Browse:GRAVE OF FUTURE VICTIM'S RELATIVE (Volume 4, entries 7544)
GRAVE OF FUTURE VICTIM'S RELATIVE
Volume 4, entries 7544. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → HOW TO OBTAIN GRAVEYARD DIRT → DIRT FROM WHAT TYPE OF GRAVE. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 7544
Graveyard dirt is somepin good tuh kill a person wit.
(Well how do they do that?)
By feedin' 'em graj'ly [gradually]. Yuh take - go tuh a graveyard an' make a hole, where yuh got tuh git yore arm down zactly [exactly] up tuh yore elbow, an' git yuh a handful of dat dirt. An' what- evah yuh kin bring out in yore han', yuh divide it in parts - in nine parts, an' feed it tuh a person nine days [one part each day]. An' aftah dat ninth day, dat pah- tic'lah [particular] person will fall intuh bad health. Dat's all yuh got tuh give 'im, jis' dat dirt. But git dat dirt from some relatives of dat pahtic'lah person dat yuh tryin' tuh hurt, not any grave. Yuh git dat dirt froa de grave of de person hurt. An' if yuh kin git dat dirt from de grave of dat person dat's a relative of dat person yuh are tryin' tuh hurt, yuh use dat. Measure dat stuff in nine parts. An' aftah de ninth day, de beginnin' of dat ninth day, dat per8on uill fall in bad health an' dere's no doctor in de worl' will be able tuh cure 'im. (How do you mean you get that dirt from the grave of a person you are trylng to hurt? He isn't dead.) Jis' lak if ah got a cousin, or sistah, or aunt, or anybody dat's buried any- where, yuh go tuh dat grave an' - but yore arm got tuh go up tuh yore elbow.
(You mean you have to get a relative of that person. I see.)
Yeah, de relative. [New Orleans, La., (828).1215:5.]
The informant's earlier wording about the harmed person's grave is questioned, then clarified as a relative's grave. Bracketed glosses and portion detail are editorial; the illness and incurability claims remain source-reported.