Subject:Cigars
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Entry 2915
Get you a John Ruskin cigar.
(A John Ruskin cigar.)
Cigar, and put it in a glass. Get a lump of ice and put it in a tub. And when you gon'a go before the judge, you have glasses round in there and have a candle, nine candles, and let somebody - when you going down to the court - light those candles and have that glass setting in the center with them two John Ruskin cigar in it, and light them and let them be smoking. And have them candles burning. The judge will discharge you. (And you get a cake of ice - here's your cake of ice - and you put this glass on top of the ice with the two cigars in it?) Set it on top of the ice with the two cigars in it and all the glasses around, but you got to buy new glasses what ain't been used.
(And how many glasses do you use around that cake of ice?)
Nine.
(And what color candles do you put in those nine glasses?)
White. (Oh, white. I see. And these candles and the cigars are burning at the same time?)[See comment.] Burning while your case is going on - while you go into court.
(But they must be John Ruskin cigars?)
John Ruskin cigars.
(I see.)
[An ordinary water glass is put in the center of the cake of ice and into it are set two John Ruskin cigars. Circled about this glass with cigars stand nine white candles in glasses. The candles are lighted and apparently the cigars also; but the latter will not "be smoking." On this cake-of-ice altar, a cigar- smoking judge is confined by the magic circle of pure white candles - See Magic Circle, p.123, and the circular candle-rites of Doctor Yousee's interview. The glass with cigars in the center of four icy corners also completes a magic quin- cunx (p.710), giving us an unusual quincuncial altar.]
Entry 1997
Well de simplest thing yo' kin do if yo' pore an' haven't got any money lak me - de cheapest an' best thing to do is tuh go to the drug store an' git a ten-cent bottle of Hearts Cologne and take that cologne an' put it in a spray - jest like yo' spray fo' insects - jest spray the room that chew sleep in an' close it up. If yo' don't do that, yo' kin smoke a cigar. Yo' kin put it in yore eyelashes, in yore hair, anywhere about chew, the Hearts Cologne. An' then yo' kin take it an' po' it on money, if yo' have a dime - anything except a nickel or a penny. Yo' kin put it on a dime or fifty cents or a quarter an' rub it in de palm of yo' hand. Each time that chew rub the money, make a wish fo' de job dat chew want an' yo'll git it.
(And you use it also in the room for a job.)
Entry 2338
Jes' lak yo' smokin' any cigars yo' kin take some of dis Hearts Cologne an' po' about nine drops in dere on dat cigar an' dry it about, say two or three hours. An' dat will give it a sweet smell an' dey say dat's lucky to yo' - yo' be lucky in gambling. (You just pour it on this cigar before you light it an' let it dry.) About a couple of hour. Den smoke it, or either de cigarette. Yo' kin do it wit cigarette if yo' wanta.
Entry 7010
Well, yo' git some likkah an' put cigah ashes in dere an' den yo' make 'em drink off it. He won't drink no mo'. [Everywhere I found tobacco ashes a cure for alcoholism.]
Entry 7012
As so often in hoodoo, the same rite can be used for an opposite pur- pose like the following one:] Git close tuh de people. Treats [de people] dere one night [when opening a bootlegging business]. Git chure trade worked up right. An' den, aftah dey come in, yo' drop a li'le sompin, cigah dust, cigah ashes. Put it in dere glass an' serve dis tuh 'em. Serve dere stuff on dat, an' dat will bring dem right back tuh yo'. (But they must come first. And the cigar ashes will bring them back there, if I am bootlegging.) Yes sir.
Entry 13317
De cigar ashes - de same as ah walk in tuh take a drink. Ah'm used tuh drinkin' heavy. Why dey'd take de cigar ashes an' empty it into de stuff [alcohol] an' it would make me sick. An' if ah git ovah dat ah wouldn't have no taste for any ag'in, because it supposed tuh have double de power after yo' put dat cigar ashes into it. [This is believed everywhere.]