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DISHRAG
Volume 5, entries 10337–10352. Source context: ADDITIONAL RITES AND BELIEFS → SEX AND IMPOTENCE REAPPEAR. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
Entries
Entry 10337
The purpose of wiping a man with a dishrag and throwing it away, as in the preceding rite, is so that his semen will go down into the ground and keep him down [unable to have an erection] for other women.
[Wilmington, 178:11.]
Entry 10339
A man's impotence can be cured if he steals a dishrag, wipes himself, throws it back across right shoulder and does not look back [Norfolk, 476:3].
Entry 10340
Man steals someone's dishrag, wipes himself, throws it away, does not look back. This will cure his impotence [Richmond, 341:2].
Entry 10341
If a woman herself is tied up, she must steal a dishrag, wipe herself 9 times to her, do this 9 times [9 times on each of 9 days?], walk out and throw dishrag over left shoulder. [Presumably she must not look back or see the rag or rags again.] [Mobile, 938:4.]
Entry 10342
"Take a dishcloth every morning for 9 mornings and you get up before sunrise and you wipe yourself every morning around wit dis dishcloth and throw it up towards de sunrise 9 times every morning for 9 mornings an' den yo' lose de [impotence spell]." [Washington, D. C., 807:2.]
Entry 10343
Rub man with dishrag, throw over shoulder into river, can't have any- body but you.
Entry 10344
Wipe man with dishrag and bury. [Wilmington, 253:2 and Richmond, 291:7.]
Entry 10345
After intercourse a woman wipes herself with dishcloth, stops it up in a bottle, and buries it under the doorsill [Richmond, 284:3].
The short account begins 'After intercourse' before describing wiping and burial; the temporal relation remains a reported account.
Entry 10346
If a man steals a dishrag from another house, wipes himself, then returns dishrag to place from which it was stolen, he will cure his impotence [Wilmington, 130:8].
Entry 10347
Man may wash himself with dishrag from the house of the woman who put the spell on him to cure his impotence for other women [Norfolk, 530:13].
Entry 10348
To find out who has tricked him, man borrows dishrag of woman he is visiting to wash himself with a solution of saltpeter and gunpowder, and makes the woman do likewise, to see whether she, or his wife or some other woman put the impotence spell upon him [Norfolk, 445:1].
Entry 10349
If a woman herself is tied up, a man must wipe her with a dishrag [Mobile, 963:2].
Entry 10350
Let a woman steal a dishrag and wipe a man with it. [This is a double-edge rite: she can do this to cure his impotence or to make him impotent for other women.] [Wilmington, 195:5.]
Entry 10351
Wipe man with dishrag, wear in shoe or on waist or hide in room.
[Elizabeth City, 407:5.]
Entry 10352
After intercourse woman wipes herself with her dishrag and hangs it up over door through which man enters, leaves it there until he visits her again, repeats rite each time, so that he will always be potent with her [Wilmington, 217:9].