Sale of Purported "black Cat Bones"
Contemporary hoodoo supply shops do sell items that are labeled "black cat bones," usually small bones taken from a chicken and dyed black.
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poor broken tool, poor ornament.
It might be in a store somewhere beside a lady’s scarf.”
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