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THIRD GRAVE
Volume 4, entries 7542. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → HOW TO OBTAIN GRAVEYARD DIRT → DIRT FROM WHAT TYPE OF GRAVE. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 7542
Well, when you want your next door neighbor to move outa dat house, you go to the graveyard and get you some graveyard dust. You walk to the third grave - get you some graveyard dust; bring that dust back there and keep it - you sprinkle a little salt in it - just a little salt and you stop it up. Now, on the full of the moon, you walk around there and you sprinkle that dust and they going to move from there - they gotta move.
(What do you mean by the third grave?)
The third grave in that - after you enter into the graveyard - the third grave you git to. You get you some dust off. [For a variant of this rite with a different purpose, see 1918, p.563; and for more about moon as a time for getting graveyard dirt, see following rite, 1919.]