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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 11884
For love, flatten out a lock of hair from person wanted, sew it into a flat package, and into the cloth weave 5 needles, 3 down and 2 up like this: TlTl T, an alternating design that will be found elsewhere. Wear this package on the right side of your body. [Compare this rite with the preceding 3 needles one No.11879.] [Memphis, informant (971) 1570:4.]
Entry 11885
Man wears plat of woman's hair in his shirttail while away from home to keep woman's love [to keep other men away]. [Wilmington 248:3+85.]
Entry 11886
You can control a person by wearing his or her hair in your shoe.
[Washington, D. C., 813:8.]
Entry 11887
"To keep person under your feet, take hair from the mold of the per- son's head and wear it under the inner sole of your shoe." [Mobile 878:8.]
Entry 11888
Sometimes "to control his mind, " a woman splits the inner sole of her shoe, inserts his hair, and lays a paper insole over it and wears. [Mobile 884:8.]
Entry 11889
"Take a plat of her hair...put it in your left...shoe...got her until yo're tyed [tired] of 'er. Dat holds her." [Little Rock 1460:9.]
Entry 11891
A woman may wear a man's hair in the toe of her shoe and keep it damp with her urine to hold him down." [Richmond 365:5.]
Entry 11892
Sew person's hair into a piece of cotton and wear it in your shoe and that person will love you. [Elizabeth City 390:4+85.]
Entry 11893
"I heard of people taking your hair and put it in a rag, jest tie it up in some way and put it in their shoe - wear it in their shoe; and it would be some Way that it would affect you, and it would bring you to attract your mind toward them."
Entry 11894
Hair from mold of head may be worn in toe of shoe for love. [Wilming- ton 129:2+85.]
Entry 11896
If a woman takes hair from a man's head, wraps around it some hair from her privates, and wears this in her shoe or about waist or leg, the man cannot go anywhere. [Washington, D. C., 796:5.]
Entry 11897
To bring a man back, she takes some of his hair, twists it tightly, puts peach plant [tree?] root and heart root with it, covers it with assafetida, and wears in her shoe. [Norfolk 437:3.]
Entry 11898
Pubic hair of opposite sex worn in right shoe for love. [Fredericks- burg by Ediphone.]
Entry 11899
Woman takes some of man's private hair, ties it in a piece of cloth, and wears it in the toe of her shoe to keep him. [Wilmington 130:7.]
Entry 11900
To keep man home, cut hair from mold of head, under the arms, and from privates, and wear these next to your skin. [Newport News 512:3.]
Entry 11901
If someone ties up your hair with a string and wears it next to the skin, that will give you a headache [presumably until you love the person].
[Richmond 318:13.]
Entry 11902
"To have man under her feet, " woman wore his hair between her bare feet and stockings. [Mobile 899:1.]
Entry 11903
Woman wears man's private hair in the hem of her skirt or petticoat.
[Richmond 349:3.]
The printed statement names a man's 'private hair' in the hem of a woman's skirt or petticoat, without specifying a purpose or outcome.
Entry 11904
To bring a man back, a woman may take hair from the mole of his head and wear it in the hem of her underskirt. [Wilmington 185:8+85.]
Entry 11905
Wrap hair in new cloth and wear it about waist for love. [Elizabeth City 346:4.]
Entry 11906
Man takes hair from mold of woman's head, sews it into a package, keeps damp with whiskey, and wears it to hold her love. [Richmond 303:1.]
Entry 11907
11907-11910. The person whose hair is stopped up in a hole bored into a tree will go crazy [Snow Hill, Md., 5: l; Boxiron, Md., by hand; St. James
(near Pocomoke City, Md.) by hand; and Fredericksburg by Ediphone.]
Entry 11908
11907-11910. The person whose hair is stopped up in a hole bored into a tree will go crazy [Snow Hill, Md., 5: l; Boxiron, Md., by hand; St. James
(near Pocomoke City, Md.) by hand; and Fredericksburg by Ediphone.]
Entry 11909
11907-11910. The person whose hair is stopped up in a hole bored into a tree will go crazy [Snow Hill, Md., 5: l; Boxiron, Md., by hand; St. James
(near Pocomoke City, Md.) by hand; and Fredericksburg by Ediphone.]
Entry 11910
11907-11910. The person whose hair is stopped up in a hole bored into a tree will go crazy [Snow Hill, Md., 5: l; Boxiron, Md., by hand; St. James
(near Pocomoke City, Md.) by hand; and Fredericksburg by Ediphone.]
Entry 11911
Bore hole into tree and in it stop up person's hair to run him crazy.
[Washington, D. C., 837:3.]
Entry 11912
If you nail a person's hair to a tree - usually by first making a nail hole and then inserting the hair - that person will go crazy after the bark grows over the hole. [Ocean City, Md., by Ediphone.]
Entry 11913
You can give a person a headache by boring a hole in a tree and plug- ging up some of his hair. [Old Point Comfort, Va., by Ediphone.]
Entry 11914
By boring a hole in a tree and stopping up in it some of victim's hair, you give him a headache. [Wilmington 116:7+85.]
Entry 11915
Hair from mold of head stopped up in tree hole runs victim crazy.
[Norfolk 457:7.]
Entry 11916
If you are stopping up a person's hair to harm him or her, it must come from the mold of the head, the vital spot of a person's body. [Wilmington 171:4+85.]
Entry 11917
If you bore a hole in a tree and stop up a person's hair in it, it will either rumn the person crazy or out of town. [For a long time I could not understand how hair stopped up in a tree could run a person out of town. Nothing could be more illogical! Gradually I learned that intention or wish was more powerful than action or symbolism.] [Wilmington 74:3+85.]
Entry 11918
To kill a person bore a hole in a tree and stop up some of his hair.
[Deal Island, Md., 21:3.]
Entry 11919
"Cut couple strands outa her hair see, and take it to a tree an' nail it up in de tree. See. Well, dat makes de woman love de man mo' better.
Entry 11920
If you wind a person's hair around a small nail and drive it into a tree, that person will have a headache the rest of his life. [Fredericksburg by Ediphone.]
Entry 11921
Wrap hair around a nail, drive it into tree when sap is rising, and run hair owner crazy. [Richmond 328:4.
Entry 11923
If someone cuts a hole in a tree that stands in running water and stops up in it some of your hair, you will lose your mind. [Wilmington 269:6+85.]
Entry 11924
You can kill a person by airtighting some of his hair in a small bot- tle and stopping it up in a hole you have bored into a tree. [Wilmington 228:3+ 85.]
Entry 11925
"Split point of nail, lay hair in split, drive into tree at bottom, runs crazy." [The splitting of the point of a nail here, of course, is impossi- ble. Informant is talking here about a wooden peg, which is used in many tree rites. "At bottom" sometimes means exposed root or beginning of root at bottom of tree.] [Richmond 302:10.]
Entry 11926
If a person buries your hair under the root of a tree on the left- hand side as he approaches tree, you will lose your mind. [Washington, D. C., 799:5.]
Entry 11927
If you nail a person's hair to the left side of a tree [the side to your left as you approach tree] that person will die with a headache. [Newport News 502:6.]
A person's hair is explicit in the conditional account. The left-side explanation is editorial; the predicted death with a headache is not a verified event.
Entry 11928
Drive victim's hair into the right side of tree as you approach it to drive victim crazy, but you must use a rusty nail. [Richmond 337:1.]
Entry 11929
"They tell me, if a person wanta run you crazy, they kin take a couple locks of your hair, and take a rusty nail and drive it on the right hand side of a tree [the right side of the tree as you approach it]." [Richmond 461:1.]
Entry 11930
"Go to the forks of the road where's a tree at, git young girl's hair...the right-hand side of the fork...take that hair and drive it in that tree and it will make her wonder [wander] away." [New Orleans 1142:1.]
Hyatt presents this item in his brief and condensed compilation. The quotation contains ellipses; omitted wording and a continuous recording are not reconstructed. [wander] is an editorial gloss. The reported outcome remains an attributed historical source claim.
Full quoted item (printed page 4267) · Compilation notice (printed page 4264)
Entry 11931
Victim's hair must be stopped up in north side of tree to run him crazy. [Norfolk 480:5.]
Entry 11932
Wrap victim's hair around a nail, name it, drive it into the north side of a tree, and it will run victim crazy after 9 days. [Richmond 367:2.]
Entry 11933
Go to a swamp and on the north side of a black gum tree bore a hole into which you push victim's hair. Then trim a peg and gradually drive it into the hole, making one blow on the peg and wishing each morning for 9 days. What- ever you wish will happen. [This peg into a hole with one lick on each of 9 mornings is a common theme in HOODOO.] [Washington, D. C., 839:1.]
Entry 11934
"They take your hair and they bore a hole in the tree towards the sunrise [hole on east side of tree] and they stop the hair up and that would kill you." [New Orleans 1366:5.]
Entry 11935
Bore hole on east side of tree and stop up person's hair to give him a headache. [Richmond 333:9.]
Entry 11936
If someone carries your hair to a tree early in the morning, just as the sun begins to shine on the tree, and drives your hair under the bark on the east side of the tree, you will go crazy. [Fredericksburg by Ediphone.]
Entry 11937
If you wrap victim's hair in a piece of paper and nail it into a tree with a new nail at sunrise, this will give the victim a headache. [Baltimore 46:10.]
Entry 11938
Lay person's hair in hollow of a tree or where birds can find it and make a nest, and the latter will run the person crazy. [Baltimore 59:2.]
Entry 11939
To drive a person's hair into a tree root runs that person crazy.
[Fredericksburg by Ediphone.]
Entry 11940
'[He] take her hair and tie in knot, put under root of tree or around his neck, make her love him. [Richmond 364:2.]
Entry 11941
"You can take the hair and a rusty nail, wrap the hair around the nail and take it and drive it in a tree...you won't live." [New Orleans 1133:3.]
Entry 11942
Put hair in fork of tree; "they'll go crazy. [Here we have the "Y" fork of the road where a person must choose one of two roads. He goes crazy not being able to make a choice. The hair of course is either nailed into the bottom of the "v" or stopped up into a hole bored there.] [Mobile 919:2.]
Entry 11943
If you thread a needle with a person's hair and drive the needle into a tree, that will give the person a headache. [Norfolk 476:10.]
Entry 11944
On the growing of the moon is the proper time to bore a hole into a tree and to put into it victim's hair and 9 tenpenny nails. This will run victim crazy in 9 days. [Norfolk 491:6.]
Entry 11945
Her private hair and hair from the mold of his head, stopped up in a tree or in a bottle with Hearts Cologne will run the man crazy about her. [Nor- folk 457:8.]
Entry 11946
A person whose hair is stopped up in a hollow tree will go crazy.
[Snow Hill 3:2.]
Entry 11947
Bore a hole in a real green tree [as the sap is rising], plug up per- son's hair, hit plug once each morning for 9 mornings, and the person will die.
[Baltimore 62:3.]
Entry 11948
"Nail girl's hair from head into maple tree. Futher [farther] nail it in, more she love you." [Richmond 364:1.]
Entry 11949
"To run em crazy, take [person's] hair, go to a oak tree, take a nail and drive so it [hair] up in a [the] tree [to make owner of hair] crazy and keep with headache." [Memphis (960 "excellent hoodoo woman') 1545:4.]
Entry 11950
Your hair thrown into running Water makes you Wander. [Washington, D. C., 814:3.]
Entry 11951
"They can take hair and throw it overboard with the going-out tide and run you away. Well, you leave home then." [Elizabeth City 471:7.]
Entry 11952
"I've heard them say you can take a strand of hair and throw it in running water and cause them to go crazy." [Snow Hill 13:4.]
Entry 11953
Throw person's hair into running water and wish person to lose mind.
[Richmond 290:2.]
Entry 11954
"They say if you get hold of your [someone's] hair and take it and carry and throw it over your left shoulder in [into?] running water, they say it'll run you [the person whose hair you took] crazy." [Richmond 380:2.]
Entry 11955
Hair thrown into running water: "it'll run you into de insane asylum or any kind of destituted way." [Mobile 889:1.]
Entry 11956
11956-11961. If you throw a person's hair into running water, it will run that person crazy. [Norfolk 465:2; Richmond 335:6; Snow Hill 12:4; Ocean City, Md., by Ediphone; Wilmington 165:4+85; and Fredericksburg by Ediphone. This be- lief is kmown everywhere.]
The range11956–11961 shares one printed hair statement and locality group, not six separate quotations. Its crazy outcome and editorial 'kmown everywhere' assertion remain unverified.
Entry 11957
11956-11961. If you throw a person's hair into running water, it will run that person crazy. [Norfolk 465:2; Richmond 335:6; Snow Hill 12:4; Ocean City, Md., by Ediphone; Wilmington 165:4+85; and Fredericksburg by Ediphone. This be- lief is kmown everywhere.]
The range11956–11961 shares one printed hair statement and locality group, not six separate quotations. Its crazy outcome and editorial 'kmown everywhere' assertion remain unverified.
Entry 11958
11956-11961. If you throw a person's hair into running water, it will run that person crazy. [Norfolk 465:2; Richmond 335:6; Snow Hill 12:4; Ocean City, Md., by Ediphone; Wilmington 165:4+85; and Fredericksburg by Ediphone. This be- lief is kmown everywhere.]
The range11956–11961 shares one printed hair statement and locality group, not six separate quotations. Its crazy outcome and editorial 'kmown everywhere' assertion remain unverified.
Entry 11959
11956-11961. If you throw a person's hair into running water, it will run that person crazy. [Norfolk 465:2; Richmond 335:6; Snow Hill 12:4; Ocean City, Md., by Ediphone; Wilmington 165:4+85; and Fredericksburg by Ediphone. This be- lief is kmown everywhere.]
The range11956–11961 shares one printed hair statement and locality group, not six separate quotations. Its crazy outcome and editorial 'kmown everywhere' assertion remain unverified.
Entry 11960
11956-11961. If you throw a person's hair into running water, it will run that person crazy. [Norfolk 465:2; Richmond 335:6; Snow Hill 12:4; Ocean City, Md., by Ediphone; Wilmington 165:4+85; and Fredericksburg by Ediphone. This be- lief is kmown everywhere.]
The range11956–11961 shares one printed hair statement and locality group, not six separate quotations. Its crazy outcome and editorial 'kmown everywhere' assertion remain unverified.
Entry 11961
11956-11961. If you throw a person's hair into running water, it will run that person crazy. [Norfolk 465:2; Richmond 335:6; Snow Hill 12:4; Ocean City, Md., by Ediphone; Wilmington 165:4+85; and Fredericksburg by Ediphone. This be- lief is kmown everywhere.]
The range11956–11961 shares one printed hair statement and locality group, not six separate quotations. Its crazy outcome and editorial 'kmown everywhere' assertion remain unverified.
Entry 11962
If you throw a person's hair into running water, that person will go there and drown himself. [Snow Hill, Md., 11:4.]
Entry 11963
"You wish this spell upon a person, throw this hair in [running] water, and whatever spell...say you wished you [the other person] to go blind or to lose your mind. Well, usually they say that the hair will work upon the mind, that that would cause you to lose your senses." [You wish spell as you throw.]
[Richmond 338:2.]