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Black Candle Burned over Crossroad Dirt
Volume 1, entries 2848. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → SHRINES: ALTARS - CANDLES - SAINTS; NEW ORLEANS AREA → (2) CANDLES. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 2848
Well, you go out there to the crossroads, which yo' supposed to go there at midnight, and gets that dirt from right at the crossing. And yo' supposed to take dat wit a black candle and burns it - jest put it in a lid and put dat candle over it and burns it. (You take this dirt from the middle of the crossroad and you put it in a tin lid. Then what do you do with that black candle?) Sets right in the middle of it and burn it. (You put the black candle right on top of that dirt and then you burn that. Do you burn it at any special time? Or for any length of time?) Yes, you burn it a special time. Yo' supposed to burn it an hour - hap' past six in de mawnin' and hap' past six in de afternoon, or either seven at night.
(What is that supposed to do?)
Why it'll run yuh and put chew in tough - cause yo' to drift where you won't get holt of anything. (Don't you have to do anything else? Do you burn this over somebody? That the idea?) Yes, sir, you supposed to put the names on it. Cut de names on it. (Oh, you cut the names before you light the candle. You scratch the name or it.) Yes, sir.