Subject:Gills
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Entry 11633
They do this plenty of 'em if they want to start you to traveling, you know, something like that. Well, they take a strand of hair out your head or if they can't git it they git somebody what close friend to you to get it, you un- derstand if they can't get it themselves. A strand of hair from you, regardless of where it come from. Get something like a fish, you know and they'll thread it into his gills, like that, you understand. Leave the thread stay in there and throw that fish back into the water. Just like that fish go, you'll go, and the death of that fish will be the death of you.
Entry 5873
I was in the barber shop one night at Eatonton, Ga., and a fellow said heroved a fellow that run another fellow out of town with this hair. The fel- low Was going with his girl, and a friend of his told him how to get rid of him. So he did what this friend said. He takes some of his [the rival's] hair on a Sunday morning; he has to get it on a Sunday morning. t time the barber shops used to be open on Sunday morning. And [he] went to Hshing that same Sunday, and caught a fish and put the hair in the fish gill, turned the fish back loose in the water. And they say that fellow left town t same Sunday evening. [For barbershop hair, see also margin title BARBERSHOP. p.2940.] [By hand, from Pullman porter, on train between Chester, Pa.and Baltimore, Md.]
Entry 3181
Den aftah she git back to yo', yo' takes an' goes anywhere an' git a fish. Yo' takes de gill of dat fish - de gill of dat fish an' yo' take 'is gall an' de livah [3 parts] of de fish. Yo' take it an' yo' parch it - de FISH gill, livah an' gall - tuhgethah as a dust. When she gits back, yo' got it all fixed up but have it kinda in lak a sponge - do lak dat [demon- strates], in a sponge. Well, whilst yo' playin' wit 'er lak dat, regardless of what kinda clothes she be in - if she be in 'er night clothes, OR GOT ON OR'NARY CLOTHES LAK YO' GOT ON YO' NOW - yo' jis' take it lak yo' playin' wit 'er an' touch 'er lak dat wit it an' sprinkle some of dat dust on 'er. [For heart, liver and gall of fish, see cure for blindness, 1256, p.439 from Book of Tobit in Apocrypha (6:1-4; 11:10-14).]
(Any place on her?)
Anywhere on 'er. Yo' jis' 'noint it. She wouldn't have no kinda mind of leavin' yo' or bein' worried wit nobody else but yo'.
(That's to keep her after she comes back?)
Aftah she comes back.