Browse:Holy Oil (Volume 1, entries 2005–2007)
Holy Oil
Volume 1, entries 2005–2007. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → HANDS: MAGIC HELPERS. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
Entries
Entry 2005
(If you are on the job now and you think someone is trying to take it from you.) Well, yo' git chew some holy oil from some agent dat carries it - ah don't know whether they does at de drug store or not - an' put dat holy oil in de palm of yore hands an' wish tuh keep it [job] an' wish de fellow dat is goin' tuh take yo' [job] will keep [away].
(How do you put that oil in your hand?)
Put it in yore hand with your finger an' cross it.
(Do you cross it in one hand or both?)
In both, an' if you don't make it in both, make it in the right hand.
Entry 2006
Yo' take de same - de High John de Conker root an' de five-finger grass an' den it's whut chew call a holy oil. Den yo' use dat holy oil, as yo' walkin' an' git up to de do', why yo' rubs a little dat oil on yore hands an' back of yore ears an' all like dat. An' ask de employer or somepin about gittin' a job.
Entry 2007
De Southern John de Conker - yo' git dat. Git chew some Heart Cologne an' yo' git chew some five-finger grass - yo' know dat, five-finger grass. Yo kin git favors from anybody wit five-finger grass, yo' know. Five-finger grass, Heart's Cologne an' Southern John de Conker. Put de cologne wit dat an' Jes' put it on yo'self an' when yo' git ready tuh go - jes' bathe yore face lak dat. Yo' jes' take dat yo' know an' rub it ovah yore han' an' face jes lak yo' goin' tuh ask fo' a favor.
(This holy oil - do you use it in addition to the other stuff you are using?)
[Informant had previously mentioned holy oil.]
Right on 'long with it. Yo' jes' do dat in de mawnin' jes' lak yo' goin' out tuh look fo' a job - yo' jes' take some of dat, yo' know, jes' lak anybody goin' grease dere face. We call it down heah - we call it - ah'm tryin' tuh remembah now whut chew call it. But de proper name is holy oil. Well, de Holiness People use it - olive oil. But de proper name - we call it holy oil, but it's olive oil.