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Left-Foot Shoe: East or West
Volume 1, entries 2851. 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 2851
If a person's away from home, you can take that shoe and burn a candle over it nine days. Take that left-foot shoe and burn a candle over it nine days. And if a person's away from home, 'en [then] you bury that shoe under your step where that person has lived, or his step where he or she has lived. But if you want them to come back home, you got to bury the shoe with the heel pointing east and the toe west; and if you want to drive them from home, you can bury it with the heel pointing west and the toes east, and you'll drive them from home. But if you want to bring them back home, you have the power of bringing them back home; you bury it with the heel east and the toes west, and you'll have the power to bring them back home.
(What kind of a candle would you burn on that?)
You take a white candle and [or] a blue candle.
(Either one.)
Either one - a white candle and a blue.
[And is frequently used for or.]
Burn it with their name under it, under the candle.