Browse:THREE INGREDIENTS: ASHES - CIGAR BUTT - PEANUTS (Volume 4, entries 9158)
THREE INGREDIENTS: ASHES - CIGAR BUTT - PEANUTS
Volume 4, entries 9158. Source context: ADDITIONAL RITES AND BELIEFS → COURT CASES. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 9158
Yo' take some ashes [coal or wood or back-yard trash] an' put it in a li'le tobacco bag [holding a cigarette mixture back in the days when a smoker rolled his own]. An' den yo' git a ole cigah butt, an' yo' kin git some peanuts an' put in dere. An' jis' befo' yo' git ready, jis' when dey git ready tuh call 'em [you], all dey [you] have tuh do is, drop dat on de flo' [of the courtroom] an' dey'll [you will] git a light sentent [sentence]. [Here is the symbolism to help defendant: ashes (the power of the court has been burned out), cigar butt (something thrown away), and peanuts (scattered about are unlucky for the place- See No.2574, p.710, v.1).]
Tobacco retrieves the named tobacco bag and cigar butt; the passage does not say loose tobacco was added.