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Burning Against You
Volume 1, entries 2939. 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 2939
You can easily tell that they are candles being burned over you. You can take a - even with a deck of cards and tell when a candle's being burned over you. (How would you do that?) You take a deck of cards and if you run a deck of cards wit a queen and a jack running in diamonds - you take a deck of cards and shuffle them off, put 'em in nine piles, one time. Shuffle 'em off again and put em in piles. Shuffle 'em off again and put 'em in piles. Search the piles and see if you find any three times you run 'em off in the nine piles, three times [if] you can find that the queen and the jack are in the same pile. Then you come back with the cards in five piles and try it the same way, three times, and see if you find the queen and jack. See which one leads the other and when the deck is facing you, which one you find first more often, the queen or the jack. Then you will know a woman is burning candles. Then you will see if a woman have any candles burning on you. Now, your way to get them out. You'll have to make a novena yourself against that, and burn a candle against that. But keep yours in a continous burning and when your candle is out, be sure that it don't go out until it burns out. And when your candle burn out, then the candle against you will go out, unless. (About those cards you spoke about. If the queen comes first more often, then a woman is burning the candles?) Then a woman is burning the candles.
(If the jack comes first, then a man is burning the candles?)
Then a man is burning the candles.
(I wanted to make certain I understood that.)
That's right.