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PUTTIN' A SNAIL ON HIM
Volume 3, entries 3631. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → SEXUAL IMPOTENCE → CAUSES OF SEXUAL IMPOTENCE → SNAIL OR SLUG. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 3631
[Our second margin title (from HOODOO p.649, line 13) explains why a snail is so commonly used in impotence rites; it makes a person slowful (p.648, 4 lines from bottom of page). This word is not sloth- ful, because he'll git so slow - slowful (p.649, line 1). The person rubbed with a snail jes' kin mope along - he can't go, he jes' be draggin' (p.649, line 9). The second reason for the use of a snail is its slime, a sticky substance thought to resemble human semen.]