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TESTING DEAD BONE TO SEE WHETHER LUCKY
Volume 4, entries 8026. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → COFFIN - DOLL BABY - BURIAL - BONES → BONES FROM THE DEAD → WHAT BONES FROM THE DEAD DO. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 8026
Ah hear dem say dey goes tuh de graveyard an' git - dig down dere an' git de lucky bone. Take it out an' bring it home an' dress it. Well, dey use Heart Cologne on it [for a dressing].
(How do they use the Hearts Cologne on it?)
Well, DEY WILL TEST IT OUT WIT DIS COLOGNE. DEY WILL PUT IT OUT AN' LET IT DRY. IF DEY TALK TUH IT AN' IT MOVES, IT BE'S DE LUCKY BONE. (Well, would they go out to the graveyard? They dig into a grave and get some kind of a bone?) Yes, sir.
(Just any kind of a bone?)
Yes sir, any kina bone.
(They grab anything and run home?)
Yes, sir. (And test it out. And if it isn't the right bone, they go back for another bone?) Dat's right, go back fo' 'nothah one if dat ain't de right one.