Browse:Black Cat Powder (Volume 1, entries 326–327)
Black Cat Powder
Volume 1, entries 326–327. Source context: SPIRITS → BLACK CAT BONE. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 326
Now dere's a whole lot 'bout dis dat a person kin do, 'cause ah sold liquor once an' mah house nevah was searched two years in dis town. But chew git - ah got holt of a kind of a powder dey calls de black cat powder, understand. Den dey take dat powder ev'ry mornin' fo' seven mornin's, go to de window where yo' got de sunrise an' say de Lord's Prayer, an' sprinkle dat dust - dat powder round yore house. Yore enemy can't nevah come over it. Ah sold it two years heah an' mah house nevah was searched. See, usin' dat powder, yo' understand. [This could be the Black Cat brand of talcum powder, thought by informant to come from a black cat - see Doctor Frank Hall's origin of dragon's blood.]
Entry 327
[Doctor Hall, who I sought and found in the country near Berkley, Norfolk County, Virginia - see Introduction - "described the usual method for obtaining a black cat bone but said you hold a lodestone near the bones and it will draw out the lucky bone"' (a note made at the time of the interview).]
The source identifies this as a contemporaneous interview note reporting an account; verbatim participant wording is not established.