Browse:FORKED HICKORY STICK - DRAWERS BURIED AT (Volume 3, entries 4753)
FORKED HICKORY STICK - DRAWERS BURIED AT
Volume 3, entries 4753. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → SWEAT → CLOTHES EXCLUDING HAT, SOCKS AND STOCKINGS, AND SHOES. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 4753
Ah heard dat chew kin git de seat of 'is drawahs or 'er drawahs an' take a hickory stick wit a fo'k an' place dat in between dere. Dig a hole undah yore step an' place it undah dere an' dere where he'll be. Place him at home, yuh see [demonstrates]. (You take this [forked stick], do the [stick] like this [hold upright] and place it [each leg] right in that fork. And bury it with the fork up like that, standing up.) Standin' up. [As in the preceding rite, here is another symbolical burial. Similarly we have another cross, the forked stick being a Y cross.]