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WOOD FROM GRAVEYARD - BURNED IN FIREPLACE
Volume 4, entries 7928. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → COFFIN - DOLL BABY - BURIAL - BONES. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 7928
Yo' go tuh de graveyard an' dat tree - lotsa times yo' know dere's elm trees in de graveyard. Yo' git dat wood an' yo' burns it in de fiahplace an' yo's be tantalizin' - ah don't know. But mah wife, she tolt [told] me dat. (You burn it in whose fireplace?) Jes' in de house, in yore fiahplace, yo' kin burn dat. Say, "Heah's a piece of wood." Go lay on dere [lay the wood in the fireplace] an' usely [usual- ly] dey moves out, dey can't stay. (If there are some of your neighbors that [disturb you], you want to make them move out, you get a piece of that wood and burn it in the fireplace?) Dat's right. [Sumter, S. Car., (1342), 2322:12.] [This final subsection (3) concludes section 10 on death and also ends the di- visional survey devoted to THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF. Had it been possible to separate all death material, including that in INTERVIEWS into a separate book, a more orderly arrangement of rites could have been found. Eyen so. prob- lems would still remain; symbolism and all those beliefs said to cause death.]