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Power from de Headbone
Volume 1, entries 819. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → THE DOCTORS THEMSELVES: BIRTH TO DEATH: DESCRIBED BY LAYMEN. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 819
Now, he takes dat dead man's head - jest like you go dere and say, "Ah Want So-and-So to go from roun', want him to leave town" - see - 'he give me trouble." So he say [ask] what de name and you tell him. He writes de name three times and he puts three rings around it and he take it and put it in that dead man's mouth - dat skeleton haid [informant does not know word skull], and he tell it, jest like he talkin' to somebody, tell it, say, "Ah want chew to run So-and-So-and-So clean out of town, ah want 'em to git clean from around heah," and stick a match to it and that thing smoke in dere and de smoke come out dat dead man eyes and nose - see, dat skeleton haid. Ah've seen dat workin'. Ah know of a woman did dat an' she left, she cain't nevah come back no mo' - she come round but she cain't stay a whole day. Dis person ah'm referrin' to is de man do dat.