Voodoo superstitions and spells Many superstitions also related to the practice of Hoodoo developed within the Voodoo tradition in Louisiana. While these superstitions are not central to the Voodoo faith, their appearance is partly a result of Voodoo tradition in New Orleans and have since influenced it significantly. A lock of a girl's hair brings good luck. If you lay a broom across the doorway at night, a witch can't come in and hurt you. Having a woman visit you the first thing on Monday mornings is bad luck for the rest of the week. Don't borrow or lend salt because that is bad luck. If you sweep trash out of the house after dark you will sweep away your luck. Don't shake a tablecloth outside after dark or someone in your family will die. To stop a Voodoo spell being placed upon you, acquire some bristles from a pig cooked at a Voodoo ritual, tie the bristles into a bundle and carry them on you at all times. If a woman sprinkles some salt from her house to yours, it will give you bad luck until you clean the salt away and put pepper over your door sill. If a woman wants her husband to stay away from other women, she can do so by putting a little of her blood in his coffee, and he will never quit her. If a woman's husband dies and you don't want her to marry again, cut all of her husband's shoes all in little pieces, just as soon as he is dead, and she will never marry again. You can give someone a headache by taking and turning their picture upside down. You can harm a person in whatever way you want to by getting a lock of his hair and burning some and throwing the rest away. You can make a farmer's well go dry by putting some soda in the well for one week, each day; then drawing a bucket of water out and throwing it in the river to make the well go dry. A person can make you get very thirsty by putting a whiskey bottle under your porch for three weeks, and then throwing the bottle into a fire which will make you very thirsty for whiskey. If you take a strand of hair out of a person's head and wear it in your pocket for two days, it will give that person a headache. It is a known act for a woman to put her menstrual blood in the food of a man to make him fall in love with her. If a woman kisses you twice on one cheek and once on the other cheek, she is trying to hoodoo you