Browse:(2) FOUR CORNERS OF (Volume 3, entries 3890)
(2) FOUR CORNERS OF
Volume 3, entries 3890. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → BLOOD → "HER PRIVATE TIME". Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 3890
Once a woman come to mah sistah's house from a hoodoo. De hoodoo sent 'er dere to take mah sistah's menistration piece. Mah sistah stop menistratina. She menistrate through 'er bowels 'fore she died. Evah mawnin'-time fo' her to pass, she'd have pains in 'er stomick an' she couldn't. A woman tooked 'er piece an' carried it to de graveyard in de fo' cornahs an' buried it, an' when she - when dat piece rotted, mah sistah died.
(What do you mean, the four corners of the graveyard?)
De fo' cornahs, lak, yo' know, it's got fo' cornahs of dis house, yo' know?
(Yes.)
Well now, jes' lak ah'd come in dis do'. Well, ah'd go jes' lak dis [demon- strates]. Yo' see, ah'd put a piece dere, a piece dere, a piece dere, an' a piece dere. (Oh! YOu PUT A PIECE OF THIS CLOTH IN EACH OF THE FOUR CORNERS - a pieCe in each corner.) Yeah. Yeah, dat's what she did an' mah sistah, she went away. Mah mothah take her to a hoodoo an' de hoodoo say, "Well, your daughter is hurted. Someone taken 'er piece." Mah mothah say, "Well how did she do it." An' she [hoodoo] tole mah mothah how she take it. She say, "By yore daughtah havin' a frien', a trustin' frien'." She say, "Her enemy couldn't take it. She pull 'er piece off an' put it in away in de cornah or sompin. An' aftah while she have her frien' an' she come an' take it, an' give it to her frien', an' her frien' give it to her frien'. Dat's how she did to get it away."