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HooDoo Curse

Drawing based on a ‘hoodoo’ curse inflicted on a family member. Story has it one of my grandfather’s sisters was messing around with a man whose lady was from the Bahamas. When this woman found out what was going on she put a curse on my Aunt Mag. The result was ‘snakes’ crawling under the skin of her legs. I met some people that had seen it and said it was true even though her sister, Aunt Berta, denied it. Aunt Mag had trouble walking until her death. She kept her legs wrapped up with some kind of dressing and heavy stockings because she had bad sores on them both. Curse or not, her legs were ‘messed up’.