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Candle Sponge Buried
Volume 1, entries 2935. 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 2935
Now de black candle - take a black candle and write a person's name on it right straight up and down, jest all up and down and burn it. An' if you don't want them to come to yore place any more, after you burn it you take a sponge and name it after them and bury it in the back. They will never come to that place any more.
(Take a sponge you say?)
Yassuh, take de candle sponge after it's [wax is] melted - de candle sponge after it's burnt.
(Oh, you mean that melted candle - you call that the sponge?)
Yes.
(What do you mean, put it in the back?)
In the back yard. They'll not come back to that place any more.