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JERUSALEM ROOT - INFIDEL SIGN
Volume 4, entries 9072. Source context: ADDITIONAL RITES AND BELIEFS → COURT CASES. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 9072
You kin go to the drug store like the Crackerjack. That's a wonderful drug store for all hoodoo methods. You can go there and get you some Jerusalem root. You take that Jerusalem root, you beat it up, you put it the left shoe, and you make four signs of the cross with your back turned.
(Show me how you do that.)
That's the infidel sign, they call that. They make that four times like that [demonstrates]. And when you go and face this man, well you're not supposed to look off from him or nuthin like dat. Yo' are supposed to wave his conscience from 'is eyes, an' that dust is helpin' yo' more so to win 'im, becuz yo' got confidence an' faith in dat dust. Therefore he'll look over maybe $25 or $30 [theft] and give you a break. Yo' make that cross before yo' meet 'im. On your back. See yo' can't make de regular sign in front, yo' got to make it four times wit yore back turned. They call dat de infidel sign. [Did he make this cross on his back or backside?]