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BEHIND DEPARTING PERSON - SALT THROWN
Volume 5, entries 9441. Source context: ADDITIONAL RITES AND BELIEFS → SALT AND ITS COMBINATIONS. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 9441
Whut chew do, if dey wanted yo' tuh move outa heah [the room in which speaker and I are sitting]. Well dey jis' git behin' yo' when dey came in yore room where yo're at. Dey may shake han's wit choo, see. An' den dey will jis' git dem a han'fulla salt - it's reason- able, too - jis' git dem a han'fulla salt, an' jis' as yo' walk dey would put dis salt in yuh back, right at chure feet jis' as yo' go out. Undahstan', jis as yo' go out, dey will put dat salt right tuh yuh feet, an' it'll move yuh. [Informant and I are talking in my interviewing room at the Memphis downtown hotel for black people, the Eureka Hotel. Some days later I was thrown out of that very room, not by salt, but by the police! See vol.1, INTRO., p. XXXiV, line 10f.]