Browse:(10) DRESS (Volume 4, entries 7389)
(10) DRESS
Volume 4, entries 7389. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → MURDER → HOW MURDERER CAN BE CAUGHT. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 7389
If ah takes an' kill a person, yo' undahstan'. Now yo' wants me back heah. Now, ah could leave [a dress] or somepin heah, yo' undahstan'? Well, yo see, people come around, a detective come around, dey need so much money to get 'em [me] back. She [hoodoo woman] can take my dress an' bury my dress down heah an' ah can't stay where ah'm at. Where ah done is at - ah gotta come back to New Orleans. If ah don't come back to dat [murder] house, ah'll come back to New Orleans an' de policeman will be de first one to put dere han's on me.