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PERFUME
Volume 3, entries 4627. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → SWEAT → HAT - SWEATBAND - BOW → BOW FROM SWEATBAND OF HAT. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 4627
[Perfume - perhaps the most frequently used ingredient in hoodoo - surely deserves a margin title for itself! Usually perfumes are listed in HOODOO under brand names. The word brand name years ago never had a national or international label protected by patent; it was the name the local hoodoo drugstore chose to call the cheapest possible perfume he could sell in small quantities for the highest possible prices! Only hoodoo could think up John de Conker Cologne - see 4645.] Take dat little bow in de back of a man's hat an' put it in a bottle of per- fume [brand name usually given] an' wear it on yuh an' dey'll stay wit yuh. Dey can't leave, dey'll always be wishin' roun' yuh. [The meaning here is either Wishing always to be round you, or always be swishing round you.]