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Black Cross
Volume 1, entries 1734. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → HANDS: MAGIC HELPERS. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 1734
Go tuh de chimley an' mah'k cross de chimley lak dat. (They would come to my chimney.) Yassuh, an' make a mah'k [demonstrates]. (And make a cross mark like that, and I would have to move out. Well, where Would they leave that mark? On the wall or on the black stuff?) On de black stuff. [Cross mark is made in the soot - see Marks, p.254.]