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BASKET - FORTUNETELLER TURNS HIDDEN OBJECT IN
Volume 4, entries 8953. Source context: ADDITIONAL RITES AND BELIEFS → COURT CASES. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 8953
It wuz a fortunetellah, she went tuh dis man; see, he wuz sentenced tuh be hung. So aft' [after] dat she said, "Dey'll not hang yuh, yo' know. Don't worry about her." [He had killed a woman.] Dat wuz real. So when dey had dis trial, yuh see, dis woman went dere an' she had somepin in a basket. Ah don't know whut it wuz, but anyhow, de whole time de judge wuz talkin', she kep' [kept] turnin' dis concern [unknown object] in de basket; but ah don't know whut it wuz - a piece of close [clothes] or whut. But anyhow, it wuz a rag [a cloth cover] ah know in dis basket. She kep' turnin' it an' kep' turnin' it. So dey give dis guy ten years. She lightened his sentence, kep' tim [kept him] from de electric chair [he means hanging]. Dat happen here in Snow Hill. Dat wus a long time ago. [Since this story was recorded in 1936, the old man's long time ago and sentenced tuh be hung could mean about 19oo. Could this fortuneteller, a woman, have been our well-know Zippie Tull (see ZIPPIE TULL, Pp.923-929, and No.8, p.5f.)? The rag-covered concern in the basket was probably a small hand sifter (see Nos.526-530, p.156f.; No.604, p.204; No.2303, p.648; etc.). This she surely turned backwards, reversing every word spoken by the judge!]