Browse:ROOTS: PRICKLE FEET ROOT - DEAD MAN'S BONE (Volume 5, entries 12771)
ROOTS: PRICKLE FEET ROOT - DEAD MAN'S BONE
Volume 5, entries 12771. Source context: "CHANNEL DE WORLD". Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 12771
Now, it's hard fer yo' to get de dead man's bone, but if yo' kin git de deadman's bones, yo' goin' to use dis thing out de woods what chew call de pickle [prickle] feet too. Wal yo' goin't' git dat deadman's bone out de [graveyard] an' yo'll take dat an' take it to yo' house. Yo' goin' scrape dat. Now yo've got sompin ag'in me. Yo've got sompin ag'in me. Yo' don't want nobody to git next to yo'. Yo' goin' to take one scrapin' of dat bone an' scrape it fer yo'self fust [first]. Yo' fust part in dat scrapin' yo' will bind 'em down to yo'. (Well, what do you do after you scrape that? What do you do with that scrap- ing?) De fust part of de scrapin', yo' keep dat.
(What do you do with the rest of it?)
When yo' want to scatter it, scatter it out do' de no't an' de so't. Dat to hold yo' enemy from yo'.
(What do you do with that prickle feet then?)
Dat prickle feet - dat prickle feet is de devil. Dat prickle feet hold yo' from start to finish. Yo' kin use dat prickle feet to de no't', to de s'ut', to de west - any way yo' wanta use it; but chew Wanta handle it wit care.