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Doll of Wood: Wake For
Volume 1, entries 2849. 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 2849
They take a knife and form [carve] it.
(What do they do with that wooden doll?)
They also put it on mantelpiece [often used as altar], or either lay it out like somebody is dead and burn the candles on that. That's the way I saw it did once - just like somebody laying out dead, you see. And they say [that] makes a persons sick - see, they keep sick all the time and dry up. That's in the shape of a person, you see.