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Sinnerman's Hand
Volume 1, entries 2304. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → HANDS: MAGIC HELPERS. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 2304
I says, ah heard them say if anybody was in the house that you wanted to move out, to get a grave-digger to get you a hand off a sinnerman's - left hand off a sinnerman's body. You know, just like a house was high - well, it's got maybe some place where you got a chance to bury it. Well, quite natch'l, the evil spirit would follow [the hand to] that place, you know, and you would be afraid and you would have to move out 'cause you wouldn't understand nuthin. You would hear some kind of funny noise around there, you know, and you just couldn't understand it and you'd have to move. [House was high means house raised aboveground on four or more rocks or posts to avoid dampness. A person could crawl into this underneath airspace to plant any cunjure.]