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Sixty-Hour Candle
Volume 1, entries 2812. 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 2812
If a man is takin' in money in business, it's a candle yo' call sixty- hour candle. It burns in a cup - yo' cain't git 'em heah - an' yo' light dat candle. If yo' light it dis mawnin', yo' light it at six a'clock an' it'll burn all day. It'll burn from now till in de mawnin', an' when dat burns out, why yo' don't burn anothah one den fo' 'bout two or three days. [This is a special time-skipping magic.] An' den aftah yo' burn anothah one, why yo' write a note. Yo' write whut chew wish fo' on dis note an' yo' set it undah dat glass dat dis candle is burnin' on, an' yo' write, "De Name of de Father, de Son an' de Holy Ghost, '' on dis papah. Well, yo' fold this papah three times an' yo' place it undah this glass where this candle is burnin'. Dat's fo' tuh draw customers.
(After you burn two of them, you put this under the third candle, then?)
Yo' burn it undah de same candle. But chew make yore wishes every time yo' light one. De first candle yo' make yore wishes whut chew wanta do, an' de sec- ond candle yo' make yore wish, an' de candle yo' put chew a note.
(This candle is a little fat candle isn't it?)
Yeah, it's a little yellah candle.
The informant instructs writing a Father, Son and Holy Ghost formula. Candle timing and the claimed customer result remain source descriptions.