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Name Five Times
Volume 1, entries 2822. 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 2822
And de red can'le, if it's somebody off dat chew would want dem to come, wal yo' burn dat red can'le. Yo' take de red can'le and you write dem folks name, whosomever de name be's, and you write dere names on dere five times, yo' see - you write it round, see. (Just straight around, just like a ring?) Dat's right, five times, and den you take a teaspoonful of sweet oil and a tea- Spoonful of honey and a teaspoonful of brown sugar [three ingredients] and put it together in a bowl - jes' a little neat bowl, and put de can'le down in dere and Jes' burn dat can'le. In five days time de folks you wanta see will be dere.
(Do you burn that at any special time?)
Yassuh, yo' burn it six 'clock each morning. Dat's all.