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Red Flannel
Volume 1, entries 2247–2248. 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 2247
[Red flannel frequently encloses substances and the completed object is called a hand, but here the material itself is a hand. Flannel is often called flannin or flannen.] Like if somebody gon'a hurt chah an' yah wan' tah perteck yerself to keep from hurtin' yah. Well, de onlies' t'ing [thing] 商 like dat zhah kin do to keep from hurtin' yah is tah wure dat red flannel aroun' yah. Yah see, yah take zit an' jis' fole [fold] de red flannel - jes' like, yah know, yah take za bandage an' wrahp aroun' yore han's. Well, yah wrahp dat righ' tah yore skin.
Entry 2248
(What do they say about that?)
Well, now if you want a job and can't get no job, well now, you goes to these white people's house and ask them for a job. They'll turn their back on you. Well, you go back home and get you a piece of red flannel - red flannel cloth, tie three knots in it, tie it around you calf up here - right round down below your knee.
(Either foot?)
The left foot, uh-huh, and saturate it good in spirits of turpentine and you go the next day. You go there and they more than apt to give you a job.