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BURN SALT AND RED PEPPER - WISHING

Volume 5, entries 9543. Source context: ADDITIONAL RITES AND BELIEFS → SALT AND ITS COMBINATIONS. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.

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Entry 9543

Volume 5 · printed page 3796 · Norfolk, Va.

Dey use [burn] cayenne peppah an table salt an' make yuh wishes ovah dat. An' if yuh kin git anywhere about de house, tuh git some of it in dere, dat'll make dem fight lak de devil.

(That's all you have to do. Burn some of that.)

Related subjects: Burn, Wish

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