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Cup Candle
Volume 1, entries 2802. 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 2802
Dey take hit [photograph] an' bury it upside down. Either take hit an put a light to dat, de photograph, an' burn it upside down - lak heah's de photo- graph an' yo' put chure light dere an' dose cup Zights. Yo' know, dey got dose little cup candles an' den de little glasses whut dey fit, an' put his name dere - write hit backwards.
(On the photograph.)
Yeah. An' put his undah dere an' de glass on top. Dat runs him crazy. (You turn the photograph down. You put the name on it backwards and put this candle in the glass on top of it and burn it.) Dat's right.