Browse:(6) UPSTREAM OR DOWNSTREAM (Volume 3, entries 4956)
(6) UPSTREAM OR DOWNSTREAM
Volume 3, entries 4956. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → SWEAT → SOCKS AND STOCKINGS. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 4956
Take a man's sock, a dirty sock, an' tie three knots in it an' throw it in de runnin' watah. An' if de sock go down de stream, de man will go behin' it; if it go up de stream, he'll go behin' it. [Up de streom here means a tidewater river.] In- formant's statement misses the point of this rite. In at least two other examples, we also have a divination added; if the sock goes downstream, man will leave by boat; if upstream, by land or train (inland instead of seaward as at Brunswick); or, if man has not yet left: downstream indicates he will go, upstream he will remain.]
(What are you doing this for?)
Run 'im off.