Subject:Antisepsis
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Entry 894
A girl named Clara B., she was goin' with a boy named Johnnie, and de girl dat Johnnie used to go with got mad with Johnnie and she got some kind of a dust like, it seemed like it was some sawdust like, and she took it and put it in Johnnie's clothes. And when Johnnie put on his clothes, his moudt turnt from here all away roun' to there, turnt way roun' here, Just as if somebody would take your moudt and turn it around just like dat [demonstrates]. And Clara took him in Kinston [North Carolina], and de man told him to take some sulphur and jist dust hisself all over in de sulphur, and take his clothes and burn 'em up. He'd have to burn all his clothes what he wore up since de time he started goin' with Clara, and he'd have to wear new clothes. And he told him to take some of this same sulphur of what he dusted himself wid and put it roun' her door and roun' her gate, and put nina grains of corn dere. And it turnt right back on de girl [and her mouth became awry]. [Wilmington, N. Car., (267), 263:1; in Wilmington,1932; for more antisepis, see whisk broom, p.10.]