Browse:(2) HOLE SLANTED INTO TREE (Volume 3, entries 4326)
(2) HOLE SLANTED INTO TREE
Volume 3, entries 4326. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → URINE. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 4326
[The following rites are only a few of the many examples of HOODOO of pegging or wedging urine, excrement, hair and other objects into a hole made in a tree.] Well, dey kin stop it [up] - take some of yuh chamber lye. It's a lot of people doin' dese things, but dey don't undahstan' it; but de person dat really knows de way tuh do it, it really taken effect. Dey kin take a augah, a bran'-new augah an' [pauses, hesitant].
(I understand.)
Take a bran'-new augah an' go tuh a pine tree, or a gum tree, or a oak tree, an' bo' it wit de augah up like dat [demonstrates].
(THE AUGER BORES DOWN INTO THE TREE AT AN ANGLE.)
Yeah.
(All right.)
Yeah, an' aftah dey bo' dat hole, dey gotta - an' bo' dat hole deep enough, dey kin take some of yuh chamber lye an' place it - an' dump it.
(Dump it into that hole.)
Into dat hole. Yes?) [= continue.] An' cuz yuh tuh stop urinatin'. An' de doctah operate on yuh an' yuh die. But dere's a diff'ren' ways dey kin do dat.
(I see.)