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White Candle and Prayer
Volume 1, entries 2894. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → SHRINES: ALTARS - CANDLES - SAINTS; NEW ORLEANS AREA → (2) CANDLES. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 2894
You can go to people and they can tell you what to do. Well, just like if you go to people and they tell you what to do. I know a fellow [a hoodoo or shrine-keeper] - well, if somebody have stole something from you - well, all he'd do is to say this prayer at nine, twelve and three, and tell the Lord, say, "Now, Lord, such-and-such-a one done stole something from me and I really need it." But you mean that from your heart and you sets that candle - a 25c candle - which is to burn eight days - and in eight days it is supposed to bring it back to you.
(Just an ordinary white candle?)
An ordinary white candle, cause I know a lady had a graphaphone stole from her and that's the way she got it back.