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SEX AND IMPOTENCE REAPPEAR
Volume 5, entries 10209–10411. Source context: ADDITIONAL RITES AND BELIEFS. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
Entries
Entry 10369
Measure man with string, tie knot in it, bury under step [Richmond, 292:8].
Entry 10370
Wipe man with dishrag, tie rag in one hard knot, put under step or under bed [Wilmington, 254:5].
Entry 10371
Measure man with string, lengthen it by tying on another string, and tie round her leg [Newport News, 513:7].
Entry 10372
Measure man, tie a knot in each end of string, and put under her steps. She may put salt and pepper with it [Petersburg, 418:2].
Entry 10373
Woman ties clothing, on which semen falls, into 3 knots, dampens with witch hazel, and puts in mattress [Wilmington, 133:4].
Entry 10374
She kin take the measure of his snapper, tie five knots in it and wear around her waist; then he won't have, if he can't git that off, courage for an- other woman.
The informant describes taking the measure of his 'snapper'; the later claimed effect remains conditional on 'if he can't git that off'.
Entry 10375
Measure a man, tie 9 knots in string and wear around waist [Petersburg, 420:2].
The condensed instruction names measuring a man before tying nine knots and wearing the string. No original speaker, performed measurement or effect is established.
Entry 10376
I've heard they would measure a man and tie 9 knots into and Wear it around their ankle [Deal Island, 22:3].
Entry 10377
Measure man with new yellow cotton, tie 9 knots, wear [Richmond, 387:5.] or wear around right leg [Richmond, 387:2].
The condensed item names measuring with new yellow cotton. Its separately cited right-leg wearing variant remains separate, and no performed act or effect is established.
Entry 10378
Measure man with new yellow cotton, tie 9 knots, and wear around waist [Norfolk, 458:4].
The condensed instruction names tying nine knots in its measurement and waist-wearing context. This does not establish a performed act, effect or universal knot rule.
Entry 10379
Woman wipes man with new piece of cloth, ties the cloth into 9 knots and vears it around her waist, and he cannot have anyone but her [Washington, D. C., 825:15].
The condensed account names a new piece of cloth for wiping and knotting. No specific cloth subtype, performed sequence or claimed relationship effect is established.
Entry 10380
Penis measured, 9 knots in string, worn around her waist.
The short or reduced account names nine knots in string alongside measurement and waist-wearing. It does not establish original wording, a performed act or a universal knot rule.
Entry 10381
"New domestic [cloth], while woman wiping man, make a knot in and a wish, vbatsomever [you] want and tie it [knot] to you until 9 knots, you then Pees on it 9 mornings, then wear around your waist."
Entry 10382
Woman measures man with string, ties 9 knots in it, and wears around her ankle.
The account places the string around an ankle. The short-or-reduced listing supplies no identified person, side, observed performance or established effect.
Entry 10383
Woman measures man's penis with black thread, ties 9 knots in it and wears around right leg. [Washington, D. C., 816:1.]
The account names nine knots in black thread and wearing around the right leg. Its short-or-reduced presentation does not establish an observed act or a universal procedure.
Entry 10384
Woman measures man, talks to the string while tying 9 knots in it, drawing each knot to her as it is being tied, and wears around her leg. [Wash- ington, D. C., 805:4.]
The account names nine knots, talking to the string and drawing each knot toward the woman. It supplies no spoken formula or established performance or effect.
Entry 10385
Woman measures man, ties 9 knots in string, and at midnight draws the string over a piece of Eve root held in the left hand. [Washington, D. C., 813:9.]
Entry 10386
Woman measures man, ties a knot in the string each morning for 9 days, and wears it [Washington, D. C., 807:2].
Entry 10387
Measure penis with raw-cotton string, tie 9 knots, wear round waist [Mobile, 947:5].
Entry 10388
Tie 9 knots in cotton or cord string and then measure man and wear string around leg [Mobile, 881:1].
Entry 10389
New piece of yellow domestic, wipe, 9 knots, wear around waist.
[Mobile, 871:2.]
Entry 10390
Wipe him with strip from his underwear, tie 9 knots, wear around waist [Mobile, 978:6].
Entry 10391
[Wipe him with new pocket handkerchief, tie piece of tape on, make 9 knots, and wear around waist [Mobile, 898:2].
Entry 10392
Wipe man with bed napkin, tie it into 9 knots, and wear around waist or tie around leg [Richmond, 308:4].
Entry 10393
Wipe with cloth, tie a knot at each end, do for 9 times [different occasions], wear around waist. [Mobile, Ala., 874:1.]
Entry 10394
Woman takes cord string, measures man's pri- vates, ties measurement into 14 knots, and wears it just about [above or below] the knee. [Memphis, 1559:9.]
Entry 10395
Take cord string, measure length of bed, put in string as many knots as wanted, and keep in mattress on his side of bed.
[Mobile, 979:9.]
Entry 10396
"Take dis snail...squeeze 'im up an' mix 'im up in vaseline...grease yourself with it...have intercourse with your wife...she won't have any feeling for anyone else for about two weeks" [Vicksburg, (743), 1013:7].
Entry 10397
"A snail an' get that slime when she go to have 'in, rub his penis up towards her...it will fall every time he go to fool with anybody else" [Vicksburg, (745), 1016:2].
Entry 10398
Grease woman with grease made from snail burned to ashes [Little Bock, (815), 1465:12].
The short or reduced account names a snail burned to ashes in making grease. It establishes neither original wording nor an observed preparation or specific ashes subtype.
Entry 10399
"He kin take this snail an' dress her while he knows he's leisra [home]. He kin take that red peppah an' threw it down at de do'step...she'll be jis' lak a rattlesnake by crawlin' while he's gone an' she won' pay 'a[l] any tenshun [attention]; she'll [be] sociable wit 'em but dey can't coee in dere" [Little Rock, (897), 1470:1].
This doorstep reference appears in a printed condensed excerpt. Hyatt's governing notice describes short or reduced statements; the wording includes an ellipsis and unclear forms. It is not a verbatim audio claim. Door retrieves the threshold location without equating it with a door panel. Read both the item and production notice.
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Entry 10400
Merely grease man with snail [Norfolk, 490:2].
The short or reduced statement says to grease a man with snail. It gives no separate composition, established performance or effect, and original wording is unverified.
Entry 10401
Man mixes snail slime, snuff and butter [3 ingredients]: rub on woman's vagina; any other man approaching it will fall [Petersburg, 417:8].
The vagina is explicitly named as the application region. The source-stated fall of another man remains unexplained and unverified.
Entry 10402
Man mixes snail and grease, rub it on his penis, has intercourse with the woman, any other man approaching that woman will fall [Richmond, 341:3].
The penis is explicitly named in the account; the described actions and the prediction that another man will fall are not established events or effects.
Entry 10403
Put snail slime on woman, any man entering will get stuck [Norfolk, 466:2].
Snail slime is explicit; the text names no body part and leaves entering and getting stuck unspecified. No actual application or result is established.
Entry 10404
Dry snail [in cloth], rub down 3 times over privates, bury; 'as long as that be down, you vill [be down] too"' [Mobile, 845:4].
The instruction explicitly names privates. Its 'down' wording and quotation marks remain unresolved, with bracketed explanations kept editorial and no verified effect.
Entry 10405
Rub snail on woman's vagina, 'dat'll tie her up' [if she has another man]. [Mobile 881:2.]
The vagina is explicitly named. The quoted tying-up claim and bracketed condition remain distinct source context, without a documented action or result.
Entry 10406
Rub snail over vagina; "next man will get stuck" [Vicksburg, 990:9].
The instruction explicitly names the vagina; the separate quoted prediction about the next man getting stuck remains unexplained and unverified.
Entry 10407
"Take a snail shell [not the snail] and rub it across her stomach just like when she asleep, and wrap it up into a rag and carry it in your left-hand pocket, and she'll never have a man until he come back [Vicksburg, 1059:3].
Entry 10408
Dry up a snail and mix this dust with fluid from bitch in heat - put on woman, man will stick to her [Norfolk, 516:7]. [Beliefs about The Hag and Witch in Hag Form will be found in the section so named, numbers 429-544, pages 135-164, volume 1. Similar beliefs are scattered through the complete or partial interviews, volume 2, etc. Theoretically a hag disturbs a sleeping person, rides him or her; an old-fashioned witch does not - yet see No., etc.]
Entry 10409
[The words witch and witchcraft are used many times in these volumes, words common down the Atlantic coast from Maryland through Florida. Here are several more to add to the long list: de man who do's de evil verk is called de Vitchcraft, and same informant adds, jis' lak if ah wan'a witch yuh now. [Wilmington, N. Car., 88:4+85.] Another informant says: huntin' fo' a job, go tuh a vitchcraft an' git a lucky "hand."
The editorial note reports wording about evil work. Its source forms remain literal; no person, universal term equivalence or actual effect is established.
Entry 10410
"'They tell me witches have those [a black cat lucky bone] wit 'em an yo' kin go right where yo' wan'a an' not be seen a heap of times." [Here we have hag, witch and owner of black cat lucky bone grouped together. There is not too much material telling us how a witch or hag changes shape or disappears.]
Entry 10411
Bible under head in bed [under pillow or mattress] keeps witch away.
[Wilmington, N. Car., (206), 113:8+85; also informant 31 at Hampton, Va.]
Bible under head of bed [on floor] keeps witch away. [Baltimore, Md., (near 142), 46:4+85.] Bible under bed and hang sifter overhead. [Deal Island, Md., (108), 16:3+85.] Bible and 3 pins to keep hag away. [Richmond, Va., (343), 287:2+85.] Bible under pillow and 3 stick pins [ordinary pins] underhead. The hag turned into a little piece of red meat, found next morning. Stop the meat up and the hag [unable to breathe] will come. [Richmond, Va., (343), 287:2+85.] Bible and stub of a broom [the straw part of a worn-out broom] at head of bed to keep hag away. [Wilmington, N. Car., (about 249), 161+85, diffuse story not worth copying.]