Browse:Sex As a Hand (Volume 1, entries 2284–2289)
Sex As a Hand
Volume 1, entries 2284–2289. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → HANDS: MAGIC HELPERS. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
Entries
Entry 2284
Luck with a man gamblin' - jis' like if he got a girl friend or somepin or other, go around her ministration, jis' like he may have a han's'chef, get some [menstrual blood] on his han's'chef or piece of paper or somepin or other, an' jis' wrap his money all up good with it an' go in a game an' nobody in the world kin win from him. An' a Woman, if she gamble, she kin let her man urinate on her money an' put it [in] her pocketbook or her nation sack [see preceding margin-title Nation Sack], you know, where thats he kin git to it you know from the bottom, an' jes' go in a game an all the money then is their money. [The words ministrate (as a noun) and ministration are known everywhere and frequently used in rites.]
Entry 2285
Ah heard that they could take the periods of a woman an' tie it - yo' know, jes' has it on a cloth an' put it in their pocket, in the right pocket, an carry that dice into that pocket an' it would give them luck. They nevah lose...
(They just carry this [these] dice right on this piece of cloth?)
Dat's right, an' they'd be always lucky in gamblin'.
Entry 2286
Said to be lucky - dey puts dere han' up undah a woman's dress fo' luck. Well, dat's all ah heard dem say dey do - jes' place dere han' up undah de Woman dress an' go right back. An' ever' time dey fall [lose], dat's whut dey do an' dey gain. Ah nevah been roun' anyone talkin' on dat line very much, but ah hear dat much.
(That is if they are playing cards or dice, or anything of that sort?)
Playin' cards an' shootin' dice an' all. Dat's whut ah heard dem 'splain of it. Ah nevah has had much experience about gamblin' atall.
Entry 2287
Cross him up - you gotta cross him up. See, like that, there's two- three Ways to cross him up for that. Now, you kin go to his house, if you wanta quit that game at that time - if you could get at his woman you could cross him uP. That's going to put him in bad luck. And sometimes you kin change cards and go and put him in bad luck. But the best way to cross him up in that game, you kin draw his cards. If not that, you git behind him and you sprinkle a little salt on his back. [Salt sprinkling with variations is known everywhere.] " See, that salt, that kills him [kills his luck]. (How do you mean, if you got his woman you could cross him up? You mean while he is in the game?) Yeah, while he's in the game gambling, and you go to the house and have his woman - he can't ketch nobody.
(Then his luck is bad in gambling?)
Yeah, that's right - it's going to be bad.
Entry 2288
Den dey go to a woman an' git some of her hair, understand, some of her hair down heah, de private hair, an' tie it up in a red han'kerchief or red rag or somepin an' tote it in dere pocket - yo' know, wear it on yo'. Work it in yo' han's yo' know [before playing or betting] an' stick it back in yo' pocket. (What do you do that for? For luck or what?) [Work it in yore han's indi- cates gambling but I wanted a statement.] For luck in gamblin'.
Entry 2289
If you wanta have luck in gamblin', if yo' married or got a wife or got a girl fren', jes' git a piece off her bloomers an' a piece of her hair an' a hairpin, an' put Heart Cologne wit dat an' a piece of garlic, an' sew dat into a cloth together with a dime an' keep it in yore pocketbook or in yore pocket. Yo always have luck in gamblin'.