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Entry 13134

Volume 5 · printed page 4440 · Memphis, Tenn.

I've heard that choo could use snuff like this. You know, jis' like a man be wit choo with a wha'shah call 'em? Merry Widow or cundrwn [condom] or somepin like that. Well, take a little bit of snuff an' a little sugar - jis' a little pinch of snuff an' a little bit of sugar an' put it together. An' put it in that, choo know down in the bottom [of the condom] an' roll it [condom] down ordinary jis' like it was. An' jis' let a man use that choo know ever' time he - you know they don't use that only when they be's wit chah [informant a woman], but you have 'em ready to let them have 'em when they come to you. An' they be comin' to yo' all de time spending money. [I never asked for this sort of thing, but took it down as a part of hoodoo life.] [Until I looked up this word recently I did not know that it had been named after it's inventor, an 18th century English physician, Dr. Condom!]

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