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THREE BOTTLES
Volume 3, entries 4315. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → URINE. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 4315
Grand Duke[?] or Green Pastures[?] or [?].
(Grand?)
[Informant could not name the oil.]
Grand - Green Grand - or - yeah, yuh take dat an' yuh put it in a bottle. Yuh set three bottles, jis' like yuh git one a dem cake flavor bottles. Yuh have tuh take three of dem. Yuh ketches 'er urine, see. Yuh ketches some of de filth, some of de filth what - jis' like if she goes in de night. de night. Well yuh take a spoon an' take some of de filth an' put it in one bottle, den yuh put some of de urinate in anothah bottle, den yuh takes 'er name. But yuh go an' git chew some of dis parchment papah which ain't no papah, but it's lambskin, but it's very thin. Yo' take dat lamb's skin, well, yo' pays 32c a foot fo' it [a good profit for hoodoo drug stores and mail- order houses during the Great Depression from a cheap quality of parchment paper]. Well, yuh cut yuh a piece jis' de length of 'er name, an' yuh take it aftah yuh've taken an' put dat urinate in one bottle an' de othah stuff, dat filth, in anothah bottle. An' yuh take some corn an' yuh takes 'er name an' yuh write it.
(You take some what?)
Yuh takes 'er name an' write it on dis parchment paper.
(You said corn?)
Yes.
(What kind of corn?)
Jis' common or'nary corn, jis' like if it be fo' chicken'feedin'.
(Oh, an ear of corn.)
Yeah, a roastin' ear of corn.
(I see. All right.)
Den yuh take dat an' yuh write dat name three times an' put it in each one of dose bottles.
(On a piece of paper you do that?)
Yes, parchment papah which it would be dis lamb's skin, see. Den yuh take it an' put it right at de cornah [center later] of de mattress.
(Now, wait a minute, what did you do with that corn?)
Yuh put it in dat urinate.
(Oh, all right.)
Yuh mix it in each one of de bottles, de urinate an' dat filth, an' den yuh put 'er name down in dere wit it, see. Den yuh take dat bottle an' yuh fix a little package, jis' like a little small package, two down an' one on top, any way yuh could git it in dat mattress, but put it where she won't nevah turn it ovah. An' yuh an' her would git along jis' like two children in de house dere.
(Make a package of those two bottles?)
Two bottles. Yuh see, yuh have two down an' one up on top of dem.
(Oh, you use three of those bottles?)
Yes, two of dem bottles.
(Two down and the third one on top?)
On top.
(All lying flat?)
Lay 'em down anywhere in de centah [formerly corner] of de mattress, an' yuh an' 'er will git along like two children in de house.
(What do you put that corn in there for?)
Well, dat's tuh strengthen it.
(What? Oh! that's to strengthen it.)
Yes, her urinate - long as de urinate dere, well, she nevah would leave from around dere. She will always be dere, be kind. But den, don't nevah stop up neither one of de bottles tight, yuh undahstan', becuz if yuh'd stop up debottle tight, dat would stop 'er urine from comin' down, see. Jis' take somepin like a papah stoppah, yuh know, jis' to ketch a little air, yuh know, jis' - an' yuh put it down, screw it down, she couldn't nevah go nowhere. Yuh an' 'er jis' at peace, jis' like two children.