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MULBERRY-TREE FORK - POINT TO HOUSE - CURSE
Volume 4, entries 7230. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → FOLK MEDICINE → A FEW MORE DOCTORS. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 7230
[I heard] tell of 'em goin' tuh dese mulberry trees. An' jis' lak de fo'k - yo' know dey got fo'ks on 'em; yo' know, lak dis way [demonstrates] one limb disaway an' one linb datavay. [Get one of those forks and] point it right tuh de house. Well, tuh make yore husban' not go wit nobody else, yo' cut dat [fork] off. See, cut it tuh yuh in fo'ks. Den bend 'em tuhgethah lak dis [demonstrates] an' tie 'en wit a cord string.
(Take those two prongs [of the fork], bring them together.)
Yes sir, tie dem tuhgethah. Den yo' curse 'em fo' evarthin' yo' kin think of. Den yo' kin stick dat anywhere in de house where he will not find it, see. Well, he won't bothah wit - jis' lak if he goin' wit me, see, well he won't have no m Min' fo' me atall.
(Well, now, you must let this fork....)
Yes, jis' point it tuh de house.
(It must be pointing to the house and no place else, no other place.)
Yes sir, point it right at de house.