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Volume 3, entries 3333. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → SEXUAL IMPOTENCE → CAUSES OF SEXUAL IMPOTENCE → DISHRAG. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.

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Entry 3333

Volume 3 · printed page 2391–2392 · Sumter, S. Car.

Take a dishrag an' when she [he] go tuh sleep, he [she] take dat dish- rag an' wipe it ovah him. Carry dat dishrag all ovah him an' 'is lowah part. Take dat dishrag an' wash 'im down dere, wipe him down dere whilst she [he] sleep, an' aftah he [she] done washed wit dat dish - wipe wit dat dishrag, he [she] go tuh work an' throw - carry it to a branch an' throw it down de stream of run- nin' watah. Ah heared folks say dat.

[The preceding interchange of pronouns is not rare in hoodoo.]

(What will it do to that man?)

Cut 'is "spirit." (The woman does that. She rubs him down with the dishrag while he's asleep and then throws it into running water?) Yeah.

Related subjects: Cut, Spirit

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