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>*< GOOFER DUST >*<
"GOOFER DUST is a compound that
has long been used by Southern root doctors and conjures to work
so-called Enemy Tricks. A proprietary mixture of Graveyard Dirt,
Sulphur Powder, Rattlesnake Skin, and powdered herbs, GOOFER DUST
is alleged to Jinx an Enemy in Family, Money, Job, and Health
Matters. Folks well-versed in such doings tell us that they have
picked up a person's Footprint, mixed it with GOOFER DUST and
stopped the mixture up in a bottle, which they have then hidden in
the crotch of a tree where it could not be found. Others claim that
they have sprinkled GOOFER DUST around an enemy's home, in the
yard, or even in the bedroom, to cause Hard Luck and
Trouble.
Goofer Dust is a very old African-American hoodoo curio used to
trouble, harm, or even kill an enemy. In particular, it can cause
the victim's legs to swell up and medical doctors will not be able
to effect a cure. Recipes for making it vary, but it is almost
always a mixture of simple natural ingredients, usually including
Graveyard Dirt, powdered sulphur (which can give it a yellowish
colour) and salt. Subsidiary ingredients may include powdered snake
heads or snake skin "sheds," red pepper, black pepper, powdered
bones, powdered insects or snails, and greyish, powdery-surfaced
herbs such as mullein and sage. In the past, some formulas for
Goofer Dust included anvil dust, the fine black iron detritus found
around a blacksmith's anvil. A modern substitute for this
now-uncommon ingredient would be magnetic sand, which is also black
in colour.
A continuum of shared and overlapping ingredients links Graveyard
Dirt to Goofer Dust, and thence to Hot Foot Powder and Crossing
Powder -- but of all of them, only Goofer Dust is said to contain
both Graveyard Dirt and snake skin.
As Robert Farris Thomson indicates in his works on Congo
folk-magic, the word goofer comes from the Kikongo word "kufwa,"
which means "to die." Among older hoodoo practitioners, this
derivation is very clear, because there "goofer" is not only an
adjective modifying "dust" but also a verb ( "He goofered that man"
) and a noun ( "She put a goofer on him" ). As late as the 1930s,
goofering was a regional synonym for hoodooing, and in North
Carolina at least, the meaning of the term was broadened beyond
spells of damage, illness, and death to include love spells cast
with dominating intent. Meanwhile, in New Orleans, the specificity
of Goofer Dust's connection to graveyard dirt was lost and the term
became a general name for any sachet powder used to cast a harmful
spell.
A euphemistic word for goofering is "poisoning," which in this
context does not refer to a physical poison but to a physical agent
that, through magical means, brings about an "unnatural illness" or
the death of the victim. Even more euphemistic is the special use
of the verb "hurt," which in my youth was often defined as "to
poison," with the tacit understanding that "to poison" really meant
"to goofer." The more general verbs "fix" (meaning to prepare a
spell) and "trick" (meaning to cast a spell) are also applied to
goofering.
Goofer Dust spells -- like similar tricks involving Graveyard Dirt,
Hot Foot Powder, and Crossing Powder -- are quite African in
character, deriving from African foot-track magic, a form of
sorcery in which one "hurts" or "poisons" a victim "through the
feet." Undoing the jinx may involve ritual bathing, floor washing,
or sweeping to remove the Goofer Dust. Sprinkling salt in the
corners of the house is also an antidote.
Although in Memphis a locally popular method to use Goofer Dust is
to put it an unwanted lover's mattress to "hurt" him, the most
common way to employ it, as described in both the catalogue and the
song lyric above, is to sprinkle it around the enemy's home where
it will be stepped on and rise up through the foot to "poison" the
legs. Alternatively, it can be placed in the victim's sock or shoe
when he or she is not looking. If this is not possible, it can be
mixed it with the enemy's footprint dirt and the resultant mixture
corked up in a bottle to stop the victim in his tracks or bring on
an unnatural illness, buried in a graveyard to kill him, or thrown
into a crossroads to drive him out of town. While it is
theoretically possible to sprinkle goofer dust into food that will
be eaten by the victm, this is actually not a common way to deploy
it because the ingredients -- which may include dirt, sulphur, and
red pepper -- would be noticable to the palate. Occasionally Goofer
Dust is placed inside a protective mojo bag or wound inside a jack
ball as part of a coercive love spell, but these are fairly
uncommon usages. Most of the time the intent is more sinister, and
the application is external.
When a victim is goofered, a number of things can happen. The
victim may start having bad luck, lose his or her job, suffer from
sexual impotence or mental confusion, or develop a chronic disease
such as tuberculosis, diabetes, angina, gout, or high blood
pressure. Of all of these problems, the relationship between
goofering and diabetes is the clearest and most direct: the
symptoms of poisoning through the feet are identical with those of
diabetic edema and diabetic neuropathy.
One of the first signs of leg-centered or "classic" goofering is a
sharp pain in the feet or legs. This is followed by swelling and an
inability to walk. A really severe case of poisoning will leave the
victim crawling around on all fours and howling like a dog. Medical
doctors may provide palliative relief, but they can't really help a
person who has been goofered. Unless the victim is cured by a root
doctor, if not death may result.
Many old-time root workers say that wearing Devil's Shoe String
root twigs or a silver dime in the shoe or at the ankle will
provide magical protection against any form of "unnatural poison"
rising up through the feet. A silver dime may also be worn on each
ankle as a warning device: if the coins turn black, someone has
laid out Goofer Dust and you have stepped in it. Since formulas for
goofer dust, Hot Foot Powder, and Crossing powder often contain
sulphur, which turns silver black, this seemingly magical alarm
system has a firm grounding in chemistry.
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this uncommon dust to defeat your enemies & nasty people who
tried to mess with you. Simply throw some on their path or property
to send them into a whirl of confusion and bad luck, use these dust
in your spell/ ritual works. This Goofers Dust is made from New
Orleans Cemetery Graveyard Dirt & other botanicals by Hoodoo
Root Workers. Goofers Dust comes complete with instructions.
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