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Perfume
Volume 1, entries 2201. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → HANDS: MAGIC HELPERS. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 2201
Ah tell you what you do if you wanna git a job. Co'se I've got it with me right now about a job line. Co'se I'm using de stuff [perfume] on it. I've got it broke ev'ry day from me not using it. But jes' like if you wanted to find out or Want a job, you jes' git you some of dis - you kin order de thing you calls de Eagle Brand perfume - or either Black- snake Brand perfume - or either Adam-and-Eve Brand - or either what chew call de High John Brand. Dat's jes' de Brand - de name of it, you understand. Diff'rent names and diff'rent also de stuff - only de same [brand of] perfume. Well, you jes' take some of dis - git chew de Adam-and-Eve root, according to you' perfume, see. You headin' off with it according to the perfume that you got there - Adam-and-Eve perfume, and you jes' git chew one Adam-and-Eve root, see. Git chew a High John [root] and put it dere wit a piece of Eagle Brand [High John perfume], or either a piece of devil's-shoestring. Put them [roots] in there, four or five [different kinds] of 'em - don't make no differ[ence]. Co'se you must have three [pieces of the root]. [Informant says you must use three pieces of the same root and feed them with a perfume of the same name. "Four or five" of these roots and perfumes corre- spond.]