What is Doing Roots?
1.
To put a curse on someone. To cause a person supernatural harm or bad luck.
"... but a story goes round that a woman tried to run Mollie Moon off of that property of her'n 'cause she be doing roots, but Mollie offered to smooth over ..." from Love Potion by Gerri Brooks
"My wife was doing roots on me after she found I had been with that girl."
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2.
To put a curse on someone. To cause a person supernatural harm or bad luck.
My wife was doing roots on me after she found I had been with that girl.
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