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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 13325
It some kind of a rod dey got an' dey say wha'evah way dat rod turn - it won't turn until yo' git right whar de money is. An' it will - dat needle point right down whar de money buried at, an' dey go dere an' dig it up.
Entry 13326
De way ah've heard it now, dey split de tree - a little small sap- ling. Dey jes' split dat tree an' yo' kin take de trimmin'. Jes' lak yo' split it - yo' split de tree an' yo' cut out inside dere. Yo' take yore pocketknife an' yo' cut out de trimmin' 股中商 outa dere. An' den yo' take dat trimmin' an' den yo' go an' yo' - jes' lak a person dat chew see dat chew kere [care] fo' lak dat. Well yo' take de trimmin' outa dat an' yo' slip it in some of his clothes - yo' know, anywhere in de individual's clothes dat he wears regularly. Yo' understand, sew it up in his bindin' an' dey tell me dat'll bind two [one] couple together [you know] make dem cleave to one another. Dat's fur as ah evah hear of dat.
(What does that tree do then?)
Well, dat tree grows - yo' know, hit'll go back together, yo' understand me.
Entry 13327
Sometimes they would get some of your hair and burn it up, or trick it in some way, and make you lose your mind. This and the following example are two early appearances of the words trick and tricking. [old Point Comfort, Va., informant 22.1
Entry 13328
We call it tricking. [Baltimore, informant from Arundel Co., Md.],
(413), 45:3.]
Entry 13329
You go out here an' git this trumpet root. That's a root that grows - it don't grow now'ere roun' here. It grows in the middle of a pond. When you git to that trumpet it's like a bugle. It's about that long [4 feet], it stays green winter an' summer. You take that trumpet root an' you pour some water in it [the flower] from a pump. Nuthin mus' be but de pump. An' take that water an' boil it. Yo' see, yo' boil that trumpet root all together. Well, when yo' git that water, yo' bottle it up an' take a drink. An' take that trumpet an' cut it up, an' put it out there an' let it git dry. Either put it in de stove an' let it dry. Well, yo' powder dat up. Yo' take that then an' yo' go to captain: 'Captain, I'm out of a job an' I wan'a job." Put some that [dust] on yo' [and take a drink of trumpet-root tea before you go] an' yo' got a job.
Entry 13330
To drink turpentine in warm water will kill cunjure inside of you.
[Wilmington 236+85.]
Entry 13331
Either make a cross with turpentine on the soles of your feet or put 3 drops of turpentine in each shoe as a protection against cunjure. [Newport News 502:4.]
Entry 13332
Take a teaspoonful of sulphur, tablespoonful of salt, and 9 drops of turpentine to cure or protect against cunjure. [Elizabeth City 394:4.]
Entry 13333
Ah heard that chew could take spirits of turpentine an' 'noint chure shoe sole with it, an' de dogs nevah kin trail yo'. [Known everywhere.]
Entry 13334
(How Would you fix [put a spell on] her?)
Well, ah tell you. Ah'd ketch me a little sparrah - see, ketch me a little sparrah alive, and ah'll git me a little fat from a cow or fat from hog - sompin like dat - or fat from a chicken, eny kin' fat chew know to make some grease an' fry dese birds, see. I'll git dem fat an ah'll fry dem birds, see. Fry dem birds an' ah'll take a little piece of new homespun cloth, see. An' ah'll take dat homespun an' ah'll take dat grease, an' pour it onto dat homespun, see. An' after ah take dat an' pour 'em onto dat homespun, why ah'll git another [O.K.] piece of cloth an' ah'll wrop [wrap] it see. An' den ah'll take a needle an' a spool of thread wot [what] nevah beer used an' sew dat up. See, sew it up tight with dat cloth wit de grease on it, so it can't even ketch air. An' ah'll stick dat in de mattress right where she sleep at, see. Ah'll git a little Hearts Cologne an' den ah'll put a little sweet spirit of niter, see. An' ah'll pour a little bit of dat on her, see.
(On the woman herself.)
Throw a little sweet spirit of niter in front of her and a little Hearts Cologne in her back, on her right shoulder. An' she'll think the world, de sun rise an' [go] down on me.
(That is the [another] way you will get her.)
Entry 13335
(Were you born here in Louisiana?)
No, I was born in McComb City, Mississippi.
(McComb City. How did you happen to learn some of these things?)
I had it did to me, an' I'se went to - to them two-headed people and they told me uhat they did. Some of 'em will take you fo' pity's sake and some of them felt so sorry for me, you understand.
Entry 13336
(What kind of people?)
Two-headed people de' call them.
(Two-headed people.) [Richmond (422) 514:6.]
Entry 13337
Before you leave this house, you take - you slip [steal] one of her teddies, you see, before you leave this house. And when you slip - you fold it up tight, tight, and yo' go - just as you go out of the house, you put it up under the pillar - on the right hand side - as you go out of the house, you put it on that side, up under the pillar and leave it there, and she ain't going to have the courage to fool with nobody else while you be gone. [Courage here means sexual ability. Until he returns she is sexless!]
(Do you put it under his pillow or her pillow?)
No, up under the house pillar. (Oh, up under the house pillar. I see.) [As I have said numerous times these small houses on low- lands set a foot or more aboveground upon five stones or other objects like this the perfect form for a quincunx rite.]
Entry 13338
You take her - you take a pair of her stepins or her hose, whatever that she wears, you know, that you wanta take. You take them and you put 'em - say if you got two mat- tress [mattress on box springs] on the bed. You write her name down there nine times and you lay it in between there and you fold her - whatever you got to you - nine times. You take you a piece of paper and you lay it on the spring, and you lay this to you and then you put the mat- tress back down over that and you go anywhere you want. And I'll guarantee you ain't no man in the world going go in there and worry her whilst you gone - and she ain't going to think about any other man. See.
Entry 13339
There's but one thing he can do - he can take his wife, take any piece of her underwear, any piece of her underwear and wrap that up. Just take it and fold it and wrap it up late at night. Before he wraps it, take her name and wrap her name - write her name - make an "x" [a cross] and write her name across that "x" [her name is crossed] and wrap it in her underwear, and wrap it good, and put it anywhere about her bed, with her name written in it. And put it anywhere about her bed Where she don't find it, until he gets back. And she ain't going to be in no sood to fool with no man. She ain't going to be in no mood to fool with no man.
Entry 13340
Soiled underwear, cut out crutch [or crouch] or wash it and put dirty water in bottle, keep in home or wear it or bury it [for love]. [Memphis (962) 1551:8.]
Entry 13341
Cut out piece from seat of dirty underwear and wear in either shoe, control man. [Memphis (965) 1558:2.]
The printed instruction names dirty underwear. Cutting, wearing and control remain source directions and claims.
Entry 13342
Woman sleeps on man's soiled underwear to hold him or to break him away from other woman. [Memphis (960) 1545:14.]
The printed account calls the underwear soiled. Its holding or separation purposes remain source claims; no particular soil or substance is identified.
Entry 13343
She gets his underwear, cuts seat out and buries at doorstep to bring him back. [Memphis (961) 1550:1.]
Entry 13344
A man can take a woman's dirty underpiece and bury it and kill her.
[Memphis (960) 1545:13.]
The source says dirty underpiece; the garment reading is a contextual interpretation.
Entry 13345
For love, I'll tell you w'a' you kin do. You kin take a piece of yellah homespun, split it, take it now. Well, take your chamber lye, dat you use over dat night.- make over dat night. You take dat an' heat it in a little pan. Take dis piece of homespun, wipe it under your left- foot bottom. Wipe it under your right [-foot bottom] with dis piece of homespun. An' den, after you do dat, you take it an' wipe it under dis [demonstrates the left] arm, an' wipe it under this [demonstrates right] arm. After you do dat, you wipe down dere [at pubic region]. After you do dat, why you take a little bottle about dat long [shows a little finger] a little vial. An' push dat homespun, put it down in dere. Take dis water [urine] w'ere [what] you heat, pour it into dere. An' take nine pinch of love powder, nine drops of Heart Colognes [Hearts Cologne] an' nine pinch of spice. Why you kin put dat in dere, into dis bottle, an' stop it up tight. And any time you wan'a, it'll make you come. Put dat in some applesauce, peas, or anything, nine drops every time, an' he'll give you jis' w'a' choo want an' love you.
Entry 13346
They take your water, you see, they stop it up in a little bottle. And after they stop it up, they take it and lay it up over a door where you walk under, and let chew walk under it so many morn- ings. I think it's 9 mornings. After 9 morn- ings - you see, you don't move it no more, it stay where you put it. And they say take it and carry down to the river and throw it overboard. That'll stop you from making water.
Entry 13347
Well, they can take that chamber lye, that [is] the urine, get some cinnamon and some sugar, and mix that lye [urine] up with it [3 ingredients] but you got to be sure that you didn't spit in it because the spit would cause it not to work. And put in a bottle. And they throw the bot- tle most anywhere, anywhere you couldn't find it. And after awhile that chamber lye will dry up, it will come to be just the empty bottle - it evaporates. And if you want to leave me, you couldn't do it. That's to hold a man.
Entry 13348
(If you want to get a job from the boss, you try to get hold of some of his chamber lye and put it in a bottle airtight, and take it home and keep it. And that will make him like you and eventually he will give you a job?) Yes. [A pencil note of mine reads: "Something must have gone before. Something did go before but machine was not turned on. I am repeating as near as possible what informant had said. To bottle the boss's urine is a rare rite indeed!]
Entry 13349
Ef dey kin git holt [hold] of yo' chamber lye, [you] know whut dey do wit it? Dey take it an' put it in a bottle an' stop it up airtight. Dey puts 9 needles in dere first wit it an' dey put - git a spider. Yo' know whut a spider is - crawls on de wall. Dey git a spider an' put it in dere [the bottle] an' dey put some spider web in it, an' dey stop it [bottle] up airtight an' bury it down - nuthin under 2 feet. An' it will lock yore bowels an' everything up. [Several times in HOODOO I have explained the confusion between bowels and bladder, the present rite locking the bladder.] An' yo' ain't goin' git rid of dat unless yo' git a root doctor [who] know Whut to do. YO' JES' BURNT, DAT'S ALL - YO' JES' A BURNT BABY. [Once again, confusion between bladder and bowels was not rare.]
Entry 13350
All right, he wanta pee. Ah let him come on it, heah's a bucket. Well, ah [woman] give him a bucket tuh pee in. Maybe ah ain't got no slop jar an' ah give him a bucket tuh pee in. Well, ah ain't goin' pee in dat dere. [This is a fre- quent statement in these rites, urine on top of another urine destroys the power of first urine. Similarly spit into urine kills latter's potency.] Ah take his watah an' po' it in a bottle an' ah keep it fo' nine mawnin's. Maybe ah'll bury it, understan'. He done comin' back. If ah love him, he comin' back.
Entry 13351
Well, dey tell me a person's chamber lye - yo' takes a person's chamber lye - do yo' mean tuh do good or do harm? (Either one. Tell one first and then the other.) Well, yo'll take a person's chamber lye an' yo' put nine needles in dat chamber lye, brand-new needles. Yo' stick one point down an' one point up, one point down, until yo' git all of 'em down in dere. Yo' take dat an' yo' put dat chamber lye - bury it somewhere where dey kin walk ovah it. Dat will do 'em harm.
(Well, just what would it do to them?)
Well - well, if yo' wanta do good, now...
(How would it harm them?)
Well, dat would harm 'em, dat would ketch 'em in dere bladdah. Dat's de way dat'll harm dem, swell dem up down in heah.
(How do they do them good, do you say, with chamber lye?)
Well, yo' take dat chamber lye, ifs yo' want a man tuh stay home, take dat chamber lye wit some salt an' some sugah an' yo' stop dat up. An' yo' put dat undah de haid of yore bed, somewheres neah yore bed, or in a dark cornah in yore room - anywhere lak dat. Dat will make him stay home an' quit runnin' an' rov- in' aroun'. Dat'll make him stay home.
Entry 13352
Dey git different root an' cork 'em down in a bottle an' bury 'em... (And bath water?) And - dat's right - and you bury 'em, and after you bury 'em you either stop up dere night water [or bath water] you understand, or dey git a pain in de head - sompin like dat. Dey cork dem dat way.
(I'm speaking now of the water you take a bath in.)
I understand. You mean de water that you taking washing in. Can't do nuthin [no hoodoo] wit dat.
(But this water, the night water?)
Dat it [you can do something with that] you kin bury dat.
(Well, what sort of root do you put with that?)
De' goes out and gits somepin dey calls snakeroot. Snakeroot for a pain in de stomach - sompin like dat. Yo' go roun' an' yo' gits cherry bark and chero- kee [cherokee rose?] you understand, and you bile [boil] dat together and yo' put dat together, de' fool around wit chew an' put dat in yo' water, yo' under- stand, an' dey'll cork dat bottle an' bury it.
(What do they do with the head after they cork it? How do you put it, down?)
[SORRY FOR THAT SLIP OF MINE!]
Turn de head down.
(I see. Do you leave the water run out or just tight?)
[I WAS STILL A LITTLE INEXPERIENCED AT CHARLESTON, BUT MY LEADING QUESTION IS IGNORED.] No, you have it fix so de water can't run out.
(I see, that will keep you from making water.)
Yes.
Entry 13353
Take dere chamber lye an' let it set fo' days an' put it in a brown bottle an' bury it undah de steps, an' den dat'll run 'em away from home. Dat run de man away. (Whose chamber lye do you put in the bottle?) Yores. Mix some of yores and some of deres together - some of de woman's an' some de man's together. An den dat'll drive him 'way from home. It still make him go 'cross watah an nevah come back. [Either informant dropped something out of this rite or the desire of the magician is sufficient. There are other examples of 2 persons buried together, giving victim a sense of security.]
Entry 13354
They put your urine in a bottle, stop it up, and bury it "to de north corner of de world, your stomach will swell up or "you can't make no water."
[Washington, D. C. 823:3.]
Entry 13355
They bottle your urine, write your name 3 times on paper, put in bottle, and bury at front door where you walk over it. You will suffer with ailments. [Washington, D. C. 827:7.]
Entry 13356
Woman puts man's nature [semen or urine] in a bottle with perfume. When he leaves she turns bottle upside down so that it stands on its head. This brings him back and keeps him from other woman. While he is with her she stands bottle upright. [Richmond 339:1.]
Entry 13357
If a woman bottles some of a man's urine with gunpowder and sweet milk, and sits it in a corner, she has him cornered as long as she wants him.
[Norfolk 491:2.]
Entry 13358
Yo' take it [urine] an' put it in a bottle an' throw it in de rivah, a runnin' stream. He go wit de wind.
(You put his chamber lye in that bottle?)
Yeah. [New Orleans (1560) 2882:4.]
[Urine] is editorial; the interviewer asks about his chamber lye and receives Yeah. Disposal and departure remain source claims.
Entry 13359
Dey could take de watah [urine] an' put it into a bottle an' stop it up tight an' carry it, an' dat would cut chure watah - stop yore watah. [Wilson
(1497) 2671:3.]
The informant claims the practice can stop 'watah'; the editor supplies [urine]. Stoppage is claimed, with no verified bodily effect.
Entry 13360
They said dey could take yore chamber lye an' put it into a bottle an' bury it under yore steps. Well, dey say dat would kill yo' sometime or hurt chew, yo' walk ovah it. Why dey got it dressed. Why dat hurt chew some- time. [Brunswick (1185) 1998:12.]
Entry 13361
If a man bottles his own urine and buries it under his own doorstep. any man coming to the house during his absence will become impotent if he cross- es that door. [Snow Hill, Md., 9:6.]
Entry 13362
A man before going to work in the morning can sprinkle salt and pep- per around door and make a wish, or [and] can throw urine out the window. This he does to keep other men away: they won't have any nature for his wife or wo- man, she won't have any nature for them. [Richmond 349:1.]
Entry 13363
She wipes man off with dish rag, nails it under doorsill, and urin- ates on it. This is to hold him and to bring him back and keep him from other women. [If you walk over or under any part of your body or anything touched by your body, you are in the power of the person performing the rite.] [Rich- mond 302:12.]
Entry 13364
If dere's a man left a woman an' is gone an' she cain't make him come back, an' she's done ever'thin' she wants tuh do tuh make him come back. She'll have tuh go tuh de man an' git de man tuh come tuh her house, an' aftah he come tuh her house, see, she takes him in dere an' she takes an' has intah- co'sin' wit him. Well, she'll have intahcos' wit dis man an' she'll git some of her urinate, some of her [his] stuff. An' she takes it an' she takes a lil' piece of flour dough, an' she mixes it all up wit it. An' takes it an' tie it up in a pocket han'ke'ch'ef an' drops it in one of her stockin's. She crush de stockin' all up an' puts it in de cornah behin' de dō', an' den nevah sweeps it out. An' as long as dat stay dere - she let it stay dere fo' 9 days. In dem 9 days time, say he'll come tuh de house. In 9 days time no mattah how fur he is away, if he kin git dere in 9 days he'll be dere in dem nine days.
(This man has to come to her house first?)
Yassuh, [otherwise] some othah - she have tuh git some othah man tuh come tuh her house.
(Some other man would come, so she could get this other man to come back?)
Yassuh, jes' lak ah went off an' left a girl an' den wouldn't come back tuh her, she'll git some othah man tuh come tuh her house tuh be with her so she could git chance tuh git some stuff [semen] from him. She mix it in flour dough, tie it up in a piece of han'ke'ch'ef an' drop it in one her stockin's, tie de stockin' up an' throw it behin' de do', de do' dat he comes in all de time, an' dey say in 9 days time he'll be back.
Entry 13365
Well, yo' kin use it. Some use it fo' jes' patches, understand, fo' de men. Mostly women use it fo' patches fo' men, prob'ly might put it on dere clothes, understan' in dey inner garment or sompin next to 'em. Well, dis woman always uses her chamber lye, dey say. Washes dis piece in dey chamber lye first an' puts it near 'em in dey underwear or sompin lak dat, sompin dat's closer to 'em. Dat's to keep dem [men] at home, understan', or even if de're [they are] gone away from home, dey use dis heah hide [hidden piece] in an' make 'em return home.
Entry 13366
Take chamber lye an' assafedidee an' bury that with ten needles an' put that under their door- step.
(What is is supposed to do?)
That were supposed to make you do, whether you want to do or not. An' she kin go off an' have her fun with men, you see, an' then anytime you want to go out, you see, a big argument start.
Entry 13367
I heard talk of them using the animal's hoof. Well, you take the hoof and you cut that up - no, it has got to be a mule. Like they go around the blacksmith's where be, been shoeing up animals and they cut his hoof off - a portion of his hoof off - every time they shoe him. They take a chunk of that, see. And it gets very soft whenever you put it in anything hot. And they will cook that perhaps with some beans. They cook that overnight in beans with the urine, that hoof [they soak the beans overnight in the urine] and the next day they cook all that together. Well, that makes the man very simple, and very kind to her.
Entry 13368
If yo' wanta con ah a man, when he use de slop jar at night, says if yo' git dat an' take it wit yo'. Git chew some, about three drops of kerosene - about three or four drops of kerosene in it. An' puts chew quite a bit of sulphur in dere, in dis water [urine]. An' say yo' take dat an' throw it in a stream of water, turn yore back, dey say, an' walk away, or throw it over yore shoulder dis way [demonstrates] an' walk away. An' say if yo' home an' dey don't want chew dere, why yo' constantly will go away.
Entry 13369
Yo' kin take a aig. Yo' kin take one aig an' yo' kin put dat aig intuh chamber lye an' let it lay fo' 9 days, see. Well, den yo' kin take dat aig, jes' lak yo' goin' tuh fix a person. Well, yo' go tuh fix 'em, well yo' kin take dat aig aftah 9 days an' yo' kin take it an' throw it ovahbo'd. See. An' if a person's aftah yo', well yo' could - yo' know - git rid of 'em. (How do you throw that egg overboard?) Yo' throw it overbo'd tuh eithah run de person crazy or make 'em leave town. (Well, how do I know I've got the right person? By just using that egg? What else do I do with that egg?) Whut else? Well, ah don't know nuthin' else except yo' know, yo' go some- wheres an' yo' git information, see.
(The egg is supposed to represent the person you are to send away?)
Shore.
(Well, how do I know it's representing that person?)
Sign dere name on de aig.
(Oh! Did you tell me that before?) [Notice the answer.]
No, ah wasn't in heah befo' tuh yo'.
(I mean, did you tell me that a moment ago?)
No.
(Did you tell me you had signed the egg?)
[Here is a good example of working hard for information informant thinks you know.] See, yo' sign dat person name on dat aig.
(Any kind of a chicken egg?)
Yeah, jes' ole black hen aig.
(You didn't tell me that before, see.)
Entry 13370
Well, it's lak if yo' wanta have luck in business, yo' wanta have luck in business, yo' git chew some consecrated [concentrated] lye an' yo' save yo' own chamber lye. If yo have roomahs in de house let dem save deres. See, jes' lak, yo' tell 'em fo' in- stance whut chew want, yo' know. Yo' want tuh use it fo' somepin or somepin lak dat. Git chure friends, if yo' ain't runnin' a roomin' house, or eithah fo' yo'- self. Yo' use yore chamber lye an' git chew some consecrated [concentrated] lye an' git chew some sugah an' put it in dere an' boil it. See. An' aftah it boils - yo' gotta boil it outdo's, yo' cain't boil it in de house - an' scrub yore house all de way through wit it an' yo'll have roomahs.
Entry 13371
Well, befo' sunrise in de morning - dat's another luck proposition, befo' sunrise - if yo' gotta a, yourself or jes' yore wife or family, if yo' got a slop bucket dat dey use, yo' take dat slop bucket. No! Yo' do dat jes' as de sun rise. Yo' take dat slop bucket an' go an' throw on de ground whichever Way de sun rise. Well dat will be yore lucky day. Yo' can't help but have luck dat day. Yo' do dat fo' luck.
Entry 13372
Take de hickory tree bark an' beat it up right fine until it come tuh dust - beat it right fine. Beat it up right fine, jes' keep abeatin' it up right fine an' turn roun' an' pee LOVE on dat bark. See. Let dat pee dry on dat bark. See. An' den take some Heart Perfume [red hearts on label] an' put on dat bark an' give it ouh a person. Dey'll always love 'em.
(How do you give them that bark?)
Well, yo' see, yo' take de bark an' yo' beat 'em up, see. Yo' beat de bark up. Now listen an' ah show yo'. Yo' beat de bark up good intuh a dust. All right, yo' take a lil' dat dust, if yo' got some chewin' gum. See. Yo' kin take an' put it on dat chewin' gum an' seal back in de packet right good an' nice, an' say, "Have one." Well, see, she go tuh eatin' dat, see. She eatin' dat bark an' dat pee, dat yo' got mixed up dere an' she always love yo'.
Entry 13373
Ef ah wanted a fren' girl, or somepin othah lak dat - a young girl ah wanta make an' she left de candy or somepin lak dat. Well, ah kin take chamber lye, a little thing lak dat, an' ah kin give her, lessen she wise, yo' see. Well, den, when ah put chamber lye on it, ah soon kin tackle her down yo' know - put mah han's on her. Well, ah put mah han's on her den. Ah kin give her dat chamber lye yo' know, feed her on dat chamber lye - see lak chewin' gum or candy, anything lak dat. Den ah kin git up to her an' den it's customary, if a man kin git up to a woman or sompin lak dat an' put his han's on her, he believes he kin go further on, yo' know. Yo' understan'.
Entry 13374
Yo' kin use dey chamber lye an' boil it in his coffee or use it in his tea, or eithah if he bringin' his whiskey home, yo' kin [use] it, but chew gotta boil yore chamber lye an' let it set befo' yo' give it tuh him. See, let it set prob'ly a week or sompin lak dat. An' den boil it an' strain it by itself. See, aftah yo' boil yore own chamber lye, it forms a drugs [dregs] lak in it, an' yo' po' it off an' strain it an' po' it den. Use it in his coffee, eithah in his tea, anything dat he drinks or eithah po' it in his whiskey. Yo' don' have tuh po' dat much. Ah say roun' 'bout fo' or five drops jes' in dere tuh stop him from drinkin'.
Entry 13375
Use chamber lye fo' luck, chamber lye an' lye. Scrub yore house all with that an' throw it on yore front po'ch an' on yore yard, on de concrek in de front of yore yard, where peoples have tuh walk across. [Memphis 2695:8.]
Entry 13376
Save your urine for 9 mornin's or nights, put salt and pepper in, sweep steps down, and sweep it up, repeating what you want done to bring person back. [Memphis 1570:13.]
Entry 13377
Joo jis' take yah ole bucket an' urinate in it, choo know, ev'ry mawnin' dat choo git up. Don't waste none of it. An' then mix yore lye or whatevah yo' scrub with, an' scrub yuh house wit it, an' that brings luck in your home. [Wilmington 189:9+85.]
Entry 13378
Get up before 6 o'clock, urinate in slop jar, put lye in it, mop floor, burns a lamp, then throw urine out door, make men come in, don't let woman cross [the door] first, "that crossing de luck." [Memphis 1559:1.]
Entry 13379
I have heard that one way of ridding a house of evil spells is to take a spruce pine bush and dip it into chamber lye and beat it against the side of the house 7 times on 7 mornings just about sunrise. [Berlin, Md., from Jerry Williams, my contact man for the Eastern Shore of Maryland. This by Telediphone and on my second trip to this part of Maryland.]
Entry 13380
Urine kept at door keeps undesired persons away. [Washington, D. C., 813:6.]
Entry 13381
Set or throw urine under your house [these houses raised above ground a foot or more] 9 mornings before sunrise to keep away "anybody you don't want."
[Wilmington 261:1+85.]
Entry 13382
In morning throw urine out at steps or door: "it'll take away the germs of what they put down." [Mobile 979:5.] Similarly, it "keep de sin and de meanness from your house." [Mobile 889:3.]
Entry 13383
If you take a swallow of your own urine occasionally: "they can't git up to you for any cunjure or evil." [Mobile 968:9.]
The conditional statement names 'your own urine.' Its quoted protection from cunjure or evil remains an unverified source claim.
Entry 13384
Yo' know, your makin' water, yo' know, an' keep it in slop bucket overnight. An' then po' it aroun' an' nobody can do anything towards yuh.
[Richmond 391:2.]
The informant describes keeping 'makin' water' in a slop bucket overnight and pouring it around, with a claim of protection.
Entry 13385
Or either yo' kin use yore chamber lye an' throw it around a place jes' where yo' be's an' connected with, understand, an' dat keeps 'em away
[evil person, police, spirits, etc.] [Memphis 2696:9.]
Entry 13386
You can throw urine about house, inside or outside or both to protect house from evil. [Richmond 293:9.]
Protection from unspecified evil is the stated purpose; no particular evil being, actual attack or achieved protection is established.
Entry 13387
To protect your house from anything, sprinkle urine around your house: In the Name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. [Wilmington 200:4+85.]
The instruction names Father, Son and Holy Ghost in an invocation for protection; no completed performance or achieved protection is established.
Entry 13388
Bottle your own urine and bury it at steps to keep away unwanted per- son living in house or visitor from coming back. [Charleston 556:9.]
The printed instruction names one's own urine in a bottle buried at steps, with a stated aim of keeping away an unwanted resident or returning visitor.
Entry 13389
As a protection against cunjure, mix urine and salt and throw it at door and all around the house - a circumambulation rite. [Wilmington 241:1.]
Entry 13390
Scrub porch with urine and red pepper, and throw some at door and in the yard as a protection against cunjure. [Richmond 353:3.]
The source offers the porch practice as protection against cunjure; neither an actual threat nor effective protection is established.
Entry 13391
When you get up in de morning, you take de night water and salt and red pepper, and throw it around your door; if they put down anything for you, it will never harm you. [Charleston 543:8.]
The source claims that something put down for the person will not harm them under the stated condition; no actual attack or protection is established.
Entry 13392
If you put urine, salt and sulphur out where you think anything has been buried or thrown fo' you, 'it won't come to nothin.' [Charleston 541:4.]
Entry 13393
Boil on your stove your urine, pepper, cinnamon and outside peeling of onion; this keeps undesirable persons away. [Washington, D. C., 814:1.]
Entry 13394
Urine, salt and pepper sprinkled at door or about the house, inside or out, protects the house against any evil. [Elizabeth City 406:6.]
Entry 13395
You can throw outdoors urine, salt and pepper 9 mornings to protect the house against evil. [Wilmington 162:4.]
Entry 13396
Wash floor every morning with urine, sulphur and asfetida to protect yourself against evils and hoodoo. [Richmond 369:3.]
Entry 13397
Pour urine, salt, red pepper and sulphur at door to protect against evil and spirits. [Washington, D. C. 208:5.]
Entry 13398
To keep law away: sprinkle devil lye [Red Devil lye a brand name] and sulphur at gate and door, and wash door down every morning with urine. [Mobile 960:2.]
Entry 13399
After person leaves the house, sweep urine and salt out the same door to make him drift away. [Washington, D. C. 813:10.]
Entry 13400
To draw trade, throw your urine out the door about midnight. [Wash- ington, D. C., 800:8.]
Entry 13401
Well, they get a hold of fingernails and toenails, I've heard, and they put them with the urine [word fairly rare compared to chamber lye and Hearts Cologne. They say that holds them [you] under their control, and get all your money, and jes' give everything you've got up to that person.
Entry 13402
Take it an' jis' t'row it all aroun' yah house - jis' de chamber lye - to have yeh good luck. [Wilmington 209:5+85.]
Entry 13403
Stop that [urine] up and put in tree and that would kill yuh too.
[New Orleans 1366:6.]
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Entry 13404
[Put] urinate [urine] and salt in [alcoholic] liquor to stop drunk- ard. [Memphis 1553:2.]