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ADDITIONAL RITES AND BELIEFS
Volume 5, entries 9441–10605. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
Entries
Entry 10321
Woman puts man's semen in small bottle, keeps in small red bag, ties string to and wears around waist [Richmond, 278:1].
Entry 10322
[Wipe with homespun, stop tight in bottle with Hearts Cologne; throw into back yard, or bury under steps, or hide in room [Wilmington, 178:3].
Entry 10323
Wipe man with cotton, put in bottle, add whiskey [to feed the spirit, see ALCOHOL FOR THE SPIRIT, p.32, v.1], bury or hide it [Richmond, 329:9].
Entry 10324
Instead of bottle, towel wiped is screwed up airtight in jar [Wilming- ton, 177:1].
This is a short printed account; a verbatim transcript is not established.
Entry 10325
Measure man, wear string in shoe 9 days, then tie around right ankle [a remedy of the great George Jackson of the Eastern Shore, see Pp.912-915, v.1. Some of the material about him collected on Eastern Shore of Maryland, some from relative in Baltimore].
Entry 10326
Measure man, wear the string on right leg for 9 days, then permanently on left, or visa versa [Richmond, 373:1].
Entry 10327
Measures the man and keeps the string [Hampton, by Ediphone].
The brief printed account and its recording notation do not establish a verbatim transcript.
Entry 10328
Measure man with string and wear around leg [Norfolk, 475:8].
This is a short printed account; a verbatim transcript is not established.
Entry 10329
"The string [used in measuring] is worn as a garter" [Mt. Vernon, eastern shore of Maryland, by hand].
The wearing statement is printed as a quotation; the measuring explanation is editorial.
Entry 10330
Measure the man and wear the string around her left ankle [Fredericks- burg, by Ediphone].
The brief printed account and recording notation do not establish a verbatim transcript.
Entry 10331
Measure man with string and wear about her body [waist probably meant].
[Elizabeth City, 400:7.]
The source says about her body; waist is the editor’s qualified suggestion.
Entry 10332
Measure the man and tack the measure at the foot of the door [Freder- icksburg, by Ediphone].
The printed instruction locates the measure at the foot of a door. The Ediphone reference is provenance notation; no recording or completed action is established here.
Entry 10333
Woman measures man with a new piece of cloth or string [Washington, D. C., 829:5].
The account names a new piece of cloth or string as alternatives for measuring. It does not establish joint use, a cloth subtype or an observed measurement.
Entry 10334
Measure a man and make a wish to hold him [Fredericksburg, by Ediphone].
Entry 10335
Woman measures a man with a string, the length and circumference, and threading a needle with this string works it into her garter [Richmond, 280:2].
Entry 10336
Sometimes a woman wipes a man with a dishrag and throws it away. [The reason for this is given in the belief that follows this one.] [Richmond, 335:2.]
Entry 10337
The purpose of wiping a man with a dishrag and throwing it away, as in the preceding rite, is so that his semen will go down into the ground and keep him down [unable to have an erection] for other women.
[Wilmington, 178:11.]
Entry 10339
A man's impotence can be cured if he steals a dishrag, wipes himself, throws it back across right shoulder and does not look back [Norfolk, 476:3].
Entry 10340
Man steals someone's dishrag, wipes himself, throws it away, does not look back. This will cure his impotence [Richmond, 341:2].
Entry 10341
If a woman herself is tied up, she must steal a dishrag, wipe herself 9 times to her, do this 9 times [9 times on each of 9 days?], walk out and throw dishrag over left shoulder. [Presumably she must not look back or see the rag or rags again.] [Mobile, 938:4.]
Entry 10342
"Take a dishcloth every morning for 9 mornings and you get up before sunrise and you wipe yourself every morning around wit dis dishcloth and throw it up towards de sunrise 9 times every morning for 9 mornings an' den yo' lose de [impotence spell]." [Washington, D. C., 807:2.]
Entry 10343
Rub man with dishrag, throw over shoulder into river, can't have any- body but you.
Entry 10344
Wipe man with dishrag and bury. [Wilmington, 253:2 and Richmond, 291:7.]
Entry 10345
After intercourse a woman wipes herself with dishcloth, stops it up in a bottle, and buries it under the doorsill [Richmond, 284:3].
The short account begins 'After intercourse' before describing wiping and burial; the temporal relation remains a reported account.
Entry 10346
If a man steals a dishrag from another house, wipes himself, then returns dishrag to place from which it was stolen, he will cure his impotence [Wilmington, 130:8].
Entry 10347
Man may wash himself with dishrag from the house of the woman who put the spell on him to cure his impotence for other women [Norfolk, 530:13].
Entry 10348
To find out who has tricked him, man borrows dishrag of woman he is visiting to wash himself with a solution of saltpeter and gunpowder, and makes the woman do likewise, to see whether she, or his wife or some other woman put the impotence spell upon him [Norfolk, 445:1].
Entry 10349
If a woman herself is tied up, a man must wipe her with a dishrag [Mobile, 963:2].
Entry 10350
Let a woman steal a dishrag and wipe a man with it. [This is a double-edge rite: she can do this to cure his impotence or to make him impotent for other women.] [Wilmington, 195:5.]
Entry 10351
Wipe man with dishrag, wear in shoe or on waist or hide in room.
[Elizabeth City, 407:5.]
Entry 10352
After intercourse woman wipes herself with her dishrag and hangs it up over door through which man enters, leaves it there until he visits her again, repeats rite each time, so that he will always be potent with her [Wilmington, 217:9].
Entry 10353
Penis captivus caused by rubbing person with dog semen or juice, which must be taken when two dogs are hung together or just separated. [Petersburg, 425:2; Newport News, 496:7; and from slut only Elizabeth City, 407:6].
The short account names dogs and cites three sources; a bracketed note restricts 'from slut only' to the Elizabeth City citation.
Entry 10354
Semen from dog or young bull [rare] on woman's privates [Fredericks- burg, by Ediphone].
Entry 10355
Wipe bitch with rag after dog leaves her, rub man down with it uhile naking wish [Richmond, 359:8, by Humpadee].
Entry 10356
Woman takes new piece of cloth, wipes both dogs; woman does this, but she must not "discharge" [whatever that means here] but let man "discharge"; sews rag [this new cloth] up in pillow, he can't have anyone but her [Norfolk, 457:2].
The short account says both dogs are wiped with a cloth. It expressly leaves the meaning of 'discharge' uncertain.
Entry 10357
"To tie" or 'to line man, takes the fluid when 2 dogs come apart, wife wipes down with it [Norfolk, 487:1].
The short account associates fluid with '2 dogs come apart' in a reported tie/line account; its clipped wording remains unchanged.
Entry 10358
Wipe slut when she becomes loose from dog, wipe woman with this rag or handkerchief, bury it; she's no good until cloth is taken up and washed.
[Wilmington, 172:5.]
Entry 10359
Man cuts off tip end of she dog's pussy [clitoris] and rubs it on his drawers or on woman; if she goes with another man, they get stuck [Richmond, 384:3].
The account names drawers or the woman as alternative contact targets. Its conditional sticking claim is not an established effect, and bracketed explanations are editorial.
Entry 10360
If man and woman stuck, cut a black dog, rub some of the blood between them [then in a parenthesis I have: (slap it on three times? recheck). What that means is quite clear; use 3 times]. [Charleston, S. Car., 629:6.]
Entry 10361
Give woman dog blood, if she goes with another man they become stuck [Charleston, 617:4].
Entry 10362
Woman puts slobber from dog's mouth on dishrag and wipes ma* [Nor- folk, 495:2.]
Entry 10363
Woman, when man asleep, takes piece of string, measures him, ties it around her leg [making 1 knot in string] so that he will have no nature for any- one else. He can break spell only by getting the string. [Washington, D. C., 798:1.]
Entry 10364
Wipe man or self with handkerchief, tie [silver] dime up in, wear under arm. [Mobile, 979:10.]
The short account says 'wear under arm' after describing a handkerchief and dime; 'silver' is bracketed editorial wording.
Entry 10365
Measure man with string or rag, tie into knot and wear about waist.
[Fredericksburg, by Ediphone.]
Entry 10367
Woman wipes man with handkerchief, ties knot in middle, puts cologne on, carries [Wilmington, 99:6].
Entry 10368
Woman wipes man with handkerchief and ties it on her leg [Fredericks- burg, by Ediphone].
Entry 10369
Measure man with string, tie knot in it, bury under step [Richmond, 292:8].
Entry 10370
Wipe man with dishrag, tie rag in one hard knot, put under step or under bed [Wilmington, 254:5].
Entry 10371
Measure man with string, lengthen it by tying on another string, and tie round her leg [Newport News, 513:7].
Entry 10372
Measure man, tie a knot in each end of string, and put under her steps. She may put salt and pepper with it [Petersburg, 418:2].
Entry 10373
Woman ties clothing, on which semen falls, into 3 knots, dampens with witch hazel, and puts in mattress [Wilmington, 133:4].
Entry 10374
She kin take the measure of his snapper, tie five knots in it and wear around her waist; then he won't have, if he can't git that off, courage for an- other woman.
The informant describes taking the measure of his 'snapper'; the later claimed effect remains conditional on 'if he can't git that off'.
Entry 10375
Measure a man, tie 9 knots in string and wear around waist [Petersburg, 420:2].
The condensed instruction names measuring a man before tying nine knots and wearing the string. No original speaker, performed measurement or effect is established.
Entry 10376
I've heard they would measure a man and tie 9 knots into and Wear it around their ankle [Deal Island, 22:3].
Entry 10377
Measure man with new yellow cotton, tie 9 knots, wear [Richmond, 387:5.] or wear around right leg [Richmond, 387:2].
The condensed item names measuring with new yellow cotton. Its separately cited right-leg wearing variant remains separate, and no performed act or effect is established.
Entry 10378
Measure man with new yellow cotton, tie 9 knots, and wear around waist [Norfolk, 458:4].
The condensed instruction names tying nine knots in its measurement and waist-wearing context. This does not establish a performed act, effect or universal knot rule.
Entry 10379
Woman wipes man with new piece of cloth, ties the cloth into 9 knots and vears it around her waist, and he cannot have anyone but her [Washington, D. C., 825:15].
The condensed account names a new piece of cloth for wiping and knotting. No specific cloth subtype, performed sequence or claimed relationship effect is established.
Entry 10380
Penis measured, 9 knots in string, worn around her waist.
The short or reduced account names nine knots in string alongside measurement and waist-wearing. It does not establish original wording, a performed act or a universal knot rule.
Entry 10381
"New domestic [cloth], while woman wiping man, make a knot in and a wish, vbatsomever [you] want and tie it [knot] to you until 9 knots, you then Pees on it 9 mornings, then wear around your waist."
Entry 10382
Woman measures man with string, ties 9 knots in it, and wears around her ankle.
The account places the string around an ankle. The short-or-reduced listing supplies no identified person, side, observed performance or established effect.
Entry 10383
Woman measures man's penis with black thread, ties 9 knots in it and wears around right leg. [Washington, D. C., 816:1.]
The account names nine knots in black thread and wearing around the right leg. Its short-or-reduced presentation does not establish an observed act or a universal procedure.
Entry 10384
Woman measures man, talks to the string while tying 9 knots in it, drawing each knot to her as it is being tied, and wears around her leg. [Wash- ington, D. C., 805:4.]
The account names nine knots, talking to the string and drawing each knot toward the woman. It supplies no spoken formula or established performance or effect.
Entry 10385
Woman measures man, ties 9 knots in string, and at midnight draws the string over a piece of Eve root held in the left hand. [Washington, D. C., 813:9.]
Entry 10386
Woman measures man, ties a knot in the string each morning for 9 days, and wears it [Washington, D. C., 807:2].
Entry 10387
Measure penis with raw-cotton string, tie 9 knots, wear round waist [Mobile, 947:5].
Entry 10388
Tie 9 knots in cotton or cord string and then measure man and wear string around leg [Mobile, 881:1].
Entry 10389
New piece of yellow domestic, wipe, 9 knots, wear around waist.
[Mobile, 871:2.]
Entry 10390
Wipe him with strip from his underwear, tie 9 knots, wear around waist [Mobile, 978:6].
Entry 10391
[Wipe him with new pocket handkerchief, tie piece of tape on, make 9 knots, and wear around waist [Mobile, 898:2].
Entry 10392
Wipe man with bed napkin, tie it into 9 knots, and wear around waist or tie around leg [Richmond, 308:4].
Entry 10393
Wipe with cloth, tie a knot at each end, do for 9 times [different occasions], wear around waist. [Mobile, Ala., 874:1.]
Entry 10394
Woman takes cord string, measures man's pri- vates, ties measurement into 14 knots, and wears it just about [above or below] the knee. [Memphis, 1559:9.]
Entry 10395
Take cord string, measure length of bed, put in string as many knots as wanted, and keep in mattress on his side of bed.
[Mobile, 979:9.]
Entry 10396
"Take dis snail...squeeze 'im up an' mix 'im up in vaseline...grease yourself with it...have intercourse with your wife...she won't have any feeling for anyone else for about two weeks" [Vicksburg, (743), 1013:7].
Entry 10397
"A snail an' get that slime when she go to have 'in, rub his penis up towards her...it will fall every time he go to fool with anybody else" [Vicksburg, (745), 1016:2].
Entry 10398
Grease woman with grease made from snail burned to ashes [Little Bock, (815), 1465:12].
The short or reduced account names a snail burned to ashes in making grease. It establishes neither original wording nor an observed preparation or specific ashes subtype.
Entry 10399
"He kin take this snail an' dress her while he knows he's leisra [home]. He kin take that red peppah an' threw it down at de do'step...she'll be jis' lak a rattlesnake by crawlin' while he's gone an' she won' pay 'a[l] any tenshun [attention]; she'll [be] sociable wit 'em but dey can't coee in dere" [Little Rock, (897), 1470:1].
This doorstep reference appears in a printed condensed excerpt. Hyatt's governing notice describes short or reduced statements; the wording includes an ellipsis and unclear forms. It is not a verbatim audio claim. Door retrieves the threshold location without equating it with a door panel. Read both the item and production notice.
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Entry 10400
Merely grease man with snail [Norfolk, 490:2].
The short or reduced statement says to grease a man with snail. It gives no separate composition, established performance or effect, and original wording is unverified.