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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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Entries
Entry 11964
If you stop up a person's hair in a small bottle and throw it into a tidal river, as tide comes and goes victim's mind will come and go. [Wilmington 111:11+85.]
Entry 11965
You may bottle a person's hair with heartshorn perfume [Hearts Cologne] and throw it into running water to run a person crazy. [That term heartshorn, a mispronunciation for Hearts Cologne, gave me trouble until I finally realized either some informants could not pronounce the word cologne or confused it with the obsolete pharmaceutical term hartshorn, that is, spirit of hartshorn. [Wil- mington 270:5+85.]
Entry 11966
Hair is taken from the left side of victims head, stopped up in a bottle, and thrown into running water to run a person crazy. [Wilmington 262:1+85.]
Entry 11967
If you put a person's hair in a bottle and throw it over your shoulder into running water while cursing, it will run the person intended crazy. [Wil- mington 172:8+85.]
Entry 11968
Put person's hair in bottle, stop it up, go to running water, call person's name 3 times, and throw bottle into water to run him or her crazy.
[Wilmington 127:1+85.]
Entry 11969
You can run a person crazy by stopping up his hair and urine in a bottle and throwing it into running water. [Wilmington 89:1+85.]
Entry 11970
To stop up person's hair in a bottle and throw it into running water makes him a wanderer. [Wilmington 250:6+85.]
Entry 11971
Sew up victim's hair with concentrated lye and red pepper in a red flannel bag, stop up latter in a bottle, and throw bottle into running Water to run victim crazy. [Wilmington 148:5+85.]
Entry 11972
A woman goes to the forks of a road, makes a crossmark on the ground, picks up some of the dirt, puts these with a man's hair, and buries at her home to hold him. To put him to going she stops these ingredients up into a black bottle and throws it into running water. [Memphis 1550:8.]
Entry 11973
Pick a small hole into a raw chicken egg, remove the raw egg, insert a person's hair, toss the eggshell into running water, the person whose hair it is will go crazy. [Norfolk 492:10.]
Entry 11974
"Cut de hair out chore head and tie it up in a rag and tie a brick into it where it'll sink. Just throw it in the river and you'll always be travelin'." [Richmond 390:10.]
Entry 11975
If you stop up a person's hair with salt and pepper in a snuffbox and throw it into running water while wishing and then walk away Without looking back, you will either run the owner of the hair out of town or run him crazy. [Memphis 1545:5.]
Entry 11976
If you tie a person's hair into a handkerchief and throw it into run- ning water, it will run that person crazy. [Petersburg, Va., 426:1.]
Entry 11977
If you tie a person's hair into a handkerchief and throw it over your left shoulder into running water, the victim will soon leave that place. [Peters- burg, Va., 426:6.]
Entry 11978
They split a fat splinter [splinter from a fat pine or fat-lighter zine, stick some of victim's hair into the split, tie split to hold him there, and throw splinter into running Water to run victim crazy: [Wilmington 141:6+85.]
Entry 11979
If you tie a person's hair into a rag and tie the rag to a brick and drop the brick into running water, the owner of the hair will always be travel- ing [Richmond 292:9.]
Entry 11980
Lay hair in snuffbox with graveyard dirt, tenpenny nails, needles, pins, and throw into river; "run you off." [Mobile 883:3.]
Entry 11981
"Get strand of hair from man and woman, tie these together, throw into running water, will separate them if they're going together." [This is a strange piece of magic, to tie a man and woman together to separate them! Yet the inten- tion is more powerful than the symbolism, and besides, running water flows be- between them.] [Wilmington 108:1+85.]
Entry 11982
If you bottle a person's hair with graveyard dirt, cayenne pepper and perfume and throw it into running water, you will run your victim crazy.
[Wilmington 271:1+85.]
Hyatt's printed résumé reports a mixture of hair, graveyard dirt, cayenne pepper and perfume. Its claimed effect is source-reported; the résumé is distinct from verbatim informant speech.
Entry 11983
Tie 9 knots in person's hair and throw into running water, having first turned around 9 times while wishing victim will never return. [Washington, D. C., 837:2.]
Entry 11984
They mix your hair with human excrement, add salt and vinegar, and throw it into running water before sunup to run you crazy. [Washington, D. C., 822:3.]
Entry 11985
Airtight a person's hair in a bottle to make him crazy.[ Newport News 513:2.]
Entry 11986
Dey git a plait chure hair out de mole [mold] of yore haid an' stop it up in a bottle an' yo' kin run 'em crazy. Yo' also kin take dere picture an' bury it on de face an' dat will run 'em crazy, maybe even death. [Memphis, 2734:13.]
Entry 11987
How they run you crazy. They take a strand of your hair, or either any kind of it. They stop it up in a bottle tight, tight. That's all they got- ta do with that. [New Orleans 1405:5.]
Entry 11988
Take yore hair an' run yo' crazy shore [sure]. Take yore hair an' stop an' put it in a bottle, an' as long as dey keep dat hair intuh a bottle airtight, why it runs yo' finely [finally] crazy.
Entry 11989
11989-11990. Your hair buried in a bottle will drive you crazy. [Richmond 323:3; Wilmington 108:7+85.]
Entry 11990
11989-11990. Your hair buried in a bottle will drive you crazy. [Richmond 323:3; Wilmington 108:7+85.]
Entry 11991
Stop up in a bottle for love, hair from the mole [mold] of the head.
[Wilmington 250:2+85.]
Entry 11992
Man's hair plaited and stopped up in bottle brings him back. [Wil- mington 242:1+85.]
Entry 11993
Stop up a person's hair in a bottle and bury it on a river bank near Water to run the person crazy. [Fredericksburg by Ediphone.]
Entry 11994
To run a person crazy, stop up his hair in a bottle and bury it under his doorstep so that the mouth of the bottle points towards the house. [Wilmin- ton 119:4+85.]
Entry 11995
"You jis' take your hair [not of one person but of man and woman] an' put it in a bottle of perfume, and stop it up and hide it, or either throw it away. You'll [either of you] be in love wit dem." [Wilmington 184:2+85.]
Entry 11996
If you put a person's hair in a bottle with Hearts Perfume, the person whose hair it is will love you. [Each hoodoo vender probably had his own variety bearing a label with two or more small red hearts on it.] [Charleston 606:4.]
Entry 11997
Woman plats a man's hair, puts it in a bottle of cologne, and he can- not go anywhere. [Charleston 582:2.]
Entry 11998
To hold person's love, keep in bottle his or her hair, Adam-and-Eve root and Hearts Cologne - 3 ingredients. [Petersburg, Va., 422:9.]
Entry 11999
For love keep person's hair in bottle with High John de Conkah, love root or sweet root, and Hearts Cologne. [Petersburg, Va., 422:1.]
Entry 12000
Hair in bottle with graveyard dirt and perfume draws the owner of the hair to you. [Wilmington 114:6+85.]
Entry 12001
Your hair and graveyard dirt bottled and buried under your steps will give you a headache. [Richmond 375:4.]
Entry 12002
If your hair is bottled and buried, this will run you crazy. If you are the doctor working for [client] you find the bottle, break it and burn the hair and you [patient] will recover. [Snow Hill 2:9.]
Entry 12003
If a person cuts up victim's hair, corks up pieces in a bottle of water, buries bottle under victim's door, these pieces Will turn into snakes and run the victim crazy. The victim can be cured only by finding a "DOUBLE HEAD." [This term is a rather rare name for a "TWO-HEAD" or "TWO-HEADER, " a person who knows so much he needs two heads to hold it, a hoodoo doctor.] [Fredericksburg by Ediphone.]
Entry 12004
If you put hair and snake blood in a bottle and add wine, it will poison the person who drinks it. [Baltimore, but information from Charlotte Co., Va., 60:1.]
Entry 12005
If you bottle a person's hair with snail-shell powder and frog powder, you will run your victim crazy. [Fredericksburg by Ediphone.]
Entry 12006
Stop up in a bottle hair from top of person's head [the mold] with 9 needles and 9 pins and bury under door. Victim, usually a man, cannot leave that house permanently. [Washington, D. C., cylinder number forgotten.]
Entry 12007
If someone bottles your hair and urine with 9 new needles and 9 new pins, and buries it, it will run you crazy. [Newport News by Ediphone.]
Entry 12008
Hair of person buried to bring him or her back home. [New Orleans 1158:9.]
Entry 12009
She can bury a lock of the man's hair at the doorstep to make him re- turn home. [Berlin, Md., by Ediphone.]
The short item describes a lock of hair buried at the doorstep with returning home as its stated aim.
Entry 12010
Hair from the mold of a woman's head is wrapped in cloth and buried at a man's doorstep to hold her there or to bring her to his house. [Norfolk 494:9.]
Entry 12011
"They could bury your hair [in the ground] and that moult chew away."
[New Orleans 1145:2.]
Entry 12012
Bury hair to run its owner crazy. [Norfolk 448:4.]
The item describes burying hair and attributes a harmful intended consequence to that action.
Entry 12014
Bury person's hair in the ground, pray over it, and "ask evil influ- ence upon this hair that owner will lose his mind." [Washington, D. C. 838:4.]
The item describes asking for evil influence over hair after burial and prayer; the requested consequence remains attributed source wording.
Entry 12015
To run you crazy, they bury under your doorstep: your hair, finger- nails, toenails, and a piece of a garment you have worn next to your skin [Nor- folk 427:3.]
Entry 12016
You can bury a person's hair with the measure of his foot track to run him crazy. [Fredericksburg by Ediphone.]
Entry 12017
Hair from mold of head, inner sole of shoe, one tenpenny nail, bury at doorstep. That'll make them love you. [Mobile 918:6.]
Entry 12018
If you mix a person's hair with salt and vinegar and bury it, you will run him crazy. [Wilmington 216:3+85.]
Entry 12019
If you bury a person's hair in graveyard he will lose his mind.
[Washington, D. C., 838:4.]
Entry 12020
Hair buried in a graveyard will make you crazy. [Petersburg, Va., by Ediphone.]
Entry 12021
Hair buried in a graveyard runs its owner crazy, or runs him away, or make a wanderer of him. [Baltimore 44:3.]
Entry 12022
If someone buries your hair in a graveyard, you will never recover from the headache it will cause you. [Wilmington 90:2+85.]
Entry 12023
Tie up a person's hair with thread, or cork it up in a bottle, or wrap it up in a piece of red flannel, and then bury it at the foot of a mean person's grave to run crazy the owner of the hair. [Wilmington 111:8+85.]
Entry 12024
To keep his love, woman takes piece of his clothes, graveyard dirt, soaks them in vinegar and turpentine, wraps tight, seals in jar, and buries under steps. [Richmond 341:6.]
Entry 12025
Write your [victim's] name on paper, seal it up with your [victim's] hairbrush or comb, bury in graveyard, and you [victim] lose your hair. [Wash- ington, D. C., 829:9.]
Entry 12026
To send a man away, wrap up in a rag some of his hair with 2 needles and several pins, and bury this package on the bank of a river. [Here again we have one of these many rites in which the victim is buried to send him traveling!]
[Fredericksburg by Ediphone.]
Entry 12027
They use 9 strands of your hair, sprinkle salt and black pepper over, and bury: "you will soon go away, rambling and drifting around." [Mobile 875:5.]
The printed account names nine strands of hair; its quoted prediction of rambling and drifting remains an unverified result.
Entry 12028
I heard of people taking your hair and put it in a bottle and put 9 strands of hair, they say, and 9 needles and 9 pins. They say they take that bottle some [of] 'em and bury it under your doorstep to do you harm. [Wilming- ton 72:6+85.]
Entry 12029
"They say they could take your hair and pray over it for you to die on a certain date. When that certain date come you'll die." [Richmond 459:4.]
Entry 12030
If anyone burns your hair, you will lose your mind. [Old Point Comfort, Va., by Ediphone.]
Entry 12031
If a man ties a piece of a woman's hair around the stems of 2 unlight- ed matches, sews this into red flannel and lays package under her [his?] steps, she'll soon come to the man doing this. [Richmond 298:2.]
Entry 12032
A girl may put a man's hair from his head in a finger ring [not in earring] and wear it to break him up from another woman. [Richmond 297:8.]
Entry 12033
If a woman boils a man's hair in the food he eats, he will be under her control. [Jacksonville 751:2.]
Entry 12034
A woman seals a man's hair into a little hole in the mortar of the fireplace flue to keep him near her. [Elizabeth City 390:5.]
Entry 12035
A woman may cut hair from a man's head, put it in a sack, keep it on her side of the bed in the mattress, and sleep on it all the time for love.
[Memphis 1560:3.]
Entry 12036
Woman wraps some of man's private hair around a hairpin or two small pins, adds graveyard dirt, sews into a bag, and hides it in the bed. [The 2 prongs of the hairpin or 2 ordinary pins probably symbolize the man and woman bound together.] [Richmond 374:3.]
Entry 12037
Hair from her armpit soaked in his whiskey will bring a present from him and create love. [Charleston 572:4.]
Entry 12038
"Sometimes, they say, that they can take your hair and throw it away and cause you to go crazy." [There are probably many reasons for this but one of the best known is birds will get your hair and use it in building a nest.]
[Elizabeth City 556:8.]
Entry 12039
[They] "take your hair an' put it in a snuffbox and put it under the doorstep and you can't leave 'em." [Vicksburg 1002:13.]
The quotation refers to 'your hair'; its supplied [They] is editorial, and the inability to leave is a source claim.
Entry 12040
If you throw out a person's hair so that a bird can get it for making a nest, that person will have a headache as long as that hair is there. [Rich- mond 384:6.]
Entry 12041
Some say the headache of the preceding will last only until mating season is over. [Richmond 334:9.]
The item reports that some say the preceding headache lasts only until mating season ends; the preceding account is not supplied here.
Entry 12042
Either bury person's hair or put it over a door to keep him or her from running around. [Wilmington 169:4.]
Entry 12043
Woman makes wishes while tying knots in some of man's hair and bury- ing it in the plaster of her house. [Elizabeth City 406:5.]