You have to watch some folks from down in that part of SC.
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Oyotunji African Village? Gullah or Geechee?
I did have an aussie friend when I lived in the lowcountry; her husband was black and she got into some of the ‘black magic’, as we had another family in the neighborhood who had lived at the Oyotunji village.
Anyhow, she would go get pennies blessed and wear them in her shoe yada...one day she had a fit and wouldn’t come into my house because I had a little pile of dirt on my front porch.
She swore up and down I was cursed with ‘grave-yard’ dirt, kiddo had a Tonka truck and had deposited the dirt there.
No point to my story, really...was just a funny and interesting experience to me.
I live and work in Columbia, SC. My coworkers from the Carolina Lowcountry each swear that he would never accept a covered dish offering from a woman, if it included red beans, tomatoes, or any other red colored food.
Reason: the dish might conceal a drop of her menstrual blood which would cast a spell over the man who consumes it and hold him in her thrall ever afterward.
One of those Gullah or Geechee legends, I guess.