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Salt in Four Corners
Volume 1, entries 2869. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → SHRINES: ALTARS - CANDLES - SAINTS; NEW ORLEANS AREA → (2) CANDLES. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 2869
Ah'd light a white candle an' put salt in each corner of yore house, an' write on de candle whomevah it would be [to] bring whatsomevah dey got away from me back. (When would you burn this candle?) Ah would burn this candle from ten to twelve - from ten in de day to twelve, jis' one day only.