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STEAK - FAVORITE FOOD FOR TRICKERY
Volume 3, entries 3935. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → BLOOD → "HER PRIVATE TIME". Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 3935
[The steak rite was found everywhere. I heard it several hundred times, often not bothering to record short statements of a sentence or two. Interviews also contain similar material. Here are a few examples of the belief:] An' he [my contact man] ast me concernin' 'bout de woman - 'bout havin' 'er. Did ah know anythin' 'bout 'er doin' [trick- ing] a man. Ah tole 'i, well, it wus kin'a bad. But he tole me he didn't [care] 'bout dat, jes' 'splain it tuh him. [The preceding he ast me concernin' 'bout de woman is one of many examples in HOODOO showing the precaution taken against unwanted visitors. My contact man, here Edward Bufford (see ILLUSTRATIONS at end of volume 2), as did I, varied the questions. To reach me in the interviewing room a prospective informant had to show my contact man that he knew something about what I wanted. I will discuss this method and its problems in the INTRODUCTION.] So ah tole 'im 'bout 'er takin' durin' 'er period come one, an' 'bout buyin' a piece of fresh meat steak an' usin' it [on her], an' den boilin' it tuh feed a man off it. Dat dat would hole [hold] him at de present time.
The source names boiling and feeding; the animal behind fresh meat steak is unspecified, and on her is an editorial insertion.