A friend tells me they were also used for voodoo: one would record onto a blank cassette the person’s name and what ills one hoped would befall them; and then the cassette would be stamped on and the tape left to unravel in the wind and, it was hoped, the enemy’s life would then also begin to unravel…
Saturday 18 April 2015
Things I Miss #1
In the 1970s and 1980s one could not walk down a street
without seeing the spool from a broken cassette tape spilling along the
pavement and wrapping itself around lampposts and trees. I suppose most were
thrown from car windows after getting jammed in cassette players. It was sometimes possible to rewind the tape into the cassette using a hexagonal pencil or a Bic biro.
A friend tells me they were also used for voodoo: one would record onto a blank cassette the person’s name and what ills one hoped would befall them; and then the cassette would be stamped on and the tape left to unravel in the wind and, it was hoped, the enemy’s life would then also begin to unravel…
A friend tells me they were also used for voodoo: one would record onto a blank cassette the person’s name and what ills one hoped would befall them; and then the cassette would be stamped on and the tape left to unravel in the wind and, it was hoped, the enemy’s life would then also begin to unravel…
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Yes, I remember these. I once idly picked up a prolapsed cassette tape I found in the park, rewound it and refixed the broken join to the spool. It had no writing on it but I decided I rather liked the music. In time I discovered it was "Machine Head" by Deep Purple.
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