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New Pins and Needles Pushed into Black Candle
Volume 1, entries 2844. 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 2844
They takes the candles and they writes the name on them candles, and they lights them, and they burn 'em certain hours - six o'clock or either twelve o'clock. For nine days. They light those candles on people. Some of 'em light black candles. When they light black candles on 'em they puts pins - pins in em - new pins and needles. Just like if this was de top [demonstrates] turn the butt end [up] like that. You know, trim 'em at de butt end - you know, the side that goes down [butt end], well, you trim it at de butt end and light 'em.
(You turn them upside down.)
[The bottom of the candle with the new wick becomes the top.]
Uh huh. And that's - put their name on that. Well, you burns the name upside down on those black candles [because candles are burning upside down]. That's what they do.
(What will that do?)
What will that do? Well, that breaks up people. [For upside-down magic, see pp.405,660,731, and Index.]