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HOUSE - BREAK EGG INSIDE: ON SUNRISE SIDE
Volume 4, entries 9292. Source context: ADDITIONAL RITES AND BELIEFS → THE AMAZING CHICKEN EGG. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 9292
Yo' kin take a black hen aig an yo' kin - of co'se, If yo' an' yo' people can't git along good in yore home, yo' see, yo' could take a black hen aig. Now, a shu 'nuff [sure enough] black hen aig, yo' see, an' at a certain part of de wall, yo' could break dat aig in yore house an' yo' kin make de thing all right.
[Here comes a good example of my repeating informant's words.]
(What certain part of the wall?)
Dat 'cordin' [according] tuh how dey - on de right side dat git de sunrise on it. Break it tuh de sunrise [side] of it, de house.
(Outside or inside?)
Inside. (To bring peace into your house.) [The breaking of raw eggs inside a house is fairly rare, but see No.9398, p.3764.]