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Knock and Call
Volume 1, entries 2900. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → SHRINES: ALTARS - CANDLES - SAINTS; NEW ORLEANS AREA → (2) CANDLES. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 2900
My husband left me and stayed five months. But I didn't burn the can- dle myself, but his cousin burnt the candle. I never saw that before. She take a pink candle and instead of burning the candle as it is sup- posed to [burn] like, she cut that top off there and she turned it upside down and burn the bottom of the candle first, you understand, and when that candle burnt out - he went away from home, hadn't had no fuss or nothing, and stayed five months. Well, I tell you what I did - and not knowin' that she [cousin] suppose to do me no harm - I wanted to be sure there was nobody wanted to do me no harm. I went and got three white candles. [Demonstrates.] I burnt his name under the candles nine times, as I showed you just then on that piece of paper. And I would light the candle at night to burn while he was sleeping - of course, he wasn't with me, and when I would light the candle, I would knock on the wall three times and I would call his name. And when I burnt nine candles he came back, and he been back ever since.