Browse:MEASURING TO HOLD PERSON (Volume 5, entries 10325–10336)
MEASURING TO HOLD PERSON
Volume 5, entries 10325–10336. Source context: ADDITIONAL RITES AND BELIEFS → SEX AND IMPOTENCE REAPPEAR. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
Entries
Entry 10325
Measure man, wear string in shoe 9 days, then tie around right ankle [a remedy of the great George Jackson of the Eastern Shore, see Pp.912-915, v.1. Some of the material about him collected on Eastern Shore of Maryland, some from relative in Baltimore].
Entry 10326
Measure man, wear the string on right leg for 9 days, then permanently on left, or visa versa [Richmond, 373:1].
Entry 10327
Measures the man and keeps the string [Hampton, by Ediphone].
The brief printed account and its recording notation do not establish a verbatim transcript.
Entry 10328
Measure man with string and wear around leg [Norfolk, 475:8].
This is a short printed account; a verbatim transcript is not established.
Entry 10329
"The string [used in measuring] is worn as a garter" [Mt. Vernon, eastern shore of Maryland, by hand].
The wearing statement is printed as a quotation; the measuring explanation is editorial.
Entry 10330
Measure the man and wear the string around her left ankle [Fredericks- burg, by Ediphone].
The brief printed account and recording notation do not establish a verbatim transcript.
Entry 10331
Measure man with string and wear about her body [waist probably meant].
[Elizabeth City, 400:7.]
The source says about her body; waist is the editor’s qualified suggestion.
Entry 10332
Measure the man and tack the measure at the foot of the door [Freder- icksburg, by Ediphone].
The printed instruction locates the measure at the foot of a door. The Ediphone reference is provenance notation; no recording or completed action is established here.
Entry 10333
Woman measures man with a new piece of cloth or string [Washington, D. C., 829:5].
The account names a new piece of cloth or string as alternatives for measuring. It does not establish joint use, a cloth subtype or an observed measurement.
Entry 10334
Measure a man and make a wish to hold him [Fredericksburg, by Ediphone].
Entry 10335
Woman measures a man with a string, the length and circumference, and threading a needle with this string works it into her garter [Richmond, 280:2].
Entry 10336
Sometimes a woman wipes a man with a dishrag and throws it away. [The reason for this is given in the belief that follows this one.] [Richmond, 335:2.]