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SINNER'S GRAVE AFTER 9 DAYS
Volume 4, entries 7563. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → HOW TO OBTAIN GRAVEYARD DIRT → DIRT FROM WHAT TYPE OF GRAVE. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 7563
[The two following left-foot rites I will keep together, because they are related and were given by the same informant at the same time:] [First rite:] Yuh take an' go tuh de graveyard an' if yuh wan's run 'em away, an' dig - a sinnah die, aftah nine days, aftah he's daid nine days - take an'dig elbow deep at 'is lef' foot. Git choo some grave- yard dirt. put two down, then bring it [tol yore house. Sprinkle it all de way roun' yore house, in de fo' cornahs in de room. An' when he go out de do', sprinkle some behin 'im an' he cain't come back.