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Eyes of Corpse
Volume 1, entries 95–99. Source context: SPIRITS → GHOSTLORE. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
Entries
Entry 95
(About those eyes?) I made a mistake - I said a nickel, I wanted to say a silver dime. Like it be - you'd kill a man and you'd start on off. Somebody done get to him and take and roll his eyes back and put a silver dime on each one of his eyes - this man he cannot get out of existence. He'll try, but he'll get caught before he can get away.
(Well, who - oh, they put these dimes over the dead man's eves.)
Over the dead man's eyes. [New Orleans, La., (866), 1404:1.}
Entry 96
Jes' lak if ah walk in heah an' shoot a person; well, all dey have tuh do is look at de person's eyes - take mah picture from his eyes, an' evah which way he be lookin' dat's de way ah'm goin'.
(The way that dead man's looking, that is the direction yo've gone?)
Yes.
Entry 97
If yo' kin git de blood, if yo' kin git a shirt - [anything] dat got blood on his garment where he got killed - if yo' kin git a piece of that, take it an' git a aig, jes' a aig, an' bury it in his han', an' open his eye up first an' look in his eye, den take that aig an' put it in his han', an' dey say dat de person whut kilt him will appeah befo' yo' in his eye, will appeah befo' 'em in his eye. An' put dis heah piece of his garment whut's got his blood on it - say, yo' tack it to de no'th side of yore house. An' dat person-will come back whut kilt dis person, dey will come right to yore house.
Entry 98
Sometimes it looks like they [a corpse] are looking. Their eyes are wide open. I have heard people say they are looking for their loved ones. [New York City, (7).]
Entry 99
Don't visit the graveyard and look upon them too often. They say it disturbs them. Shortly they will come back after you. If you keep a looking and a looking, they are coming back after you soon. You soon go. That's very true. You'll soon go.