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8/26/2009
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Cow Tongue ‘Hoodoo’ Spell Found In Cornfield
Author: Longmont Times-Call Source: Longmont Times-Call (CO)
Title: COW TONGUE ‘HOODOO’ SPELL FOUND IN CORNFIELD
A severed cow’s tongue with notes and a woman’s photo sewn inside was discovered Saturday inside of a box placed in a shallow hole on city open space, according to police.
The package was wrapped in a black cloth and tied with a yellow cord. Once police determined it was not an explosive, an officer opened it and discovered what police believe was a severed cow’s tongue with stitching. The officer cut the plastic thread of the stitching and found a photo of a woman dressed in white and four folded notes written in Spanish with red ink. There was also a powdery substance in the tongue that officers said looked and smelled like it contained pepper.
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| Magical Traditions | Aug 28th. at 1:05:09 pm EDT
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Lady-hearted Mojo (Irving, Texas) - Email Me
Slater's "Magickal Formulary" and Tarostar's "Witches' Formulary and Spellbook" have less-conspicuous "shut up" powders available. Was a cow tongue really necessary?
I can't speak for other practitioners of other Traditions of American Folk Magic, but Hoodoo practitioners/Rootworkers won't touch Slater's book because it's considered be junk. Even the recipes that are supposed to come from Hoodoo are not held in high regard because there are so many mistakes in them.
Likewise, Rootworkers don't need to refer to reference texts written for witches. We have our own books written for Rootworkers by Rootworkers that take the tradition into account. The most famous of these is the Hyatt Collection. Harry M. Hyatt spent 4 yrs during the 1930's traveling the southern US interviewing Rootworkers. He interviewed 1,600 "informants" which produced 4,500 pages, compiled into 5 vols., of more than 16,000 traditional methods of working as well as some folklore beliefs. Over the last 70 yrs or so the Hyatt Collection has become the bible of Hoodoo.
Likewise, there is little reason for a Rootworker to consult a spellbook made for witchcraft because there are many curios/ingredients used in Hoodoo that can't be found in these books, which are heavily based on European herbal/magic traditions. I can't say I've ever found a respectable herbal or spellbook that gave references for Goofer Dust, Red Brick Dust, Hoyt's Cologne, personal concerns, Florida Water, Kananga Water, laundry blueing, War Water, Peace Water, or Coffin Nails. Add to this is the fact that there are plants used in Hoodoo that don't grow in Europe so are no magical/medicinal uses for them at all in witchcraft.
Hoodoo also has it's own traditions, beliefs concerning magic, and methods of doing the work that give it it's unique characteristics and inform the Tradition. This is the biggest difference I've found between a Folk Tradition of magic and the generic spell books that can found found by the dozen today.
Was the cow tongue necessary? Yes, because nearly two centuries of doing this type of spell using this method has a high rate of success. If it didn't it would have been dropped from the Tradition a long time ago. However, the practitioner was very foolish to bury it in a field that was being used for crops. It should have been buried at a cross-roads or in a cemetary.
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| The 7th Law Of Magic. | Aug 27th. at 6:01:47 pm EDT
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Medea (Somewhere, Massachusetts) - Email Me
Be really, really conscious of where you leave your work to "Do it's thing". Don't leave it where something like this can happen, replete with " FOX news, details at 11".
Somebody put themselves in the running for a Darwin Award with this one.
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| ... | Aug 26th. at 10:40:21 pm EDT
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Draken (Bronx, New York) - Email Me - Web
Slater's "Magickal Formulary" and Tarostar's "Witches' Formulary and Spellbook" have less-conspicuous "shut up" powders available. Was a cow tongue really necessary?
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| Really Poor Choice Of Burial Site | Aug 26th. at 7:10:21 pm EDT
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Maeven (Los Angeles, California) - Email Me
They put it in a field actively being farmed where it would be discovered and disturbed! That was a really bad choice considering the farmers weren't the target, so psychological intimidation wasn't meant to be included, meaning it wasn't supposed to be found. Now it will be getting all this police attention by the detectives on the cases listed in the spell, as well as news attention. For a Shut Up spell, now it's being talked about more than ever! What a backfire! Kaboom!
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| On A Side Note... | Aug 26th. at 12:50:14 pm EDT
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Michael Thornton (Mesa, Arizona) - Email Me
Who puts a bomb in a box near a cornfield? Are cornfields high up on the list of possible targets of terrorism?
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| Shut Up! | Aug 26th. at 11:16:12 am EDT
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Lady-hearted Mojo (Irving, Texas) - Email Me
This is a tradtion Hoodoo spell to shut the mouth of the person at whom the spell was directed. Hoodoo is a very literal tradition of magic so it you wanted to "tie someone's tongue" you tie a tongue.
Originally, a Shut Up spell using a cow tongue was associated closely with court case magic so that those working for the prosecution couldn't speak against the defendentl. However, as a Hoodoo practitioner, I would have tied the tongue with black thread, not yellow, as well as tied the picture of the target. Likewise, I would have burned a black candle on tongue dressed with Shut Up or Tapa Boca Oil and Powder.
Today, a Cow Tongue/Shut Up Spell is used for more than just court case work.
Btw, the Cow Tongue Spell is the original version of the Freezer Spell that many Neo-Pagans/Wiccans are familiar with. Originally, the prepared tongue was placed in a milkpail or another type of metal pail between two blocks of ice, which was stored in a cool, dark place such as a root cellar for the duration of the trial with the ice being replaced as necessary.
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