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It was actually Robert Johnson's friend, Tommy Johnson who made that claim though. See here: http://www.luckymojo.com/crossroads.html
To elaborate on the above link, not only did Robert Johnson never claim to have done the ritual, but the very concept of "selling your soul to the Devil," in the Faustian-bargain sense, is an importation from European folklore: the Robert Johnson story was promulgated by white journalists who a) attached the story to the more famous Robert instead of Tommy, and b) overlaid their own European-American folklore. As the numerous Hoodoo crossroads rituals collected at Lucky Mojo attest, the crossroads spirit in African-American folklore did not behave like the European devil, and never demanded your soul as payment. (However, the ritual performed on Supernatural is significantly different than the folkloric rituals; the ingredients used in the show's version are much more sinister, and presumably would call up something nastier than the Hoodoo spirit.)
He wrote a song Crossroad Blues, from which the episode took its title, but also, [[http://www.luckymojo.com/blueshellhoundjohnson.html Hellhound on my Trail]] which had a reference to [[http://www.luckymojo.com/hotfoot.html Hotfoot Powder ]].
- [[User:Cocombat|Cocombat]]
Many blues lyrics, not just those by Robert Johnson, reference Hoodoo practices. See here: http://www.luckymojo.com/blues.html
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