Browse:Vinegar (Volume 1, entries 2718–2720)
Vinegar
Volume 1, entries 2718–2720. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → BUSINESS AND CUSTOMERS. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
Entries
Entry 2718
Ah heard that if a person sellin' whiskey an' yo' didn't want de law tuh come dere, say jes' fo' yo' jes' tuh keep alum an' vinegar. Yo' take dis alum an' vinegar - see, dey both sour together, an' yo' takes an' melts dis alum an' burns it first an' melt it, and den puts it in vinegar an' keep it spread down cross yore do'. Said 'long as yo' keep dat dere, said de law wouldn't bother yo'.
Entry 2719
I've heard that you take a little vinegar and a little short rug, and put a little vinegar on the rug and put it across the door, and they will come to the door but they won't come no further. That keeps them from coming across that rug.
Entry 2720
Take a east [yeast] powder bottle and put it full of vinegar, salt and 'pepper, and put it right down at your gate - you bury it in the ground - and this person that you don't want to come to your house, he won't come in then.
The printed instruction explicitly directs burying the bottle in the ground. The visitor-exclusion result remains an unverified source claim.