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Circumambulation Nine Times
Volume 1, entries 2916. 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 2916
You could take holy water and sprinkle it around - just like there any- thing that you had that you thought somebody was going to steal it. You take holy water and make nine steps round your article - whatever it was - like it was this here [my record- ing machine on the table between usl and you had an idea that somebody was going to steal it. Just make a circle round that nine times and set a black candle.
(I see. And what do you do? You take nine steps around that?)
Nine circles around that.
(Oh, you make nine circles around it? I see. And then what will that do?)
After you takes your ninth circle, then you light it.
(Light the candle. What will that do?)
That will - they'll be afraid, they won't even come around your house. [For circle or ring as protective device, see Magic Circle, p.123f., Nos. 2197-2198, p.626.]