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Five-Fingered Grass
Volume 1, entries 1860–1861. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → HANDS: MAGIC HELPERS. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
Entries
Entry 1860
Well, for gambling I've taken and get me a new nee- dle and get me a piece of five-fingered grass, and get me a piece of lodestone and some steel dust, and take it and sew it - that needle, brand-new needle, not no needle that's been used - in a little piece of leather bag. And use this here fast luck - keep it damp whenever I go to gambling
Entry 1861
Well, before you even go on this job, you read the ll9th Psalm. You look in de 119th Psalm and you read a verse in there. And you'll find favors with him, and you'll use High John de Conker too, and you'll take the five finger grass and carry it. Put it in yore handkerchief. And you ask him for the job as a favor and he hardly will refuse yuh.
(How will you use that High John the Conker?)
Well, some chew it. Some people boil it and jest make liquid and dress dere- selves before dey goes.