Browse:(19) QUARTERING ANOTHER TIN PLATE (Volume 4, entries 8764)
(19) QUARTERING ANOTHER TIN PLATE
Volume 4, entries 8764. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → NAME. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 8764
Ah've heard of 'em usin' dem tin plates tuh make a person come home. Yo' take a new tin plate - take two of 'em an' write dere names in 'em. Yo' write 'em an' jes' lak yo' cut lak dat, yo' write in fo' corners, fo' places. An' say dat plate den - dem two plates an' put 'em 'tween yore mattress on yore bed.
(Put them separately right there or together?)
Uh-huh, separate. An' yo' let 'em stay right dere an' don't nobody tetch dem, an' don't make dat bed. Don't bothah till dose folks come back. (You write those names on these two pans just as if you were quartering a pie?) Yes, dat's right, fo' parts.
(Cutting it into four pieces?)
Uh-huh, yo' write it up dere. Yo' write it on dose lines.
(You write it four times on each plate then?)
Yeah, but don't nevah let it - always jam it up in dat corner in de middle of dat plate.