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Green Candle Quicker
Volume 1, entries 2790. 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 2790
You see, you take a - that's right, if you couldn't get the name - if you could get the name, you could make 'em bring it back. (Well, how would you do it then, if you got the name?) If you could get the name, you see, you take their name and you write it down nine times and you set it - you fold the paper to you just like this [demonstrates]. Take the corners of the paper and fold it to you, fold the name to you and then you put it up under that candle and burn it; and before nine days go, he be back with it.
(What color candle do you burn for that?)
You burn a green candle for that too.
(Well, why do you burn a green candle?)
Well, they do's the work more quicker than the white - than those other can- dles. The black candles, they for death."