How do you make a lucky rabbits foot?

What I was told, I am doing it right now, is to place the foot (once cut off at ankle) vertically, with the flesh side down, in a bowl or cup, and cover it with salt.

so what a did is I got a paper cup, filled the bottom with salt so the fleshy side would get soaked with the salt.

Then I stuck the foot down and rubbed the flesh on the salt a little, then I held it upright and poured salt all around it and eventually over it.

Then I was told to let it sit in the sun for a while, somewhere between a few weeks and a month.

I am not sure about this technique, it's probably not the most modern, but salt dehydrates meat I know that much, and that's the goal after all.