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Formula 6-12-6
Volume 1, entries 2885. 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 2885
You get you those wax candles to sweeten the man's mind. You take a white wax candle, you take a ten-cent bottle of honey, you take nine loaves of loaf sugar, and you burn that in a white bowl. When one go out, you set another one - white wax candle. That sweetens the mind of the man for his position you know.
(Here's your bowl and you have those lumps of sugar around in there.)
Nine of them and pour the honey all around it and set the candle up in the center. No [informant left out something], it round you know [in a circle]. You put de loaf sugar [in a circle]. You know those loaf sugar you use for tea or coffee. Put nine around [in a circle] into the bowl. You stick the candle first and make it stick good to spurmge [sponge = melted wax from candle]. And then you take the bottle of honey and pour it all around there [the candle] - a ten- cent bottle around that. And you burn the candle three times a day - a white wax candle. Well, you see you can start it at six - the best hour for anything like that - six in the morning, either twelve in the day and when that go out, you Wait till six in the evening and light another one.
(How long do you burn it at a time?)
Well, you see if it goes out before six in the evening, well you light another one. If you light one at six in the morning, well it will last to about twelve in the day or after twelve.
(How many candles do you burn all together? As many as you want to?)
As many as you want to, if you are able, you see. Probably four. [Two candles only are burned. Formula 6-12-6 is the most used of all time formulas for burning candles.]