Browse:DISHRAG (Volume 3, entries 3332–3415)/Part 2
DISHRAG
Volume 3, entries 3332–3415. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → SEXUAL IMPOTENCE → CAUSES OF SEXUAL IMPOTENCE. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
Entries
Entry 3412
Well, ah hate tuh explain de thing so.
(Well, I hear all those things.)
Well, jes' lak yo' say, take a dishrag an' yo' use it, yo' undahstan'. An' den take it an' - take de dishrag an' use it wit yo' until yo' git a-plenty on it, yo' undahstan'. An' take a cord string an' wrap it up very tight an' carry it an' bury it in de dreen of de house [or] where de watah drops from a well. An' not so, put it up ovah de do'sill somewhere up high. An' yo' couldn't have 'nection wit nobody but 'er.
Entry 3413
She kin [take] her a dishrag an' aftah 'er an' 'im have a 'co'se, she wipe 'im off wit dat dishrag. An' she'll take a small piece of dat dishrag an' wipe herself wit it, an' wrap it up in a piece of white rag, a little small white rag, an' jis' tie it right aroun' 'er waist. Den she have him undah 'er control.
Entry 3414
Yo' kin ketch a houn' see when she's in heat - a bitch at least, when she is in heat, an' raise up 'er right hind laig an' cut it. (Cut it?) Yeah, an' git some blood from it, see an' put it in a cup. Put it in some of 'er coffee or tea, anything she drinks. Let 'er drink it an' if a man go to her, she'll get stuck an' can't nobody get 'em loose until yo' come back an' give her anothah drink of dat stuff. [For like cures like. see p.349.1 DE DOCTOR [M.D.[ KIN GIT 'EM LOOSE BY KILLING ONE OF 'EM, BUT CHEW KIN GIT 'EM LOOSE AN' SAVE BOTH OF 'EM.
(WELL! HOW CAN YOU DO THAT?)
JES' GIVE 'EM A DRINK OF DAT - FROM DAT CUP WHAT YO' KET' DE BITCH'S BLOOD WHEN SHE'S IN HEAT. Yo' know a bitch runnin' roun', an' yo' raise her right hind laig an' slit it. Jis' cut a gash enough to git some blood an' put dat blood in dere. Put a drop of blood in 'er cup of coffee or tea or somepin an' she drink it see, an' if a man go to her, why he gona stick.
(He'll get stuck.)
An' den when yo' come back [from finding a bitch] - evahbody roun' dere yo' know, doin' somepin fer 'em, see - no soonah yo' come back an' yo' walk in, an' picks up a dose of somepin [coffee or tea] an' put [in it] a drop of dat blood an' give it to her, an' she'll git back all right.
Entry 3415
(They do what?) Take dem to de doctor [M.D.] an' if de doctor don' git 'em apart, go right back an' git some of de dog's, some dog blood, an' grease de man back right in de centah, an' he'll come loose right immediately.
(You grease the man's back you say?)
In de centah wit de same dog blood - de same dog dat dey got de livah from [in another rite]. Dey kin git 'im right loose right immediately. [I stopped recording machine, but informant soon continued with a time state- ment I had to recover.] (And you say if the doctor [M.D.] doesn't get them apart, or you don't get them apart, they will come apart in?) In nine days.