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HAUNTS - GRAVEYARD DIRT PROTECTS AGAINST

Volume 4, entries 7793. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → WHAT TO DO WITH GRAVEYARD DIRT. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.

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Entry 7793

Volume 4 · printed page 3361 · Wilmington, N. Car.

Jis' git graveyard dirt an' sprinkle it aroun' de step an' kep' [kept] back evil, dey call it.

(What do you mean by that?)

Ha'nts [spirits of dead people]. [The magic principle here is: like cures like, fight fire with fire, hair of the dog that bit you, etc. Spirits of the dead, as those of the living, fight among themselves. Somewhere in Hoodoo an elderly woman remembers seeing as a child a graveyard fight among spir- its.]

Related subjects: Dirt, Protect, Spirit

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