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GAMBLING - SALT USED WHILE
Volume 5, entries 9492. Source context: ADDITIONAL RITES AND BELIEFS → SALT AND ITS COMBINATIONS. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 9492
[Gambling rites using salt in HOODOO are colmon and scattered through the text - see especially vol.1, p.641, Nos.2264-2270.] Yo' kin take some table salt, see lak yo' an' anothah fellah tuhgethah - yo' an' 'im gamblin', see. Well, if he don' gamble an' yo' gamble, yo' kin take some table salt, table salt whut de' [they] put anywheres. Have it in yore pocket an' let him have it in his pocket...an' yo' goin' be gambling. Well, dis fellah, jes' lak ah'm settin' up heah now - ah'm lucky, yo' let dat [demon- strates] jes' drop dat table salt right down ahind of [behind] him. Dat's tuh change his luck.
(That is to spoil any hand that he has.)
Dat's right. "