Browse:Needle Remedy For Candle (Volume 1, entries 2971–2974)
Needle Remedy For Candle
Volume 1, entries 2971–2974. 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 2971
Dey go to a store and buy some gold-eyed nee- dles and cross 'em - take 'em and put 'em in yore hair and cross 'em.
(How many do you put in there?)
Two.
(Just two in the form of an X or a cross right in your hair.)
Form a cross jes' thataway but put it right up in dis part of yore hair.
(Top of the head. What will that do?)
Say that will put 'em out.
Entry 2972
Two brand-new needles - you know, what you never used - these gold-eyed needles, make a cross in the top of your head with them and keep those needles up there in the top of your head.
(Do you take those needles out?)
No, you lose 'em out. Like you go to bed, you see, you don't take 'em out with your hand and lay 'em nowhere - like you go to bed, you let 'em lose out in the bed.
(I see. Then the candles go out?)
Yeah.
Entry 2973
Take two brand-new needles and cross 'em in your head - two brand-new needles - and put 'em right cross there. And if you got a hydrant, go to the hydrant every morning and let the water run right on the mole of your head - that hydrant water.
(That makes those candles go out?)
Go out.
Entry 2974
Take two. needles an' yo' cross 'em nine mawnin's in de hair - up in de hair yo' cross fo' nine mawnin's. Yo' go tuh de rivah or well an' yo' bathe yore face, dat'll pass dat pain in de haid.
(Will that put the candles out or what?)
Dat'll put 'em out - put out dat cross.