Cover your tracks(hunting magic)

[Nashitheki]

Hooves, paws, or feet. Impressions left in the dirt, dust, mud, or sand allow some primitive people not only a clue to which way their enemies or prey are moving and how fresh the track, but a means to work stalking magic as well. Primitive tribes have also shot arrows or jabbed spears in to their quarry’s spoor.

There are aboriginal tribes in Australia who will deposit thorns, sharp stones, or broken glass into the tracks of their quarry as a way to make it lame and slow.

Tribal people in Asia, Africa and the Americas will place charms in the tracks of their quarry as a way of slowing it down or keeping it near.
Dirt, dust or sand from a person’s track has been used to cast love spells, send curses or keep a lover from straying.

 

[painted wolf]

The San people spread the saliva of run down prey on their legs as a way of sharing in their preys strength. They also share in their preys deaths.

The Cherokee, when a deer was killed, the tongue would be left facing East-West as an offering to appease the spirits. I don't know if this was done with other animals, but deer is known for being particularly touchy/dangerous and will strike a careless or disrespectful hunter with illness or disease.

Often hunters would fast and pray before a hunt as well as adhering to strict sexual taboos during the hunting trip itself.

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