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BURN LETTER WITH RED PEPPER AND SULPHUR
Volume 4, entries 8801. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → LETTERS AND HANDWRITING. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 8801
Dey tell me dey take yore han'writin' an' put some sulphur in it - whut ah heard now; ah dunno - an' put it in dat fiah wit [red] peppah an' yo' can't write no mo'. Ah heard dat.
(They put pepper in it and they put it in the fire and burn it.) ' Sulphur an' peppah, yessuh.