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Dead: Hands From Right and Left
Volume 1, entries 1820–1821. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → HANDS: MAGIC HELPERS. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
Entries
Entry 1820
You take a bone from a dead man's right hand. You go to the cemetery and dig them up, and you make a pair of dice out of them. And when you get in a dice game - I don't mean a gambling club but around these jobs that have payday, they have a big dice game and you go in there with these dice and you are more than likely to win.
Entry 1821
I heerd a fellah say once when I was in Cleveland, Ohio, there working, you meet all kind of people, and I heerd 'im say that he could take the left hand of a dead person and wouldn't nobody could arrest 'im. He could do anything he wanted to.
The informant reports another man's claim about a dead person's left hand; the promised freedom from arrest is unverified.