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Black Candle on Friday
Volume 1, entries 2880. 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 2880
(Did you ever hear of them using black candles for anything?)
De black candles?. Yeah, ah've heard dey use black candles. First of all, yo' use these black candles fo' yo' - now, yo' wouldn't use 'em fo' yo'self. Well, if ah was envy against yo', wal ah would git a black candle an' put your name on it five times and burn it till it go out. Well, wherever yo' are in de world, yo always be worried an' no matter how much money yo' get yo' cannot keep it. Dat's wit dat black candle.
[After turning off machine, I evidently ask, "Burn them any time?"]
Oh, no - yo' only burn dat on Friday: But mostly dey burns 'em on Thursday
[night].