Browse:Name on Label Seven Times (Volume 1, entries 2823–2824)
Name on Label Seven Times
Volume 1, entries 2823–2824. 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 2823
With your water - they can take your water and put it in a bottle and they would boil it, and they could put [in] that steel dust and that lodestone. That lodestone and steel dust is a powerful thing. They can put that in there and they can take that can [bottle] with that water and keeps it in a corner and put your name on it - write your name seven times. (On what?) Seven times and wrap it around the bottle, you see, and keep it in the corner, and burn a black candle on it. See.
(And what will that do?)
Well, that's to keep yore mind - run you, you know, crazy-like. You see, your mind be all upset, you understand.
(What did you say they do with that water? Just bottle it up, you say?)
You take that water and you put it in a bottle and you boil it.
Entry 2824
Write a person's name on a piece of paper nine times for them to come to stay, and put it in a saucer and light a red candle, or a blue for true love for them to come. That's their way. If you ditch him and you ever see him with some - they happen to be with somebody else, you get you a black candle and write his name on a piece of paper and put that candle in that saucer and lay that - lay him right under it. And if [as] this candle molt down, that person'll molt - that's a[say] dry up and molt away.