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Dragon's-Blood Candle
Volume 1, entries 2806. 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 2806
Well, dey have something that you asked me about, de candles - you know, burning candles. Dey have the dragon's-blood candles which is called Ole Banum's Tears. You know what dat is. Ole Banum's tears - tears like from your eyes. They come in teardrops. You can go to a peculiar drugstore an' places and buy these things, and it looks like a candle, and you burn them almost always in a place like that, you see, and it seems to have a tendency to change, to influence people towards yuh. Say for n'instance, you are mad at me this morning. Well, now when you leave, if you would leave, I'd burn two or three of these little pieces - they come off jest like teardrops. I'd burn that chip off 'em and that supposed to change the influence towards - of you towards me. But as: long as I burn that, everything will go along smoothly.
(Well, now what do those tears have to do with that bag [toby] you made?)
That all goes together.
(What do you do with that?)
It's working for the same purpose - you keep this [toby] you see.
(You wear that.)
That will cause people to have a mind at times to give you more.
(Then you burn the tears in addition?)
That's when someone gets angry. You don't do that unless you see they have a untowards feeling towards you.