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BURY CLOTHES
Volume 3, entries 4725. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → SWEAT → CLOTHES EXCLUDING HAT, SOCKS AND STOCKINGS, AND SHOES. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 4725
[To bury clothes in the ground is a common rite in HOODOO. Some of these rites are complicated; others simple, such as those following, which estab- lish the margin title.] Yuh take a woman's stockin' an' a piece dat she worn near tuh 'er, we'll say 'er step-ins or 'er bloomahs. An' ah heard dat chew could bury 'em, an' dat would make de woman pay attention tuh de man - special, yuh know.