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"CHANNEL DE WORLD"
Volume 5, entries 10604–13458. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 11804
Fresh graveyard dirt with live lodestone in a bag for gambling.
[Vicksburg 1057:12.]
Entry 11805
"Git dead person's hand [a hand from his dead body], git oil and dress it, if you's a gambler. Carry and rub when gambling. [Use] oil of clover or oil of bergamine [= essence of bergamot]." [Memphis 1570:14.]
Entry 11806
A gambling hand: graveyard dirt and a 50¢ piece [a silver half dollar at this date] sewed into small cloth bag, cologne on, and once every 12th day of month repeat Psalm 12 about verse 6 [the tabernacles of robbers prosper etc.! King James Version]. Bind this good-luck sack to your left wrist when gambling.
[Jacksonville 751:1.]
Entry 11807
"Take man's dirty undersuit, take to cemetery, bury it, lay it out just as if it was in a grave, on top of the grave, flatten it out, cover up and say, God giveth and God taketh away, blessed be the Name of the Lord, Go in the Lord's Name and don't never come back."
Entry 11808
If someone puts graveyard dirt in your left shoe you must leave town.
[Wilmington 238:1+85.]
Entry 11809
Graveyard dirt in each shoe of the victim starts the person to walk- ing. [Vicksburg 990:4.]
Entry 11810
Graveyard dirt in your clothes or shoes will kill you. [Richmond 374:12.]
Entry 11811
Fill a sack with graveyard dirt and bury it, and when the sack rots its owner will die. [Richmond 334:6.]
Entry 11812
If yo' go to de graveyard an' git some fresh sand an' put it in yore shoes an' - [then] dey can't track yo'. Ah know dat's true, too.
Entry 11813
"Then they steal them [gravestones] an' bring them round to different places to your house. Say that's going to give you bad luck. They get them [grave] stones, piece of them, either one, and they bring them and sprinkle it [tombstone dust or graveyard dirt] around your doors. That's to give you bad luck, to keep you from having any luck at all." [New Orleans 1290:3.]
Entry 11814
"If they go to the graveyard an' git some dirt an' put it up over your door, they say you'll always be down. [You do this] if you jis' see some- body you're jealous of or sumpin another, they're gittin' along better then [than] you." [Up over your door, compared with the bottom or near the bottom of the door, is fairly rare so far as graveyard dirt is concerned.] [Wilmington 115:7+85.]
The printed quoted excerpt reports dirt from a graveyard placed above a door. The bracketed insertions belong to editorial text; Hyatt's following comment compares the location with other accounts.
Entry 11815
[They will] 'get some graveyard dirt and sprinkle it on your gallery [porch in New Orleans] and at your steps. In 3 days you'll move." [New Orleans 1312:7.]
Entry 11816
Sprinkle graveyard dirt around house [this may not mean circumambu- lation] while saying, "I wan' chah to go." [Charleston 572:7.]
Entry 11817
"Take graveyard dirt and sprinkle it in front of your door...if you walk in it, dat's poison; it'll kill you."
This printed quoted excerpt contains an ellipsis and makes the alleged harm conditional on walking in the dirt.
Entry 11818
"They take graveyard dirt and sprinkle it around your house and [you go over it] you'll pine away and die."
This is a printed quoted excerpt. The bracketed “you go over it” clause is an editorial insertion within the reported account.
Entry 11819
Each time you pass a person's house drop graveyard dirt in his path and his walking over this will make him leave. [Richmond 318:8.]
Entry 11820
Graveyard dirt about door causes quarreling; man will leave the house.
[Richmond 369:1.]
Entry 11821
Graveyard dust sprinkled around house causes confusion in home.
[Elizabeth City, 403:6.]
Entry 11822
To throw graveyard dirt under step causes trouble in house or a special misfortune. [Wilmington, 235:5+85.]
Entry 11823
Put graveyard dirt under doorsill, person who walks over it will be hurt [hoodooed or cuniured]. [The meaning of the word doorsill varies in HOODOO, in some cases it actually being the top of the door frame, as I have explained elsewhere. Often with lowland houses it means the house sill under the door, which could be reached by crawling beneath the house. The word saddle or jambs of the door I rarely, perhaps never heard.] [Wilmington 107:1+85.]
Entry 11825
They bury graveyard dust at your doorstep to make you move. Charles- ton 605:4.]
Entry 11826
They sprinkle graveyard dirt at house to make persons within move.
[Little Rock, Ark., 1464:10.]
Entry 11827
"Graveyard dirt makes fuss, keeps up disturbance, " when used in or near house. [New Orleans 1103:4.]
Only the explicitly quoted assertion supplies the occurrence evidence; the following unquoted location phrase remains separate context.
Entry 11828
"This graveyard dust, they sprinkle it all around the house or some- thing like that and cause trouble in the house." [Elizabeth City 558:6.]
Entry 11829
"Graveyard dirt will run you crazy too, if they sprinkle it around your door." [New Orleans 1146:11.]
Entry 11830
If they sprinkle graveyard dirt around your door, that will hurt you.
[Wilmington 105:5+85.]
Entry 11831
I often hearn [have heard] 'em say dey go out an' git a grub[worm]. Go out an' dig up a grubworm an' stick nine needles in him, yo' know, an' bring him back an' dig a hole under yore neighbor's doorsteps [and bury it] an' it wun't [would not] be long dat one outa family dies.
(That is to kill somebody?)
Yes.
Entry 11832
"She has a guard as well as she [the other woman] had and she [first woman] say [the other woman with a guard] couldn't turn it [spell, trick, etc. back] on her." [Here we have irresistible force meeting immovable object! A hoodoo standoff! (See TWO FIGHTING "DEVIL- No.917, p.337, v.1.) As you can see, this word quard has nothing to do with sex, it is a protective device, something worn or kept in the house or elsewhere to protect its owner from hoodoo or witchcraft. Normally such pro- tection would come from a special hand, jomoh, toby, etc., one formerly prepared by a professional doctor. In other words I found guard rare compared to the more usual names.]
Entry 11833
They got guinea pepper seeds and sprinkle in de house, sprinkle round de house, and that will make you move. [See also margin title: GUINEA PEPPER, etc., No.1947, p.570, v.l for other names and rites.]
Entry 11834
Gum tree will 'rest [arrest] any kind of a earthly worm poison. If yo' kin git de gum tree buds, dat's de very cure fo' any kind of earthly worm bite, but ah nevah heard of it doin' anything fo' anyone else.
(You mean if a person has worms in their [his] body?)
Yes.
(It will get the worms out?)
It will git de worms. [This is the sweet gum, a North American tree (Liguid- ambar styraciflua) palmately lobed leaves, corky branches, hard wood, and beau- tiful autumnal foilage. Since the bark more or less resembled alligator hide, this plant was called the alligator tree in the southern states. Several exam- ples of this usage have already been given in HOODOO. The old-time root doctor used many cures of this type.]
Entry 11835
I get some gumbo filet. That's what you put in gumbo. Perhaps you don't know what filet is. It's a leaf [from sassafras tree] that grows out in the woods, and it ground up and it is used instead of okra, when you making gumbo and the okra is not in sea- son. That is what you call filet. I get a pail of that and I get some garlic and some whiskey and mix those three together and pur [pour] it under the steps, or either if you come out of a alley, I pour it up side the alley, that you come out of, and you would have to go.
Entry 11836
If a man git drownded or sompin like dat, why yo' kin take an' go to de rivah an' if dey draggin' fo' him an' can't find him, why yo' shoot de gun an' he'll rise tuh de top, which in dat's true. Ah see dat mahself. [This is ordinary folklore.]
Entry 11837
You kin take gunpowder and burn it in dis room and it 'fect de next [door] neighbor and de next one [the one on the other side of you] - give 'em bad luck. [Charleston, S. Car., ( 616:8.]
Entry 11838
Take gunpowder an' if yo' kin git into they house, keep it throwed behin' dere do' all de time, an' it will keep dem upset an' dey will have tuh move.
Entry 11839
Well, dey takes gunpowder an' put it into water an' let it set fo' nine days, an' let anyone drink offa dat gunpowder watah. Dat will keep 'em always flusterated an' mad, hateful an' lowdown all de time.
Entry 11840
Nine needles and nine pins and gunpowder. They put that gunpowder in with it, but they strain that after and give them [this in] what they like to drink. That keeps them far enough, far enough [away] and not fussing all the time, that gunpowder.
Entry 11841
Take gunpowder an' sprinkle it, if yo' kin manage tuh git some, an' sprinkle it around de house, an' if anybody's done anything tuh yo', yo'll find it out. Yo'll be able tuh find it out.
(That is sort of a protection?)
Yes.
Entry 11842
[THE LETTER "H" OF CHANNEL DE WORLD BEGINS HERE and SO dO some extra rites about human hair, a subject already largely concentrated in pages 2937- 3049, volume 4. For various reasons hair, not always the primary element of a rite, is widely scattered throughout HOODOO. The following beliefs about hair start with a few longer rites, which are followed by many brief statements with- out margin titles but with the key words being underlined.] And again they say if you take it [a hair from per- son] and put it [in] some kind of manure or somepin - like if you have a cow or somepin round the lot and they do fresh manure. Say, if you take this hair and bury it in there, and set this manure about in some shady place maybe it won't dry so fast, and say let it stay there. And you take it out of there and put it in a bottle of rye whiskey, a pint bottle of rye whiskey, and say in nine days it will be a snake. I've heard that. (But they don't put that snake in you though? That snake they don't put in you?) Well, if you drink the whiskey, if you drink the whiskey before the thing kin, you know, come to be whole, well hit will come alive in you.
(I see, but you have to put it in this cow manure?)
No, take the hair out it [the manure] if you know right where you put the hair in.
Entry 11843
You got to take and burn de gunpowder and get the scent - not de scent but de gas from this gunpowder - and take a stran' of yuh hair, or eithah a piece of cloth or sompin dat joo have, dat de person you tryin' to hurt had, and put it in this bottle. And shut it up in this bottle. And they say that'll make de person lose de min', or eithah make 'em sore in some parts of de body.
Entry 11844
I tell yuh jes' what 'tis. My uncle it was, was tellin' me this. That's why I was goin' tell yuh. A lady that he was courting, he was going with her, and of course this man [rival or hoodoo man] tole him that he was hurt, because he thought he was going with her. And he told him that the lady had put somepin in a bottle an' buried it under the doorstep. And that thing that she buried under the doorstep was some of his hair that she'd gotten from the barber shop and mixed it with some salt, pep- per and whiskey, and buried it under her doorstep, and that whenever he walked over it, would hurt him. [At least we know uncle liked whiskey!] But if he would take this up and put it in some boiling water, and if it floated, then he could ward off the spell that she had put on him, and that he probably could throw it back on her, on the parties who was puttin' it on him. He could take and just take this out and roll it under his arm. [then] roll it in some meal.
(Hold it under his arm?)
Roll it. Yeah, roll it under his arm.
(Oh, under his arm first.)
Yeah, and then put it in some meal and make it into a cake-like, and bury it underneath the steps, the same step where the other stuff was buried, and that would return it on her.
Entry 11845
Ah tell yo' this whut a man kin do with a woman, cos' [of course ah don't guess yo' wanta heah it. Do yo' wanta heah it? [Since I remain silent I probably nodded yes.] Well, ah tell yo' whut a man kin do wit a woman. A man kin git a woman, jes' git any strand from de left side of her haid or de right side, an' jes' stick it up ovah de do'. Jes' git her comb, lak ah comb her haid, an' take de hair an' jes' stick it up ovah de do'. An' if he ain't been with her fo' six months, ah [a woman] cain't keep from comin' back heah. Jes' stick it in de wood, in de trees, anywhere. [Usually a man would return to a woman rather than a woman to a man's house.]
Entry 11846
Dey takes a strand of your hair an' tie it in nine knots. Den dey vill have you just like dey wanta, anything dat dey want you to do. And dey got chure hair, such as [both places] or love lettahs, why you'll be behold [usually beholden] to dem. See, 'cause dey got dat hair down in dat perfume and it's stopped up [in a bottle]. You more den apt to [give in] to dem right away.
Entry 11847
I've heard that a man and a woman - a woman couldn't get along with her husband or any man, that she would like, you see, could take some of her hair. Take, get some of her hair and get some of de man's hair and put pepper between it, you see, and put it in de path where dey walk over dat. Dat would separate dem. (That is, if I wanted to break up these people, or if the woman wanted to break up the man?) Yes. Doesn't make any different [difference] who it is if you get some of each one's hair.
Entry 11848
(This woman would take his hair and bury it where?)
Take an' tie it in a washrag an' bury it underneath the do'step.
(What will that make him do then?)
Make him come back home.
Entry 11849
They tell me that you take de fingernails and toenails, and some of your hair right here [points to back of the head]. You totta put that all to- gether, mix it, you see, with cayenne pepper - red pepper. Go to de fiahplace, wrap dat up good, tight. Yo' wrap it up with a piece of new home- spun cloth. And wrap it all up together good and tight. You wrap it up like this [demonstrates]. You wrap it away from you. Dat's to drive you away. And take it and go to de fiahplace, take up a brick and put dat [package] down in dere, and put dat brick on top of it.
Entry 11850
If you get his hair and some of his underweah, you kin take it and put it all in a sack with some kind of roots. I don't know what. And put it in a corner [outside house] to- wards de rising sun, and go back to it every morning and pour sweet spirits of niter on it every morning [for 9 mornings] and in 9 mornings he'll come in the door. He'll come back home. [A number of these corner-of-the- house rites are scattered through HOODOO.]
Entry 11851
Ah has a comb heah [she shows me the comb]. Ah has a man an' been livin' with him a long time, an' if he don't treat me right, ah takes dis comb. Dis 'lectricity comb wuz given tuh me. Now ah show yo' 'bout dis comb. Ah combs his hair on de left side of his haid wit dis comb an' any [hair] come from dis comb, ah gits it out. Well, ah wrap dis up in a thin piece of cloth an' ah keeps it. An' ah sleeps wit it undah mah haid for nine mawnin's an' dat will make him come up close an' love me mo'. Now, 'cause befo' ah got dis comb ah couldn't do nuthin with him. Every nine mawnin's ah comb his haid. Now sometimes he comes in a hurry, but yet an' still when he stays all night an' he sleeps in mah bed all night, then ah gits up de nex' mawn- in' an' combs his hair, see, wit dis comb, anyway fo' nine mawnin's, but ah combs dis side of his haid [demonstrates] mo' so den ah do's dis side. But ah always comb de left side.
(Then you keep this hair in a thin cloth in your bed?)
Yessuh, in mah bed undah mah pillah.
Entry 11852
To make love? All right. You kin take dere hair, some sugar an' some bluestone. You understand now? An' some lodestone. Put all of this together with a piece of John de Conkah root. [This root] look like two pieces [see ex- planation later]. Look now [demonstrates], cross that John de Conkah cross there
[these ingredients being mixed or laid in a container] and put it [John de Conkah]
crost de hair, you see, an' tie it at de ends with a little string. You under- stand, at each end you know, with a little string. An' put it [mixture] in a piece of paper, in a piece of brown paper, an' wear that in de bottom of your shoe. [This is a small package.] They kin nevah git away from you. [What does informant mean by saying John de Conkah root look like two pieces? On p.593 (Z.2, v.1) I say, "John de Conkah can be many things; and on p.595 (l.12, v.1) we learn you can git de he one and git de she one. I suggest my informant, a hoodoo woman, is identifying John de Conkah with an actual root called Adam-and-Eve, which has he and she parts, he the smaller, both looking like peanuts (see No.10609, page 4028f., v.5). Our present rite therefore ties our man and woman together with a thread or a string to make doubly certain, magically certain, they are tied to- gether. The sugar sweetens the situation or pays the spirit, the bluestone keeps away evil, lodestone is another drawing power, and brown paper is often used for black clients. My preceding statement about he and she parts among the roots of Adam-and-Eve is a hoodoo, not a scientific one.]
Entry 11853
Well, ah tell you dis one den. Well, dere wuz 'nothah boy goin' wit a girl an' he loved her, yo' know, an' she didn't love him atall. She didn't have a bit of feelin's fo' him. An' he loved her. He jes' loved her bettah an' bettah. Well, he'd buy pretty things an' give her yo' know, an' all lak dat, chew know. Yo' know, tryin' tuh win her dat way. But still she didn't love him. She two-time him wit othah mens. So he gittin' aroun' an' so he got tuh talkin', says, "Look lak de mo' ah do fo' her, de worster she treats me." Says, "Ah love her - oh, ah do love her." Says, "An' it look lak she don' treat me half way right." [Friend] says, "Well, ah tell yo', if yo' loves her, an' yo' don' put out a whole lotta money on her, spent money on her an' she look lak she goin' backwards 'stead a-comin', an' yo' say dat she's two-timin' yo' wit othah mens," says, "whyn't yo' tie her down. Tie her down. Tie her down." "Well, ah tell yo', yo' come he'p me out on dat." [Friend] say, "Well, let me tell yo' whut chew do right short on dat." Say, "Do yo' stay dere wit her?" "Yeah, ah stays wit her at night but she jes' fusses an' yowls all de time." [Friend] say, "Well, do yo' evah comb her hair?" Say, "Yeah, ah comb her hair at night." [Friend] says, "When yo' comb her hair, yo' git some hair out right from de mole [mold] of her haid. Right in de mole of her haid. Yo' gits jes' a lil' bit, if it ain' mo' den fo' strand [probably 3 strands originally] jes' so it come from de top [or mold of her head]. Yo' git dat, an' do yo'all cut her fingernails?" "Yeap." [Friend says] "Well, yo' set down an' cut her fingernails, an' git her finger- nails an' yo' put three off each finger [hand] in dere. An' yo' tote dat." Says, "She'll come on back to yo'." Says, "She won' love nobody else but chew."
Entry 11854
Yo' kin take a girl's hair an' black lodestone an' yo' kin lead her cross [cross what? I interrupt too soon]. (What would you do with that hair?) Totes de lodestone with the hair, with a piece of solid silver money, and she will follow [wherever you go and any time]. She'll git up an' follow if it's one a'clock in de night.
(You mix those together?)
Yessuh. Jis' keep 'em in a bag an' she will follow.
Entry 11855
Well, yo' see now, it's anothah story. A lady an' her husban', yo' know, dey were gittin' 'long all right. So she saw somebody else she liked an' so she, yo' know, comes right to de front of it wit her husband an' dey nevah wanta agreein' in de home, so she say, "Well, ah dunno, seem lak mah mome is gittin' too upset. Ah dunno, seem lak ah dunno whut tuh do." So dis kept on workin' lak dat. So ah guess in travelin' an' talkin' roun' - prob'ly in, up an' down de streets, so dis [would spread] - 'nothah man or woman, somebody, say, "Whut? Yo' dunno whut tuh do wit chure home?" Says, "No." Say, "Don' be silly, go an' git chew some luck." Said, "It'll make yore home all right." Say, "Will ah be able to work ut? Ah don' know whut tuh do or how tuh do it." So, [she or someone] said dat dis man says, "Well, ah'll see yo' ag'in an' talk wit chew."
['"Dis man" wanted time to inquire about doctors.]
"Okay." An' so prob'ly latah dey got tuhgethah, see. Say, "Seem lak mah home is still gittin' worsah an' worsah an' 'stead a-git' tin' bettah, ah want chew tuh prove whut chew wuz talkin' tuh me 'bout." Says, "Okay." Says, "W'yn't [why not] yo' git chew a cah [car] an' go down South an' git chew some luck. Don' chew know whut tuh do tuh take ca' yo' home?" Says, "No." Says, "Well, ah've got de money if yo' kin git a cah." Says, "Well, ah kin git chew a cah all right." So he got a cah an' so dey went down South. So de ole man commence 'splainin' tuh him whut it wuz all about. So he tole 'em, says, "Well, ah tell yo' whut chew do." Says, "Yo' right easy when she go tuh bed," says, "at night," says, "cut so many strands of her hair." Says, den go down below an' cut so many down dere." An' he says, "Yo' git dat all tuhgethah an' put a lil' of 'er sickness. Ketch onto her monthly an' take a lil' of 'er sickness, an' two strands off 'er haid, two down there, an' a lil' of her sickness, yo' know. Put dem togethah an' tie it up in a lil' bag." An' said, "An' every month when she be lak dat, yo' watch closely an' yo' git a drop of her sickness an' jes' damp it wet lak dat, see, an' she be all right. She'll take care of yo'."
Entry 11856
To make the man stay home, you takes a piece of the strand of the hair right in the mole of the head, and get you two copper cents - but let it be two women's faces.
(Two pennies that have a woman on them. All right.)
And take the strand of the hair and then put it in between the women's faces. You get a piece of string or thread [demonstrates].
(You place these two pennies face to face.)
Face to face.
(And put that hair between them. All right.)
And then you wind the thread all around it until it holds together. Then you take a bag and you put it in a little bag with your name and his name in there, wrapped up in a single. paper, and every time you take a drink, you gotta give it something to drink. [There are a number of these rites in HOODOO of- fering food or drink or both to absent person.] (Water or liquor?)
Entry 11857
I could take just about three strands of hair of your head and go to a tree. And I would put it on the sunset side of that tree, where the sun goes down on that hair. And just take a long spike nail and bore a hole in that tree. And ball all that hair up on the sunset side of the tree, but it has got to be when the sap is up in the tree. By what I mean by the sap is when the leaves is on the tree. And bore a hole in that tree and stick that hair up in there, and drive that nail in there behind it. And when the sun commence to go down, that cause you to have headache, don't you see. And this headache will get worse every day, and from that it will drive you crazy, and from crazy it will kill you. [you do this] when the sap is up, because when the sap begins to go down you won't live very long.
Entry 11858
Dey carry dat to a tree.
(This hair from your head?)
Yes, sir. Take and put it in a tree, and bore a hole in de tree first, and put it in de tree. And I hear 'em say dey take it and make a peg, like a stop- per, you know, and put it in de tree and stop it up in dere. Heard 'em say dat, yes, sir. Stay in dere so many days. If you don't get somebody [hoodoo doctor] to take it off you, why you'll - you bound to go [die]. You're stopped up.
(Stopped up?)
Yes, give you what dey call locked bowels [which will kill you. No M.D. can help you. A common belief].
(I see.)
Entry 11859
Take yore hair an' a piece of yore clothes an' nail it into a tree. Ah've heard of dat.
(What will that do?)
Well, dat'll dry yo' up, kill yo' by degrees; yo' know, jis' dry yo' dat way.
Entry 11860
I had another fellah one time tell me somepin about he's out down here at Greenville Sound, fisherman. [I failed to ask whether professional or amateur.] He was a great fisherman. An' he was goin' with a woman down there an' this woman knew his wife. Well, they were good pals. An' he said he would always go by this woman's house of a mornings before he'd go to an' fro to git in the water fishin'. An' also would take his lunches along with him. The most mornin's he went on back by there an' got his lunches. He said he didn't pay it no mind, he said. Nice hot buttermilk bis- cuits an' good breakfast an' lunch, you know, an' got on the boat [sounds like one of those commercial fishermen still about in 1936-37]. He said finally he got a little hungry. Later on, he said, he thought to himself he'd pull out his lunch an' take a bite an' continue fishing. Finally, after all, he said one mind jis' drivin' him to eat, an' one [mind] would drive him not to; an' one would drive him to eat an' one would drive him not to. An' after awhile, somehow or other his mind drove him to go ahead an' open up the package. An' he opened up this package an' spread it out acrost his lap, an' pulled open a biscuit, an' there was a big wild [loose] hair in it. An' he jis' close that biscuit right back up an' went to this same old man [root doctor] over here on North an' Wal- nut [about whom informant speaking had previously] called [something?] George. An' he told [the fisherman] he said, "If you eat [had eaten] that biscuit with that hair in there, " he said, "that's w'at it was put there for, to run to crazy, because she wanted to git between you an' your wife. An' she found she couldn't git you all by yourself, so she fix [hoodooed] it that way." An' he also told him he had been fed fer a long long time off of her ministration [menstrual blood]. He said she take it an' make it up in his bread an' gave to him to eat."
Entry 11861
[BRIEF AS WELL AS CONDENSED RITES, WITH KEY WORDS UNDERLINED, BEGIN HERE IN FOLLOWING ORDER: WEAR, TREE, RUNNING WATER, BOTTLE, BURY, AND MISCELLA- NEOUS.] A man sews up some of a woman's hair and wears it to make her love him.
[Mobile 891:11.]
Entry 11862
A woman sews up a man's hair in a piece of his shirttail and wears it in her bosom for love. [Wilmington 261:3+85.]
Entry 11863
A woman wraps a man's hair in paper and wears it on her bosom for love. [Fredericksburg by Ediphone.]
Entry 11864
She takes hair from a man's head and some from her own head, ties it with thread, puts it in a bag with her fingernails, and wears it on her bosom for love. [Wilmington 252:4+85.]
Entry 11865
If you wear person's hair in bottle, that person will follow you.
[Norfolk 475:1.]
Entry 11866
Hair and Hearts Cologne in bottle are worn for love. [Wilmington 257:1+85.]
Entry 11867
Carry person's hair and fingernails in bottle with Hearts Cologne for love. [Wilmington, 169:3+85.]
Entry 11868
Woman stops up man's private hair in a bottle with Hearts Cologne and whiskey and wears. [Wilmington 257:9+85.]
Entry 11869
Woman wears man's hair and perfume on breast for love.[ Wilmington 188:4+85.]
The printed account names a man's hair and a love purpose. Wearing and effective attachment remain source claims.
Entry 11870
Seat of drawers, 2 strands of hair from left armpit, 1 strand from privates [= 3 strands of hair], tag it [sew it] hair in seat of drawers, Jockey Club perfume put on, put [a little of the perfume] in bottom of shoe - right
[one and for love].
Entry 11871
"[A man can] take her hair, you know, and dress it [prepare it magi- cally with perfume, or his urine, or pins, or all sorts of things, and wear it] in de band of his hat [for love]." [Memphis 2737:3.]
Her hair is explicitly named. The bracketed subject, preparation examples and love purpose remain editorial additions, with no documented preparation or effect.
Entry 11872
If a man wears a woman's pubic hair in his hatband, she can have no one except him. [Mobile 953:2.]
Entry 11874
Woman takes hair from man's head and her head and wears over her heart for love. [Wilmington 236:5+85.]
Entry 11875
To hold his love woman ties man's hair on her leg. [Petersburg, Va., 419:3.]
Entry 11876
To hold woman, man cuts hair from her privates and wears it around his neck in a bag made from old carpet. [Richmond 371:2.]
Entry 11877
Man sews up woman's hair in seat of his pants for love. [Richmond 340:4.]
Entry 11878
Wrap up hair and tie with black thread and wear in pocket for love.
[Wilmington 91:2+85.]
Entry 11879
To hold woman, man obtains hair from her head, adds lodestone, wraps these into a piece of red flannel, and into this package weaves 3 needles cross- ing one another * [the common rimless wheel device or emblem already given a number of times elsewhere: No.5720, p.2920, Z.10, v.4; No.8214, p.3447, v.4; and No.9796, p.3853, v.5; cf. No.10181, P.3961, v.5]. This package he carries in his pocket or keeps elsewhere. [Compare this rite with following 5 needles one, HAIR 11884.] [Memphis, informant (963), 1555:8.]
Entry 11881
A man keeps woman's hair in his pocketbook so that she won't quit him. [Mobile 953:3.]
Entry 11882
You may wear person's hair any place or keep it in your pocketbook for love. [Hampton, Va., by Ediphone.]
Entry 11883
Woman puts man's private hair in a bag and wears it over her privates.
[Richmond 297:7.]