a strand of hair out of a person's head and wear it in your pocket for two days, it will give that person the headache.
If your husband is running around, take some of his hair and a piece of his necktie and put them in a bottle, then throw that in the river; and when that necktie rots, that will change him.
If a man carry a gun all the time, he will kill someone soon; because a gun can hoodoo him.
If a man get your hair and put it in a bottle of vinegar, it will make you crawl on your stomach for him.
If a man loves you and you love him, don't let him get a strand of your hair; for if you do, he will run you crazy.
If a man sees a woman he wants, he can get her by taking a picture of her and sleeping with it face down under his head for a week; and she will look for him until she finds where he lives.
If a man wants to run a woman crazy, he can take a strand of her hair and wear it in his shoes for a week.
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