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Rule of Silence
Volume 1, entries 398. Source context: SPIRITS → SPIRITS GUARD BURIED TREASURE. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 398
[The no-talking rule is absolute while hunting buried treasure. I do not consider Yo' kin go off an' talk all yo' wanta (No. 426) a violation of the rule. I know of only the following exception, which is confined to this one example.] Dey hunt money at night but dey say yo' has to go on de right moon to do dat; but yo' wouldn't have a word to say, not a word to say. Jest go dere an' den yo' start after it. Dere's two words you have to say when yo's in trial, "Help me, Lord, Our Father, to overcome 'em." That's all yo' got'a do when yo' go to digging.
(When you go to this place where the money is buried.)
An' let nary no man say nuthin'. Start to dig an' when yo' go ovah three feet den yo' kin talk. But don't yo' say a word until yo' go three feet.
(What time of the moon do you go there to dig?)
On de young moon.
(Well, how do you locate this treasure?)
Dey has a compass, but i' tain't all.