Subject:Body/Private body region
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Entry 4634
Why she takes de little bow. Ah'm goin' tell yuh whut she do's wit dat, an' it'll work. If she wanta gain 'er sweetheart, if he won' notice her, she gits de little bow outa his hat an' she pins it right ovah - she pins it right ovah dere, right ovah her private place. An' he'll follah 'er all ovah dis worl'. He cain't git shet of 'er until she takes it outa dere.
Entry 4793
Take nine needles an' stick 'em in de seat of a man's pants, or eithah a woman's, eithah one. It'll cause dem tuh have pyorrhea at de private [see later] - jis' a dirty garment. Yuh take a dirty garment an' yuh kin mo' lak [likely] do anythin wit a dirty garment den when it's clean. When de dirt's washed out, den yuh cain't handle it - not as good. (A person wouldn't sit on those or anything of that sort? You just do it to the old garment?) To de ole garment de're not wearin'.
(That would give them what kind of a disease?)
DE PYORRHEA. It's somepin jis' 1 lak, ALMOST LAK PILES. IT WILL START WIT A EETCHIN' an' it jis' EETCH AN' EETCH AN' EETCH till it Will jis' TURN WRONGSIDES OUT DOWN DERE.
Entry 3177
Tuh tell whethah woman has bad disease, rub 'er privates wit yore ear- wax, sets 'er on fire.
Entry 3936
Take - buy livah or steak an' tie it roun' 'twixt 'er laigs right chere, right in 'er groin. Tie it roun' dere an' wear it in de mawnin' - wear it till eventime tuh cook it. An' den she'll go an' cook dat an' yo'll eat dat an' den yo' can't leave her. Yo' jes' go crazy ovah her.
Entry 4638
De way dey do de love, dey natchly [naturally], de man has sweated through de hat. Well anything dat he has sweated on, a woman kin take it an' wear it close tuh her privates. An' she sweat on it, mingled wit de sweat dat he sweat on it, an' keep dat close 'bout 'er on 'er person an' dat man should love.
(What else did she do with that bow?)
She could run 'im crazy wit dat bow, too, but I don't know jes' how dey run it.
Entry 11477
They takes that scurve [obsolete for scurf, here flakes or scales of dead skin] off their feet after they take a bath. They scrapes a lot of it off. Like as if they are cooking some kind of meat, well they'll wear that piece of meat up on 'em - like if they buy a steak in the morning, well they wear that on their private, that piece of meat. Then they take this meat with that stuff off their feet, and they cook all that together, and they feed that to the man to eat. But dey [the woman] don't eat it.
(What will that do?)
Well, that makes a man be upstirred, makes him lazy, makes him trifling. That's occasion if a woman really likes a man and wants to keep him at home.
Entry 6723
[To replace fallen womb, boil hen egg hard and stick up in womb. Fallen womb of course can be caused by conjuration or witchcraft. Womb and vagina frequently confused.]
Entry 603
Now, ah had dat done tuh me. Now, ah'll tell yo' de truth. In Alexan- dria, Virginia, mah privates used to ache when mah wife would go off or somepin lak dat - be off any length of time. An' ah couldn't even bothah wit nobody but her, an' ah couldn't do so much tuh her. So, we separated an' dey jis' went tuh swellin' up on me down dere. Ah called de doctah an' de doctah ast me did ah evah had a cramps or anythin' lak dat. Ah tole him, "No suh." So he give me a suscription [prescription] for a suspensor bag [suspensory] an' some medicine. An' jis' [it] ordinarily leave, yo' know - it didn't las long. So, ah wus on mah way tuh hunt mah wife - yo' know, ah had tuh go fin her. She wus in South Ca'lina down heah an' ah wus in Marylan'. So ah stop in Virginia an' someone tole me 'bout a ole woman named Stu-art ovah on de Canal in Alexandria - it's right dere [near] Washington. So, ah went ovah tuh see her - ole woman. Ah reckon she wus roun' 75 or 80 yeahs ole. She say, "Come in, son, ah know why yo' come." Say, "Sit down." An' she took a rock an' put it in mah han' jis' lak dat, an' say, "Yo' shet it tight an' think about yore trouble an' make some wishes." Ah think 'bout mah trouble an' take it out. Ah've nevah seen a rock look lak dat. An' she took it off an' she went tuh readin' dis rock.
(What color was the rock she put in your hand?)
"Bout a dove colored rock.
(Did it change while it was in your hand?)
Naw suh, it didn't change. She say, "Yo's a long way from home." Ah say, "Yes'm. She say, "Ah'm goin' stop yo' heah, now [ambiguous]. An' she say, "Yore mothah's uneasy 'bout chew." ' Say, "Dere she is - can't yo' see her? She got a big white apern [apron] on." Ah couldn't see nuthin' [on the stone]. Say, "Can't yo' see her dere?" Say, "Yo' got somebody daid in yore family?" Say, "Yes'm, mah sistah wus." Say, "Can't yo' see her dere?" Say, "She dressed all in white." Den she come down heah to de bottom of de rock an' she say, "Think now - yo' evah seen anythin' lak dat befo' in yore life?" Ah say, "No-mam." She say, "Think." Ah say, "No'm, ah can't think." "A ole rock," she say, "dat's yore wife pussy." She say, "Didn't she play deceitful wit chew when yo' git ready tuh have sexual interco'se with her? She had tuh go out in anothah room or somepin lak dat?" Says, "Well, she dressed herself fo' yuh" - she didn't tell whut she dressed it wit but she dressed her- self wit somepin - an' she say, "Yore dragged in dat while yo' wus havin' her." An' she say, "She didn't intend tuh kill yo' but in othah words, her intention wus fo' yo' tuh follow wit her wherevah she go. She's a woman wants tuh have her way." Say, "But it would event'ly [eventually] killed yo' if yo' have nevah gone back to her an' hadn't seen me. She say, "Ah'll take yore case fo' $41.50." An' ah paid her whut ah had an' she tole me, say, "Now, yo' may have tuh go tuh Baltimore" - yo' might know it - say, "Yo' go tuh Washington tuh de ole Dutch Center Market an' yo' git chew a package of mayapple root. [I interviewed a Washington root seller, also one in Mobile - see Root seller in Index.] Yo' boil it down - put it in a quart of watah an' boil it down to a pint" [diminishing amount magic - opposite of increasing amount]. An' said, "Yo' take a" - think she said it wus a tablespoonful de first night. She said, "De next night yo' git chew a package of pure apple vinegar - boil a quart of pure apple vinegar an' a package of Sensation tubacca."
(Sensation tobacco - what is that, smoking or chewing?)
Well, yo' kin chew or either smoke it. An' say, "Yo' shave yore hair off easy on yore han'." Say, "Make a syrup out dat. [You have] a syrup out dis Sensation tobacca an' de vinegar. Put it [the two syrups] togethah an' boil it an' make a syrup an' see, yo' 'noint chure haid good wit it - all yore privates an' ever'thing wit it." An' say, "De next night, see, yo' git yo' a bottle of sweet oil an' yo' drink ever' bit of it." Ah did jes' lak she said. So one day, 'bout de last day dem pains, de pains got on top me an' ah went tuh hollerin' upstairs. Mah cousin came up an' she say, "Whut's de mattah?" When she came upstairs ah wus down - ah had de foot of de bed jes' lak dis - she say, "Whut's de mattah?"
(Hanging onto the bed.)
Hangin' on de bed jes' lak dat - wit de suspensor bag on me.
(What kind of a bag on?)
Had on de suspensor bag - ah still had on dat suspensor bag de doctah had give me in Baltimore.
(What's that?)
Dat's tuh hol' dem balls up - dat's a truss, dey call it. So ah look roun' after her lak dat an' ah said, "Dat woman tole me dat mah haid wus damn big an' all - dat ah couldn't hear but ah'd feel somepin dere - somepin dere - an' maybe ah ain't feelin' it now." She laughed an' says, "Ef yo' don' treat dese wimmin right, dey'll kill yo'." So she rushed dis one man next do' to dis wumman cross de Canal dat had give me dat suscription tuh use an' tole her whut a fix ah wus in an' he said she laughed at him when he got dere an' tole him, "He'd be all right when yo' go back." An' sho' 'nuff when he came back ah wus all right. An' de next day ah went tuh work at de shop fo' five hours, an' ah throw 'way dat suspensor bag or dem trusses an' ah nevah had dem pains any mo' since. Naw suh. An' jes' mah ordinary nature came back to me an' ah could go wit any woman ah wanted, an' befo' ah could hardly rear it up an' anothah woman seem jes' lak a man. Dat de truth.
(What kind of a iob did you have with the Southern Railroad - firing?)
Firelighter in de roun'house.
(Oh, you were lighting the fires in the engines.)
In de engines.
Entry 3164
Well, I got a cousin. Dat ain't no story, dat's truth. An' huh an' huh husban' separated an' she wanted to be wit 'im an' he didn't want to be wit 'uh. Dey separated about anothah woman. So dis woman dressed 'im, had her [the wife] swelled up. (Do you know how she dressed him?) Yes. (You tell me that, then. If there's anything you want to say, I want you to tell me just what happened.) Well, she takes an' washes 'im an' dresses 'im, puts dis stuff on 'im.
(What sort of stuff did she put on him?)
She put dis heah Cuticule Salve an' Montgomery Salve, an' mix it up tuhgethah an' rubbed it on 'im. An' den...
(On his private?)
Yes, rub across 'is private. An' he got it on 'uh [the wife] an' swelled 'uh up, turned 'uh wrongside outwards.
(Turned her wrongside outwards. You mean her womb?)
[I used womb thinking a fallen womb was being described.]
No, sir, dat place down dere where he put it in.
(It turned it [I avoid womb] wrongside out.)
[That was not the end of cousin's trouble!]
[This woman] put cayenne pepper and salt, kerosene and stuff in snuff an' grind it up an' give it tuh mah cousin. Turn 'uh wrongside out, jes' eat 'uh up inside.
(Well, how did she get it in her?)
She give - see, dey all wus workin' tuhgethah, an' she ast huh fo' a bit of snuff. She wus mad wit huh anyway, but she didn't know she wus aftah huh husban'. She ast fo' some snuff an' she give it [in] de stuff, an' it turned huh wrong- side out an' eat it up inside. De doctor say dat snuff eat it up inside. Well, she died. [In a serious case of this sort an M.D. would have been involved - without saying anything about doctored or cunjured snuff. After the woman's death, how- ever, someone would have consulted a root doctor who explained what really had happened. Every believer knows that a Doctor of Medicine could not recognize cunjure. He would call it cancer or somepin othah.]
(That happened right here in Norfolk.)
Not in Norfolk, it was Danville, Virginia.
(Do you come from down that way?)
Yes, sir. Dat's my home, I wus born dere.
Entry 1287
Yo' take dis frog an' yo' bake [dry] him in de sunshine an' when he become old - dry-like, yo' powder dat up an' yo' sprinkle dat on dis man when he come 'way.
(Where do you sprinkle it on him?)
Down on his privates - down dere an' when he have connection wit dis woman, well dat dust will git on her an' it will carry her ovahtime. (The wife would do this if this other woman was going to have a child by her husband?) Dat's right.
Entry 3111
Yo' kin take, if a man's goin' wit anothah man's wife an' dis man don' want 'im tuh go wit dis woman, yo' kin take some red antses, dese large one, if yo' kin git a lot of 'em. Jes' go tuh a antses bed an' git all de antses yo' kin git, an' take dese antses an' put 'em in a pan an' take dem home, an' put 'em in a stove an' let 'em parch an' den powdah dem all up. An' when dis Woman goes tuh bed at night an' go tuh sleep, he kin take an' powdah dis stuff across 'er stomic part down dere, her private part. An' when dat man goes tuh have a date wit 'er, why dey git hung up dere jes' lak dogs.
(Do you mix that red ant dust with lard?)
No sir, yo' don' need tuh put any lard in it, jes' put red antses dust by itself.
Entry 3114
(Have you ever heard of a woman measuring a man?) [Measuring rites will come later.] Well, yes, ah've heard of it. Said dat dey would take string yo' know, an' measure dere privates, an' keep 'em from havin' a intahco'se wit a woman. (What do they do with that string then, after they do that?) Aftah dey do dat, well dey would tote it aroun' up undah dere lef' arm.
Entry 3157
Dey say when yore man is runnin' aroun say if yo' bathe him wit dat sweet milk from a black cow, an' it will stop 'im, say dat he cain't have a woman. (Bathe whom?) Bathe de man - whatevah yore frien' may be, or anybody dat chew come in contact wit dat chew don't want tuh run aroun'
(I mean how would you bathe him? Where would you bathe him?)
Bathe him down heah, his privates.
(With this milk from the black cow and that will keep him from running round?)
Yessuh.
Entry 3201
Jes' lak anothah woman goin' wit mah man, ah take dat toadfrog an' kill 'im an' let dat - let 'im dry - let 'im dry an' take dat dust an' scrape it off an' take an' rub it on yore husban' private, an' when he go an' have dat woman, li'le skippahs will jump outa her. Ah see a woman do dat.
(Jump out of the woman?)
Yeah, goodness! [GOODNESS! is the proper exclamation here. Skippers are usually any insect of Hesperiidae, a large family of order Lepidoptera, the latter also including the true butterflies (Phopalocera), with which skippers are popularly confused. However, in the Southern States of the U. S. A., skippers are either any maggot in- festing meat or a water skipper. The latter is meaningless here. I am certain that our skipper means the one hatching in home-cured hams, because on one of my trips south I bought a home-cured ham at a crossroads country store. They were hanging up in the back of the store. No one told me a ham unprotected from a certain fly or flies could cause trouble. I shipped the ham home to New York City. On reaching home and opening the package, the maggots began to jump! Here was an animal 1/2 inch long, twisting itself into a U, and jumping 1 foot up into the air! Soon there were lOO of them jumping all round the kitchen! No wonder my informant exclaimed GooDNESS! How skippers could come from toadfrog powder I do not know.] [For HooDoO's classical example of putting live things, a turtle, in the other woman, see 10, p.7.]
Entry 3202
And there's a way where women dress their husbands when they don't want them to go with other women. Well they do that by catching a live toadfrog, and they put the toadfrog alive in a container and put a top with a brick on top of it so he can't jump out, and they cook that frog down to just natural grease, and fer nine nights they dress their husband's private with that grease from the frog. It doesn't make any diff ren' if he washes the nex' day, she continues to do that every night and when she doesn't have anything to do with him herself, because it would be detrimental to her, too. And when he comes in contact with this other woman, aftah nine days, the same amount of nights she greased him, there'll come a ball on her privates like your fist and it baffles the doctors, they don't know what it is, because it's somepin very unusual. The toadfrog is used for lots of things.
Entry 3214
(Tell me that again now. What would you do?)
Take de bow out of a man hat. Yo've seen mens when dey buy hats, pull de bow out de hat an' burn it up, haven't chew? Dey won't nevah - very seldom yo' see a man wit a bow in 'is hat. Take dat bow an' tie it an' wear it right roun' heah, roun' yore private, wit a string. Jes' wear it right roun' an' he can't raise no heart fo' no heart fo' nobody but chew.
Entry 3319
[The letter V like the equilateral triangle has three points or corners and both are magic shapes or forms in hoodoo. Usually the equilateral triangle signifies the Trinity - three sides, each equal - but originally and like the letter V it was a sign of the mons veneris. That such was the case can be substantiated by much historical evidence as well as the following rite: l A woman kin take a man's shirt, if she gon'a wash it fer Befo' she wash dis piece, she would fold de end of de shirt - de part dat hangs close to de front part of it. Fold it right near a V-shape [to fit mons veneris] as she can an' cut it off, an' dis man will be her slave. She supposed to wear dat piece of cloth on her body. Take it an' put in somepin an' tie roun 'er body nex' to her skin.
Entry 3332
She kin dress it, yo' know. Well, she dress 'em wit a dishrag. See, she kin take a dishrag while he sleeps, yo' understan', an' she takes dat dish- rag - see, de dishrag is limbah-lak [limber-like], an' she take dat dishrag an' jes' pass it across 'im, yo' know, lak dat. Jes' pass it across 'is penis, yo' know. Yeah, jes' lak yo' wipe [him] off, see, an' it will become he can't use it on nobody else, yo' see, but de person dat wipe. Cuz ah been in dat fix mahself. Evah time yo' go dere yo' can't do it, can't git up. Well, de way it happens, yo' see, dat dressed [or dressing], yo' see it lasts a certain length of time, yo' undahstan'. See, cuz DEY GOT YORE SPIRIT, yo undahstan'. YO' GOTTA FEED UP YORE SPIRIT AFTAH DAT.
(How do they feed it?)
Well, dey repeat it, yo' undahstan' - jes' make a repeat, see. But AFTAH THIRTY DAYS OR SO WHEN IT RUNS OUT, IF DEY DON'T REPEAT IT, yOu'll cOme back to yore nature again, see. But dey can - but long as dey keep dat goin', it will keep yo' off [your nature], yo' undahstan'.
Entry 3384
An' yo' couldn't fool wit nobody else but dem. Well, dey take de rule an' dey measure it an' jes' how long it is. Dey call de inches, an' as dey call de inches, dey measure it 'cross. [To measure with a rule is rare.] After dey measure it 'cross, why dey take de rule an' double it up. After dey done dat, why dey will go to work - dat's when yo' 'sleep, now - dey will go to work an' git a dishrag, yo' undahstan', an' wipe yo' private wit it, see. Dey wipe yo' private wit it, why dey'll take dat dishrag an' put it in a cornah or some part of de house where yo' can't git holt of it, see. Aftah dey's done dat, why yo' jes' couldn't git no heart fo' nobody else but 'er.
(What will they do with that rule, then?)
Dat rule, dey don't do nuthin wit de rule, jis' measure yore dick an' dey'll close rule back up, see. [My informant, marked good, thinks magically. This rite, like many others, contains a number of magic actions: measuring (magic of limitation); length and Width (makes a cross), crossing up according to operator's desire or wish; closing the rule after measuring [[this is like opening and closing a pocketknife in some rites]] (magic of enclosing); double (magic encircling), cornering the dishrag
(cessation of movement); etc.]
Entry 3473
When he go tuh sleep a woman take a string an' measure de length of 'i [his body] from de haid to de foot, an' tie jis' as many knots in it as yo' are tall, see, an' tie it aroun' 'er waist. Den she measure yo' othahwise, straight down, jis' de length dat [penis] is. She tie it in a knot an' tie it roun' 'er ankle an' wear it. One roun' one ankle an' one roun' de othah one - den dat roun' 'er waist. [This ambiguous statement sounds like 3 places the cause of my close questioning that soon follows.] Yo' cain't have no nature fo' no othah woman. (With THE FIRST STRING SHE MEASURES FROM THE HEAD TO THE FOOT? And tie as many knots?) As yo' [he] is high - de height of 'em, see. Yo' kin take dat string an' measure his height by dat string.
(You have to put a knot at each foot?)
No, yo' jis' take de string jis' how many foot yo' is an' put dem little knots in dere. Don't make no diff'rence whereabouts yo' put 'em, jis' yo' tie 'em in dere.
(Where does she wear that string then?)
She wear it roun' 'er waist.
(WHAT DOES SHE DO WITH THE OTHER STRING?)
Take de othah string an' measure othahwise, yo' undahstan' - de privates, yes- suh.
(The second piece of string, and she only ties one knot in that?)
"Cordin' tuh how long he is, jis' de length of it.
(For how long?)
Ah dunno, jis' as many knots - yo' see jis' lak if it's seven inches lak dat, yo' puts seven knots in it.
(Where does she wear that?)
Aroun' 'er ankle, eithah one. Or she have tuh put it roun' both 'er ankles, one on each foot.
(SHE'S GOT THESE TWO STRINGS THEN?)
Yessuh.
(She only uses the string for measurements?)
Yessuh. (You say the man can do the same thing to the woman.)
Entry 3494
When he's layin' asleep take an' measure his privates wit a cord. Take de length of it an' take de roun' of it. An' take it an' tie a knot dere on it an' wear it aroun' 'er below 'er knee. An' dat will stop 'im from runnin' aftah othah women.
Entry 3532
She measure his privates an' git de measure of 'is privates, an' git de length of 'is privates, how it is den, an' tie three knots in de back of de string an' three knots in de front, an' tie it aroun' 'er wais' where it'll come 'cross 'er privates lak dat. It'll cause him tuh come back home tuh 'er. An' if he don't come back home ag'in, he druthah [rather] come aroun' 'er an' be wit 'er, if he's wit somebody else; but he'll nevah git de thrill outa othah people dat he will [with] 'er. He'll come back an' fo'th tuh 'er. She wears three knots right in de front of dat thing, an' three knots in de back, an' ties it roun' de side down heah [side depending on whether tier is right or left handed].
(She ties a piece of string to this piece?)
Naw, jis' a piece of cord string, see. [This means that her original string was long enough to be tied about her Waist.]
Entry 3559
Yes sir, dat's tuh keep a woman from - a woman keep a man from runnin' out wit anothah woman.
(How would she do that?)
She ties nine knots in dat string an' she measures it. Anyway dat she git dat string aroun' 'is private, why den she holds it lak dat. An' she - she might be drunk or sompin. Dey might be drinkin', playin', an' he won't not be thinkin'. An' she git a chance to git one knot in dere, why she got 'er han's on 'im, why den she goes off an' make de other eight. An' she wraps it roun' 'er waist. Why dat will stop a man from runnin' out in de streets, too. Dere sev'ral diff'ren' ways.
Entry 3591
A woman kin take a man an' take his concern when he sleep, take a cord string an' measure his concern wit dat cord string, yo' see, jes' in de middle [center] yo' see. An' she'll have a certain mark dere, yo' know, how long [thick] it is. An' she kin put nine knots in dat string right in dat certain place an' wear it roun' 'er waist. An' ah bet chew ten dollahs tuh fifty, yo' couldn't fool wit a woman. Evah time yo' go tuh fool wit a woman, it will fall right lak a rag right heah.
Entry 3592
An' if she got yo' so dat yo' couldn't fool wit no othah womens - prob'ly she done given yo' some appearance [menstrual blood], dat anywhere she be at, yo' wants to be dere wit 'er. Well, quite natchly [naturally], yo'll say to yoreself lak dis, "Huh, well, ah could fool wit mah wife so, an' when ah git aroun' othah women, den ah can't do nuthin. Which yo' really is, but de ninute yo' aim to do things, yore courage will leave yo'. Well, dere wuz a woman, she got a cord yo' know, jis' lak any little fine piece of line.
(A cord, yes - a string, yes.)
Well, she done - while yo' sleepin', she done cut de length of yo'. She done cat de length from yo' an' how big aroun'. She done cut dat. She'll put knots in de twine. She'll put nine knots in de cord. She take dat cord an' she put it right ovah herself lak dat, add it to anothah piece of cord, an' she'll put nine knots in 'er cord what she got, an' she'll wear it aroun' 'er waist, but de knots in yore length dat goes ovah 'er, she got it right in front ovah 'er pri- vate. An' jis' as long as she got dat roun' 'er, yo' couldn't fool wit no othah womens.
Entry 3595
An' dere's anothah way to tie yo' up. Take - a woman kin fool wit yo' an' git de measure of yore stick, an' put nine knots in it, an' wear it aroun' 'er laig, an' yo' can't have no connection. Yo' may try to have connection wit de party, but evah time dey start, yo'll have de ambition but...
Entry 3597
A wumman could take a string an' tie nine knots in it an' when he goes wit 'er she could measure his privates wit it. (After she has tied nine knots.) Yessir, she could measure his privates wit de string aftah she tied de nine knots in it, an' take dis string an' wear it roun' 'er waist three days. An' aftah she wear it roun' 'er waist three days, take it an' burn it up, an' he couldn't have no intahco'se wit nobody but 'er.
(Well, couldn't he ever git rid of that?)
No, unless somebody wuz jes' smart enough [a two-header], yo' know, tuh tell him how tuh git relief.
Entry 3675
(Now, what were you going to say about those snails?)
I wuz sayin' a man kin do de same thing wit de snail, shell of a snail, an' put a woman in dat predicament of life. (Well, just how would you do that?) Well, he'd take de snail an' hull de snail, yo' know take de flesh part out de snail's shell, an' parch dat snail's shell an' den beat it up real fine. He'll take dat snail dust - undah- stan' me - an' jis' be playin' wit 'er, yo' know, lak a man do sometime. Yo' know, run 'is index finger up 'er vagina, UP IN DAT PREDICAMENT OF LIFE. An' jis' put some of dat snail dust up in 'er vagina, AN' SHE BE LAZY AS A SNAIL, SURE AS GOD LIVIN', FO' ANY OTHAH MAN DAT CREPT IN DERE.
(I see. I get the idea.)
Entry 3768
Heah's whut she do, she git de gizzard of a mockin'bird an' [or] de dog gizzard, an' if de man is tied up, yo' know, Doc, an' yo' wanta git loose. Is dat whut chew mean? (That's right.) If de man is tied up an' he wanta git loose, an' de woman whut he goin' wit wanta git 'im loose, an' de woman or he git a gizzard from de mockin'bird. An' he take de gizzard while it's bloody - lak it is jes' from de bird. Don't cook it or do anythin' wit it. An' put on 'isself an' jes' take de gizzard an' put nine times. Draw dis gizzard down 'is penis nine times. An' dat will bring his nature back.
Entry 3785
Yo' kin take a penny yo' see, an' drill a hole in it yo' see, an' put a string in it yo' see, an' tie it down - tie it chew know where it will rest, yo' know right in yore privates down dere, an' dey tell me dat will kill it. (That is if his wife has tied him up.)
Entry 3788
Now, I kin tell yo' somepin dat'll make yore courage rise, if a man falls, yo' know. Yo' know some people say yo' kin fix a man where he can't have nobody but chew. But chew take a red onion an' yo' wrap it up in a wet rag an' put it in de fiah an' roast it, an' when it git done lak a roast aig, yo' take an' let it git cool. Take dat an' squeeze dat juice all de way on yore private an' yo' rise lak dat.
(That will cure it?)
Kills anything. If dey hang up de rag lak some do's, dey take de dishrag an' run yo' wit it.
Entry 3805
Take a snail an' put 'im on a blacksnake shed, de shell of de snake. Saturate it good wit dat snail an' give it to a man dat have lost 'is nature - couldn't raise his nature fo' a woman. Saturate it good an' rub it all roun 'is waist an' let it come down a point to his penis. De next time he goes to a woman, his nature is all right. (What do they do with that snake shed. Do they tie it around them or just rub it?) Jes' tie it in a loop, yo' know, so it will hang down dis way. Or yo' could Wrop it aroun' if yo' wanta. Ah believe dat is so.
Entry 4422
Take some nails an' drive 'em intuh a person's bowels proposition, in- tuh a new bo'd, an' cuz 'em tuh have a eatin' cancer at dere private [rear, not front]. [The board is substituting for a tree.] (THEY DO WHAT?) Take a new bo'd an' place it on dere - jis' lay it on de new bo'd, de person business. When dey jis' go an' have a action, take it an' place it tuh de new bo'd. Take nine new nails an' drive it in an' [when] yuh drive 'em in so fur yuh crook de nine nails head tuhgethah. Don't let 'em tech tuhgethah, jis' crook 'em all lak dat [demonstrates].
(Bend them over towards each other.)
Ben' dem 'wards each othah an' dat'll cuz 'em tuh have a eatin' cancer at dere private.
(They drive these nails right through the business?)
Dey drive 'em right through intuh a new bo'd. [I have never heard of this rite before, but I suggest the 9 nails bent over are a diagrammatic figure representing Cancer or Crab, fourth sign of the Zodiac. If my suggestion is possible, 10 nails would have been a better symbol. Evident- ly the 2 pincers, because they close, are considered as one.]
Entry 5044
Dey cut de toe of yore socks out.
(The toes of both socks?)
Dat's right. Well, aftah dey would cut de toe of yore socks out, dey would fix it intuh anothah piece of cloth an' wear it 'cross dey private - de girls.
(What will that do?)
Dat supposed tuh keep yuh.
(The woman would do that to the man?)
Jis' a woman, not a man.
Entry 7913
Ah heah 'em speak of de graveyard dirt [demonstrates]. (Get the graveyard dirt - and what do they do with it? Rub it in their hands.) Rub it in dere hand an' when dey got tuh anybody's yard - don' care how bad de dog is - put de graveyard dirt an' rub it in dere hands an' rubs on de privates. Don' care how bad de dog is, jis' go dere an' [hold your] palm tuh de dog, an' de dog won' even bothah yo', jis' come dere an' lick yuh hands.
(The dog must smell your hands.)
He'd smell yuh hands from dat graveyard dirt and privates.
(Just the female dog's privates.)
Ah don' care how bad de dog is, de dog wouldn't bothah yo'.
Entry 10243
Take a piece of cloth, [they] say, an' ketch him asleep an' measure him, measure his penis. [Knots not tied]. An' aftah she measure it, den she wear dat aroun' her waist, yo' see. An' den dat's tuh tie him up. He cain't have nobody else but her. [One cylinder later informant repeats this rite from the man's point of view; see rite following present one.]
Entry 10250
What would she do to fix him up? She would take a string while he is asleep and get the length of his private. And she'll tie that string in nine knots and she'll wear that string around her waist. And when he goes on the street amongst other womens, why his private will fall, it will never raise up for no one but her, as long as she wears that string. And she don't have to wear the string unless she wants to, for she can easily bury the string. The string will do its work either on her body or in the ground, as long as it is tied and she got the right length of it. It'll never raise up for no woman but her.
Entry 10255
Ah heard dat chew kin take a cord string dat chew buy on a package an' measure his private, an' make nine knots in it an' wear it round yore waist, am' he can't go out an' have nobody else.
Entry 10286
Get a red-skin onion, rub juice on penis until burns; let dry, do not wipe. [Since onion is a witch deterrent, the cause of impotence here was witch- craft. Shape and color of this vegetable also added to its magic power.] [Richmond, 341:1.]
Entry 12914
Yo' kin take a snail an' put it with fresh hog lard an' stew it down an' grease a man's privates with that an' that'll keep him from havin' any nature. [Waycross 191:6.]
Entry 3554
(How do they do that?)
Well, dey take yore chamber lye an' if dey're still in dat house, yo' go to dere house. An' if yo' want to urinate, say, "Well, ah'm goin' to go to de bath- room." She give a jar to yo' an' yo'll urinate. She'll take dat an' as long as it contain no othah but yourn, she'll take it an' stop it up in a bottle. She'll take dat an' hide it somewheres. An' aftah she hide it somewhere on yo' [not on the man's person but about the house], yo'll find dat yo'll nevah be able [to have another woman] - she only. She take - aftah she gits yore chamber lye, she takes a string an' she'll measure yore private. An' aftah she git de length of yore private, den she take an' she make nine knots in it, drawin' to her evah time. Each time she draw a knot, it's drawin' it to 'er. Den she'll take an' she'll wear dis string aroun' 'er waist nex' to her skin, mo' so. An' den she'll take yore chamber lye an' hide it. She hide dis from yo' an' evah time yo' try to take intahco'se wit some othah woman, it drop. Yo' nevah can do it.
Entry 4639
Dey take dat bow an' dey bury dat bow. Dey takes dat bow an' deyburies it, if a woman gits it. Ah guess she musta puts it - wears it in 'tween 'erlaigs or sompin or othah like dat [first], if she wan'a man tuh be crazy about 'er an' jes' go crazy about 'er. She takes it an' wears it so many days right 'tween 'er laigs. An' dey said she takes dat bow an' she ties it up in a little ole - jes' sews it up in somepin an' she puts it in 'er pocketbook an' she wears it in 'er pocketbook. Dat's de way she did.
Entry 4641
Take de bow outa yore hat, de woman kin. Take de bow outa a man's hat an' git some of 'is hair an' take de seat outa his drawers an' weah hit. Only way she kin do tuh keep 'im, yuh know, feed 'im. Take fo' instance, her monthlies yo' know.
(What did she do with this bow? Did you say? How will she wear those things?)
She weah dem undah - right 'tween 'er laigs. Put 'em in a sack an' weah dem 'tween 'er laigs.
Entry 4642
Ah've heard dat a woman could take dat, dat little bow from de back of yore hat, an' take it an' tie it up in a rag an' tote it 'twixt 'er laigs. An' she kin do yo' anyway in de worl' she wanta do. Now, dat's whut ah heard about dat.
Entry 4643
Ah heah dat a woman could take dat li'le bow in de back of a man's hat, an' wear it ovah her private an' keep it dere, tuh make a man go wit 'er.
Entry 4644
Kin take dat little bow an' sew it up in a piece of cloth an' wear it in 'tween dere laigs, an' dat will make 'em love yo'.
Entry 10401
Man mixes snail slime, snuff and butter [3 ingredients]: rub on woman's vagina; any other man approaching it will fall [Petersburg, 417:8].
The vagina is explicitly named as the application region. The source-stated fall of another man remains unexplained and unverified.
Entry 10402
Man mixes snail and grease, rub it on his penis, has intercourse with the woman, any other man approaching that woman will fall [Richmond, 341:3].
The penis is explicitly named in the account; the described actions and the prediction that another man will fall are not established events or effects.
Entry 10404
Dry snail [in cloth], rub down 3 times over privates, bury; 'as long as that be down, you vill [be down] too"' [Mobile, 845:4].
The instruction explicitly names privates. Its 'down' wording and quotation marks remain unresolved, with bracketed explanations kept editorial and no verified effect.
Entry 10405
Rub snail on woman's vagina, 'dat'll tie her up' [if she has another man]. [Mobile 881:2.]
The vagina is explicitly named. The quoted tying-up claim and bracketed condition remain distinct source context, without a documented action or result.
Entry 10406
Rub snail over vagina; "next man will get stuck" [Vicksburg, 990:9].
The instruction explicitly names the vagina; the separate quoted prediction about the next man getting stuck remains unexplained and unverified.