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HOUSE, CENTER OF - SHOE NAILED TO
Volume 3, entries 5153. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → SWEAT → SHOES. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 5153
[The following two accounts of the same rite came from Memphis, but the belief is known elsewhere:] Den yuh kin take dat same lef'-foot shoe an' come tuh de middle of dis house each way, right dere to de middle plank, an' nail it up side - nail it up jis' lak dat. An' dat fellah will den stay at home dere, if it's in de middle of de house. [The shoe is sometime nailed up under the house that has a crawl-space beneath it.]
(You must get right in the middle of the house?)
Yessuh. [A quincunx rite.]