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Blow Yore House Out
Volume 1, entries 1055. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → FOLK MEDICINE → FOLK MEDICINE (1) PRINCIPLES OF HEALING. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 1055
Dey always tole me, that chew git up in the mawnin' on Friday mawnin' an' blow yore house out - whut call blowin' yore house out - git up in de mawnin an' put sulphur in dat corner, sulphur in dat corner an sulphur in de fo' corners of your house. See, dat blowin' yore house out. Take de sulphur an' put it in a little somepin an' blow it tuh death. Say dat makes yore house lucky. (They call that bZowing out your house. After they put the sulphur in the four corners?) If dey put.sulphur in de fo' corners of dey house, den dey takes somepin in dey han' an' blow it all ovah de house lak dat. Den take dat in de corners an' burn it.
(You burn that in the corners?)
Yessuh, burn dat right in de corners. See, dat blows yore house out.