Browse:Moon (Volume 1, entries 2137–2142)
Moon
Volume 1, entries 2137–2142. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → HANDS: MAGIC HELPERS. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
Entries
Entry 2137
At a certain time of de moon - new moon dey call it, three days befo' an' three after, they git up ever' mornin' befo' sunrise an' look towards de east, an' they will speak a few words in prayer an' their luck will come to 'em that way. Now I tried that once on a numbah ah wanted tuh play an' it came lak ah said.
Entry 2138
You can buy oil at the drug store called moving oil - confusion oil they call it, and you sprinkle in front of the door in the night, you know, slip around and do in front where they pass, and that will make them move in a certain length of time. They get a disturbance in the house and they will move. Moving oil or confusion, either one of them.
Entry 2139
Yessuh, it's called a moving powder. Ah've seen it used. Ah nevah used it mahself but ah've seen it used. Sprinkle it aroun'.
Entry 2140
Yessuh, they say you kin take this here moving powder and sprinkle it around the house. That will make you move.
Entry 2141
You go to the drug store an' you git the powder called movin' powder. An' when you git the brown powder [moving powder], an' then you git the movin' lickrish [moving liquid] - it's green. You mix that lickrish an' that powder together into a bottle an' shake it well; an' ev'ry time you shake it, well, you pass 'em a curse over it. An' then you go to work an' sprinkle that at their do' an' they're bound to leave home.
Entry 2142
If you have a friend that's visitin' your neighbor that you Want to make move, well you go to a cemetery and you gets some dirt off a grave. And you go to the drug store, dey got water they call war water, and you get oil they call moving oil. You mix them three together as a powder. You give it to your friend that visits in that house and sprinkle that house through and through. In a couple of days they will move.