Subject:Bullet
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Entry 10836
I'll tell you another story I have heard; I heard a fellow say. This fellow had killed a fellow and he couldn't rest that night, and a man told him to take a bullet and to take the steel part out of the bullet, and let that powder stay in there. And take some silver paper [tinfoil] and pack in it and whenever he seen this spirit [of the man he had killed] shoot it with his pistol and he would never see it again. [I vaguely remember this man, a mature bellboy at the hotel in Peters- burg, Virginia, where my wife and I stopped from the night after leaving Old Point Comfort. This Was in 1936. Previously, in the margin title at the bottom of p. XIX, v.1 of HOODOO, I thought we had spent that night at the old Jefferson Hotel in Richmond. Actually we did not stop at Richmond on this trip but from Petersburg continued on to Fredericksburg where we had luncheon next day and I met my future contact man Carter for the first time. It was then I arranged with him for my return to collect at Fredericksburg. That afternoon we continued on to Warrenton, where that night I interviewed a waiter. By the way, the bell- boy at Petersburg Was No.33, and the bullet story was recorded on Ediphone cyl- inder No.26. My original transcription is attached to this sheet on which I am now writing.]