***The Mojo - Clara, the hanging and moms vision*****
Jul 20, 2000 --It was very lucid and seemed so real. It was in the 1860's, I was a young black woman. I was in an area where several black people had been hung for "crimes" they did not commit or that did not require such a terrible sentence. I saw four black men carrying a coffin and they were singing "Come on, Come on, It' time ta go down to da Mojo, cause someone heres been killed...Keepin on..keepin on.... "
The men wore brown pants, suspenders, funny round hats and black warn boots. An old man was digging through the black peoples possessions, the ones left in the holding area. I saw used bullets, broken chains, copper pennies, rags, nothing of real value. But, when I looked in one woven box -- inside was a man's pocket watch, oval in shape with elongated numbers. There was engraving on the back. I saw an "L" and "M."
Also inside was a cloth wrapped around four forks. Two metal ones and two engraved silver ones. The silver ones had the date 1864 on the back. Then I saw a music box/jewelry box that was made of China and painted with flowers that could fit in my hand. On one side it was a clock, the other a music box, the bottom a drawer for earrings and rings. A black man rode up on his horse and snatched the music box from me and took it to his wife. I only had the watch left, the cloth and the forks.
I wore a long dress, with a white apron. I was barefoot. I could smell the dirt on the ground, everything was in full color. I could hear the singing in a southern accent, I could feel the dirt on my toes.
I told my mother my dream...all except the engraving part. Funny, she asked me if I could see the back of the watch. I said only part of it. She said - "it has engraving on it yes?" I said "Yes." She said, "L.M.S., right?" I said I saw the 'L' and the 'M' but not the "S."
She suggested I work on it and find out the significance... she could see my whole dream before I told it to her, like a movie. She says [dreams] are "her favorite movies."
I hope to find out who L.M.S. is. Also I had to look up "Mojo" at the college library because my dictionary had nothing listed; I thought I made it up. But it is indeed an African form of witchcraft, pertaining to magic, and voodoo in South Africa. I am sure the black slaves in America brought some of their religion with them.
