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CROSS SALT AND BLACK PEPPER WITH GRAVEYARD DIRT
Volume 4, entries 7741. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → WHAT TO DO WITH GRAVEYARD DIRT. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 7741
Take some salt and black peppah an' go tuh de graveyard an' git some dirt an' cross it wit dat dirt. If anyone move dere, dey cain't stay. Yo' bury it in a li'le box [coffin symbol] dere, an' if anyone move dere, dey cain't stay. (That is, you cross this house up after you leave it so that the next person can't live there?)
[This is done if you have a grudge against the landlord or person moving in.]
Yes, dey cain't live dere.