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Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942
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Item Title
[Joe Mows]
Alternate Title(s)
Joe Mows, Witches and Hants
Author/Creator
Performer: Spaulding, Albert
Created/Published
August 19, 1939
Notes
duration: 33 seconds
Albert Spaulding, 21-year-old assistant manager of the turpentine camp commissary, tells of a worker coming to the commissary to purchase three eight-penny nails and a new paper bag; he was making a Joe Mow for under his pillow, to keep the witches away.
A Joe Mow is a good luck item usually including a lodestone which, kept in one's pocket, is said to be helpful in winning at gambling games. It is also known as "Mojo."
Subjects
British Americans
spoken
Ethnography
Music
Narratives
Interviews
Personal experience narratives
Beliefs and superstitions
Office of the Aycock & Lindsey Turpentine Camp
Cross City, Florida
Dixie County
Object Type
Related Names
Collector: Kennedy, Stetson
Collector: Cook, Robert
Speaker: Cook, Robert
Speaker: Spaulding, Albert
Medium
sound recording
Language
English
Call Number
AFS 3527B:3
Part of
Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections 1937-1942
Digital ID
afcflwpa 3527b3
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afcflwpa.3527b3
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[Joe Mows]
Record made August 19, 1939 in the office of the Aycock & Lindsey turpentine camp, Cross City, Florida. [Textual Transcription]