Subject:Manure/Fresh
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Entry 11842
[THE LETTER "H" OF CHANNEL DE WORLD BEGINS HERE and SO dO some extra rites about human hair, a subject already largely concentrated in pages 2937- 3049, volume 4. For various reasons hair, not always the primary element of a rite, is widely scattered throughout HOODOO. The following beliefs about hair start with a few longer rites, which are followed by many brief statements with- out margin titles but with the key words being underlined.] And again they say if you take it [a hair from per- son] and put it [in] some kind of manure or somepin - like if you have a cow or somepin round the lot and they do fresh manure. Say, if you take this hair and bury it in there, and set this manure about in some shady place maybe it won't dry so fast, and say let it stay there. And you take it out of there and put it in a bottle of rye whiskey, a pint bottle of rye whiskey, and say in nine days it will be a snake. I've heard that. (But they don't put that snake in you though? That snake they don't put in you?) Well, if you drink the whiskey, if you drink the whiskey before the thing kin, you know, come to be whole, well hit will come alive in you.
(I see, but you have to put it in this cow manure?)
No, take the hair out it [the manure] if you know right where you put the hair in.
Entry 12466
To make 'em move outa de house, dey got a dust dey call moving dust. Dat's not no good by itself. Yo' git dat at de drug sto' but it not no good by itself. Yo' git de mov- in' dust an' git some fresh cow manure, jes' aroun' a dairy, jes' as it been spattered yo' know, fresh cow manure. An' yo' take dat movin' dust an' put it in dat cow man- ure. An' if dey got no steps, jes' lak a room in heah, so yo' kin bury it, if dey got no steps.... Yo' take hit an' some oil of cinnamon. Yo' take de [oil of] cinnamon an' yo' rub it on de do' knob an' take de fresh cow manure an' bury it. Carry dat an' put it undah dat [points] see dat piece? [He points to the middle of the interviewing-room door.]
(Under that piece that goes across the door? The door saddle?)
Yeah, yo' put it undah dere. Git dat fresh cow manure an' jes' line a little bit on de latch whah [where] dey gotta come an' put dere han's in it - what dey gotta put dere han's in it. An' ah'll guarantee yuh dey won't be dere but two weeks. Dat moves 'em. Dey gotta go.
Entry 6756
A dew-poison sore, caused by walking in the grass and getting scratched by a briar, cured by poultice of fresh cow manure.
Entry 7290
Dat's jes' in case de law chasin' 'em wit de hound dogs. Dey tell me dat - people say dat dey kin go through a cow's lot or anywhere dat dey kin git to fresh hill of dat, where she jes' dropped it, an' wipe dey feets in it an' dat will turr de dogs around right dere.
Entry 1190
Yo' bite 'em [he bites you] like tonight and dey [you] got a nice bunch of chickens - jest any kind of chicken, you know. Ever' mornin' fer about nine mornin's yo' go out and you says yore prayers right at the chicken coop and jest as yo' go - jest as yo' say de last prayer, last work in de prayer, say, "Lord have mercy, ' you rub some of dat chicken manure over dere - right fresh chicken stuff and dat will rot yore [his] teeth out.
Entry 7299
Well, if a man kill someone. "Long in dem days dey had bloodhounds. Well, he'd git ovah to some of 'is friends house an' git some turpentine an' he'd 'noint the bottom of 'is foots an' he'd go tuh a cow path where de cow had took a dump an' he put his foot in dat cow stuff, fresh cow stuff. an' dat turpentine, an' de dog [trailing him] he'd wandah, nevah could [dog] do anythin' wit 'im.
(DID HE ANOINT HIS FEET IN ANY PARTICULAR WAY?)
Jes' straight out [so that he would move forward]. (Oh! He rubbed his feet straight out from the heel to the toe with turpen- tine.)