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SALT DROPPED INTO FIRE SAYING INCANTATION
Volume 4, entries 9139. Source context: ADDITIONAL RITES AND BELIEFS → COURT CASES. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 9139
Yo' kin say dat [see incantation later] whenevah yo's [you is] in trou- ble or anythin'. Now, lak yo' git in trouble or somepin, go befo' dat judge an' nobody be on yuh side, yo' know, tuh see dat chew come out. Yo' jis' take dat salt befo' - if yo' git out on bond, yo' know - befo' yo' go tuh co't. Yo' say, "Fo'sake [forsake] ebahbody in de worl' but me. In de Name of de Fathah an' de Son [an' de Holy Ghost], Who made us all." An' drop dat salt on de fiah. [A note of mine reads, "Light re- cording because informant had gone over to fireplace to demonstrate." I remember this young woman quite well. At one point she went hopping about the room with an imaginary broom sweeping someone into jail. This should be recorded some- where. Another note of mine on the original transcription reads, "For this com- plete salt rite, given by the same informant and used by a woman to draw some man to her, see No." (Missing). I just took time out to search for the missing reference and found it! No.2271, p.641-642, is quite a rite! Fortunately my comments were made several days after the original recording.]