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ANGER - PRETENDED
Volume 3, entries 3850. 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 3850
[We are so concerned with the ordinary magic rites of walking back- wards, counting, throwing over shoulder, and others, that we seldom think of the rarer magic actions (not omens) such as anger and temper. Here are several examples from FACI 1st ed: "Peppers can be grown only by a person who has a violent temper" (1057); "Unless you are angry while planting peppers, they will not grow" (1058); and "Stop a person's hiccough by making him angry" (5419). The following rite is the rare one of pretended anger:] A woman kin take her sickny [sickness] rag, yo' undahstan'. She kin take dat off it an' put it in 'is rations, an' give it to him to eat. An' whilst he's eatin' it an' befo' he git through eatin' an', she scold at 'im, yo' undah- stan'. Well, jes' anythin' she wanta do den, she got 'im. He be scared of 'er from den on.
(But she must do that while he is eating it?)
Whilst he eatin' it, yassuh. She gotta scold at 'im whilst he eatin' it.