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Entry 1790
An' old fashioned coffin, dey befo' yo' wus bo'n ah suppose, too; but lay it in dere dataway. Yo' cut it.
(Cut what?)
Take that photograph an' cut it in three P'ints jes' lak that old-fashioned coffin dey made. Yo' take it to the grave an' yo' bury it, an' yo' bury it on its face In de Name of Jesus. Yo' don't put it no way but on its face, bury him in dat grave on his face, a new grave, not a old one, an' yo' bury it in a new grave that's not been there long. He'll jes' pass on away. [My note on final transcription reads, "This elderly woman supposed to be good - was forgetful - probably a little scared."]
Entry 1792
They can take that photograph and they can take nine red beans, nine brass tacks, nine new needles - nine [new] needles and nine pins, and they can put a weight to that and just like that water - you got to throw that - you goes you know on de ferry in the middle of the river and sink it; and just like that pitchure will mope [molt] away, you'll mope away the same way; cause see, that's your pitchure and you can't get it. (Well, how do you put these things in the photograph? How do they put them in there?) [Informant did not mention a container.] Put 'em in the box. [Box in cases of this sort always symbolizes coffin.]
(Oh, this all goes into the box.)
Yes, and they nail the photograph down in there. They bend it - stick a tack here, a tack there, a tack there, a tack there, till they stick the nine in there all around. They put 'em nine beans down in there and they take 'em nine needles and cross 'em all about in that pitchure - then the tacks and all be in there - and throw it in the river.
Entry 4138
Old people say a woman kin take yore pichure - lak somebody love a woman an' take it out tuh de end of de fork of de road, an' jis' lak if she git- tin' in contact wit a man. Jis' lak if yo' had a wife an' yo' think plenty of 'er. She kin take yore pichure an' go dere in de mawnin' an' piss on dat on de fo'k of de road an' jis' press it [photo] by 'er urinate down dere. Dat will always keep yore mind - instead of yore mind bein' where de bed yo' belayin in, she could - quite natchal [natural] she kin mess, go tuh bed wit anothah man, co'se [intercourse] wit anothah man an' yo' won't say nuthin tuh 'er about it. Why? becuz she have done pissin' on dere an' took yore pichure an' she have put it in de fork rOad. DAT'S WHY DEY CALL IT DE FORK ROAD see. See, dat's a road lak yo' goin' disaway an' dataway. Quite natchal, if she go in de road, she go, she kin come out any road, but yore mind will still be in de same spot. DAT'S WHY DEY SAYS, DE FO'K OF DE ROAD.
Entry 7512
If a person kill a person, yo' kin take an' take dere pichure. [You do not photograph the murderer but try to find a photograph of him.] Jis' have dere pichure an' yo' kin take dat pichure an' - de one dat done dis killin' yo' undahstan' - an' yo' kin take it roun' in de cornah in de south end of de house on de block an' yo' kin bury dat on its face. Dat'll make him come back, too, outside of [the same as] dat aig. It's bettah den dat aig. [Informant had pre- viously given an egg rite.]
(You bury the picture to the south side of your house?)
Yessuh, becuz reason ah know, a boy kill mah brothah an' he sho' [sure] come back an' dey caught 'im right heah in'Memphis.
Entry 12670
Well, jes' whatevah becomes of de photograph, dat's goin' tuh become of yo'.
(If you burn that photograph then?)
Well, yo' git burnt up. Jes' whatevah becomes of it, dat's whut will become of yo'.
Entry 12675
Ah heard 'em say dat chew could take yore photograph, tintype only whut chew use fo' dat, de tintype. Dat's all ah heard about de photograph, an' yo' take dat an' bury it standin' up, haid down, an' dey say dat will kill yo'. Dat's whut dey say. [Memphis, 2815:4.]
Entry 12679
A person could take one of yore photograph or picture an' bo' a hole in a tree an' wish yo' some harm an' put dis picture in de tree an' after so many days when de tree close yo'll die - jes', yo' know, pine away an' die.
(Do they put a peg in that hole or anything?)
Yes sir, peg de hole up after it - puttin' dis picture in dere an' shet dis hole up. [Brunswick 2012:4.]
Entry 12683
Yo' kin take a person's photograph - ah had a fellah's photograph an' ah didn't love him, an' ah wanted tuh git rid of him, an' ah carried it an' nail it up on de no'th side of de tree, an' we broke up friendship. [Wilson 2668:3.]
Entry 12684
Or either git their picture an' turn it backwards to de wall, face to de wall, in a dark place, without anybody see it, an' they'll return. [Memphis 2675:7.]
Entry 24
[There used to be a mathematical axiom stating that the whole is the sumn of all its parts. In hoodoo, however, a part can equal the whole. Every part and function of your body (hair and breath) - anything touching you (clothes and bathwater) - whatever signifies you (name and photograph) - all these and others are substitutes for either the whole or part of the spirit. Many examples of this belief will be found elsewhere - here are a few:]
Entry 2742
It's a gift - ah been doin' it all mah life. (This woman [an author] says that down there when a doctor of this type has any disciples or anybody he is teaching - when they are initiated - Do they have some sort of initiation ceremony? Or something like that?) Yeah, they have that shore. (Do you know anything about what they do?) Well, ah tell yo'. Now we have - ah have had a school right to here. People say they are gifted - they got a gift. Well, ah'll try 'em to see if dey kin see it - to see if they know anything. Well, if ah see the same thing they say they see, den ah know they have a gift. Well, den ah'll go on a'develop 'em. I'll even show 'em articles in de Bible to read to git dereself in dat position. [See my biblical comment p.361.] Yo' see, then after they study that and they know it fluently - and den ah write down to de Temple an' git a diploma an' give 'em, see. Den dey kin go about an' use de Temple's name.
(Where is this Temple by the way?)
St. John's Temple. That's what we call a great hoodoo place. You will find that when you go down there. You jest ask anybody and they say it's one of the largest places there of its kind.
(They teach there? Is it a church or what?)
Yeah, it's like a church and dey have a lot of understudies and they heal there. They do everything. An' people go dere. They have more white than they do colored. (Did you ever hear that in these initiations they have a altar and burn can- dles and that sort of thing?) Oh yes, I have the same thing. Ah have it now at mah place.
(Sort of an altar?)
Yeah, ah have a altar wit saints and candles and oils and different things.
(If I came around to see you, would you let me see them?)
Sure ah let chew see - sure. You come around and yo' kin see it any time. Ah'm dere every day but Sunday.
(Do you have a special room or something of that sort?)
I have a whole basement downstairs - whole basement wit all mah business in it. Ah have one at de church too. You kin come to mah church sometime and you will see how ah perform.
(Yes, where is your church?)
Things ah knows from mah own experience.
[He conveniently missed my question. I do not repeat it.]
(All right suppose you tell me one of those.)
Dey take your photograph and dey turn it upside down and take a pink light and burn it to it fer nine nights and nine days, and dat will worry your mind. Maybe dis woman or somepin dat love you - it would cause your mind to keep coming on her all de time. Yes, she can. Dis woman she takes his name and she write his name nine times, she write her name nine times across this. And then she takes a pink light and she turns this light on top of this piece of paper. When de drippings of dis candle covers this full name then he will be back. Well, you would take St. Anthony. You would take St. Anthony and you would take three lights which would be a green one, a black one and a yellow one, and you would burn this light every night and every morning until these lights burn down completely. That would relieve you or your mind.
(If someone was trying to harm me. Well, what do you do about St. Anthony?)
St. Anthony, dat's a saint. Why you take him and burn dese three lights to him and ask him to....
(Oh, you have a picture of him?)
Oh, yeah, a picture of dis saint. You take St. Peter. St. Peter is a saint that is used fo' all thieves. Yo' take a brass key and you put dis key in de Bible and then you call names. Any- body that lives in dis house and yo' suspicion that anyone in this house did dis crime. Yo' call dere name and de Bible will tell you. It will turn on de one dat stole these things when you call de name, de Bible will turn an' fall.
(Well, what do you do with that St. Peter?)
St. Peter is on a picture. You only stand him and light a light, jest a white candle, and then use dis big brass key which is de one dat gives yo' de secrets to thieves.
(I see - you put that in the Bible.)
Say they have a thing that they call guinea seeds - supposed to control and give you power. You take one of those seeds and chew it up fine and jest as you about to enter and start to talking to this party, you spit this three times in front of 'em and say to yourself what chew want them to do. And they claim that they have to do these things.
(That is used when you are going to get a job.)
Now dey claim fer frogs - in order to have someone that chew wanta trick - put frogs in 'em - you take a frog and you will boil him. After you boil him you take this water and they claim that nine drops of this water into your drinking Water will create frogs to be crawling inside of you.
(Is there any way to get those frogs out?)
The only way to get 'em out would be jest the same way as they got 'em in. Well, in other words, dey say they'd boil de water for you to drink, and well dey would boil more water for you to drink again and den de frogs would come back [out]. [For Doctor Sims, see No. 34, p.23, and Index.]
Entry 2762
Well, my wife.
(You what?)
[He's a little hesitant, nervous at first.]
I had went there over the river for my wife - to Miss Helen. [Long pause.]
(Yes?)
Yes, sir. My wife had left me. [Long pause.]
(Yes. All right.)
So, when she left me, I went over in Algiers to a lady by the name of Miss Helen.
(Miss Helen?)
Yes, Miss Helen.
(I see. All right.)
So she charged me $50. So ah paid her $25 down. So she called me in a room like this [my interviewing room at Patterson Hotel]. So she sat me down and so she made me take everything out of my pockets.
(How was the room - was it decorated or furnished with anything?)
It had candles. It had an altar - like an altar. It had candles.
(How many candles were there?)
They had about twenty diff'rent candles.
(Different?)
Some reds - some blue - black - green.
(Anything on the walls?)
Anything on the walls? No, they didn't have anything but some pictures on there. [Pictures of saints?]
(I see. Was she dressed in any special way? This Miss Helen?)
Yes, she was dressed at that time when she called me in. They told me to wait a minute she Was busy, but in a short while she dressed and she called me in. Well, she had a hat like a cap on, a silk cap, and a big robe - a robe on. You know, a robe.
(A robe?)
A robe, yes sir.
(Any special color - different colors?)
It was a purple robe.
(Purple robe?)
Yes, sir, with a big key - a chain with a big key like the oldtime door key hanging in front of her. (I see. Now, tell me when you went to visit her, just exactly what she told you - everything she told you to do, now. All right.) Well, when she told me, she say for me to go ahead and burn a candle.
(Wait a minute. What about your pockets? She told you about your pockets?)
Yes, sir, she told me to take everything out of my pockets and I done taken everything out. And I left some silver money in my pocket and when I left the silver money in my pocket, she say, "You ain't right, ' says, "ah cain't do any- thing for you 'cept you take everything out."
(Why did you keep that silver in your pocket?)
[I was trying to discover whether silver was for protection.]
I didn't want to come up with all my money.
(Oh, I see. I see.)
And so, after I take the silver money out, I lays it on the table. All right, she takes the other money out of the pocketbook and she lay it all down straight. She asked me, did I stay in town or did I stay out of town. I told her I was staying out of town. Then I was in Vicera. I was staying out of town at that time. She say, "Well, how much is your train fare?" I told her my train fare was $3.35 at that time.
(You were staying where?)
In Vicera.
(In Vicera, Louisiana. I see. All right.) [Nearest I can come to name.]
So she asked me what was the price of the train fare. So I told her the train fare. So she put the money aside and so, she said, "Well, I charge you $50." I say, "I haven't got $50." She say, "How near up to $50 you can come to?" I say, ''$25." She say, "Well, all right." And so she writ me out a receipt and when she writ me out a receipt she give me the receipt but it didn't have no price on it. So she tole me, "Don't send no money by the mail, just send it in a plain letter." So I sent her money just like she said. I sent $5.00 on the first pay- ment. She asked me how I got paid. I told her I got paid according to what I was doing - that I was picking, picking cotton. And so she said to me, "Well, all right." She said, "Don't send the money in no letter - registered letter. She say, "Send it just like - put it in there - a bill - you put it in there." She say, "I'll get it all right." So, I says, "All right." So, I written back to her to lets see if she got the money. So I didn't get my wife back at that time. See? But finally I got her back, but now I don't know if I got her back through that way or not. (What did she tell you to do? To do anything special? What did she tell you to do? Did she do anything?) Well, she told me to send a pictchure back.
(Her picture back.)
And she said I was crossed - see, the reason my wife left.
(Did she tell you how?)
She say how I was crossed. She say the woman had taken my thing and measured it and tied nine knots and put it around her waist. And say that there was some- thing buried - my pictchure was buried underneath the steps, beside the steps'. So she told me where I could find that pictchure. But I found that pictchure though.
(I see. Now, who took that measure? Your wife or some other woman?)
The wife takes it - it's supposed to be my wife what taken the measure of it on the cord. See. Nine knots they put in it. (Now, this woman Madam Helen, she didn't do anything - give you any treatment or anything when you were in her room did she?) No, she give me some powder.
(What did she call that?)
It's luck powder.
(Iuck powder.) )
She give me some other stuff they call van-van. (Well, what did she tell you? How to handle those or anything? What you were to do with them?) She say that when I pass by the house I throw it - throw it over my shoulder. And she give me another thing by the name of John the Conker root. She told me to chew that, see. And she give me another oil to keep and rub, see. She say nobody could hurt me after that.
(I see. What kind of oil was that?)
That was a green looking oil.
(It had no name?)
No name.
(I see. And your wife finally came back?)
She finally came back.
Entry 3029
Mah brother had done got to be a young man, see, and dis lady whut - dis woman whut he was in trouble wit was after him. She Was kinda ole - see, too ole fo' him, he was 18. All right. Well, she begin to buy candles - see, burn candles on him. She burned 'em a little bit at de time - every 20 minutes. All right. He begin to weaken down, suffer, nowhere he went he was satisfied - nowhere he went. Well she took his socks - see, the left. And his dirty garment, you know de BD's [= B. V. D.'s - unionsuit], took dat.
(What do you mean, took his garment? That had something on it from him?)
Yeah. She took dat and she took penny nails. She had a drier in her yard in de back - you know, in de back yard. She had his hands stretched out like dis [demonstrates] and de toes. See, dey were dem long shirt - well, de BD whut dey were, long ones.
(B. V. D.'s. You mean underclothing?)
That's it. And she had him laid - you know, tacked down wit penny nails. Eight penny nails it was. And she had dat dirty sock - were right in de middle of it.
[I now describe informant's demonstrations.]
(She put this underclothing - stretched it out and she tacked it down on top of the ground, and then she put this left sock in the middle of that, and then she covered it all over with dirt.) Well, mah brother wasn't satisfied nowhere. He had to leave from out of town. He left and he wun't [would not] come back. Don't care who send or write fo' him, he wun't come back.
(What did she do this for? To run him away? She didn't want him any more?)
Naw, she got mad cause he wouldn't marry her. She say she don't want him do nobody else no good. An' she done that. Well, ah prays to St. Ann, to Blessed Mother - that's is, to Blessed Mother. I prays and prays. Well, ah tell you what ah'll do, I say, I kin make him come back. Well, I got dem blessed holy candle, dem pure white candles.
(Where did you get it? From the church?)
I got it from de church, from de Fathers from St. Joseph's here. See, I bought it. I tole him to bless dat candle.
(You didn't tell him what you wanted to use it for?)
No, ah didn't tole him - ain't no use. An' ah got St. Peter. Ah sent away and ah got St. Peter - ah couldn't buy St. Peter nowheres here in Mobile. Got a brand-new key and a piece of blue, you know, ribbon [and made] a bow-like.
(Wait a minute! You got a St. Peter's key. Where did you send to get that?)
No, ah got St. Peter's photo. Ah send to mah niece to New Orleans to get it.
(Where did you send to get that, the photo?)
From New Orleans. That was the only place. Mah little niece sent it back to me in a hurry. All right. Ah went down there to the Catholic church to Father X and told him to bless this photo for me of St. Peter, see. I wanted a holy candle right away. He blessed that all at one time. He blessed that key, too. He say, "You want de key blessed, too."
(What kind of key did you have?)
Key like you unlock de door with.
(Where did you get the key?)
Ah bought dat key.
(A new key?)
Yeah, a brand-new key ain't never been used. All right. Well he blest it and before he blest it ah tacked dis key on to St. Peter, see. Ah put on there any kind of bow mah mind made me. Tied a big bow, a brand new piece - ah got a halfa yard fer ten cents.
(A ribbon - blue ribbon.)
Tie on St. Peter and nailed St. Peter up right over mah door, where you come in. Light dat holy candle and ah burned it only three days, on Wednesday, Friday and Monday - only three days, jest had one candle. Ah sweeten it down wit some sugar. Ah burn dat and ah call mah brother's name three times, see; call mah brother's name three times and den ah put mah name on with it see, one time - only one time.
(You call your name once.)
Call mah name once and call mah brother's name three times; and dis woman's name, ah call her two times. Well, mah brother came home. In three days he came, and he say, "Sister, ah got something bad on mah mind." Ah say, "What is it?"
[Recording is bad but he was going to kill the woman.]
She was burning a black candle on him.... Well, he gave her up. He almost like tuh kill her. He hated her. He drew her blood and he left her. [Drawing blood is an old remedy to kill a witch's power, see 485-487, p.148 and Index.] He came to Mobile.
(How long ago did this happen?)
Well that happen about five years ago right here in Mobile.
Entry 12682
Take de photograph an' put it different heights on a ordinary tree at a certain distances an' goes ahead an' shoots it. Or yo' take dat same photograph an' fill it fulla needles, see, on de side of some dead [delapidated and deserted] buildin' or on de side of some livin' tree - sompin dat will jes' pain [needles cause pain]. [Wilson 2682:5.]
Entry 33
Ah had a little boy home but ah stayed off about seven years, an' he wanted tuh see me awful bad. Ah went home but ah didn't know de cause of it - ah goes without any thoughts whatever - just picked up unconcerned an' went home. An' when ah got home ah found my picture standing on it's head and the grand- mother said that he said that would bring me home. It must have some powder. [She is mistaken - standing on it's head is sufficient.] So I did go home.
(Your son did this?)
Yes.
(Was the picture facing out or facing in to the wall?)
It was facing out.
Entry 79
[There is more than one way to cast a drinking spell.]
But ah do know dis fo' a true fact. Yo' kin take a person's photograph - if he nevah drinked a drop of whiskey befo' in his life - an' turn it down ovah a little small glass of whiskey, somepin like a wineglass, an' let it stay there until de whiskey fade dat photograph, an' dat person will drink hisself to death.
(This whiskey must touch the photograph - you must put it right over there?)
No sir - not touch it.
(Just so the fumes will come up?)
Yes sir.
Entry 552
I've know a woman to do that.
(What?)
Take a little girl's photograph - a little grow awful fast, you see. And she disliked her and she shoved her finger at her and told her, says, "I'll keep even with your daughter" [see Bad mouth in Index]. And she go into her mother's house and it was a friend of her mother's, you see, see, that had her photo on a tintype, and she'd taken this photo and she buried it with de face down. See. And buried it with de face down but before she buried it, she got her some feathers.
(What kind of feathers?)
Turkey feathers, just turkey feathers, and she got those turkey feathers and she cross-laid those turkey feathers.
(How do you mean cross-laid them?)
Just like my hand is laying 'cross my fingers there now [demonstrates].
(Made a sort of X?)
Yes, sir.
(All right.)
And she laid those things down there, and then she covered them, see.
(Well now, what did she do - lay them in the ground with the picture on that?)
The picture on that and then she put some over de picture, and covered 'em up and she stuck one right straight up in de center of it, after she covered it, in de shape of a grave - she stuck one right straight up in the center of it.
(One of what?) [I knew what, but I want a definite statement from her.]
One of those feathers.
(I see. All right.)
Right straight up and down in de center of it. Well, the girl then, she began in the next ten days lingering. They'd taken this girl to the doctor and they'd taken the girl to the doctor. The more they d taken her to the doctor, the more doctor medicine she take, the worse she get. Finally, it was a fellow come along and told 'um - old colored fellow, he come along and told this girl's mother that she was hurt and she never would get over it. See. And told her one of her friends did it, and told her to give him a dollar and he would cure her. So she done what he told her [gave him a dollar]. So when she done that the old man set something at the door like a black cat. See. Set that thing at the door and he went to saying magic and something, calling de Lord's name, and something just fell all out of that thing just like shots, running all over dat house. [In- formant now confuses logical order by giving conclusion before final details.] And that little girl got up and she walked - she hadn't been up walking - she got up and walked and she got all right. Well, this old man then, see - and he told her, "Now, the one what hurt your daughter will be here, but she'll be here before she [daughter] get out de bed."
[The culprit would soon appear but the victim would not become well until later.]
Shore enough she [culprit] walked in, and when she walked in, her husband [not the culprit's] took a wing of a chicken, with the bone in it, and hit her right in de forehead, and when he hit her in de forehead, it got de blood from her, and he taken some of her blood and give to dis man, and dis man throwed [daughter's] spell on hog he had out in the lot [cf. healing of demoniac in Mk.5:1, Mt.8:28, Lk.8:26; see Transference in Index.]
(On a hog?)
On a hog he had out in the lot - the hog went crazy - Just runned - just hollered and just went plumb crazy.
(Where did that happen?)
That was up here at Kings - right up here at Kings' Crossing.
(I see - right near Vicksburg?)
Yassuh.
(How long ago did it happen?)
Well, that's been about four years ago. (I see. Now, what do you mean something like a black cat? Was it something alive?) No, it wasn't alive, but it was in the shape of a black cat, you see, just cloth - showed up just like a black cat, just like you got on dat black coat dere [informants frequently mentioned my black coat - see Coat, my black, in Index], but he had it in the shape of a black cat and he set it on the floor. You see.
(And something fell out of it?)
Yes sir - something come out of it just like little balls - just like little shots, and run all around over de floor.
(I see. Well, did he find this thing that was buried or not?)
This woman brought it - this woman come and brought it - she come and brought it. See.
(I mean, did he find that stuff that this woman had buried?)
That this woman had buried on the girl? Well, she come,: see. Well, she come to visit dis woman dat morning before the child get up. She had it in her hand. She had went.and took it up. See, this man had been there, you see, he made her take it up, you see. And she took it and when her husband hit her, she dropped it out of her hand.
(What did that man hit her on the forehead for? Who told him to do that?)
This man what had cured the child.
(Told him to do that?)
Yassuh.
(Use the chicken wing?)
To use the chicken wing and hit her with the bone of it, so he could get her blood so he could throw the spell on a hog. (I see. Do you know how he put the spell on the hog?) [Fortunately she does not know, the story would have been too complete.] Well, I see the hog hollering and hootin' - never see do nothin' like that.
(I see.)
Entry 1786
They take your underpiece. Take a little piece of board and cut out a Strip like a coffin and take that piece. And if they got a pitchure, they take that, too. And place all them in that little coffin and carry it to a cemetery, and git right on top of a grave where somebody was buried, and then call your name and bury that in the top of that grave. And when that piece of board rot away, the persons who they named it after, they'll commence dryin' up and gettin' littler and smaller until that board rot; and when that board rot they'll die.
Entry 1787
I knew a woman once, she'd taken her landlord - she stayed in his house and she didn't want to pay rent. And she got his picture cut out of a paper. She taken a cigar box and she made a little coffin. She cut a hole in the corner behind her piano and she had - she cut a hole in the floor and put a [?] plant on there to hold this little box and had him buried there. And she stayed in that house until she finished paying for her house uptown. Stayed in there and didn't pay no rent. Every time they come there, it was something, and the house was $16 a month. She didn't pay no rent, she stayed there over a year. She got rid of - she paid 'bout - well, she didn't pay $20 in that time.
(Well, now what do you mean by cutting his picture out of a paper?)
She'd taken his photograph, you know. He was in the picture - he Was a big landlord.
(Oh, I see.)
And she'd taken his picture out of the newspaper.
(I see, out of the newspaper.)
Yes, the Picayune. She made that little coffin and put it down in the bottom - plastered it down in there in that little coffin and just buried it - put it behind the piano.
Entry 1788
Jes' lak yo' or I has our picture made, see, an' folks don't like yo'. Dey has a way to git up to yo' with this. Well a person dies heah, yo' jes' put dat in de casket with dem, an' as de body molt away, see yo' does too. I really know that cause ah've see it tried.
Entry 1789
You take it and git holt of a person's photograph and jes' like if some one dies, you put in that casket on de face - de picture on de face, and dis person will jest pine away of dat picture.
Entry 2817
[They] say that you take a black can'le. And you write the name down on a piece of paper and you wrap it around that [candle]. You put it [a second paper with the name] in a tin plate. And take this party's pitchure and turn it upside down, and burn it [see later] to this black can'le for nine days and grad'lly this person will mold [or molt] away.
(You write the name on that paper once?)
Yeah. You put it [candle] on top of the name and around the name [name around candle]. No [correcting answer to my question], you write the name on there nine times. You write it nine times on one piece and three times on the other piece.
(You use two pieces of paper?)
One wrapped around the candle and one under the candle.
(Which has the nine times?)
The paper under the plate should have the name on it nine times. [The paper with three names, wrapped about candle, burns while candle burns; the paper with nine names lies beneath the plate on which the candle stands; the- photograph in your path of vision rests behind the candle, though not in the plate, and can be either face-down on the surface of what is being used for an altar, or leaning head-down against some object. Informant's burn it to this black can'le could be a slip of the tongue, but more likely the photograph is burning to the black candle - the spirit of the photograph and the spirit in the names under the plate symbolically or sympathetically burning with the spirit name about the candle. Naturally, if the word may be used, the triple-divided spirit (see pp.20-24) of the victim does not burn or die, it gradually deserts the body of the dying person.]
Entry 2870
Now the second way for to get your photograph and do something to it. They can take and burn lights against your photograph and have it right in the house and you don't know it. And have it, your back - see, you know your back to the out[side] and your face to the wall, like nailed to the wall. And have everything dark around there. And you'll die from that bed, right in that bed there. (Do you burn candles to that?) Yes, sir, you burn you a black candle to hit.
(Just one candle did you say?)
Just once - that's to the picture, if you want to harm anybody.
(Where do you put that picture? Against the wall?)
You put 'em in the four corners of your house - just like you got the four corners right here, you got four cormers here.
(Yes.)
Well, you see, you can take and set your bed like this here, cater-corner, and make that be the four corners right here and nail it right in that four corners, but right down where no one can't see it, see. And burn you a black light and never let that light go out. As fast as that light - when you see that light getting smaller, have you another candle ready and light it. I'll guarantee you in nine days' time, if you don't be out of that bed [and be] in the hospital, you be in the morgue.
(You'd be where?)
You'd be in the morgue - be dead. [The preceding four corners are sacred in hoodoo because they came from the Bible and are guarded by four angels controlling the four winds (Rev. 7:1). The diagonal is also sacred, the altar often being so placed in a room (p.129, line 45). The reason? The diagonal, as the longest distance in the flat square world of ancient magic, permits the altar to bestride and manage all existence. More- over the diagonal itself is a cross, a fortifed one - its two ends with equal short portions of the adjacent sides forming two tau crosses, joined at the feet at the center of the square, and thrusting outward two "T-crossings" barbed like a double-pointed spear >. Perhaps I should add, one diagonal equals one stroke of the cross; two diagonals complete the cross, Greek or St. Andrews - the structure of the flat square world.] [Our informant, by pushing back the diagonal of the room into one corner of the room, makes the corner the four corners or the complete room (PART EQUALS WHOLE, p.21). Actually the enclosed space is triangular and three-cornered, but magically the bed becomes both a diagonal and an altar. Despite the fact that neither you nor your picture is in that bed, "you'll die from that bed, right in that bed there."]
[For another diagonal, see 2843, p.819; for bed as altar, see 2874, p.829.]
Entry 5831
[Similar to the margin title BURIED HAIR, only a few examples of burn- ing hair will be given here. Many other rites are scattered through the text.] Dey take mah hair an' put it wit some sulphur an' brimstone, an' dey put it in some of yore watah an' de sand - some of dat sand out de hollah of yore track, or eithah dey take a piece outa yore sock at de hollah of yore feet [if unable to obtain the foot track]. An' put it together an' if dey want chew tuh go, why dey throw it in a runnin' stream wrapped up, an' as long as hit run, why jes' de furthah yo' will go. An' when- evah it stop, yo' will stop until it start rainin' ag'in - till de stream start washin' it, see. An' if dey wanted yo' tuh stay or wanted yo' tuh kill yo'self, why dey'd take it an' put it in - bo' a hole in a tree an' put it in dere an' put a piece back in dere ovah it tuh hold - keep de air from it. Or, eithah dey would take an' burn it. An' if dey burn it, why whenevah - at a certain time de spell, dat spell would come on yo', a real full spell - kinda out of yore senses, an' yo' stick yore head in de fiah or maybe yo' jump ovah- bo'd an' kill yo'self or sompin. Well, dere wuz a boy ah know, hit wuz a girl he wuz goin' wit, an' he wuz leavin' for de CCC [Civilian Conservation Corps, of the U. S. A.] Camp. An' she'd taken 'is picture an' she put it in a - his picture an' some sulphur an' some brimstone an' some of de hair out 'is haid an' de bow outa his hat, an' dey [wo- men] put dis togethah an' burn it. An' aftah dey burn it, dey taken it out de fiah - jes' burn it, put it in a separate place an' burn it in a little box - an' den dey taken it an' wrapped it up good an' real tight an' wore it in dey clothes, in dere undahclothes. Well, as long as she wore it in 'er undah- clothes why he stayed dere. He couldn't stay 'way from 'er house. An' when she taken off 'er cloth [holding the ashes] an' put it - she'd throw it in de fiah, an' he'd taken an' stuck 'is haid in de fiah. It taken six people tuh hol' 'im out de fiah. An' den he got away an' got in de fiah an' caught afiah. An' whenevah dey could git 'im out, he'd ketch hold of de bed, jes' lak dat [may have demonstrated], dey said. An' he'd ketch de foot of it an' draw it togethah, jes' bend it [the 2 legs of the bed together]. An' he kept on lak dat till he died.
Entry 7511
If dey kin git 'is pichure, jes' lak if yo' wuz stayin' heah an' yo'd kill somebody an' ah wanted tuh git chew back home. Ah wanted tuh find out who it wus did it, ah'd take an' come heah an' git chure Pichure. An' take some quicksilvah an' some sulphur an' some salt an' put it all togethah. An' den some Adam-an'-Eve [root] an' put dat wit it. An' take it an' sew it up an' carry it tuh mah house, an' put it undah mah do'step, an' in two day's time yo'd be back. An' yo'd tell somebody dat chew de one dat did it. It would keep worryin' yo' till yo' did.
Entry 7514
Bury 'im wit 'is head down an' is feet up.
(You mean upside down, standing on his head?)
Yes sir. Dat'll bring 'im back. [Here again, as in the preceding rites, it is assumed that the killer is known and that his photograph is available. Despite the indefiniteness of informant's statement, a photograph, not the corpse, is buried head down.]
Entry 7708
Dey kin draw yo' on a tombstone [or headboard] an' long as dem lines [remain] where dey draws yo' at; dey molt away, [I mean], yo' molt away wit dem. See?
(As that person in the grave molts away, you will molt away?)
Yo' molt away.
(Well, how would they draw you on that tombstone?)
Maybe have - dey done took yuh photo from somewhere. See, yo' [theyl done took yuh photo. Well, dey kin take yuh photo an' give it tuh somebody who know how tuh retrace it an' draw it, an' dey kin draw yo' lak dat. [An easier method would be to draw a circle adding ears, eyes, mouth and initials or call name. Informant good, has the right idea but complicates it.]
Entry 12677
Kin take de photograph an' if a person is away from home, an' yo' wanta see would dey come home, ah heard dat yo' kin take dat photograph an wear it into yore shoe - wear it in yore shoes on de right feet, an' dey say dey'll have tuh come home. [Wilson 2666:5.]
Entry 12686
Yo' take a tintype photograph an' nail it tuh a tree or throw it in de rivah an' dat person will die. [Fayetteville, 2504:8.]
Entries from source headings
These entries are listed under the following headings in the source volume:
- Picture or Photograph — Volume 1, entries 2202–2204. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → HANDS: MAGIC HELPERS.
- Black Candle on Photograph — Volume 1, entries 2859. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → SHRINES: ALTARS - CANDLES - SAINTS; NEW ORLEANS AREA → (2) CANDLES.
- Green and Yellow: Talk to Photograph — Volume 1, entries 2891. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → SHRINES: ALTARS - CANDLES - SAINTS; NEW ORLEANS AREA → (2) CANDLES.
- Photograph and Black Candle: Milt and Filth — Volume 1, entries 2932. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → SHRINES: ALTARS - CANDLES - SAINTS; NEW ORLEANS AREA → (2) CANDLES.
- URINE - HIS AND HERS - ON PHOTOGRAPH — Volume 3, entries 3316. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → SEXUAL IMPOTENCE → CAUSES OF SEXUAL IMPOTENCE → MISCELLANEOUS.
- PHOTOGRAPH OF MURDERER — Volume 4, entries 7510. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → MURDER → HOW MURDERER CAN BE CAUGHT.
- CIGAR-BOX COFFIN - PHOTO FACE DOWN - GRAVE-SHAPE HOLE — Volume 4, entries 7974. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → COFFIN - DOLL BABY - BURIAL - BONES → COFFIN AND PHOTOGRAPH.
- COFFIN AND PHOTOGRAPH — Volume 4, entries 7968–7997. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → COFFIN - DOLL BABY - BURIAL - BONES.
- NEW TENPENNY NAIL THROUGH BACK OF PHOTO DRIVEN FACE; DOWN INTO GRAVE HOLE - BECOMES CORPSE IN 9 DAYS — Volume 4, entries 7975. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → COFFIN - DOLL BABY - BURIAL - BONES → COFFIN AND PHOTOGRAPH.
- PHOTOGRAPH BURIED FACE DOWN IN MINIATURE COFFIN; (1) WOODEN BOX — Volume 4, entries 7968. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → COFFIN - DOLL BABY - BURIAL - BONES → COFFIN AND PHOTOGRAPH.
- 4 PINS - ONE IN EACH CORNER OF SMALL BOX; BURY PHOTO IN NEW WHITE LINEN — Volume 4, entries 7981. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → COFFIN - DOLL BABY - BURIAL - BONES → COFFIN AND PHOTOGRAPH.
- DRAW COFFIN ON GREEN TREE - NAIL PHOTO TO - SHOOT — Volume 4, entries 7976. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → COFFIN - DOLL BABY - BURIAL - BONES → COFFIN AND PHOTOGRAPH.
- NEEDLES - PINS - LODESTONE - STEEL DUST; WITH PHOTO IN COFFIN UNDER STEPS — Volume 4, entries 7980. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → COFFIN - DOLL BABY - BURIAL - BONES → COFFIN AND PHOTOGRAPH.
- STICK TO HEAD - STICK TO FOOT; OF BURIED PHOTO — Volume 4, entries 7988. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → COFFIN - DOLL BABY - BURIAL - BONES → COFFIN AND PHOTOGRAPH.
- BASKET - FRAMED PHOTO UPSIDE DOWN IN — Volume 4, entries 8055. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → COFFIN - DOLL BABY - BURIAL - BONES → BONES FROM THE DEAD → TYPES OF BONES FROM THE DEAD.
- BED HEADBOARD - PHOTO BEHIND — Volume 4, entries 8059. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → COFFIN - DOLL BABY - BURIAL - BONES → BONES FROM THE DEAD → TYPES OF BONES FROM THE DEAD.
- BED - PHOTO UNDER - 3 DAYS — Volume 4, entries 8057. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → COFFIN - DOLL BABY - BURIAL - BONES → BONES FROM THE DEAD → TYPES OF BONES FROM THE DEAD.
- BED - PHOTO UNDER - 9 DAYS — Volume 4, entries 8058. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → COFFIN - DOLL BABY - BURIAL - BONES → BONES FROM THE DEAD → TYPES OF BONES FROM THE DEAD.
- BED - SLEEP ON PHOTO — Volume 4, entries 8056. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → COFFIN - DOLL BABY - BURIAL - BONES → BONES FROM THE DEAD → TYPES OF BONES FROM THE DEAD.
- PHOTOGRAPH — Volume 4, entries 8055–8482. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY.
- BEDSPRINGS - PHOTO BOTTOM UPWARDS - CROSSWAYS ON SPRINGS; UNDER HEAD OF BED - HEAD AT WEST AND FEET AT EAST; FOR 9 DAYS - IT WILL RUST - ALSO TURN COMPLETELY AROUND; ABSENT WOMAN WILL RETURN HOME - THEN WEAR IN HIP POCKET — Volume 4, entries 8060. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- BURN THE PHOTO — Volume 4, entries 8065. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- BURY THE PHOTOGRAPH — Volume 4, entries 8076. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- CASTOR OIL - ON PHOTO - BURY FACE DOWN — Volume 4, entries 8084. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- CHICKEN BLOOD - 2 DROPS - CROSS ON PHOTO - OUR FATHER PRAYER — Volume 4, entries 8085. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- CHICKEN - FEATHER FROM BLACK - ACROSS FACE OF PHOTO; BURY FACE DOWN: WISHES - PSALM 36 - PRAYER — Volume 4, entries 8086. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- CIRCUMAMBULATE PROPPED-UP PHOTO 9 TIMES; JOHN DE CONKAH'S ROOT - MAYFAIR POWDER — Volume 4, entries 8087. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- CORNER - A DARK ONE - PHOTO TURNED UPSIDE DOWN — Volume 4, entries 8088. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- CORNERS 2 OF PHOTO - OPPOSITE ONES - BURNED; JAB OUT BOTH EYES WHICH COULD CAUSE BLINDNESS — Volume 4, entries 8089. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- CORNERS 2 OF PHOTO - OPPOSITE ONES - CUT OFF; WRITE ON FACE - NAME AND MESSAGE; FACE DOWN - IN OR NEAR HOUSE — Volume 4, entries 8090. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- CORNERS 4 OF PHOTO - CUT OFF AND THROWN AWAY — Volume 4, entries 8091. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- CORNERS 4 OF PHOTO - BENT BACK AND BURNED OFF — Volume 4, entries 8092. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- CORNERS 4 OF PHOTO - CLIP OFF; STICK IT IN CRACK - SPRINKLE SALT ON; URINATE ON 9 MORNINGS — Volume 4, entries 8093. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- CORNERS 4 OF ROOM - IN EACH SUCCESSIVELY NAIL PHOTO; CALL NAME IN EACH CORNER - IN 9 DAYS HE RETURNS — Volume 4, entries 8094. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- CROSS MARK OF 2 DIAGONAL LINES; JOINING 4 CORNERS OF PHOTO - EYES CUT OUT; RIGHT-HAND CORNER OF HOUSE - NORTH-EAST SIDE; UNDERNEATH HOUSE ON TOP OF SILL - FACE DOWN — Volume 4, entries 8097. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- CROSS MARK OF "X" ON MOUTH OF PHOTO; PUNCH OUT EYES - BURY ON FACE - KEEPS HIM NEAR; TURN UP WALK ON - PERSON STAYS CLOSE; TURN DOWN TO BRING RUNNING - EYES OUT RUNS BLIND — Volume 4, entries 8095. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- CROSS MARK ON BOTH EYES OF PHOTO; BURY WHERE YOU WALK OVER — Volume 4, entries 8096. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- CURSE - PHOTO - BURY; KILL A PERSON JIS' AS DAID; AS DEY EVAH HAVE TUH DIE — Volume 4, entries 8098. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- CURSE PHOTO - POINTING FINGER AT; 7 MORNINGS - 7 O'CLOCK - BURY ON FACE — Volume 4, entries 8099. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- DARK PLACE - BURY PHOTO - WITH SALT AND PEPPER — Volume 4, entries 8100. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- DIRECTION IN WHICH SHE LEFT - TURN HER PHOTO IN — Volume 4, entries 8101. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- DOORSTEP - PHOTO BURIED UNDER — Volume 4, entries 8107. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- DOORSTEP - BURN PHOTO - BURY ASHES UNDER — Volume 4, entries 8114. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- EDGE - STAND PHOTO ON — Volume 4, entries 8115. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- EYES - OF PHOTO - DESTROYED — Volume 4, entries 8117. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- EYES CUT OUT - BURY PHOTO FACE DOWN IN MOCK GRAVE — Volume 4, entries 8121. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- FACE DOWN - PHOTO BURIED — Volume 4, entries 8122. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- FACE DOWN - BURY PHOTO - WEIGHT ON — Volume 4, entries 8132. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- FACE DOWN - PHOTO BURIED - GO TO A HOODOO TO DO IT — Volume 4, entries 8135. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- FACE DOWN - PHOTO SHE WRAPS IN UNDERPIECE - BURIES — Volume 4, entries 8134. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- FACE DOWN - WRAP PHOTO IN CLOTH AND BURY — Volume 4, entries 8133. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- FIREPLACE - NAIL PHOTO INTO CEILING OVER; 9 DAYS AFTERWARD - YOU CAN MANAGE PERSON — Volume 4, entries 8137. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- FIREPLACE - PHOTO UNDER BRICK OF - FACE DOWN; CALL NAME - TALK TO IT - IN NAME OF LORD — Volume 4, entries 8139. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- FOOT - THE RIGHT - CLIP FROM WHOLE PHOTO; ROLL BODY PART TO YOU 3 TIMES - THROW AWAY; PUT FOOT PART IN BOTTLE WITH 9 MUSTARD SEED; AS SOON AS PERSON DIES HIS SPIRIT WILL NOTIFY YOU; BY MAKING YOUR RIGHT SHOULDER JUMP - THROW BOTTLE AWAY — Volume 4, entries 8141. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- 4 CORNERS - PHOTO - BURN OFF; 3 DAYS BURY IN GRAVEYARD — Volume 4, entries 8145. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- 4 CORNERS - PHOTO - BURNED OFF; MIX WITH LOVE POWDER - WEAR ABOUT WAIST — Volume 4, entries 8144. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- FORK OF ROAD - OR [POINT OF A ROAD] - BURY PHOTO; UPSIDE DOWN - NAME ON - AND BAD WISHES — Volume 4, entries 8143. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- FORK OF ROAD - PHOTO BURIED FACE DOWN - TWO-HEADED PEOPLE — Volume 4, entries 8142. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- 4 PARTS OR PIECES - PHOTO CUT INTO — Volume 4, entries 8147. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- FROG - LIVE - TIE HIND LEGS OVER HIS BACK; PUT VICTIM'S PHOTO IN FROG'S MOUTH; STICK 9 NEEDLES THROUGH FROG AND PHOTO; BURY FROG 3 FEET DEEP AT SUNDOWN — Volume 4, entries 8149. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (2) GRAVEYARD - PHOTO BURIED IN FACE DOWN — Volume 4, entries 8151. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- GRAVE - GRAVEYARD - SIMULATED GRAVE; (1) GRAVEYARD - PHOTO BURIED IN — Volume 4, entries 8150. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (4) INITIALED PHOTO BURIED IN GRAVEYARD — Volume 4, entries 8156. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (10) GRAVE OF SOMEONE - BURY PHOTO IN — Volume 4, entries 8162. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (12) GRAVE OF SINNER - BURY PHOTO ON CHEST OF — Volume 4, entries 8165. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (8) 4 FOOT DEEP GRAVE - CALL NAME 3 TIMES; BURY PHOTO FACE DOWN - DEAD IN 9 DAYS — Volume 4, entries 8160. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (9) GRAVEYARD DIRT - ON TOP OF PHOTO BURIED; THEN COVER WITH ORDINARY DIRT — Volume 4, entries 8161. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (14) GRAVE - HEAD OF - PHOTO BURIED AT; WI SHES — Volume 4, entries 8167. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (15) GRAVE - PHOTO WITH NAME - UNDER TOMBSTONE; FACE DOWNWARD - SENDS PERSON AWAY; TO BRING BACK - THIS PHOTO UNDER DOORSTEP — Volume 4, entries 8168. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (18) EACH MORNING 9 DAYS - ADD DIRT TO MOUND; OVER BURIED PHOTO IN GRAVEYARD - 9 MORNINGS; MAKE WISH - 9 MORNINGS LEAVE NOT LOOKING BACK — Volume 4, entries 8171. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (19) PERSON OF PHOTO BURIED IN GRAVEYARD; WILL FADE AWAY IN 9 DAYS OR 9 WEEKS — Volume 4, entries 8172. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (20) DIRT FROM CHEST OF SINNER'S GRAVE AND PHOTO; SEWED INTO PIECE OF CLOTH - KEPT 9 MORNINGS; BURIED AT DOORSTEP BRING LOVE — Volume 4, entries 8173. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- HEART OF PHOTO - KNIFE OR PIN THROUGH — Volume 4, entries 8183. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- HORSES TRAMP OVER - PHOTO BURIED IN DIRT ROAD — Volume 4, entries 8184. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- HOUSE - PHOTO BURIED UNDER — Volume 4, entries 8185. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- HOUSE - EAST SIDE OF - PHOTO BURIED UNDER — Volume 4, entries 8186. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- INDIAN POTATO DUST ON PHOTO — Volume 4, entries 8187. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- LAMP - LIGHTED TO MAKE SLOW LIGHT BEFORE PHOTO; AFTER TURNING LATTER UPSIDE DOWN IN DARK ROOM — Volume 4, entries 8189. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- MATTRESS - IN CENTER OF - FACE DOWN; TURN HIS PHOTO - MAKING A QUINCUNX — Volume 4, entries 8191. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- MATTRESS - HIS PHOTO IN - IF HE BE WIT CHOO; AN' LAY ON DAT MATTRESS... CUZ 'IM TUH LOVE YUH — Volume 4, entries 8194. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- MEASURE PERSON'S HEIGHT WITH STRING - WRAP LATTER; ABOUT HIS PHOTO AND BURY WITH FUNERAL CEREMONY — Volume 4, entries 8195. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- MIRROR - HOLD PHOTO OVER 1 HOUR AT SUNRISE - RETURN; PHOTO TO MANTELPIECE - TURN MIRROR DOWN OVER IT; PERSON OF PHOTO WILL BE DEAD — Volume 4, entries 8199. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- NAIL - THROUGH HEART OF PHOTO; DRIVE 9 MORNINGS — Volume 4, entries 8203. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- NAILS 2 - CROSSED OR PHOTO - BURIED FACE DOWN — Volume 4, entries 8205. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- NAILS 9 - THROUGH HEART OF PHOTO - BURY; FACE DOWN - IN 9 DAYS HE STARTS TO FADE — Volume 4, entries 8204. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- NAME - CALLED CONTINUOUSLY AT MIDNIGHT - SLEEP WITH HIS; PHOTO UPSIDE DOWN - SPIRIT WILL UPSET HIM - BRING HIM HOME — Volume 4, entries 8208. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- NAME ON PHOTO AND WORDS AH WAN' CHEW TUH DIE; IN 2 MONTHS - CROSS LAST 3 WORDS WITH IN 2 MONTHS; BURY FACE DOWN IN HOLE 2 FEET DEEP - WISH AGAIN; AH WAN' CHEW TUH BE DAID IN 2 MONTHS - COVER HOLE; STAMP RIGHT FOOT ON 6 TIMES -... DIE IN 2 MONTHS — Volume 4, entries 8206. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- NAME ON PHOTO - BURY BOTTOM UPWARDS - 6 INCHES DEEP; WALK BACKWARDS 9 STEPS - TURN - NEVER LOOK BACK — Volume 4, entries 8207. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- NAME 3 TIMES - ON PHOTO - BURY FACE DOWN — Volume 4, entries 8213. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- NAME - 7 TIMES - ON UPPER PART OF PHOTO CUT IN HALF; 7 NEW PINS - HEADS DOWN - STUCK INTO UPPER HALF; NAME - 7 TIMES - ON LOWER PART OF HALVED PHOTO; 7 NEW NEEDLES - FEET UP - STUCK INTO LOWER HALF; PUT BOTH HALVES INTO PINT BOTTLE - ADD 3 THINGS:; GRAVEYARD DIRT - NAILS - HEARTS COLOGNE - BURY; 9 DAYS AFTER THIS RITE - ABSENT PERSON WILL RETURN — Volume 4, entries 8215. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- NAMES - ON PHOTO 3 TIMES - CROSSING 3 TIMES AT CENTER; MAKING A SIX-POINTED STAR-LIKE OR WHEEL-LIKE FIGURE — Volume 4, entries 8214. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- NAME - CALLED 3 TIMES DAILY FOR 3 DAYS; BEFORE PHOTO HEAD DOWN AT FOOT OF BED — Volume 4, entries 8218. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- NEEDLE - STUCK CROSSWAYS IN PHOTO - WEAR IN SACK — Volume 4, entries 8219. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- NEEDLE OR PIN - STICK INTO FACE OF PHOTO - BURY — Volume 4, entries 8220. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- NEEDLE STUCK INTO ANY PART OF PHOTO - INFLICTS PAIN THERE; BURY FACE DOWN - 3 FEET DEEP TO REPRESENT 3 HOLY NAMES — Volume 4, entries 8221. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- NEEDLES 4 - 2 AT FOOT AND 2 AT HEAD OF BURIED PHOTO — Volume 4, entries 8222. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- NEEDLES 9: ON NEW WHITE HANDKERCHIEF SHE WRITES HER NAME; AT TOP - HIS AT BOTTOM - STICK NEEDLES IN CLOTH POINTING; TO LETTERS OF HIS NAME - REMOVE BACK OF A FRAMED PICTURE; ALL ARTICLES AND HER PHOTO BEHIND - RESEAL BACK - REHANG — Volume 4, entries 8223. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- 9 DAYS BURIED - FACE OF PHOTO RUBBED WITH OIL — Volume 4, entries 8226. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- 9 DAYS - PHOTO BURIED ON FACE - 3 DIE — Volume 4, entries 8227. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- NEEDLES 9: WOMAN WRITES ON HIS PHOTO - HER NAME FIRST; HIS UNDERNEATH - LAYS HIS PHOTO NEXT TO HERS IN CLOSET — Volume 4, entries 8224. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- NEW CLOTH - PHOTO WRAPPED IN - KEPT IN DRAWER — Volume 4, entries 8225. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- NORTH - CORNER OF HOUSE - CURSE PHOTO AND BURY — Volume 4, entries 8231. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- PERFUME - IN BASIN - WITH PHOTO — Volume 4, entries 8233. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- PERFUME PHOTO; STICK NEEDLE ACROSS ITS FOREHEAD - HIDE — Volume 4, entries 8234. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- PIN - STICK INTO HEART OF PHOTO — Volume 4, entries 8237. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- PINS OF BRASS; 4 IN EACH CORNER OF PHOTO - BURY — Volume 4, entries 8238. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- PIN HOLES 9 - IN PHOTO - 1 EACH MORNING 9 DAYS — Volume 4, entries 8240. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- RAILROAD TRACK - PHOTO BURIED FACE DOWN UNDER TIE OF — Volume 4, entries 8241. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- ROOT WORKER - PHOTO TO; FOR DRESSING — Volume 4, entries 8243. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- "ROOTS" - PHOTO "DRESSED" WITH - KEEP IN DARK ROOM — Volume 4, entries 8242. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- RUG - PHOTO UNDER; WALK OVER — Volume 4, entries 8244. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- SAND - PHOTO BURIED IN — Volume 4, entries 8245. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- SCRATCH UP - PHOTO - BAD LUCK — Volume 4, entries 8247. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- SHAKE UNDERWEAR IN FACE OF PHOTO - WISH — Volume 4, entries 8248. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- SHOE - PHOTO WORN IN — Volume 4, entries 8249. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- SHOE - 1 PHOTO IN RIGHT - 1 PHOTO UNDER DOORSTEP — Volume 4, entries 8254. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- SHOE - IN LEFT; PHOTO WITH NAME ON 9 TIMES — Volume 4, entries 8255. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (2) BURY OR SHOOT PHOTO: SLOW DEATH OR QUICK — Volume 4, entries 8260. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (3) DIRECTION - IN WHICH PERSON LIVES; SHOOT PHOTO — Volume 4, entries 8261. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- SHOOTING - PHOTOGRAPH; (1) A FEW STATEMENTS — Volume 4, entries 8257. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (7) FORK OF ROAD - SHOOT - WITH PISTOL; PHOTO IN CENTER OF FACE - KILLS — Volume 4, entries 8265. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (8) FORK OF ROAD 9 MORNINGS - LEAVE PHOTO AT; ON 9TH MORNING - SHOOT IN LEFT SIDE — Volume 4, entries 8266. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (11) HEART - PHOTO SHOT THROUGH — Volume 4, entries 8269. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (12) TREE - PHOTO ON - SHOOT; (a) A FEW BASIC RITES — Volume 4, entries 8272. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (9) FORK OF ROAD - THERE SHOOT AT PHOTO; 9 MORNINGS OR EVENINGS - KILLS — Volume 4, entries 8267. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (c) CURSE PHOTO 3 TIMES - SHOOT IT ON PINE TREE — Volume 4, entries 8277. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (d) GUN WADDING - TORN-UP PHOTO IN - SHOOT A TREE — Volume 4, entries 8278. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (E) HEART - PHOTO ON TREE - SHOOT IN; WITH A BEEBEE GUN — Volume 4, entries 8279. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (g) HOLE BORED INTO TREE - INSERT PHOTO; FACE DOWNWARD - SHOOT AT HOLE — Volume 4, entries 8281. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (h) NAME CALLED - PHOTO NAILED TO TREE; SHOOT WITH PISTOL — Volume 4, entries 8282. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (i) 9 DAYS - BURY PHOTO - IN CORN MEAL; OR DIRT YOU WALK OVER DAILY - TAKE UP; 9TH DAY - WISH - NAIL TO TREE - SHOOT — Volume 4, entries 8283. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (k) 9 MORNINGS - SHOOT PHOTO ON PINE TREE — Volume 4, entries 8285. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (n) 9 TIMES SHOOT - ONCE EACH 9 DAYS; PHOTO NAILED NORTH SIDE OF TREE — Volume 4, entries 8288. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (o) 9 TIMES SHOOT - PHOTO ON GRAVEYARD TREE; ONCE DAILY 9 DAYS - EARLY IN MORNING — Volume 4, entries 8289. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (p) NORTH SIDE OF TREE - SHOOT - PHOTO ON — Volume 4, entries 8290. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (q) NORTH SIDE OF TREE - NAIL PHOTO ON; SHOOT HEART BEFORE SUNRISE — Volume 4, entries 8291. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (r) OAK TREE - NAIL PHOTO TO - SHOOT — Volume 4, entries 8292. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- SINGING: "WALK AWAY A-HUMMIN' SOME OLE RELIGIOUS SONG"; AFTER BURYING PHOTO; "WON'T BE LONG BEFO' DEY BE THROWIN' DIRT IN DERE FACE" — Volume 4, entries 8298. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (t) QUICKSILVER [MIRROR BACKING] - PHOTO SHOT WITH — Volume 4, entries 8294. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (u) TELL TREE WHAT YOU WANT TO DO; PHOTO NAILED TO BLACK GUM OR; SHORT-LEAF PINE - SHOOT — Volume 4, entries 8295. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- STANDING UP - FACE AWAY FROM YOU - PHOTO BURIED — Volume 4, entries 8299. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- SUGAR ON PHOTO - BURN - DEAD IN 9 DAYS — Volume 4, entries 8301. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- SUNDOWN - BURY PHOTO ON FACE - HEAD TO — Volume 4, entries 8302. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (5) 9 MORNINGS - PHOTO AT HEAD OF BED - CALL PERSON; ONCE EACH MORNING NEW PIN - PUNCH HOLES IN; PHOTO EACH MORNING - WHILE PUNCHING HOLES TALK; TO PICTURE - PERSON OF PHOTO DOES WHAT YOU ASK; TO HARM PERSON OF PHOTO - TAKE TO GRAVEYARD; CALL SPIRIT OF THE GRAVE - TAKE 9 HANDFULS; OF DIRT - EXPLAIN WHAT WORK YOU WANT DONE; PAY SPIRIT 3-9-13 CENTS - BURY PHOTO THERE — Volume 4, entries 8307. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (6) 9 MORNINGS - TALK TO PHOTO OF PERSON FACING; DIRECTION HE LEFT - HE ON HEAD FACING YOU; JOHN AH MEAN FO' YUH TUH COME HOME; YO' HEARD ME TALKIN' TUH YUH; COME HOME "IN DE NAME OF DE LORD"; IF YOU HAVE A SPECIAL SPIRIT - USE HIM; ANOTHER METHOD - THROW SALT WAY HE WENT — Volume 4, entries 8308. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- TEAR UP PHOTO - THROW AWAY — Volume 4, entries 8309. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- 3 DAYS - DEAD WITHIN; IF PHOTO BURIED FACE DOWN — Volume 4, entries 8311. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- 3 INGREDIENTS: HORSEHAIR - SALT - VINEGAR; BURIED WITH PHOTO UNDER DOOR - PARALYZES LEGS — Volume 4, entries 8313. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- 3 INGREDIENTS: SALT - RED PEPPER - SALTPETER; PUT ON PHOTO BURIED 5 INCHES - KILLS — Volume 4, entries 8312. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- THROAT - OF PHOTO CUT — Volume 4, entries 8314. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- TIME OF DAY PHOTO TAKEN - MUST BE WITHIN 2 HOURS; BURY ON FACE - SENDS WANDERING - LOSES MIND — Volume 4, entries 8315. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (2) BACKWARDS 9 STEPS - NAME VICTIM - CURSE; HAVING NAILED PHOTO UNDER BARK - NORTH SIDE OF TREE — Volume 4, entries 8319. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (3) BARK - STRIP TREE - INSERT PHOTO - RESTORE BARK — Volume 4, entries 8320. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- TOILET - INSIDE - FLUSH 4 TIMES; AFTER CALLING VICTIM'S NAME 4 TIMES; AND TEARING HIS PHOTO INTO 4 PIECES; AND DROPPING THEM INTO FLUSH TOILET — Volume 4, entries 8317. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- TOILET - OUTSIDE - IN BACKYARD; PUSH PHOTO DOWN INTO — Volume 4, entries 8316. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- TREE - PHOTO RITES AND; (1) APPLE TREE - NAIL PHOTO TO - THROUGH HEART; HIT NAIL ONCE DAILY - 9 MORNINGS — Volume 4, entries 8318. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (4) BARK - PIECE OF - STRIP DOWN TREE - PHOTO AND; HUMAN EXCREMENT ON - TACK BACK BARK — Volume 4, entries 8321. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (5) CEDAR TREE - NAIL PHOTO TO SUNRISE SIDE OF; WITH 9 LICKS ON SIXPENNY NAIL AT ONE TIME; CENTER OF PHOTO - OR FOREHEAD - OR STOMACH — Volume 4, entries 8322. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (6) CROSS MARK - MADE ON SEAL OF PHOTO; SEALED UP IN TREE 9 DAYS EARLIER — Volume 4, entries 8323. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (10) FACE TO TREE - PHOTO NAILED — Volume 4, entries 8327. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (11) TREE - PHOTO NAILED AGAINST; FACES TREE AND THROUGH TREE; DIRECTION DEPARTING MAN TOOK — Volume 4, entries 8328. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (12) FORKED LIMB - CLIMB TREE; NAIL PHOTO FACE DOWN INTO — Volume 4, entries 8329. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (13) GUM TREE - PHOTO NAMED; HOLE - BEFORE SUNRISE — Volume 4, entries 8330. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (9) EYES OF PHOTO PLUCKED OUT - NAIL TO TREE; SUNDOWN SIDE - 9 MORNINGS HIT NAIL 1 TIME — Volume 4, entries 8326. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (14) HEART OF PHOTO - ON EAST SIDE OF TREE; DRIVE NAIL THROUGH - HIT ONCE DAILY 9 DAYS; DO THIS EARLY IN MORNING NOT SPEAKING — Volume 4, entries 8331. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (15) HEART - SHOOT IN - PHOTO NAILED DOWNWARDS; AGAINST NORTH SIDE OF TREE; 6 FEET ABOVEGROUND — Volume 4, entries 8332. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (16) HOLE BORED INTO TREE - PHOTO IN; STOPPED UP WITH WOODEN PEG — Volume 4, entries 8333. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (20) ICE PICK - IN FOREHEAD OF PHOTO ON TREE — Volume 4, entries 8337. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (24) MIDDLE OF PHOTO - NAIL THROUGH - ON TREE - HIT 9 DAYS; (25) MOUTH - NAIL IN - ON TREE - HIT 9 MORNINGS — Volume 4, entries 8341. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (28) NAME DAT ON DEATH FOR PHOTO; NAILED TO EAST SIDE OF TREE — Volume 4, entries 8345. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (29) NAME CALLED ONCE - EACH OF 9 MORNINGS AS; NAIL HIT ONCE IN HEART OF PHOTO ON TREE — Volume 4, entries 8346. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (30) NAVEL - OF PHOTO ON TREE - NAIL THROUGH; HIT ONCE DAILY FOR 9 DAYS — Volume 4, entries 8348. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (31) NEW NEEDLE OR PIN THROUGH BARK OF TREE; AND HEART OF PHOTO CONCEALED BENEATH — Volume 4, entries 8349. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (32) 9 MORNINGS - HIT ONCE - NAIL IN HEART; OF PHOTO ON TALL PINE — Volume 4, entries 8350. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (34) 9 NAILS - IN PHOTO ON PINE TREE; 9 DAYS YO'D BE DAID — Volume 4, entries 8354. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (35) 9 RUSTY NAILS; INTO HEART OF PHOTO ON TREE — Volume 4, entries 8356. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (36) 9 TIMES - HIT 1 NAIL INTO PHOTO ON TREE — Volume 4, entries 8357. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (37) NORTH SIDE OF TREE - NAIL PHOTO TO — Volume 4, entries 8358. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (38) NORTH SIDE OF TREE; BURY PHOTO FACE DOWNWARD — Volume 4, entries 8359. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (39) NORTH FORK - PERSIMMON TREE - PHOTO NAILED IN; RETURN 3 DAYS - CONCEAL - NEVER LOOK AT AGAIN — Volume 4, entries 8360. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (40) OAK TREE - PHOTO BURIED UNDER — Volume 4, entries 8361. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (42) PINE TREE - NAIL PHOTO TO - EACH NAIL A PAIN — Volume 4, entries 8363. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (43) ROOT OF TREE - PHOTO FACE DOWN BURIED AT — Volume 4, entries 8364. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (44) SECRECY - NAIL PHOTO IN OR ON TREE; WHERE NO ONE CAN SEE IT OR YOU — Volume 4, entries 8365. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- HIT NAIL IN PHOTO ON PINE - 9 MORNINGS; (45) SHOULDER - LOOK OVER LEFT - EACH TIME YOU — Volume 4, entries 8366. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (46) SUNRISE SIDE - PHOTO NAILED TO TREE — Volume 4, entries 8367. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (47) SUNRISE SIDE OF TREE - PHOTO ON - NAIL 9 MORNINGS — Volume 4, entries 8369. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (49) SUNRISE - AT MOMENT OF - NAIL PHOTO IN HEART — Volume 4, entries 8371. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (50) TACKS - INTO PHOTO ON TREE - EACH TACK A PAIN — Volume 4, entries 8372. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (51) 3 HITS EACH MORNING - 9 HITS 9TH MORNING; OATH FOR EACH HIT - NAILING PHOTO TO TREE — Volume 4, entries 8373. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (52) UPSIDE DOWN - UNDER FIG TREE - BURY PHOTO — Volume 4, entries 8374. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (53) UPSIDE DOWN - NAIL PHOTO TO TREE - BRINGS HOME — Volume 4, entries 8375. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (57) WEST OR SUNDOWN - PHOTO ON TREE FACING — Volume 4, entries 8379. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (60) WISH - IS EXPRESSED HERE BESIDES INTENTION; NAIL PHOTO TO TREE - HIT ONCE 9 MORNINGS — Volume 4, entries 8382. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- TRUNK - PHOTO FACE DOWN IN — Volume 4, entries 8383. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- UPSIDE DOWN - KEEP PHOTO - 9 DAYS — Volume 4, entries 8389. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- URINATE 9 MORNINGS ON BURIED PHOTO — Volume 4, entries 8394. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- URINE - IN JAR - PHOTO FACE DOWN OVER; COME ON BACK HEAH TUH ME! WHERE YO' GOIN'? — Volume 4, entries 8393. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- URINE - PHOTO UPSIDE DOWN; AFTER PHOTO FLOATS - PERSON WILL RETURN — Volume 4, entries 8392. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- URINE - POURED OVER BURIED PHOTO — Volume 4, entries 8390. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- URINE - WIPE PHOTO WITH — Volume 4, entries 8391. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- URINATE 9 MORNINGS ON PHOTO BURIED FACE DOWN - TO KILL; URINATE ON PHOTO IN SHOE AND WEAR TO CONTROL — Volume 4, entries 8397. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- URINE - 9 DAYS - PHOTO TURNED DOWN IN — Volume 4, entries 8396. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- URINE IN NIGHT JAR - DIP PHOTO INTO 9 TIMES; EVERY NIGHT FOR 3 NIGHTS - 27 TIMES — Volume 4, entries 8398. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- WALL - TURN PHOTO UPSIDE DOWN TO — Volume 4, entries 8404. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (28) PHOTO LAID FACE DOWN IN CENTER OF MARSH; DRIVE NEW NAIL THROUGH HEART; COVER WITH LEAVES - DEAD IN 9 DAYS — Volume 4, entries 8436. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (46) LOW-TIDE MARK - PUT PHOTO AT — Volume 4, entries 8463. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (48) TIDEWATER GOING OUT - THROW PHOTO INTO — Volume 4, entries 8465. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (2) HIS PHOTO OVER GLASSFUL OF WHISKEY 24 HOURS — Volume 4, entries 8469. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (4) FACE DOWN - HIS PHOTO OVER GLASS OF WHISKEY — Volume 4, entries 8471. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- WEAR PHOTO — Volume 4, entries 8466. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- WISH - AFTER BURNING PHOTO FACE DOWN — Volume 4, entries 8476. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- 3 TIMES WISH - BURYING PHOTO - PERSON RETURNS — Volume 4, entries 8478. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → NAME.
- WOMAN TURNS ABSENT MAN'S PHOTO UPSIDE DOWN; TO FACE AND LEAN AGAINST MIRROR - SCRATCHES; HER NAME 9 TIMES AT TOP OF CANDLE - HIS NAME; UNDER 9 TIMES - SETS CANDLE BEFORE MIRROR AND; PHOTO - BURNS 9 DAYS - HE WILL RETURN IN 9 DAYS — Volume 5, entries 10162. Source context: ADDITIONAL RITES AND BELIEFS → MORE CANDLE RITES.
- STAND LIGHTED RED CANDLE IN FRONT OF PHOTO; TURNED UPSIDE DOWN UNDER BED AND FACING WALL — Volume 5, entries 10174. Source context: ADDITIONAL RITES AND BELIEFS → MORE CANDLE RITES.
- Glass of Water and Photograph — Volume 1, entries 2814. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → SHRINES: ALTARS - CANDLES - SAINTS; NEW ORLEANS AREA → (2) CANDLES.
- (9) NEW NAIL - HAIR - PHOTOGRAPH - 9 MORNINGS — Volume 3, entries 4418. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → EXCREMENT.
- 4 HEADLESS PINS - 1 IN EACH CORNER OF COFFIN; PHOTO FACE DOWN - UNDER VICTIM'S DOOR — Volume 4, entries 7979. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → COFFIN - DOLL BABY - BURIAL - BONES → COFFIN AND PHOTOGRAPH.
- MAN WRITES HIS NAME ON BACK OF PHOTO; TURNS IT HALF-CIRCLE AND WRITES HER NAME ACROSS HIS; MAKING A CROSS - FOLDS - PUTS IN ENVELOPE; ADDS MORE DIRT - KEEPS IN BOX - BRINGS HER HOME — Volume 4, entries 7978. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → COFFIN - DOLL BABY - BURIAL - BONES → COFFIN AND PHOTOGRAPH.
- NAME CALLED - WHILE BURYING PHOTO IN BOX; DEAD IN 9 DAYS — Volume 4, entries 7977. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → COFFIN - DOLL BABY - BURIAL - BONES → COFFIN AND PHOTOGRAPH.
- HOLE DUG OBLONG OR SQUARE - FILL WITH WATER; LAY PHOTO IN - WALK AWAY - DON'T LOOK BACK — Volume 4, entries 7982. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → COFFIN - DOLL BABY - BURIAL - BONES → COFFIN AND PHOTOGRAPH.
- BETWEEN 2 BRICKS - SYMBOLIZING COFFIN AND LID; BURY PHOTO IN GRAVEYARD — Volume 4, entries 7989. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → COFFIN - DOLL BABY - BURIAL - BONES → COFFIN AND PHOTOGRAPH.
- BIBLE - PHOTO WHITE HANDKERCHIEF - 9TH DAY — Volume 4, entries 8061. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- BIBLE STAND PHOTO ON HEAD IN — Volume 4, entries 8062. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- BOTTLE BURIED WITH PHOTO WATER; BOW OF CAP - TOENAILS - PERFUME — Volume 4, entries 8064. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- DOOR - PHOTO UNDER - FACE DOWN; HIS MIND... RAMBLE... BE'S ALL AFLUSTERY — Volume 4, entries 8102. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- DOOR - PHOTO AT - PICTURE PART ONLY; WRITE ON IT PSALM 18 - ALSO READ IT — Volume 4, entries 8105. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- DOOR - PHOTO BURIED AT - STAMP ON 9 MORNINGS — Volume 4, entries 8104. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- DOOR - PHOTO NAILED UPSIDE DOWN OVER — Volume 4, entries 8106. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- FIREPLACE - BURY PHOTO FACE DOWN UNDER BRICK OF — Volume 4, entries 8138. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- FIRE FIREPLACE OR STOVE - PHOTO FACE DOWN; GUNPOWDER - SULPHUR - SALT - GRAVEYARD DIRT; TELL INGREDIENTS WHAT TO DO — Volume 4, entries 8140. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- 4 ELDERBERRY LEAVES 1 ON EACH CORNER OF PHOTO; WRAP - THROW INTO RUNNING WATER - TO SEND AWAY — Volume 4, entries 8146. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- FROG - LIVE - 1 HAIR OF VICTIM IN MOUTH OF; PHOTO OF VICTIM LAID ON PIECE OF NEW LUMBER; IN HOLE UNDER VICTIM'S DOORSTEP - ANIMAL HELD; ON PHOTO OVER NEW LUMBER - DRIVE PEG THROUGH; HEARTS OF FROG AND PHOTO - FROG AND VICTIM DIE — Volume 4, entries 8148. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (3) 9 DAYS - DEAD IN - IF TEAR PHOTO TO PIECES; SALT - PEPPER - IN PAPER - BURY GRAVEYARD — Volume 4, entries 8155. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (13) GRAVE - PHOTO BURIED OVER HEAD OF CORPSE; DO THIS ON FIRST FRIDAY OF MONTH — Volume 4, entries 8166. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (16) GRAVE - NEW - BURY PHOTO IN - HEAD; POINTING TO SUNDOWN - PENNY ON TOP — Volume 4, entries 8169. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- COAL OIL [= KEROSENE] - BLUE OR RED DIAMOND POWDER; BURY PHOTO - HEAD DOWN - RED FLANNEL — Volume 4, entries 8179. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- HEAD - PHOTO STANDING ON — Volume 4, entries 8174. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- HEAD - PHOTO STANDING ON HEAD - IN CORNER — Volume 4, entries 8178. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- HEAD OF PHOTO CUT OFF - CUT PERSON'S THROAT — Volume 4, entries 8180. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- HEAD OF PHOTO CUT OFF - IN BOTTLE OF ALCOHOL - BURN — Volume 4, entries 8182. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- HEAD OF PHOTO CUT OFF - WEAR IN BOTTLE OF COLOGNE — Volume 4, entries 8181. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- KNIFE - GASH PHOTO WITH; OR SHOOT PHOTO ON POST — Volume 4, entries 8188. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- MANTEL - PHOTO STANDING UP HEAD DOWN ON — Volume 4, entries 8190. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- MIRROR - REMOVE BACK - PUT PHOTO HEAD DOWN AGAINST GLASS; WEAR PIECE OF HIS OR HER CLOTHES - RETURNS IN 9 OR 12 DAYS — Volume 4, entries 8196. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- MIRROR - PHOTO HEAD DOWN AGAINST BACK OF - SLEEP; OR WALK ON TO BREAK GLASS - BURN DISINFECTANT - WISH; OR LAY UNDER CARPET OR IN TRUNK - BURN LOVE INCENSE — Volume 4, entries 8197. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- MIRROR - PHOTO STANDING ON HEAD FACING; TO BRING BACK DAUGHTER WHO RAN AWAY — Volume 4, entries 8198. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- MIRROR - PUT FACE OF PHOTO AGAINST FACE OF; IN RUNNING WATER 2 OR 3 WEEKS DRIVES CRAZY — Volume 4, entries 8200. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- MIRROR - SCRAPE SILVER OFF BACK OF; RUB SCRAPINGS OVER PHOTO FACE - BURY — Volume 4, entries 8201. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- MOON - PHOTO BURIED ON FIRST OF NEW; NEXT NEW MOON WILL BRING AFFLICTION — Volume 4, entries 8202. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- NAME - HIS AND HERS HE WRITES 3 TIMES - CALLS HER; NAME - GETS HER PHOTO AND GLASS OF WATER - LAYS PHOTO; ACROSS - DROPS PAPER WITH NAMES INTO WATER - IF PAPER; AFTER SINKING SURFACES - SHE WILL RETURN IN 3 DAYS — Volume 4, entries 8210. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- NAME - 9 TIMES ON PAPER - PHOTO OF WHOLE BODY; STEEL DUST - RED PEPPER - SAUCER OVER; DIG HOLE AT NIGHT - 6 FEET DEEP - LET NO ONE SEE YOU — Volume 4, entries 8216. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- NAME CALLED - 3 TIMES EACH MORNING - 3 DAYS; PHOTO OVER DOOR - FACE LOOKING INTO HOUSE — Volume 4, entries 8217. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- NINE DIFF'REN' WAYS - CLIP PHOTO - CUT OFF 4 CORNERS; DAT'S FO' WAYS - LEAVE PHOTO 1 PIECE - RUNNING WATER — Volume 4, entries 8228. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- NORTH CORNER OF CHIMNEY OR; LEFT CORNER OF YARD; BURY PHOTO FACE DOWN — Volume 4, entries 8230. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- OLIVE OIL - 9 DROPS NEAR HEAD OF PHOTO; IN POCKET - READ PSALM 23 OVER 9 DAYS — Volume 4, entries 8232. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- PERFUME - ON WOMAN'S CUT-UP PHOTO AND HAIR BOTTLED; HIDE IT WHERE SHE WILL WALK UNDER IT — Volume 4, entries 8235. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- PILLOW - PHOTO UNDER - SLEEP ON 9 NIGHTS — Volume 4, entries 8236. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- PINS - 9 INTO HEART OF PHOTO - RUNNING WATER; AFTER 9 DAYS PERSON IN PHOTO FALLS DEAD — Volume 4, entries 8239. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- SALT - PHOTO HEAD DOWN IN - 9 DAYS; THEN HEAD UP NEAR STOVE WITH FIRE — Volume 4, entries 8246. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (4) FIRE - PHOTO SHOT THROUGH A - KILLS — Volume 4, entries 8262. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (5) FIRE - PHOTO SHOT THROUGH A - GIVES PAINS; THE SAME DAY EVERY MONTH OF YEAR — Volume 4, entries 8263. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (6) FIRE: NAIL PHOTO THROUGH FOREHEAD TO TREE; 8 FEET ABOVE SMOKE OF FIRE — Volume 4, entries 8264. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (10) FOUR CORNERS OF PHOTO; EACH SHOT IN TURN WITH PISTOL; THROW PHOTO INTO RUNNING WATER — Volume 4, entries 8268. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- ALCOHOL - 3 DROPS ON PHOTO ON TREE - SHOOT — Volume 4, entries 8276. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (f) HEART OR HEAD - SHOOT PHOTO ON GREEN TREE — Volume 4, entries 8280. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (J) 9 MORNINGS - SHOOT IN HEART; PHOTO HEAD DOWN ON TREE — Volume 4, entries 8284. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (13) WATER - NEAR RUNNING - PHOTO ON TREE - SHOOT — Volume 4, entries 8296. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (14) WATER - PAN OF - SHOOT PHOTO IN — Volume 4, entries 8297. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (s) QUICKSILVER - PHOTO SHOT WITH — Volume 4, entries 8293. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (2) STAND PHOTO ON HEAD UNDER BED AND SAY:; YO' LEF' ME BUT CHOO'RE COMIN' BACK; YO'LL BE ON YER HAID TUH SEE ME — Volume 4, entries 8304. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- STOCKING OR SOCK - PHOTO WORN IN; OR LAY FACE DOWN OVER GLASS OF WATER — Volume 4, entries 8300. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- TALK TO IT - PHOTO; (1) WRAP PHOTO IN PAPER - PIN TO BED - SAY:; YO' STAYED 'WAY LONG 'NUFF; AH THINK YO' BETTAH COME BACK HOME — Volume 4, entries 8303. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (3) 9 MORNINGS - TALK TO UPSIDE DOWN PHOTO OVER DOOR — Volume 4, entries 8305. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (4) 9 MORNINGS - TALK TO HEAD-DOWN PHOTO - AT HEAD OF BED — Volume 4, entries 8306. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (8) EAST-FACING PHOTO - IN BORED TREE HOLE; VICTIM FIRST WALKING OVER IT AT OWN DOOR — Volume 4, entries 8325. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (18) 3 HOLES BY NAIL IN PHOTO AGAINST TREE; THROW INTO RUNNING WATER - VICTIM LEAVES — Volume 4, entries 8335. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (21) KNIFE - CUT HOLE IN YOUNG PINE; TACK PHOTO UPSIDE DOWN IN — Volume 4, entries 8338. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (27) NAILS 2 - CEDAR TREE - DRIVE; INTO HEAD AND HEART OF PHOTO — Volume 4, entries 8344. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (41) PINS 9 AND KNIFE IN PHOTO - NORTH SIDE OF TREE — Volume 4, entries 8362. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (54) WATER - TREE NEAR - PHOTO NAILED TO — Volume 4, entries 8376. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (56) WATER - 3 TREES NEAR - 12 FEET APART; TREE NEAREST WATER - NAIL PHOTO ON; FACING WATER - EACH LICK YOU HEAR A POP — Volume 4, entries 8378. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- TURPENTINE - PHOTO BURIED WITH — Volume 4, entries 8386. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- UPSIDE DOWN - PHOTO - HEAD DOWN AND FEET UP — Volume 4, entries 8388. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- VINEGAR - PHOTO BURIED FACE DOWNWARD IN — Volume 4, entries 8399. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- VINEGAR - PHOTO STOPPED UP TIGHT IN — Volume 4, entries 8400. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- VINEGAR - SOAK PHOTO IN - TURN FACE TO WALL; IN OLD OUTHOUSE 28 HOURS - RESTORE TO HOUSE — Volume 4, entries 8401. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- VINEGAR - PHOTO FACE DOWN IN - 9 MORNINGS; PUT HOLE IN HEN EGG AND LET DRIP ON PHOTO — Volume 4, entries 8403. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- VINEGAR - SAUCER OF - PHOTO FACE DOWN IN; DRINKING GLASS OVER FACE - KEEP AIR AWAY — Volume 4, entries 8402. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- WATER (1) - BASIN OF; (1) PHOTO FACE DOWN IN — Volume 4, entries 8406. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- WATER (2) - GLASS OF; (2) PHOTO FACE DOWN OVER — Volume 4, entries 8407. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (3) BED - UNDER THE; PHOTO FACE DOWN; OVER CUP OF WATER — Volume 4, entries 8411. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (4) UNDER HEAD OF BED; PHOTO OVER GLASS OF WATER — Volume 4, entries 8412. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (5) PHOTO UNDER HEAD OF BED - HEAD DOWN INTO GLASS OF WATER — Volume 4, entries 8413. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (6) TIE TO HEAD OF BED - PHOTO; BOTTOM UPWARDS OVER GLASS OF WATER — Volume 4, entries 8414. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (7) BEHIND BED - PHOTO FACE DOWN; OVER GLASS OF WATER — Volume 4, entries 8415. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (8) NORTH SIDE OF BED - IN DARK PLACE; PUT PHOTO ON TOP GLASS OF WATER — Volume 4, entries 8416. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (10) DARK CORNER - GLASS OF WATER IN; HOLDING PHOTO HEAD DOWN — Volume 4, entries 8418. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (12) MIRROR - ON TOP OF PHOTO FACE DOWN; ACROSS GLASS OF WATER — Volume 4, entries 8420. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (13) 9 DAYS - PHOTO - FACE DOWN; ON GLASS OF WATER UNDER BED — Volume 4, entries 8421. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (14) CORNER OF PHOTO DOWN IN GLASS OF WATER; IN FACE OF WASHSTAND DRAWER - 9 DAYS — Volume 4, entries 8422. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (9) HOT BOILING WATER - GLASS OF - PHOTO OVER — Volume 4, entries 8417. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (15) 9 DAYS KEEP WEIGHT ON PHOTO; FACE DOWN OVER GLASS OF WATER — Volume 4, entries 8423. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (16) 9 DROPS OF HEARTS COLOGNE OR BLUE MOON PERFUME; IN GLASS OF WATER - GLASS NEVER TO BE USED AGAIN; PHOTO FACE DOWN OVER - UNDER HEAD OF BED — Volume 4, entries 8424. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (17) SPICE AND CLOVES IN GLASS OF WATER; SET PHOTO FACE DOWN OVER - 9 DAYS; IN A DARK CORNER — Volume 4, entries 8425. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (18) 9 NIGHTS - PHOTO OVER GLASS OF WATER; UNDER EDGE OF BED - IN 3 HOLY NAMES — Volume 4, entries 8426. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (23) SET GLASS OF WATER IN DARK CORNER OF HOUSE; CALL HER NAME 3 TIMES DAILY - 9 DAYS; TURN PHOTO FACE DOWN OVER THE GLASS — Volume 4, entries 8431. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- WATER (3) - MARSH OR SWAMP; (27) PHOTO FACE DOWN IN MARSH WHERE; A LITTLE WATER RUNS OVER IT — Volume 4, entries 8435. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- WATER (4) PAN OF; (29) LOVE DIVINATION WITH PHOTO — Volume 4, entries 8437. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- WATER (5) - PITCHER OF; (30) SET PHOTO BEHIND - CALL NAME; 3 TIMES DAILY - 9 DAYS — Volume 4, entries 8438. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- WATER (6) - RUNNING; (31) PHOTO THROWN INTO - MAKES PERSON WANDER — Volume 4, entries 8439. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (32) PHOTO THROWN INTO RUNNING WATER - DROWNS YOU — Volume 4, entries 8444. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (33) PHOTO THROWN INTO RUNNING WATER - MAKES CRAZY — Volume 4, entries 8446. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (34) PHOTO FACE DOWN INTO RUNNING WATER; KEEPS YOU GOING — Volume 4, entries 8450. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (37) PHOTO FOLDED IN WHITE RAG - A SINK ON IT; THROW IT INTO RUNNING WATER — Volume 4, entries 8453. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (38) PHOTO TIED TO BANK - HEAD DOWNSTREAM - FEET UPSTREAM; 22 MORNINGS SHE RAISES PHOTO TO EXAMINE IT; UNLESS HE RETURNS BY THAT TIME - HE GOES MINDLESS — Volume 4, entries 8454. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (39) PHOTO - HEAD DOWNSTREAM - FEET UPSTREAM; RUNS PERSON CRAZY IN 9 DAYS — Volume 4, entries 8455. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (40) PHOTO - QUICKSILVER ON - IN BAG; INTO RUNNING WATER - TURN BACK TO — Volume 4, entries 8456. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (41) PHOTO CUT IN HALF - 2 PIECES BOTTLED AIRTIGHT; THROW INTO RUNNING WATER - SENDS AWAY — Volume 4, entries 8457. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (42) PHOTO CUT INTO SMALL PIECES - INTO SACK; SALT AND SULPHUR - MIDNIGHT - DARK AND CLOUDY; BLINDFOLD EYES - THROW SACK INTO RUNNING WATER — Volume 4, entries 8458. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (43) SOUTH-RUNNING WATER - PHOTO THROWN INTO — Volume 4, entries 8459. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (44) TO SEE WHETHER WOMAN IS FAITHFUL; WATER (7) - IN A SPRING; MAN TAKES HER PHOTO TO BUBBLING SPRING; 3 OR 9 MORNINGS BEFORE SUNRISE; REFLECTION OF PHOTO IN THE WATER; AT DAYBREAK GIVES THE ANSWER — Volume 4, entries 8461. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- WATER (8) - TIDEWATER; (45) WRITE VICTIM'S NAME AT BOTTOM OF PHOTO; YOURS AT TOP - CARRY TO TIDEWATER STREAM; TO TREE UPON WHICH WATER RISES AND FALLS; TACK PHOTO HEAD DOWN TO IT WITH RUSTY NAIL; SO THAT IT WILL RISE AND FALL WITH TIDE; AS TIDE COMES IN VICTIM WILL GO CRAZY; AS TIDE GOES OUT HE SLEEPS ALL THE TIME — Volume 4, entries 8462. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (3) NEW HANDKERCHIEF KEPT ABOUT PHOTO; FEED WITH ALCOHOL - WEAR IN LEFT POCKET — Volume 4, entries 8470. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- WHISKEY - ALCOHOL; (1) GLASSFUL - HIS PHOTO FACE DOWN OVER — Volume 4, entries 8468. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (5) WHISKEY - HALF GLASSFUL - PHOTO HEAD DOWN INTO ADD 3 OLD BRASS PENNIES — Volume 4, entries 8472. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (6) MAN'S PHOTO ON HEAD STANDS IN ALCOHOL WITH; WOMAN'S FINGERNAILS - STRINGS TIED THROUGH; CORNERS OF PHOTO TIE PHOTO TO BACK OF BED — Volume 4, entries 8473. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (8) MARK HER PHOTO WITH AN "X" A CROSS; FOLD INTO PIECE OF NEWSPAPER - PUT IN YOUR; SHOE UNDER INSOLE - HEAD DOWN FACING HEEL; WEAR 3 DAYS - PRETEND TO DRINK WHISKEY; TWO GLASSES - DRINK YOURS - HERS WITH PHOTO; FACE DOWN OVER GLASS - NAME - LEAVE 3 DAYS; THEN WHAT HAPPENS TO SECOND GLASS - GUESS — Volume 4, entries 8475. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- HAIR FROM HEAD ATTACHED TO PHOTO - WISH - IT WILL COME TRUE — Volume 4, entries 8477. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → PHOTOGRAPH.
- (8) 3 TIMES WRITE NAME ON STOLEN PHOTO; KEEP FACE DOWN UNDER YOUR PILLOW — Volume 4, entries 8738. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → NAME.
- KNIFE OR ICEPICK POINT AT HANDWRITING OR PHOTO; ON WALL FOR 9 MORNINGS USING BAD WORDS; AND SOMETHING BAD WOULD HAPPEN TO PERSON CUSSED — Volume 4, entries 8849. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → THREE SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY → LETTERS AND HANDWRITING.
- 9 TIMES WOMAN WRITES ABSENT MAN'S NAME ON NEW; PARCHMENT PAPER - HER NAME OVER HIS 9 TIMES - THIS; PAPER SHE LAYS UNDER NEW GLASS FILLED WITH WATER; SHE THEN LEANS HIS PHOTO UPSIDE DOWN AGAINST GLASS; HEAD DOWN FEET UP - FACING OUTWARD - IN FRONT OF; GLASS WITH NAMES AND PHOTO - SHE SETS NEW WHITE; SAUCER - IN WHICH SHE BURNS NEW RED CANDLE DAILY; 3 TIMES: 6 A. M. - 12 NOON - 6 P. M. - HE RETURNS — Volume 5, entries 10157. Source context: ADDITIONAL RITES AND BELIEFS → MORE CANDLE RITES.
- PHOTOGRAPH - FOLD 9 TIMES INTO 9 CREASES CALLED; ACCORDION FOLDS - PUT LIVE MAGGOT IN EACH CREASE; TIE THIS FOLDED PACKAGE WITH BLACK CORD 9 TIMES; 6 TIMES TIE WITH RED - KNOTS REPRESENT COFFIN FOR; VICTIM - NOW INTO 9 OF SPADES WITH 3 ACCORDION FOLDS; WRAP 3 THINGS: SALT - BLACK PEPPER - CAYENNE PEPPER; WRITE VICTIM'S NAME 9 TIMES ON SILK TISSUE PAPER; FOLD EACH TIME 9 TIMES - BURN MATCH - ASHES ON TOP; THESE 3 PACKAGES FOLD INTO A CLOTH - ADD RIVER SAND; DIG SMALL PIT ON RIVER BANK - 6 INCHES LIKE A GRAVE; BE MASTER OF CEREMONIES AT FUNERAL - BLESS BODY; GOING DOWN INTO GRAVE - BETWEEN EVERY WORD CURSE; THROW SHERRY INTO GRAVE - AFTER CEREMONY SAY 9 WORDS; 18 DAYS - VICTIM BECOMES DEATHLY SICK - M. D. NO GOOD; THE 9 NAMES YOU SAY: YO' SON OF BITCH - YO' BASTARD; YORE MOTHER'S NO GOOD - YORE FATHAH'S NO GOOD; AN' AFTAH YO' HIT ME WHAT AH WON'T DO TUH YO' - END; WITH: NAME DE FATHAH, DE SON AN' DE HOLY GHOST, AMEN — Volume 5, entries 11236. Source context: "CHANNEL DE WORLD".
- PHOTO BURIED UPSIDE DOWN IN GRAVEYARD TO DRAG VICTIM; AFTER WRITING HIS NAME 9 TIMES - SNAIL - STEEL DUST — Volume 5, entries 12671. Source context: "CHANNEL DE WORLD".
Entry 2202
Dey says about doin' away with yo' with yore photograph picture - jes' lak yo' say if dere someone dey gits chure photograph an' dey keep it turnt bottom upwards on a mantle or somepin lak dat, dey say an' dat'll kind upset yore mind - things that yo' start tuh do, yo' would have no presence of mind to go to work an' tuh do it.
Entry 2203
Ah got dis by mah own experience. Ah used to work for [some] company a couple of years. Ah used to work out dere an' ah couldn't keep a job like dat - dere wus always somebody tuh undermine me. So ah went to a root doctor an' he had me to draw him a picture of de head foreman an' also de assistant foreman, an' also mah picture. [Three pictures.] He had me sign Mr. George Watson an Mr. Taylor's name an' mah name wus to de bottom. He sealed these names up in de envelope an' he tole me to take dose names an' put 'em in a box [coffin symbol], a sealed box, an' bear [bury] dem under mah front do'step, an' ah'd nevah have no mo' trouble about keepin' busy.
(You could hold a job after that.)
Ah held it dere till ah jest quit. An' dey'd written after me after ah quit.
Entry 2204
Ah've heard of 'em writin' on a black hen aig. Well, dey say yo' would specify - git a black hen aig an' yo' would take an' draw dis person's pitchure on dis black hen aig jes' in - yo' know de best dat chew could draw his pitchure or kind remind him of it. If he wear a cap, draw a cap on his haid; if he wear a hat, draw a hat on his haid. Well, yo' would write his name on there - that is him or her, don't yo' see. [The name is the person.] An' yo' would take dis black hen aig an' yo' would carry it to a stream of watah an' yo' would chunk it upstream, yo' see, an' dey say dat would git rid of him.
Entry 2814
Take dey photograph, lak a photograph pitchure [not a tintype], if yore ole man is away. Tuh bring him back, yo' git a black candle an' write his name on de black candle, an' put a glass of watah down 'side de candle. Light de candle an' den lay his pitchure 'side de candle, an' let de candle burn an' yo' make a wish. Dat's tuh git him back if he's gone, if yo' got his pit- chure.
Entry 2859
They burn a candle on it and turn it down. Do you know why ah knows this? (Now wait a minute. [I demonstrate.] Here's the photograph. The face is up. Now what do you do? How do you put the candle on there? This is the candle. You set the candle on the face like that?) You turn de bottom up. (You turn the face down and the bottom is up, and you put the candle right on top of it - right in the center like that., [This makes a quincunx - p.710 and Index.] What kind of candle do you use?) You use a black candle.
(Just one. And do you say anything or do anything when you do this?)
Yes, you say something, "I want her to sink to the bowels [of the earth]." That means to die. You burn it nine times dere, nine mornings.
(Then what happens?)
Well, if someone don't hurry an' do something, dey be sure gone. Well, you know why ah know that. You see ah had a sister, she was almost dead and she went to - she had to get her photo made, see. I say, "Maybe somebody got chure photo." She say, "Oh, ah suffer wit mah haid." She looked like she was going crazy. Well, ah took a new needle - new needles and pins and crossed 'em.
(Where did you cross them?)
Fo' to make de headache go off, put de pin right dere - brand-new - in her hair, right in de mole [mold of her head]. Den you cross it, you see. An'den after you cross it, you take some Hearts Perfume, dampen it all together and den take some camphor and put it right dere - on chere [demonstrates]. (Put it right on there on that hair at the ears. And then did her headache stop?) It sure did. And then when it stopped I say to her, say, "Now, you go and get your photo." And she went to get her photo. Dey have a - [a privy] in de back yard, a fren' girl of her. She was kind of mad with her about her husband. You see, she had mah sister's husband and mah sister liked tuh die. An' sure 'nuff, when she went in there [the privy], she had her photo behind the door with that candle on it.
[See margin-title IN THE ToILET, p.826 and Scatologic rites in Index.]
(That black candle on it.)
Mah sister took dat candle and took it and throw it in de river. And her and dat woman had a fight about it, but she got her photo and dat candle. She liked tuh been dead. Well, your picture, they can bury your picture. They can bury your picture bottom down. That'll make you drag: Your head'll be hurtin' you all the time, pain, and your head ache.
(How do they burn that on you?)
They say they light a candle, burn a candle to put you down - with the picture down, you see. With the picture down - they can't do nothing with it up, you see. They have the face down, you see. (What kind of a candle do they burn? How do they fix that candle up? What do they do?) Well, that candle, you see. They put the candle in a saucer, you see, and as for the saucer, they lay it right on top of the picture, you see, and they let it burn, you see. And you burn that candle for nine days, see.
(What times? Right on through?)
Right on through.
(Never let it go out?)
Never let it go out atall - nine days, right in that dark corner - right up in the corner, you see. Nine days.
(What color candle do they use? A white candle for that?)
Well, they generally use a black candle when they want to do evil.
(I see.)
A white candle - it's for goodness, see. Evil is a black candle.
Entry 2891
Now, jes' say now for an instance if a man is gone and left his wife, yo' might say or sweetheart, and he's away off in another country probably and she want him back. She care fo' him but he's gone off and done 'tract his 'tention with somebody else, and his mind is offa de one that he left. If she got his photograph, she kin jes' take it and jes' turn it upside down on his haid, see. And den take a green candle and a yellah candle and put de photograph right - put it down, set de candles in some kin'a little [tin] top of something, put dis heah photograph behin' de light [candles], and light chure candles and make yore wush. See. Put de photograph upside down and put some sugar, some brown sugar in de saucer [or tin top] wheresomevah dose candles is; some brown sugar and some honey, and put de two candles in dere - de yellah candle and de green one.
[Brown sugar is often used for colored person; white for white person.]
And set 'em in dat saucer with dat sugar and dat honey and put de photograph right by dose, upside down. Well dat will make dat individual git on his head to come back, see, to where he left from. Jes' in a few days he'll git all upset, wanta come back, and ain't nuthin going to keep him away from dat individual. (Now here are the two candles sitting up in this can. You put the photograph upside down, head down, leaning against one of those candles - jest leaning against one of those candles.) Leaning against whatsomevah de candles is in. And den de person - lak ah'm doing dis, jes' lak if ah was going to light de candles for mah husband and tell him to come home, and [demonstrates] ah jes' put de photograph down dere, and ah tell him, "Now, ah mean fo' you to come home to me now. Ah mean fo' you to come home and don't you stay away no longer. Ah mean fo' you to come home." [Three times.] And in about five or seven days [odd numbers] he will be back.
Entry 2932
(How do they burn a candle on your photograph?)
Well now, a photograph, if I want - you mean that if I want to harm you or.
(Yes, either harm you or do any good or any way.)
Well now, if it's to harm you - I tell you if it's to harm you. I tell you what they do to your photograph. I use a candle again, but I use a black candle. You see, you get a black candle. You gets a black candle and instead of writing the name down thisa- way, you write it around the candle. See, you write that name [demonstrates], like you start here, you write it here - every, about every inch, you write the name. You take the photograph and you turn it upside down, what I mean, turn it on the head, and you burns it by that black candle. You take one of - if you can get two of 'em, you get two [photographs]. It would be better. You got one there by the black candle and you [get] the other one and you pin it or shove it up under your fire- hearth, you see. It's not going to burn up under there. Just put it in that fire-hearth, you make all the fire you want. You put it up under that fire- hearth, but you put it on the left-hand corner of your fire-hearth and put it as high as you can get it. And you can make fire and everything else, it's not going to burn at all. It's going to do more harm than anything else, it's not going to do no good; if it burns, it ain't going to do no good. See. But it's best not to let it burn. And, if I was going to do that to you - see, if I was going to do that to you, I would put the photograph, the second one, on the left- hand side of my fire-hearth. And I'm got one on the mantelpiece, upside down, burning by the candle. I'm got your name and I get me what you call a melt.
(A what?)
A melt.
(What's that?)
[I wanted to be certain he is not talking about melted wax - see CANDLE SPONGE BURIED, p.848f.] That's something that looks like a - it comes from a cow, looks like a cow's tongue almost, but it's called the melt.
(The melt.)
[Melt of course is milt or spleen. For example: "If hogs are slaughtered in autumn and the small part of the milt lies toward the head...sign of an open winter; if the large part...a severe winter. At times...belief differently ex- pressed...if the milt...ends in a blunt point...a cold winter...tapers to a point, a warm winter. Milt is usually called melt are rarely spleen." (FACI, 2ed.,1965, p.28.) With the original belief, I debated some time whether to use melt or milt. Moreover, I broke it up into two parts; using milt for the first
(No. 307) and spleen for the second (No.308) - FACI, 1st ed.,1935, p.12.]
I'd get me one of those melts, see. I'd get that melt, you see. I'd get that and I'm going to spread it. I spread it. I get your name and if I can get any of your filth at all, I'll cut that [melt] open and I'm going put it into this melt. I'll put this in your [my] melt and I'll keep it hung up there for three days in that fire-hearth where your picture is. Then from there I take and I goes bury that melt. I bury that melt and when I bury that melt, I take this picture from there and I buries it alongside of that melt. And after burying that picture with that melt, I cover it and I lights me another candle, but I move that candle. The first candle I got, I won't light it there [in the fire- hearth], I'll light it in a dark place. See, I'll [put] this candle in a dark place for nine days. I'll limit it to nine days and in nine days I'll have you just where I want you. Yes, sir.
(Do you light that black candle at any particular time?)
Well, I got - I light my black candle. See, if I light a candle, I light it at nine o'clock in the morning, I light it at three, and I light it at six - that's three times a day, that's all.
Entry 3316
Yo' kin take a man's pitchure, his photo, an' yo' put it in de bottom of de slop bucket, an' yo' let 'em wet on it an' yo' wet on it. Dey say dat will [tie 'em up].
(Tie them up?)
Yeah, tie dem up. (You mean - suppose a woman will take a man's photo or picture and she'll put it in the bottom of the slop bucket?) Yeah, turn it bottomside upwards.
(And she'll let him wet on it, and then she will wet on it?)
Den she wet on it. (And that will tie whom up? This man and this other woman? Or this man and the woman who does it?) Yeah - no, dis man an' de othah woman. Not 'er [the woman who does it]. De Dan an' de othah woman. (If she wants to catch him and some other woman. A wife would do that. So he goes to some other woman and she catches him.) Yeah, so she ketch 'im ovah dere.
Entry 4418
Dey say dat chew could take a nail an' dip off a little bit of yore, yuh know, manure, an' carry it tuh a tree, yuh know, a nail dain't [dat ain't] nevah been used, an' drive it through dat tree wit some hair, ah think dey say, an' some of yuh hair too, an' say yuh tap it fo' nine mawnin's, an' de ninth dey says yo'll die.
(That hasn't anything to do with your photograph, has it?)
Dey tell me dey have yuh pichure up dere wit it.
(Oh! You drive this nail through it?)
Through de pichure. Drive dis nail through de pichure, see, an' have dat hair up dere wit it. Jis' drive it on in.
(Where do you put the manure, on the end of the?)
On de end of de nail.
Entry 7510
In de olden time, mah fathah tole me dat a man had got in a lil' argument wit a man an' de man killed 'im an' run away, lef' town - left outa town altogethah. Well, de peoples den worried about 'im an' wanted tuh git 'im back an' wanted to make him pull some time [spend time in jail] fo' it or have him killed [by the law]. Dey went to dis man [doctor]. Dis man fixed up a lil' sack about dat long, an' said, "Yo' tote dis in yore pocket fo' yoreself." [This sack or hand was given to dead man's brother.] An' says, "Ah'm goin' fix [cunjure] 'im. Ah'll have him back in three days." He [doctor] taken de man's pichure an' 'is name an' put it in dat pichure, an' so he went to de do'step an' put it down [buried it] an' said, "Dis man will come back in dis house fo' dis pichure, come back to dis house." An' he [brother] went on an' did dis. He didn't think dere wuz anything to it. In three days de man come back an' he axed 'im did he know anything about his brothah bein' killed an' did he commit it, an' he's de one killed 'im when he left.
Entry 7968
They can take your photograph an' can make you pine away...they'll take a box and make it like in the shape of a coffin, an' they'll put that photo- graph in that face down an'... bury it.
Entry 7969
Ah heard dis dir-ectily, dat if dey take yuh photograph an' make a casket [coffin] an' if dey turn dat [photograph] face down tuh de groun' an' bury dat casket, yo' will die. Ah've heard dat now, ah haven't seen dat.
Entry 7970
Turn photograph face down in little box [having] cut a new board in shape of coffin, an' lay down on de photograph [and lay photograph down on the coffin-shaped board], bury, dere ain't no cure fo' dat atall.
Entry 7971
Cut a pasteboard box in shape of coffin, put in tintype face down, bury, you would pine away.
Entry 7973
Make coffin, put person's pic- ture in face down, read over him jis' like yo' read over de dead, bury in graveyard, kills him.
Entry 7974
Yuh photograph has got tuh be in a tintype. Well, dey takes yuh photo- graph an' dey digs a hole jis' in de shape of a grave, an' dey take dat photo- graph an' dey puts it intuh a box or somepin lak a cigah box. Well, dey buries dat photograph on its face. An' aftah dey bury dat photograph on its face, why in a long length of time yo'll pine away an' it will kill yuh. Yo'll die! Jis' as dat photograph rots - befo' it rots, yo'll die.
Entry 7975
Well, ah heard dat dey could go tuh work an' take yer photograph an' dig a hole, jis' lak yo' diggin' a grave, yo' see, an' dey lay dat photograph down dere jis' lak yo' buryin' anyone; but still yo' know, dey bury yo' on yer face wit chure photo- graph. Yo' see de idea. An' dey could take a tenpenny nail, a bran' new ten- penny nail, an' dey could nail it through de back of yo', yo' see, down intuh de groun'. Dat's de photograph nail down intuh de groun'. Den dey covah yo' up. Ah heard dat in nine days time yo'll be a corpse, yo'll be daid. Yo' see de idea. Dat's whut ah heard dat dey could do wit dat.
Entry 7976
Well, yo' kin take anybody's pitchure an' draw de shape of a coffin on a green tree, an' nail it up an' shoot it. Dey'll die. (You put this picture on the 'shape of that coffin on the tree?) Yes sir an' shoot it.
Entry 7977
Dey take yuh photo an' jis' put it in a bottle - not dat, yo' kin put it in a box. Shape dis box like a casket [coffin] an' yo' could bury dis box in de dirt, an' call yuh name an' in nine days time yo'll die.
Entry 7978
Yo' takes a photograph, see, an' writes on de back of de photograph yore name, her name cross it. Don't write 'em straight. Yo' write chure name down an' yo' come back an' write her name on top of it. Yo' go to de grave- yard an' take yo' two han'- fulla dirt an' sprinkle it ovah dis picture, an' fold dis photograph up an' puts it in a envelope an' sprinkle dat dirt in de envelope, jes' 'nuff tuh put in dere an' fold it up an' puts it in de box. An' in seven days, regardless tuh where she is or who she is, she cain't be still - she'll return. She gotta come.
Entry 7979
Take yur photograph. Now, if it's made on tin but not on papah - its gotta be made on tin [a tintype]. An' yo' take dat photograph an' yo' take yo' fō' pins, an' yo' cut de haid's off dose pins, if yo's aftah kill- in' a person. An' yo' take dose pins an' yo' take an' put 'em roun' fo' cornahs lak yo' would a coffin, yo' undahstan'. An' den yo' bury dis picture on its face, but its gotta be a tin pitchure. An' as dis pitchure fade away, dey'll fade away.
(You pin those four pins around the four corners of the picture?)
Yes, ( dat's right. Dat's whut chew do. An' bury it on de face, but chew cuts de haid of 'em off, de haids of de pins off.
(But you have to bury it under the individual's door?)
Undah 'is own do'.
Entry 7980
I've heard whut it'll do, dat little coffin. But jis' like I tellin' yo' a few minutes ago, dat stuff about makin' a little coffin. Put 'em undah de step, yo' see, wit de people's photo in dat coffin, de party. Dat why plenty people won't take dere photos yo' see. Put it in dat coffin wit some pins, some needles, yo' see, an' some steel dust and lodestone. See. An' dat draw dose people outa dat house, yo' undahstan', an' fix 'em so dey will nevah wan' tuh see one anothah no mo'.
Entry 7981
Take dey photograph an' git a piece of white linen cloth dat ain't been used, an' put de photograph in dere - lay it on dere. An' den yo' git fō' pins, jis' lak yo' gon'a measure a casket, an' yo' put a pin at each cornah an' all lak dat. An' yo' take dat photograph an' put it in a little box or sompin an' bury it. Dat kills a person.
(How do you put that photograph in that white piece of cloth now?)
Dis is de cloth [demonstrates], de square cloth an' yo' lay de photograph in dat. Lay it with de face up. Yo' see, when yo' put it in de ground, yo' put de face down. Yo' take dat photograph an' yo' place it right in de middle. Yo' put a pin heah, an' one heah, an' yo' put one heah, an' one heah, an' yo' take dat linen den an' fol' de cornahs ovah it. Den yo' bury dat photograph.
Entry 7982
If they wanted you for to stay, they wouldn't take dose leaves [4 el- derberry leaves in a preceding rite]. Dey jis' take de back off yuh pitchure an' - jis' lak, dig a hole about, say as large as dis table [that is, an oblong or a square hole, a cof- fin symbol] an' put watah in it, which it can't run [away], an' dey'd put dat pitchure in dere an' let it stay.
(How do they take the back off a picture?)
What? Take the back off a pitchure?
(You said they take the back off a picture?)
Dey take de back off de pitchure - de back be, yo' know, de back of yuh pit- chure, if it's in a frame, an' jis' leave dat pitchure in de form dere an' dig a hole an' put dis stale [still] watah [in the hole].
(How would they put it in that water?)
Jis' drop it down dere an' don't look at it. Turn around an' walk off.
(I see.)
Entry 7983
Take a new board an' draw a person yo' dislike an' yo' want 'em tuh die. Jis' take a new board an' yo' draw dere pitchure on dat new board. An' git a box of sulphuh dat have nevah been opened, an' a box of saltpetah dat have nevah been opened, an' put on dere. An' take dat pitchure an' bury it an' dem peo- ple take sick, an' jis' lingah an' lingah an' de firs' thing yo' know dey'll be daid.
Entry 7984
Jes' lak if yo' wan' tuh do 'way wit a person, lak if yo' wan' tuh draw a person, well yo' jes' make it out chure mind, but choo draw dat person's pitchure. Well yo' draw 'is pitchure an' yo' put a coffin [put it in a coffin]. (You draw the figure in the coffin?) Yes sir, dat's right. An' den yo' take hit an' bury it at dere steps, see. Den draw it also....
[Here is the information given while machine was stopped:]
(You draw this person's picture on a piece of paper, and then you drav a coffin around it?) Dat's right. An' den yo' draw anothah one an' put it at de do' where dey kin see dat, an' tell 'em whut will become of 'em, see. Well, aftah yo' draw dis - yo' done buried de one, de firs' one - let me see, well, now dey begin tuh read dat lettah an' dey see dat. Well, dat gits dere spirit tuhgethah an' it begin tuh grieve dem den, an' dey worry ovah it an' finely [finally] dey come tuh perish away.
(You do that to let them know you are doing the work against them?)
Dat's right.
Entry 7985
Make a coffin an' put a person's picture in, bury it in someone's grave in graveyard, person will die.
Entry 7986
Well, it's jis' like this. A woman loves a man an' he loves her an' she can't live with this man again like she want him. If she kin git his photo- graph, stick a pin through the heart of the photo- graph - an' the first person that die aroun' her neighborhood or anywhere that she kin slip this photograph in the coffin with the dead, and aftah they cover it up why he won't live very long.
Entry 7987
Well, dey could take yore pitchure. When anybody dies take dat pit- chure an' drap it down in de box [coffin] on de face of dem persons, an' de mo' dat pitchure molt, yo'll molt away. (You put the photo of this person in that coffin.)
Entry 7988
Dey take it, dese tintype, take it an' bury it in de ground an' put a stick tuh de foot an' a stick tuh de haid. An' whilst dat pitchure fadin' away, yo'll fade right 'long wit it; an' when all of it off, den yo'll die. (Why do you put those sticks at the foot and at the head?) Jes' lak yo' buryin' somebody.
Entry 7989
Take dat pitchure an' cut it off in fo' cornahs, each cornahs. Cut dat off an' care [carry] it tuh a graveyard or jis' wherevah's a part where dey got mud where dey kin bury it at. An' git chew two bricks an' turn dat picture upside [face] down an' let it stay dere. An when dat pitchure rotten, dey'll rotten away from de earth.
(What do you do with those two bricks?)
Dose two bricks yo' bury 'em. Wit dose two bricks - yo' lays it [picture] on one [brick] an' take de othah one [second brick] an' set it on top dat [first brick] an' bury it, wherevah dey got mud, if yo' don' wanta bring it tuh a grave- yard, if yo' wanta keep it aroun' de house.
(You can bury it in the mud or take it to the graveyard?)
But if yo' take it tuh de graveyard, yo' cain't easy find it lak yo' kin at de house. (But you must bury those two bricks under the ground with the picture in be- tween them?) Yassuh, turn dat pitchure upside down. See, de pitchure part [down].
Entry 7990
They tell me that you can take a photograph on a tintype and bury it in the cemetery between two new shingles, and the person will gradually fade. [Do these shingles, like two bricks (No.7989), represent coffin and lid?]
Entry 7991
Sometimes, if you Want to carry a per- son away, why they go and bury it [a person's image drawn on a shingle] in some grave inthe cemetery, some person he doesn't know anything about, and some grave where it's sinking in. Just like, you know, a new grave will soon sink in, when it's a new dirt grave, you cram it down there. You see, as the dirt sinks in, why that'll go down. And they say whenever it gots down to the, you know, below the earth, the image, the earth level, why then this person will die. [For sunken grave, see also No.7539, p.3301.] [Elizabeth City, N. Car., (438), 403:3 0r 558:3.] [Similar to the two-dimensional photograph is the three dimensions of the doll baby, a small image of length, breadth and thickness, representing the contours of the human body. Several of these manikins have already been given in Nos.1841- 1842, p.549f.; No.2805f., P.803f., MAN-SHAPED CANDLE, and elsewhere.]
Entry 7992
At Christmas [last Christmas, 1938] a person did dat. A lady did that to a man, had a little bit of [a miniature] coffin, like a little person in there. And he thought he was receiving a Christmas present. You know, had it in a little Christmas box with a little ribbon on it, an' a Christmas card on it.
Entry 7993
They put a image in a coffin an' put it at your door an' put chew in bad luck, make yo' drift.
Entry 7995
Take a piece of a lady's dress and make him some kind of a doll and bury it under de step to get her, but how dat was done ah don't know.
Entry 7996
Well, dat little coffin, dat is de one like if a woman is in love wit a man. Well, she will cut out maybe a little doll or image of 'im an' dey take dat an' bury dat maybe perhaps by some canal or some place - some guttah or some of dat kind of stuff, like dat. An' dey keeps dat dere an' dis man can't leave out of de town dat he is in. Whatevah town he is in he can't leave out of it, as long as dat coffin is buried in dat town where him an' her is at.
Entry 7997
Yo' see, she makin' yo' [your] image. Well, now she carry dat home tuh heep yo' home wit 'er. Well now she is in love wit chew. Well now, when she done git through fixin' dat, if she know what tuh do wit it, she take an' she put nine grains of red peppah. Now listen tuh me good. She put nine grains of red peppah in dere. She'll take pickle [? or pric- kle?] feet but she'll put - tetch it wit dat, not put it in. She'll tetch it wit dat. [Prickle feet could be a weed like horse nettle.] Dat got chew ag'in. An' yo'll nevah confess tuh know dat chew do it. Got chure brain dere an' all tuhgethah.
(Well, how did she make this little image?)
She make dat image of a man.
(What did she make it out of?)
She make it out of rags.
Entry 8055
Well, de pichure - see, lak mah pichure an' yuh pichure, it's in a frame, in a big frame.... Take dat pichure an' put it intuh a basket upside down, an' aftah dat, about three or fo' days, yo' begin tuh have a misery in yuh haid an' yo' don' even know whut it is all about. Come tuh find out, de pichure lak dis will run yo' stone crazy, if yo' don' go see [a doctor] about it right away... [I turn off machine too soon].
(You put this picture into what?)
Intuh a basket. Put chure face upside down, any kinda basket, turn yo' upside down.
Entry 8056
Sleep on it [a photograph] with the nights and the person can't rest and they'll just be dreaming and think- ing of you. See? That'll make them think of you all the time.
Entry 8057
During my childhood days I heard that a sick person who was very trou- blesome and worried them and worth a little money, the only thing you could do [to kill this person and] to stop the law from com- ing into it: This person went to a hoodoo, and he told her to take this person's picture and turn it upside down under the [sick] bed and watch its effect. In three days the person vas a corpse. You turn a photograph down like that, and you watch the person and see if he don't get weaker every day. When you lay it down you are turning the life down like that. [Fredericksburg, Va., by Ediphone.]
Entry 8058
Well, sho' [sure] but it's gotta be on tin [tintype]. Yo' take de one dat's on a tin. Yo' kin take dat photograph an' yo' kin take it an' lay it up undah yore bed fo' nine days an' night, an' dat photograph will fade. Dat photograph will fade away an' de people gona disappeah. Dat's when yo' want 'em tuh disappeah outa yore sight. Dat's when dey bothahin' yo'. Well, yo' take dat an' lay it undah yuh bed fo' nine days, an' de mo' dat photograph fade away, dem people git outa yore sight.
Entry 8059
I've heard that they could make a person follah them by means of using their pitchure. They claim that they would put that in the head of the bed, jis' take it an' tack it behind the bed in the headboard. An' that person whose pitchure it is, why [he] will be at their beck-an'-call at any time.
Entry 8060
I know what I can do to bring a girl back, if she wants to leave, so long as I got her photograph. I can take her photograph and bring her back. Well, I'd take the photograph, you see, and I'd put it bottom upward, you know, crossways underneath the head of the bed. I can take the photograph and put it under the head of the bed, bottom upwards, and put the head at the west and feet at the east [photo faces east as does a corpse], you see, and put dat dere for nine days. So when dat nine days are up and that starts to rus' [rust], you take that up and put it in your pocket. Wear in your hip pocket and she'll come back. She won't do nuthin till that rus'es, you see. When you put it, it rus'es crossways, you see, on the springs you know. It rus' with the springs. I don't know [how] it come to bring her back, but it will do it jes' as soon as that starts to rus'. And you take that out and put it in your pocket. The actual pitchure itself had to be against the springs, but it have to be a tintype. You see [demonstrates] the face is up this way and you turn it down [face to springs], you see, and let the head be to the west and the feet to the east [normal position for burial of corpse]. That's according to the direction as she went. If she went east, you do that; if she went west, you put the head den [to the east], jis' ever way she went. You put that [on the springs] underneath your pilloW. And WHEN THE NINE DAYS IS UP, THAT THING WILL TURN COMPLETELY AROUND, THAT PICTURE WILL. When the nine days is up and that thing [picture] turns around, she'll come home.
Entry 8061
They say if someone's away an' you have a photo [of the per- son], you place it in a white pocket han'chief an' put it in the Bible and they will come back on the ninth day.
Entry 8062
If dis party is off, 'way off, an' yo' wants tuh see dem, well if dat pichure - dey say is a tintype pichure - dat yo' could turn it up on it's haid in a Bible, upside down, an' if dey can, why dey'll come.
Entry 8063
Jes' lak a person wanta hurt somebody, yo' know, a lady dat dey don't iak. Dey kin take huh pichure an' take it an' put it in a bottle, an' turn dat bottle bottom upwards, bury it in de ground. An' de mo' dat pichure swell, de mo' she'll swell; an' when dat bottle breaks, de woman would bu'st wide open. Ah've seen dat done. (You simply take her picture and put it in the bottle and turn the bottle up- side down and bury it.) Yes sir, an' de pichure swells an' de mo' it swells, de mo' she swell, an' den she bu'sts open an' die from it. Ah've seen a woman die from dat. An' de way ah've seen people git live lizards put in 'em, ah've seen dat done.
Entry 8064
Yo' know dese cheap photograph where all de stuff kin come off. Ah mean de tintype. Well yo' put dat down in some watah an' all dat stuff shell of. Yo' don't put in so [too] much watah, a li'le bit of watah - see, jis' a li'le on it tuh soften it. Git all dat out an' yo' put dat in a bottle, see. An' yo' put some perfume in dat, an' den yo' put dere toe- nails, an' yo' puts de bow of de cap [3 ingred- ients added to photograph water]. Yo' know dat li'le bow at de bottom of 'is cap, li'le roun' bow. Take dat an' put dat in de bottle, an' yo' stop dat up an' bury dat.
(What will that do to you?)
Dat will kill yo'.
Entry 8065
[The rites of this margin title give the simple act of burning a photo- graph, usually in a fire already made. More complicated burning rites will be found later in this section and elsewhere in Hoodoo.l Jes' lak yo' have a photograph an' - say ah wuz goin' wit a girl an' ah had 'er photograph. Well, maybe ah'd keep it an' ah'd maybe start goin' wit anothah girl. All right, dis othah girl didn't like fo' me tuh have dis photograph. Ah take de photograph an' throw it in de fiah an' burn it up, an' it makes dis othah girl sick an' jes' lingahin' an' lingahin' 'long. An' firs' an' las' she dies, pales away.
Entry 8067
Dey say dat, but ah nevah seed dat natchel [natural] mahself. But dey say yo' kin take dere pichure, a tintype, especi'ly de tintype, an' yo' kin burn it an' dat person will die.
(Burn it?)
Burn it up.
(I see.)
Jis' take it an' burn it up. An' dey say dey will die. Well, now, ah nevah saw dat done. Ah've jis' heard talk of dat.
Entry 8068
A pusson cu'd take yo' photograph an' burn it. If dey burn it, well yo' jis' absolutely goin' be a man dat git burned. If dey throw it ovahbo'd yo's prak'ly [practically] goin' de same place dat chure pichure went, yo' undah- stan'. An' fin'ly [finally] de same dat [who] threw dat pichure ovahbo'd, dat one dat, chew know, gotta come an' git chew.
Entry 8069
Ah heard dey take de photograph an' throw it in de fire or throw it out somewhere an' do 'way it. An' yo's gone. Say, dey's eithah daid or dey'll trav- el.
Entry 8070
If dey are 'way from home, dey say yo' kin take dere pichure an' burn it up, an' yo' nevah will see 'em any mo'. Yessuh, if dey 'way from home. Yes- suh, if yo' burn up dere pichure, dey'll nevah come back any mo'.
Entry 8071
If anyone take yo' pitchure, dey say dey - jis' DE VAY DEY TREAT YO' PITCHURE, dey say DAT'S DE VAY DAT YO'LL BE TREATED. If anyone take yo' pitchure or burn it up or sumpin lak dat, dey say dat yo'll be treated lak dat BEFO' YO' DIE.
Entry 8072
Throw it [your photograph] in de fire an' burn it up an' dat'll make yo' fall in de fire an' git burnt.
Entry 8073
They take your picture and burn it, and take the ashes and take them and hide it, and you will lose your mind.
Entry 8076
[There are many simple statements about burying a photograph. The present ones are given here to establish the margin title. Later in the section we shall meet many burial of photo rites.] Dat's accordin' to whut it be taken on, yo' know. If it be taken on tintype, dey kin take hit, yo' know, in de groun'; an' as it fade, dat'll cause yo' tuh fade away. Yo' see, as hit fade away, as [so] yo' fade away. Yo'll git tuh go - look like, yo' know, somebody goin' intuh T. B. or somepin othah.
(Just how do they bury that? Any particular way?)
Jis' - dey kin jis' take it an' jis' bury it anyways, see, an' anywheres, yo' see.
(I see.)
Entry 8077
I heard that they could take your photograph and, if the person wanted to harm you, they could take your photograph and bury it; and that they thought you'd have bad luck or some ill omen would befall you.
Entry 8078
(What do they do with your photograph?)
Dey takes it an' turns it up. Dat's why ah don't give nobody mine. Dey takes it an' digs a hole an' turn yo' on yore face an' bury it.
(What will that do to you?)
Dey say dat kills yo'.
Entry 8079
Well, now, dere's two thing ah know dey kin do wit a photograph. Dat ah know. Dey kin go tuh work if dey wanta - if a man lef' dere wife, dey kin take dat photograph an' turn it upside down, an' den yere husban' will come back home to yo'.
Entry 8080
They take them [photographs], they say, and bury 'em in the ground and kill yeh.
Entry 8081
Ah've heard dat if it's on tin an' yo' bury it, dat gives yo' de head- ache.
(The photograph.)
Entry 8082
Bury it on de face tuh kill 'em. (Bury this photograph on its face and that will kill them.)
Entry 8083
Dey tell me dey take a person's photograph and buries it. It will run 'em crazy.
Entry 8084
Yo' kin git de photograph of me if dere is any dissatisfaction between I an' yo'. Yo' is de woman an' I'm de man, an' yo' kin git mah pichure. [Once again as so many times, I am a guinea pig - this time a female one!] Yo' kin carry dat pichure an' take up about half a tablespoonful of castor oil. Sprinkle de castor oil [demonstrates] ovah de pichure lak dat, turn it down on de face, dig a li'le dirt out de ground an' put it on topa de pichure lak dat. An' I'll go crazy. [For oil on photo, see later margin title 9 DAYS etc.]
Entry 8085
They take it [photograph] an' lay it flat on its face, an' then take two drops of chicken blood an' cross that, and then pray ovah that: Our Fathah who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, let thy kingdom come, let thy will be done. An' then that will work for you then on your photograph.
(What would that do?)
Well, according as they use it, jis' like I said; why then accordin' to what they wan'a do. If they wan'a be good to you or wan'a be mean to you, or somepin like that, well you could do that, choo see. [The cross is made by dipping the f an "x" or cross. finger into chicken blood twice, each time drawing the stroke of an "X" or cross. Yes the Our Father Prayer can be used for evil as well as good.]
Entry 8086
Turn 'im [his photo- graph] down tuh de ground an' make a wish wit dat black hen feathah an' yore wishes will come true. An' at de dawn of day, read a chaptah ~ read de 36th chaptah of de Psalms of David. Yo' pray tuh God an' ast 'im fo' whut chew want an' yo'll be purtty lucky tuh git it. (Use the person's photograph. How do you use that black feather? What do you do with that?) Lay it across de pichure, turn it [picture] down tuh de ground.
(Face it down.)
Entry 8087
Like if a lady or a man - a man wouldn't - or a woman wouldn't even hurt a woman like herself an' a man wouldn't hurt a man like himself. Now, if yo' got a lady friend, say for instance she's gone from here tuh London, Eng- land. Yo' cares fo' dis lady, an' she don't care fo' yo'. Yo' wants 'er back. Yo' kin git 'er back. Yo' go, yo' git choo - yo' got 'er photo already. Yo' git chew some John de Conkah's root. Yo' git choo some Mayfair Powdah [trade name, perfumed powder for body].
(What kind of powder?)
Mayfair Powdah, an' git choo some John de Conkah's root. Yo' take dis John de Conkah's root an' dis Mayfair Powdah. (You take the John the Conquer root and the Mayfair Powder. All right, then what?) John de Conkah's root an' dis Mayfair Powdah. Now, yo' gotta take dis John de Conkah's root an' yo' gotta roll it out 'till it git tuh a powdah like dis May- fair Powdah. Supposed tuh sell yo' Mayfair Powdah or de othah [John de Conkah]. Now, aftah yo' take dis powdah an' dis earth [John de Conkah Powder]. Yo' got 'er photo. Yo' go out in some private place at twelve o'clock. Yo' go in de daytime when de sun is beamin' hot. Yo' stan' dis pichure anywhere dat yo' could stand it, even if yo' gotta put a brick down tuh stand it up. Yo' go roun' [cir- cle] dis pichure nine times an' sprinkle it wit dis Mayfair Powdah an' dis John de Conkah's root.
(Do you have to sprinkle the picture or sprinkle a circle around it?)
A circle around it nine times.
(All right.)
Now, she's in London, England. An' aftah yo' do dat nine times fo' nine days, yo' don't have tuh worry no more. She's gotta come back regardless wherevah she's at. Dat's wit 'er photo. [I believe the person walks round (circumambulate) the propped-up photo once each day of the 9 days, sprinkling as he goes.]
(Why do you say London, England? Have you ever been there?)
I'se nevah been in London, England, but dat jis' [an illustration].
(I See. WERE YOU BORN IN THIS COUNTRY?)
WelI, I WASN'T BORN RIGHT ON DIS SIDE [IN NEW ORLEANS]. I WAS BORN ON DE LOW COAST OF ALGIERS [ON WEST SIDE OF MISSISSIPPI, AN "OVER THE RIVER" PART OF NEW QLEANS.]
(WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE LOW COAST OF ALGIERS? ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI?)
ACROSS DE MISSISSIPPI RIVAH.
(I see, I see.) )
Entry 8088
They say they kin take a tintype of a man or a woman that you're in love with an' turn it upside down in a dark corner an' keep it in the dark. Eventually they will pine away to nuthin an' their thoughts will be on you always.
Entry 8089
If a party writes a party a lettah an' sends 'is pitchure in it, an' he take it an' jab both of de eyes out of de party, an' burn two cornahs, dat's bad business
(What will it do?)
Give yo' hard luck de balance of yore days, an' yo' liable tuh go blind.
(What two corners do you burn?)
Burn de right an' left - burn de bottom one left an' burn de top one right.
Entry 8090
Have taken dat [photo] an' put it intuh a trunk. Bury it bottom down, [I] mean face down, an' cut two cornahs offa it an' write de name on de face, "I want chew tuh come home, '' or 'I want chew tuh die." I write dat on de photo, "Want chew tuh lin- gah." Write dat on de face of de photo. If dat face is down in de bottom of de trunk or down undah a step or anywhere, I could git jis' so I kin git de face down at, neah of de home or in de home... [I interrupt]. (That will have to be written down. Which two corners of the photograph do you cut off? Which two corners?) Got tuh lay it face dis way, see [demonstrates].
(Which two corners do you cut off now?)
All right [demonstrates]. Cut dis one here, an' cut dis one down here. (You cut opposite corners.) [Magic of the diagonal, see many examples in Hoodoo.] Yes, sir, opposite cornahs.
Entry 8091
Ah've heard dat dey kin take yo' photograph an' cut both cornahs, yo' know, each cornah an' pass it 'way tuh a individual. Jis' lak if ah had yore photograph, if ah was in company wit choo, ah would clip de fo' cornahs tuh it an' jis' put it away in a private place, where no one would git tuh it an' see it. An' dat would always bring yo' person'ly towards me. (You cut off the four corners. And what do you do with those four corners then?) What chew do wit de fo' cornahs? Well, yo' kin jis' cast 'em aside. Dey are no good.
(You just keep the photograph.)
Jis' keep de photograph yo'self.
Entry 8092
I heard 'em say dat dey kin take a photograph an' burn de cornah of it.
(Burn the corner?)
Burn de cornah, bend de fo' cornahs of de photograph dat way. Take de photo- graph an' jis' take it off an' jis' burn de cornahs. Strike a match tuh it an' burn de fo' cornahs. Take a stick an' pick dat up an'...an' throw dat in de fiah. "Fore de end of de yeah, why somepin will happen tuh dat man or dat woman. I've seen dat thing done mahself.
Entry 8093
If he's gone fah [far] off, yo' could...an' clip each cornah off it [photograph] an' stick it down, yo' know, lak in a crack an' sprinkle table salt ovah dat, an' yo' make urinate dere fo' nine mawnin's, an' he'll be back.
(Just stick it down in the crack?)
Yes.
Entry 8094
Dey say dat she could take de photograph an' nail it up, yo' know, in de fo' cornahs of de wall, an' if de man's off an' yo' [or she] want 'im tuh come back, yo' take it an' [demonstrates] put it in dat cornah, an' dat cornah, an' dat cornah, an' den call de fo' cornahs of de walls, jis' lak no'th, so'th an' east an' west. [They] say in nine days he'll be back home. (You only do that once though? You put the photograph in one corner and call his name, then you take that off and put it in another corner. Then you take it off and put it in another corner.) An' den call de fo' cornahs, jis' lak dey say de fo' cornahs of de world.
[This expression is from Revelation of St. John the Divine, 7:1.]
(But you only use one photograph, and you call each corner?)
An' den call 'is name. Say in nine days he'll be back home.
Entry 8095
Yo' kin take a man's pichure or a man kin take a woman's pichure. If yo' wan' de person tuh stay aroun', yo' kin turn it up an' dey'll be aroun' if yo' walk on tuh 'em. If yo want 'em tuh come rushin' right tuh yo' at once, turn it down. Dat puts 'em on dere haid, dey can't stay away. Den yo' kin take de pichure ag'in an' punch de eyes out, put a "x" in de mouth, an' bury it on de face of it, but punch de eyes out an' dat'll run 'em blind.
Entry 8096
If yo' didn't like a person, take dat pichure an' make cross marks on de eyes an' bury it where yo' often walks ovah, an' dey will nevah bothah yo' any mo'. (Just make a cross over each eye?) Jis' make a cross ovah each eye an' bury it, yo' know, in de path dat chew trods ovah, an' dey'd nevah bothah yo' ag'in.
Entry 8097
Yo' take de pichure an' yo' plug both eyes out. Den yo' take an' yo' put two cross mark right across lak dat [demonstrates] an' den yo' carry it tuh de right- han' cornah of de house on de Do'theast side, an' carry it an' put it undahneat' of de house up on top of de sill an' turn de face down. An' dey'll perish [you] away. (Now, after you cut the eyes out of that picture, you just cross it like that [demonstrate] twice. You make diagonals across the picture in the shape of a cross like that twice. Then you bury it under - [demonstrate] here's the house and here's the northwest corner. Now, where would you bury it under the north- east corner?) Yo' jis' put it right along - now heah's [demonstrates] de no'theast cornah. Jis' put it about lak dat, up on top of de sill of de house an' turn it face down.
Entry 8098
Yo' kin take dat, jis' a tintype. Yo' kin take it an' bury it an' kill a person jis' as daid as dey evah have tuh die. Yo' take it an' carry it out somewhere an' yo' dig a hole an' put it in it, an' yo' jis' curse an' say, "Ah hope dat yo'll die an' nevah come back ag'in." An' bury it. Dat's de way tuh bury an' dey'll die. As dat tintype fade away, why dey'll fade away. Dey will shore die.
Entry 8099
Take de photograph an' put it befo' yo' face a certain time, certain hour of de day, whichevah hour yo' sets. Some of 'em sets seven in de mawnin', which dey claims dat's best. Set dat photo befo' yo' evah mawnin' an' curse it. Point chore fingah at it an' curse it, dey say, whatevah curse yo' may wish, fer seven mawnin's, an' bury it upon its face, face downwards, an' dat curse will come true.
Entry 8100
Ah heer'd dat yo' could take a photograph an' put, place it in de dark, yo' see. Place it in de dark with peppah an' salt. Sprinkle on dis photograph. Wrap it up an' put it in a dark place. Well, yo' say, throw it away an' it would cuz homes tuh be broken up or somepin lak dat. Ah hear'd of dat, too.
Entry 8101
Jis' lak mah wife wuz tuh leave me an' go tuh New York or somewhere, an' ah wanted 'er back, an' ah could git 'er photograph, an' could take it an' bring 'er back tuh me, an' all lak dat.
(Well, do you know what they would do with that?)
Dey say dey would take dat photograph an' turn it tuh go from de way she leave home; jis' backward, back. Ah tell how she, de way she leave. Dey could take dat photograph an' turn it, put de face towards de way she went an' de back to- Wards home, an' de face of dat pichure would draw 'er back tuh me.
(That's all they had to do?)
Yessuh, dey jis' take dat.
Entry 8102
Ah heard dat yo' could take yore photograph on a tintype - on a tin- type. Take yore photograph, if dey wanted tuh do anything tuh yo', an' keep it layin' on de face undah de do', an' dat'll make his mind, yo' know, ramble. He cain't stay dere, he gotta go. He'll wanta be goin' all de time. Jis' yore mind be's all aflustery an' yo' don't know whut tuh do. Yo' ain't satisfied an' yo' cain't do yore work, jis' unhappy.
(Why would that cause that?)
Well, de pichure is layin' on it's face. Dat's whut de ole lady tole me.
Entry 8103
Take dat p'otograph an' put it down on de face, an' bury it undah de doorsteps, an' walk ovah it. Dey say dat person'll jis' be gone.
Entry 8104
Yo' kin bury it on its face [the picture] at chure do' too, ag'in. Wrap it up in flannen an' bury it down dere an' evah mawnin' fo' nine mawnin's yo' kin hit on it jis' lak dat [demonstrates by stamping foot], jis' as yo' walk, jis' hit on it lak dat, an' dat harms 'em. Yo'll fade away. Ah've seen 'em fade away.
(You just stomp [stamp] on it.)
Yo' be goin' but chew fades away tuh nuthin.
Entry 8105
Dey could take yore photograph lak if yo's a long Way off. Dey kin take it an' put it at de front do' where yo' live at an' read de 18th Psalm. In nine days yo'll come from where yo' is, ah don't care where yo' is. (How do they put that photograph at the front door? Just what do they do with that?) Dey will put it right at de front do' an' dey will cut dat, yo' know, jis' de size of yo' photograph - cut dat out, see. An' den would put dat piece right back ovah dat, dat same piece, an' put dat 18th Psalm, yo' know, written on a piece of papah, an' place it ovah dat. An' den dey Would read dat 18th Psalm in de Bible. An' den in nine days yo'll surely return.
Entry 8106
Well, if a woman don't like you an' go away, yo' turn it [photograph] upside down [face down?] an' nail it up over the door. It'll bring her back.
Entry 8107
I've heard tell of 'em takin' yuh photograph - of a tintype - an' bury- in' it at cheh do', an' it'a make sickness. "Yo' become swollen, yo' know. Yo' jis' run wild, see. An' if anybody kin git tuh it befo' it russes [rusts], why dey kin save yo' - jis' take it up. Dey bury it head-fore- most. Dey bury it about, yo' know, about fo' or five inches down in earth, down undahneath yuh do'step.
(What do you mean by head-foremost?)
De head leans out from de do'. Dat means dat choo'll die an' dey bring yuh out, yo' undahstand. It's bottom upward.
Entry 8108
Take a photograph an' dig a hole undah a bottom of a steps, an' turn it down undah dat step right on de face, an' dat will make yo' leave a place where yo' be at.
(How do you mean make you leave?)
Jis' lak if yo' stayin' tuh a house lak dis [where we were sitting] an' dey Want chew tuh go, say dey will bury it undah yo' step, undah yo' bottom do'steps. An' dig a hole an' turn it down, say dat will make yo' go.
Entry 8109
Dey git hold of dat photograph so as tuh do yo' any harm. Well, dey could take it an' take it home wit 'em an' bury it an' keep it about, say two or three days sompin, somewhere round de do'step. But it ain't nuthin tuh kill yuh or nuthin lak dat. But it will, yo' know, put chew in bad luck or give yo' a bad feelin' or somepin othah lak dat.
Entry 8110
Now, if yo' have a fren' - understan' me good - a girl fren' dat lovin' yo' an' she have yore photo. Well, she kin take de photo an' turn it down on de face an' put it undah de front steps, jis' undah de sill of de house, an' dat vill make yo' worry a lot about 'er.
Entry 8111
I heard of 'em gittin' hold of it [a photograph] an' buryin' it under the doorsteps so it with de face down, an' makin' yo' leave.
Entry 8112
Ah've heard dat dey would take dat an' bury it undah de step, dat photo.
(What would that do?)
Well, dat would bring yore lovah back, if he's left.
Entry 8113
A person could bury mah photograph bottom upwards undah mah steps an' ah'll run off but ah'll sho'ly [surely] come back, come right back.
Entry 8114
If a person got a photograph, if yo' kin git it an' burn it up an' have somebody tuh bury de ashes right back undah her steps, well dat will give her bad luck. Dat'll run 'er away from town, make her move out dat house.
Entry 8115
Git a person photograph on a tintype. Ah know dis one mahself. An' yo' stan' it on de edge, put it in de groun' where it will stan' on de edge, an' let it lay dat way 36 hours in dat one position. An' den aftah den yo' go back an' turn it ovah ag'in, see. An' if he's away, he'll show up. In de same lak mannah, if yo' wanta kill any person wit de tintype, yo' take it an' yo' lay it flat jis' lak dat on its face an' let it lay dere. In less dan 36 hours dat individual will git sick an' be daid. (Now, that first way, you put the photograph, you set it up like that [demon- strate]. Is the head up or down, or does it make any difference?) It doesn't make any diff'rence, jis' so it's settin' up on de edge. An' den de nex' time yo' turn it.
Entry 8116
They kin take a egg, draw their pitchure on dis egg, bury it with the face to the sun, an' it will cause 'em to be in trouble.
Entry 8117
Ah have mah pichure made an' den de person who made mah pichure would bring it an' ah refuse tuh take it out [to pay for it?l. Somebody would take dat pichure an' scratch out de eyes an' turn de head-part down, an' dat would run yo' blind.
(How do you mean put the head down? Where do you put it down?)
Ah don't know dat. Dey jis' tell me dat.
(Where do you set it down though?)
Yo' jis' set it down any place, anywhere yo' kin.
(You mean on a table or something of that sort?)
Jis' lak yo' walk tuh de house an' set it down tuh de side of de house lak dat.
Entry 8118
If it's a tintype, why dey kin kill yo' wit de photograph. Take de photograph an' punch holes in it an' bury it on its face.
(Would they punch that hole any particular place?)
Well, some says punch out de eye part of 'em, but ah don't know personally. But ah know 'em not tuh punch de eye part out, jis' through heah [demonstrates], somepin jis' look lak dey stick somepin through de neck of it.
(Right in the throat?)
Uh-hah.
Entry 8119
Ah've heard dat dey could take yo' pitchure from yo' house. Go dere an' steal yo' pitchure, take it tuh dere house an' put it at anywhere in dere house, an' take anything an' punch de eyes of it out, an' yo'll go blind.
Entry 8120
Take a straight pin an' scratch de eye of 'em on de photograph, dat will run a person blind.
Entry 8121
De photograph, turd it down yo' know. Yeah, bury it on its face. See heah, cut de eyes out an' bury it on de face, an' walk on off an' don't look back.
(What will that do?)
He'll die.
(What did you say about the eyes?)
Cut de eyes out de pichure. Yo' kin jis' mark cross dem, cut de eyes out. Carry it wherever yo' Wanta carry, don't let nobody see yo' [dig a hole], covah it up lak yo' bury a grave.
Entry 8122
Wal, ah understand that they take yore photo- graph, an' they take the photograph an' turn de pic- hure, de face to de ground, and they bury that. An' then when they do that yo' fades away an' yo' lose yore mind.
Entry 8123
Ah've heard of it, de photograph. Yo' kin take it, dey say an' bury it, an' bury it on de face. Dey say when dat pichure rot, why yo'll die.
Entry 8124
Well, yo' kin take dat an' yo' kin bury 'it on de face yo' know, an' yo' kin kill a person lak dat. Yeah, wit 'is photograph, jis' bury it somewhere on de face. An' tell me, say yo' kin run 'em crazy wit dat.
Entry 8125
Take de photograph an' yo' know, keep it turn on its face an' yo'... (What will that do if you turn that photograph on its face? [Pause.] What will that do? [Pause.] You said it would make them come back, didn't you?) Yeah, dat whut ah said.
Entry 8126
About dat photograph, ah had it done tuh me.
(What did they do with it?)
Dey done take dat photograph an' turn it on de face, an' if dey kept it on de face, dat's so yo'll be suffahin' a while an' die. Dat's what dey said tuh me an' ah found out.
Entry 8127
Jis' lak if yo' husban' happen tuh leave yuh, yo' could take his pit- chure an' lay on its face an' dat'll bring 'im back.
Entry 8128
Take a tintype, if yo' kin git a tintype, a pastebo'd don't do nuthin. But yo' kin take a tintype an' yo' kin take an' bury dat, yo' know, wit de face turned down tuh de earth. An' when dat pichure molds away, den yo' molds away.
(I see.)
Entry 8129
(What are you going to take now?)
Yo' take his pichure. Now yo' gon'a jis' take dat pichure an' yo' know jis' whut tuh do. Yo' take dat pichure an' turn it upside down, jis' tumn de face tuh de ground an' yo' bury dat. Dat's whut yo' do wit dat. Whut'll happen? Jis' lak it fade away, he'll fade away.
Entry 8130
If dey got holt of yuh photograph, if it wus a tintype, an' put it down, bury it on de face, why yo' wouldn't live long.
(I see.)
Entry 8131
Depends on de type of pichure it is. If it's a tintype pichure, dey Lin make dat person jis' fade away until dey jis' go intuh skin an' bones, an event'ly [eventually] jis' tire away tuh nuthin, by bur'in' it face down.
Entry 8132
Dey take yer photograph, an' dey take it an' yo' know, an' turn it down an' place somepin [a weight] on it yo' know, an' keep it turnt down. An' den, dey tell me dat will cuz people tuh lose dere mind lak dat.
Entry 8133
Dey take yer pichure - ah don' know it [from experience] but ah heah 'em say dey take yer pichure - an' wrap it up in a cloth an' bury it on de face, an' dat will kill a person.
Entry 8134
Ah've heard dat a woman could take yer photograph an' wrop it in one of 'er undahpieces an' turn it down on de face, an' as long as it lay dere, why dey say yo' can't do any- thing wit no othah woman but 'er.
Entry 8135
Dey take dat pichure an' bury it on de face an' as dat pichure fade away yo' will too. Dey have tuh go tuh a hoodoo tuh do it. Dey cain't do it demselves dō [though].
Entry 8136
Photograph, dey buries dat on yuh face. Go ovah tuh de cemetery an' bury it on dey face, wit de face turned facin' hell. Say, '"Hell is now undah- neat choo." (What will that do?) Well, accordin' if yo' put it deep, why den it will kill yuh; an' if yo' don't put it deep, why it will always make yuh in a lingahin' pain. [I make a one word comment about informant after he leaves: drinking.]
Entry 8137
Yo' kin take a person pichure - if yo' wan' dat person tuh love yo' an' don' love nobody else but chew - yo' kin take dat pichure an' in yore home, if yo' kin git aholt [a hold] in de ceil- in' of de buildin' an' put a nail, a brand-new tenpenny nail, right through dat pichure an' nail it right up ovah de fiahplace, on de studdin' up dere, an' put de ceilin' back on it, in nine days yo' kin handle dat person any way yo' wanta. [We learn about the condition of some houses: if yo' kin git a holt in de ceilin'...put de ceilin' back on it.]
Entry 8138
Dat photograph, yo' ain't gotta do nuthin wit dat but one thing. It gotta be taken perfect though [be a real photograph] see. Jis' lak dese Zi'le snappahs [see later], Zi'le snappahs don' do yo' no good. Yo' gotta take dat photograph an' turn it upside - backside - jis' lak as if dis [points to] wus yer chimley heah. Yo' lifts one of dose bricks an' put it [photo] undah dose bricks upside down. But long as yo' got dat upside down, de pusson dat dat photograph is be- longin' tuh will nevah be no good. Yo' gotta turn it upside down. [If I remem- ber correctly, this is the only place where a snapper, snapshot, is mentioned. A photograph by a professional photographer must be used.]
Entry 8139
An' den yo' kin take dat man photograph an' yo' kin take it an' bury it in de hay [I mean] in yo' fiahplace undah a brick. An' in buryin' dat undah a brick, when yo' put dat down dere yo' turn 'is face down an' say, "Ah want chew tuh stay down heah" - call 'is name - "an' ah wan' chew tuh stay down heah. Ah wan' chew tuh come uadah mah com- mand, to do as ah say do, In de Name of de Lord, bring peace an' love in our home." An' jis' put it down dere, an' as long as yo' got dat pichure buried in yo' fiahplace, de fiah, if he nevah move it [photo] he'll always be humble down undah yore feet.
(Just how do you put that picture down in there?)
Yo' jis' turn it down as yo' take up a brick, yo' turn 'is face down.
Entry 8140
Take dey photograph an' git dis gunpowdah out of a shell, wit sulphuh an' salt, an' go out in de field or in de house, wherevah yo' want to. Co'se de gunpowdah makes sech a noise. Yo' kin put dis pichure face down on dis an' make a fiah undah it. (Face down on what?) On de fiah. See, yo' make a fiah an' den yo' put dis pichure face down on a piece of papah wit de gunpowdah an' sulphuh, an' salt an' graveyard dirt. Tell it dat, "Ah want chew tuh run dis person away. Ah want chew tuh kill 'em." But mos'ly tuh kill de person. When de fiah ketch on de pichure, it will kill de person.
Entry 8141
Now, if yo' wanta kill somebody wit dat, yo' take de photograph. Yo' don' wan'a use but jis' part of it. Jis' take off, if it's got a foot, yo' know some got a whole photo- graph, some got jis' a part, some got jis' de haid. Some got jis' de body, some got de whole an' some got jis' de haid. If yo' wants to kill somebody, an' it's de whole one, yo' cut off, jis' clip off de right foot, an' take dat whole photograph an' take it an' turn it, jis' turn it.
(You take off the right foot. And then how do you turn that, now?)
Jis' take it an' turn it tuh yo', jis' roll it, lak yo' take one roll, two rolls, three rolls [to you]. Understan'?
(Keep rolling it to you. The foot part or the rest of the photograph?)
No, de rest of de whole photograph. Yo' undahstan'? Jis' roll dat lak dat three times an' jis' carry it anywhere, don' care where yo' throw it, jis' throw it out somewhere. Well, now, hit's gone on away. All right. Yo' takes dis right foot, an' bring it on back tuh de house, but chew do nuthin wit it den. Let it stay dere, at least six or seven hours, sompin lak dat. "Bout six or seven hours aftah yo' done dis, hold it, take de pichure of dis foot, takes an' puts it down in a bottle, jis' de smallest bottle yo' kin find, an' puts ah reck- on 'bout dat much of mustard seed, lak yo' ketch dat much [demonstrates].
(Just a little pinch of the mustard seed.)
Drop it in de bottle, wit'out anything in it - jis' say about nine, if it ain't but jis' a haid [means foot]. Drop it in dere an' stop it up, an' jis' keep dat wit choo all de time. Dat's tuh influence dat person. Keep dat wit chew. An' yo' weah it a while. Well, no quickah den dey die, yo' gon'a feel dat right shouldah jump, jump jis' lak sompin skip ovah it. Soon as it do dat, yo' must take it [bottle] an' throw it away lak dat. Throw it lak dat. [If informant demonstrated, I missed it.] De safest way, de spirit comin' tuh yo' an' givin' yo' a notice dat dey daid. Don't care where dey are. (Right after this notice that they are dead, you must throw this bottle away right then?) Right then, de right arm will move when dey come.
(You will have that little kick then in the right arm?)
Dat's right.
Entry 8142
Well, lak if dey got enemy people an' dey have a tintype pichure of de person whut dey tryin' tuh do hahm [harm] tuh, well dey'll take dat pichure out tuh de forks of de road, an' yo'll bury dat pichure wit de face down. An' de person whut dey doin' hahm tuh yuh, as dat face is down, dey will always have a upstirred mind, an' dey'll feel lak dat dey wan'a kill dem- selves. But dere is a way outa dat, wit dis pichure buried. Dey got two-headed people - in our, all diff'ren' towns - kin do away wit dat wit'out gittin' de pichure, by goin' gittin' methods from de whut choo call de fortunetellah people. Dey got methods fo' dat, dat 'casion [occasion]. [This is my only example of a two-header having to consult fortunetellers for methods. Here, this shows the tendency in Hoodoo to rid itself of the twoheader badge by replacing it with fortumeteller and other names, all of which were old. Was the term twoheader originally a white or a black word?]
Entry 8143
Take dey photograph an' yo' kin go tuh a point of a road [fork of road] too, wit dat. Yo' go tuh a point of a road wit dat photograph an' yo'll go tuh work an' yo'll write dat per- son's name on dat photograph, an' yo'll turn it upside down, an' yo'll put it dere wit bad wishes. Yo' gotta say bad things an' yo'll bury dat photograph an' put it dere wit bad words, an' yo'll turn it upside down fo' nine days. [Here recording machine turned off momentarily while informant spoke about name mentioned later.]
(You do that at the fork of the road?)
Yessuh, at de fo'k of a road.
(How do you write that name on the back? Just write one name?)
Jis' dat fellah name. Yo' don' wan' chure name dere.
Entry 8144
Yo' kin take a pichure an' yo' kin take some love stuff powdah an' yo' kin take dat. Take de pichure an' burn all fo' cornahs off of it, an' yo' kin wrap it up in dat love powdah an' wrap it up an' weah it roun' yore waist, an' dat'll bring love. (Make a person love you?) Yes. [See also margin title CORNER.]
Entry 8145
Ah have heard dat dey would take yuh photograph an' burn off de cornahs an' carry it out tuh de cemetery an' bury it underneat' de earth, an' let it stay dere fo' three days, an' den tuh bring it back. Why? If dey wanted dat person. If dey was wishin' fo' dat per- son tuh die, why dat person would die. Yo' see.
(Well, when they brought that photograph back, what would they do with that?)
When dey brought it back, why dey kept it. Dey kept it in dere possession.
Entry 8146
(And then what?)
Dey could take yuh pichure an' take fo' leaves.
(Leaves?)
Yes, lak green leaves.
(What kind of leaves? From what? From a tree in the woods?)
Yes sir, a tree.
(What kind? Any particular kind?)
Yes, sir. Dem ole tree ovah here. Tree ovah here, dat eldahberry tree [I am looking atl right where ah'm settin' here now. (Elderberry tree. Take four elderberry leaves?) Yes, sir. (All right.) An' wrap 'em around each cornah of dat pichure, an' take it tuh runnin' watah. Yo' go tuh any watah whut's runnin', not de rivah only, a bayou, an' chunk it in. An' dat will run yo' away if dey didn't want yo' fo' tuh stay.
Entry 8147
Cut - dey could cut it in fo' parts. Well, dey could take it an' tro' [throw] it ovahbo'd. Dey could take it an' tro' in de fiah hole or sompin lak dat, yo' undahstand, an' make dey vishes when dey doin' dat, yo' undahstand. An' jis' whut dey vishin' - an' tro' it ovah- bo'd or in de fiah or cut it in fo' parts. Well, somebody vill cut cha tuh death. If dey tro' it ovahbo'd why yo' vill go ovahbo'd an' git drownded. If dey tro' it in de fiah, vell prob'ly maybe yuh clothes may ketch afiah from yuh cigarette chew smoke or yo'll ketch afiah somehow an' git burned up. [The word photograph is not mentioned but clearly meant.] [Charleston, S. Car.,. (511), 576:4.]
Entry 8148
Yo' kin take a person's pichure an' put it on a new piece of lumbah, an' put it up undah yore do'step, an' put a piece of dere hair in de toadfrog mouth, an' drive a nail in hit, in de toadfrog heart an' de pi- chure heart, on de new piece of lumbah whut chew got drive down. Drive a peg through 'is heart an' through de heart of de tin- type pichure. An' aftah dat toadfrog die, yo'll die. An' put dat up undah yore do'step so yo'll come out ovah it evah mawnin'. When dat toadfrog die, yo'll die. (You put this picture on a new piece of lumber, then you put the frog on the picture. Then you drive a nail [or peg] right through the hearts of all of them.) Right through both of 'em heart an' put a hair out 'is haid in 'is [toad- frog's] mouth.
Entry 8149
Well, dey take yuh pitchure. Why dey git a big one a [of] dem big frogs, great big green frog. Dey'll take him an' take yuh photograph, an' dey'll take nine needles wit gold eyes dat nevah wus used. Jis' take dem right out de package. An' dey'll take dat frog's feet an' tie it back of 'is back, jis' lak dat [demonstrates].
(Bend the living frog's hind legs over his back and tie them there.)
An' aftah tyin' 'em back dere, both of 'em, tie dem back dere an' stick dem needles. Put 'is pitchure in dat frog's mouth, an' stick dem needles all through dat frog. An' dey'll bury dat frog three feet in de ground, any place in de ground, jis' at sundown. An' it'll keep yo' sick an' worried, an' yo'll die.
Entry 8150
[This margin title about graves and graveyards shows how difficult the arrangement or ordering of material in Hoodoo has been. All the following rites could have been placed under section DEATH - BURIAL - GRAVEYARD, Pp.3293-3419. These beliefs, however, actually emphasize photographs.] Lak if yo' got a person an' yo' don't lak 'em an' yo' want 'em tuh stay from yo', when yo' go dere an' git dere hat, pichure or anything an' take it tuh de grave- yard an' bury it - an' dey will be gone fo' good. Yo' will nevah have no more trouble wit 'em.
Entry 8151
Yo' kin take person's photograph an' yo' kin kill 'em wit it. Take de photograph of a person an' take it tuh a cemetery an' bury it; an' when yo' bury it, bury it on it's face. It may be prob'ly two weeks or three, dat people will die. Dey cain't live becuz dat pichure is buried dere. As dat pichure fade away, dey passin' away; jis' as dat pichure pass away, [they pass away (I turned off machine too soon to catch last 3 words)].
Entry 8152
Well, yo' go in de graveyard an' bury dat. Dig it [ground] up an' put 'em down, yo' know whut ah mean, put dere face down jis' in it [hole] an' it will disappeah by de rain.
(Put this photograph face down in the graveyard and they will die?)
Yes.
Entry 8153
Take dat photograph - now yo' kin take de face of it an' bury it down in de cemetery dirt. Go out dere an' bury it. Take de face of dat pichure an' bury it down an' kivah [cover] it up.
(What do you mean, the face of it?)
Yo' know de face, lak when yo' have a pichure taken. De face whut chew look on, not de back. Where de pichure is faced, lak de pichure facin' - jis' lak dat pichure up dere [points to wall] de face of it, yo' see, turn it down. Dig a hole an' bury it.
Entry 8154
Take yer photograph an' put it in de cemetery bottom upside down an yo' soon gone.
Entry 8155
Well, yo' kin take a person's pichure, jis' lak a person mad wit chew. Jis' lak takin' li'le pieces, yo' take de li'le pieces [of torn-up photo] an' go tuh any graveyard where dey [few indistinct words] an' turn [unclear words] an' bury dat pichure, dey'll die. Yo' bury de pichure in de graveyard an' in nine days dey'll be daid.
(You bury it with this salt?)
De salt an' dis peppah. [The photo is torn into pieces, sprinkled with salt and pepper, wrapped or tied in a piece of paper, and buried in a graveyard.]
Entry 8156
Yo' could write dere 'nitials on de photograph an' yo' could take it tuh de cemetery an' dig yo' a hole an' bury it. Den aftah yo' would bury it, yo' see when hit go 'way, yo' see, de person go 'way - dey would have tuh. De pichure fade away, yo' see, dey goes jis' lak de pichure did.
(Where do they go to?) Dey die.
Entry 8157
Take de photograph an' if yo' wanta hurt 'em or kill 'em, take dere photograph an' bo' [bore] a hole six foot in de ground an' plug out chure [photo's] eyes, an' bury it on its face. Dere yo' are. See, covah it up. [The preceding word plug in the slang of U. S. A. could mean to punch out the eyes. That could be the meaning, but in- formant back in 1939 lived in and near Watermelon country - early melons shipped north. I suggest informant took out a pocketknife and with four strokes cut a square about each eye, lifting out a coffin symbol. As a boy in Illinois, I plugged many watermelons out in truck-garden country.]
Entry 8158
Yo' kin take a photograph, write dat name on de back of it, say three times, call fo' a six feet grave - call fo' her [a] six feet grave. [But actual- ly] dig a hole aroun' seven inches deep. Turn 'er face goin' down tuh de pits [hell] of de earth. Covah it back up, put yer left feet on it, make a cross an' turn away. [I do not know why informant calls for - asks the spirits or God - for a 6 foot grave and then proceeds to dig a grave 7 inches deep. Does this signify the 7 gates of hell? The latter ex- pression is not used in Hoodoo.]
(And what happens to her?)
She dies. She dies within nine days.
Entry 8159
Well, if ah had a girl an' loved 'er yery much an' ah wanted tuh kill 'er, ah take her photograph - ah won' have tuh go tuh de graveyard or no place, yo' know, jis' any place out in de fiel' an' ah walk fo feet no'th, fo' feet west, fo' feet so'th, fo' feet east, an' back up fo' feet no'th, yo' undahstan', an' dig six foot deep [surely means 6 inches, symbolical of 6 feet] an' bury dis pichure on it's face. An' as dat pichure fade away, she will fade away wit it. (Now, when you walk to the north and the west and the south, you walk forward from where you are going to dig the hole. Then from the [intended] hole you Walk back four steps toward the north?) Back fo' steps no'th. [Informant selects a spot out in the country where he will dig the simulated grave. This spot is the lower right-hand corner of a square. From this corner 0r future grave spot, he walks forwards 4 feet north, 4 feet west, 4 feet south, aod 4 feet east back to the starting point. A four-foot square has been marked off, a square symbolizing a grave and the four corners of the earth (Rev.7:1). After reaching the intended grave site, informant turns his back and walks back- vards 4 steps or feet north, retracing his steps to the upper right-hand corner of our square. By walking backwards he has confused any evil spirit that could have been lurking at the proposed grave site. [The latter of course was not 6 feet but 6 inches deep. Hoodoo has a number of 6 inch deep graves symbolizing 6 feet. Was the grave dug at the lower or upper right-hand corner of the square? Either would have been a safe place.]
Entry 8160
Ah hate tuh explain dis 'cuz ah wouldn't lak tuh have dat on mah han's.
(I won't do anything with it, I just wanted to know.)
Oh, yo' jis' wanted tuh know. Ah hate tuh explain dis. It's jis' lak if yo' have dere photograph. Well, yo' take dis an' bury it fo' feet in de ground on de face an' repeat dere name three time; jis' whosomevah it is, woman or man. Jis' lak mah name Justine Richardson, jis' take yo' an' dig a hole fo' feet in de ground an' turn it down dere, an' dey'll be daid in nine days time.
Entry 8161
If I want tuh kill yo', I git somebody tuh take a tintype of yo', pho- tograph. Yo' know I want it. It's got tuh be a tintype. I wan'a put me some graveyard dirt an' I'll bury dis tintype pitchure of yo' headforemos' down. First, put de tintype in de hole, covah it wit dis graveyard dirt, an' put de othah dirt on top of it, but let joo be face foremos'. An' when dis dirt undah dat groun'll rot an' jis' takes all dis here whare dat yuh pitchure been drawed, dis'll mold, yo're gone.
Entry 8162
Take it tuh de graveyard an' bury it. But it's supposed tuh - some people say yo' put it right in de graveyard. But choo, well yo' puts it in dere, too, but it supposed tuh be buried sometime on top of somebody, somebody dat's in dere, wit de [photo not corpse] face down. Nevah turn it wit de face up.
(What will that do?)
Well, dat would sometime cuz yo' tuh... [turned off machine too soon] to die.
Entry 8163
Take dis pichure - jis' lak me an' yo' go down heah an' take a kodak, a pichure, down heah tuh any place dey take pichures at. Yo' know, dere some places dey take pichures at. An' bury it on it's face, bury dat pichure on its face in de grave. Yo' undahstand, suh? An' [they] say dat pichure will cuz me tuh lingah an' lingah until ah die. Bury it down face, yo' undahstand, on its face.
Entry 8164
I've heard they can take your photograph and bury it in a grave and wish you would die and you'll perish away.
Entry 8165
Take yo' photograph an' take an' bury it in de cemetery an' bury it lak [dem- onstrates]. Jes' lak if yo' got, [not] ef yo' die Christian. Dey'll bury it in a sinnah's grave.
(Down in the chest.)
Yes, right in de chest an' dat jes' - dat got chew.
(What will that do to you?)
Oh! Run yo' stone crazy. Git chure mind out chew, yo' know.
(How do they bury that?)
Dey bury it on de face.
Entry 8166
Yo' kin take a person's pichure jis' lak ah take yer pichure yo' see. Yo'd gimme yer pichure tuh keep. Ah'd take dat pichure an' ah goes tuh de grave- yard on de firs' Friday of de month. Ah take dat photograph an' ah digs a hole right un- dahneath [over] a person's haid. Yo' know where dey wuz laid out at in de graveyard. Jis' dis be de face [demonstrates] ah take dat an' ah turns dat bottom upwards an' ah plants dat.
(The face planted down.)
Jis' planted downward. Ah mean, yo' know, buries it. De face is down. An' ah buries dat. An' when dat pichure rots, well yo' goes jis' lak dat pichure. Yo' go crazy.
(Would it kill you or what?)
Sho'[sure].
Entry 8167
Take dat photograph an' bury it. Go tuh a cemetery an' bury it right at de haid of de grave an' co'se dat will kill yo'. Heah a person say yo' have a sweet- heart or relative daid, take dat photograph an' take an' carry it tuh a dead man's grave, or a wumman's, dat had died recently an' bury it dere an' make yore wishes. Dat person, dey will die.
Entry 8168
Dey take yore photograph an' write chure name on it an' carry it tuh de cemetery an' put it under a tombstone an' turn yer face downwards. Yo' goin' from heah. (You put under the tomb- stone?) Awrr-right undah it, undah de tombstone [headboard]. Jis' shev [shove] it up undah dere.
(Face down?)
Face down, an' [as] hit goes away, yo' goes away. [Or] take it an' put it bot- tonside upwards an' put it undah yer steps, dat bring 'em home tuh yo'.
(This photograph.)
Entry 8169
Yo' kin take dat pichure ag'in, dat whut ah'm tellin' yo' 'bout, carry it tuh a grave. Now, dis is somepin dat will run a person from yer house, too. Take dat pichure an' carry it tuh a new grave an' turn dat pichure sundown side on its face. See, dat now, an' covah it up wit dat same dirt an' put a penny on top of it. An' dat'll run 'em jis' as crazy as kin be, dey go tuh de 'sylum.
[We now struggle to understand one another.]
(How do you mean turn down to the sundown?)
Yo' see yo' turn dat pichure down on its face. See dat? [Demonstrates.] Put 1 penny on top of dat.
(What happens on the sundown side?)
It will run 'em crazy.
(Well, how does that picture face?)
Well, yo' know dis [demonstrates] is de face of de pichure, ain't it? Well, yo' see yo' put it in de grave an' yo' turn it down lak dat on de face an' put a penny on top of it.
(Which way is that picture pointing?)
Which way it pointin'? Where de sundown - southeast. (You put that picture down. You told me you put it to the sundown side. What do you mean by the sundown side?) Ah mean turn de pichure towards sundown.
(The head towards sundown?)
Uh-huh - yes.
Entry 8170
Now, if's a pasteboard, they can't do so much with it, but if's a tin- type, they take that tintype pitchure an' care it to the graveyard an' dig a hole, an' turn the face down an' cover it up. Go thah every mawnin', put a handful of dirt on it. Go every mawnin' fo' nine mawnin's. An' yo'll pass on away. Yo' talkin' of goin' away like somebody [with] T. B., yo'll go away then. Yo'll go away in a hurry.
Entry 8171
Yo' kin take dere picture, take de pichure an' bury dis pichure. Now if someone jis' don' lak 'em roun' heah or wants tuh git rid of 'em, jis' take dis pichure fo' nine mawnin's an' jis' take it tuh de graveyard, tuh de offside of de grave, see. De graveyard got fo' cornahs tuh it; any place, see. Take it tuh de offside, it's on de right side. Evah grave got all cornahs. See whut ah mean? Take it tuh de offside as yo' come up on dat side. It's got a offside on de right side of it on de fo' cornahs evahwhere yo' go. Take it tuh de offside an' bury it on its face. An' fo' nine mawnin's go dere an' dump a li'le dirt down in on it, fo' nine mawnin' an' make a wish evah mawnin', say[ing] dat yo' wan'a send 'em away. An' turn roun', don' look back. Walk off an' don' look back when yo' go 'way. An' in nine mo' mawnin's dis fellah be's somewhere, he cain't he'p hisself.
(What will happen to him?)
Sompin will happen. He jis' runned away. Yes, he jis' gone 'way fo'evah.
Entry 8172
Dey kin take yore photo- graphs an' dey kin bury it intuh a graveyard, an' in de length of time, about nine days or nine weeks, yo' goin' fade away.
Entry 8173
Jis' lak ah'd take yer pichure. Well, ah could go tuh de graveyard an' git some graveyard dirt right off from de sinnah's, yo' know, where a sin- nah is buried at, right in 'is chest. Git hit an' sew hit an' de pi- chure up intuh a piece of cloth, an' keep it fo' nine mawnin's, an' bury at chure do'step, an' dat'll bring yo' love.
(That's for love?)
Yes sir.
Entry 8174
Dey could take yure pichure an' put it 'tween two cream jars upside [head] down an' no mattah how fah yo' away from 'em, as long as dey keep dat pichure of yures 'tween two cream jars upside down, well yo'll be thinkin' about only dem all de time. An' graj'ly [gradually], yo'll always be tryin' tuh come back tuh 'em, becuz it seems lak she jis' ha'nts [haunts] yo'. Seems lak she jis' callin' yuh all de time. (What do you mean between two cream jars? One cream jar and the picture up- side down and the other cream jar on top of it?) Naw [no], two cream jars standin' side by side an' de pichure between it, upside down wit de haid pointin' tuh de ground.
Entry 8175
Dat yo' have tuh take dat on a tintype, no othah kinda pichure will do 'less [unless] it's a tintype pichure. An' yo' kin take dat tintype pichure an' plant it anywhere yo' choose tuh, upside down wit yure haid down, an' it will keep yo' worried an' troubled. Yo'll travel from one place tuh anothah as dat pichure - yo'll nevah be satisfied. Yo'll be on yure haid, nevah make friends Yo'll break yure home up. (You mean [demonstrate] this is the picture, and there's the head. Bury it that way [on the head] upside down that way. I understand.) But it have tuh be a tintype pichure. No othah pichure will do.
Entry 8176
Suppose yo' had a girl friend an' yo' didn't want tuh be in contact wit 'er an' yo' go away. An' yo' leave yure photograph wit 'er. She take yure photograph an' turn it haid down an' yo' will come back.
Entry 8177
Turn it bottomside upwards - stand it on its haid. Dat will kill a person.
(The photograph.)
Entry 8178
Take his pichure an' quite natchel [natural] she kin keep dat pichure an' jis' - wherevah yo' at, she kin turn it upside down an' she kin run yo' crazy by having dat pichure upside down. If she's a good-hearted person, have yure pichure standin' up. Long as dat pichure's up, yo' won't be bothahed. She kin take dat pichure an' set it down in a cornah somewhere, or eithah hide it. Long as she's got dat pichure.... [The inference here is this photo standing up can be turned on its head.]
Entry 8179
Well, if it's on a tintype, take an' turn it upside down [here head dowal in coal oil, takin' red flannel an' red di'mond an' buryin' dat photo, dat photograph upside down yo' see. Dey claim dat dat man aftah a certain length of time, he will git so yo' undahstand, his mind will nevah be stationary on one thing; he will nevah be satisfied at anything he do. See, anything dat he would do look lak, look lak he could do bettah, an' jes' keep 'im an' he'll go from bad tuh worse.
(This photo is buried, you put it in the ground?)
Upside down wit de haid down an' de feet up. Yeah, but it cain't be done unless it's on a tintype.
(And you put this coal oil on it?)
Coal oil, kerosene oil, yeah, an' red di'mond.
(What is red diamond?)
Dat de same thing as de blue diamond an' de blue di'mond an' de red di'mond. It's some kinda thing, yo' git at de drug sto'. It's a kinda powdah.
Entry 8180
Yo' could take photograph an' take it an' - ah've heard yo' could take a photograph an' cut de head off of it; jes' lak ah got chure photograph or yo' got mine, an' cut de head off. An' ah head dat [cut the head off your photo] by an' by, jis' lak yo' do dat [to] dat photograph [of mine]. If somebody do dat, see, yo' run upon dat same thing. Jis' lak yo' cut mah head off mah photograph, somebody do dat same way [to yours]. Dat whut ah heard about dat.
(Who would do that to you?)
Who would do dat tuh me? Ah would git intuh trouble or git in a argument wit someone an' someone would cut me jis' lak dat photograph is cut. Somebody cut me de same way. Cut mah throat, see.
Entry 8181
If a boy wan'a girl or a girl wan'a boy, git 'is pitchure an' cut off all but de haid. An' fol' de haid up an' put it in a bottle of cologne, an' tote it in yure pocket.
Entry 8182
Well, dey kin take yure photograph. Well, dey kin cut it all out roun' but chure haid, see. An' put dat in a bottle of alkyhol [alcohol] an' let it stay fo' awhile an' burn it up. An' dat'll ruin yo'. Dat'll run yo' crazy.
Entry 8183
De only thing ah know 'bout photo- graph, ah heard 'em say - say, if yo' poke a pin, or othahwise a knife right through a pusson's heart, chew know, poke a hole through it, say dat pusson wouldn't live long aftah dat, aftah 'bout two days aftah dat. [Fayetteville, N. Car., (1403). 2527:7.]
Entry 8184
I was in Georgia - Savannah, Georgia - with a company an' I was kin'a in touch wit a girl. An' she says tuh me, "Whitey, yo' goin' home?" "Yes." She says, "I would give yuh mah photograph but I afraid dat yo'll take an' let somebody have it an' yo'll do me harm." I said, "No, I wouldn't let..." Well, I said, "De bes' thing fer yo' tuh do is tuh not tuh give it tuh me." Yo' could take a tintype - yo' kin take a tintype an' have yure photograph on it, an' yo' kin take [it] up intuh de country roads [in those days (1937) mostly dirt roads] country roads where horses travel, an' bury it wit de face down. Dat horse tramples ovah it, dat will kill yuh, too.
(I see. Must the horse tramp over it to kill you?)
Yes, sir.
Entry 8185
Now, fo' example, dey tells me yo' takes dat photograph an' yo' bury it undah de house face upside down. Dat'll eithah molt chew away or run yo crazy. Whosoevah dis photograph belongs to, it eithah molt 'em away, be sickly an' soon die, or else dey will go crazy. Well, ah've seen dat done.
Entry 8186
Take it an' bury it.
(This photograph?)
Yes sir. Jes' take it an' take it tuh de east side of de house or wherevah dey is, an' turn it bottomside upwards an' bury it. Now, dey's quite a few young peoples do dat tuh make girls love 'em, too. Take de photograph an' bury it in de ground yo' know, bottomside up- wards. (That's to bring love.)
Entry 8187
Dey kin take yore photograph an' dey kin tote it aftah dey put some of dis dust off dat Indian 'tater [potato]. [For this plant, see later.]
(Indian potato or Indian turnip?)
[Informant does not understand my question.]
Yeah, jes' put some of de dust of dat - pound it an' carry dat 'long tuhgethah, an' yo' kin always keep in touch wit 'em.
(The person whose photograph it is?)
Yessuh. [This plant also appears elsewhere in Hoodoo. It is one of four roots eaten by the original American Indians: (l) ground nut (Apios tuberisa), (2) giant sunflower (Helianthus giganteus), (3) breadroot, the plant (Psoralea esculenta), the pomme blanche of Canadian voyageurs. Indian turnip also occurs in Hoodoo. It is either breadroot or jack-in-the-pulpit. When I was in first grade at a country school, an older student, a practical joker, gave me a piece of Indian turnip to chew. My tongue stung for an hour. I am sure in those days I used the archaic form stang.]
Entry 8188
Take de photograph an' stick it up de side of a post an' say yo' could shoot at it, an' it will cause yo' to be run out. Somepin will happen to yo' soon. (What about that cutting?) Or eithah dey take a pocketknife an' gash it up in diff'ren' ways an' yo'll git cut lak dat.
Entry 8189
De photograph dey turnt it upside down in a dark room, night er day. Light a lamp, turn [down] a lamp an' make a slow light, yo' know, by de photo- graph. Dat git chew worried an' yo' come home. Dat gotta take tuh bring yo' home. [To turn a photo upside down in a dark room before lighting the lamp confuses the spirit of the photo.]
Entry 8190
An' den yo' kin take a persons's photograph an' jes' lak ah'd [Iwould] take yure photograph, an' yo'ere [you were] mah fren'-lak, an' yo' wuz away from me an' had treated me wrong. Well, ah'd take yure photograph an' stand it up on de mantel. Well, now, yo'd [you bad] tuh come back tuh me, or eithah worry yo'self tuh death.
(How would you stand it up on the mantel?)
Stand it up on it's haid. See, it be up lak dat [demonstrates], see, yo' ondahstan', an' he'd be standin' down on 'is haid, upside down. Dat'll make him cme back.
Entry 8191
Take his photograph an' turn it on it's face an' dat will bring 'im back tuh yuh. Yo' know, if anyone is gone from yuh, husban' or people lak dat, friends. Dey gone an' yo' don' know where. Say turn it on de face. Turn dat pichure on de face an' keep it in de middle of yure baid mattress, don' chew undahstan'. An' dey say dat'll bring 'im back home tuh yuh.
Entry 8192
Yo' kin take yure photograph an' bury it. Ah taken mah husban' photo- graph an' buried it undah mah mattress. Put de face on de mattress. Ah went tuh work an' let it stay dere three mawnin's, an' a Sunday mawnin' he sont [sent] me $16.
Entry 8193
Take de pichure of yure love an' put dat pichure undah de mattress right where dey lay down at an' do de work at. Put it right undah dat spot. Den yo' tell it [picture] yo' doin' dat [de work]. Den yo' take de pichure out an' yo' tote dat pichure right in heah [demonstrates].
(Right on your breast.)
Right heah [demonstrates].
(What will that do then?)
Dat will hold 'im [pronounce hol' dim], all dat sweet love.
Entry 8194
Well, yes. Ah tell yo'. Now yo' kin take a man's pichure an' carry it an' put it in yure mattress, an' sew it up; an' if he bit wit choo an' lay on dat mattress, undahstan', dat wo would cuz 'im tuh love yuh.
Entry 8195
Yo' measure de person. (You mean, measure the length from the head to the foot.) [This is not a leading ques- tion but information obtained before recording began.] Dat's right, yo' measure de person, an' yo' give dem so many things [bad spot in recording]. You take dis person's measure wit some; jis' say now, yo' git a string dat size [demonstrates] an' yo' measure dat person. An' yo' wrap dis around a pichure of de person an' bury dem wit a ceremony as yo' would de daid. Yo' know, yo' jis' take dis, but chew have tuh carry it up on some hill, as ah wus tellin' yuh 'bout where yo' put de hair [in 841:4]. An' yo' use'ly [usually] git some of de hair of de person's haid an' bury it wit it. An' [that] somepin else ah didn't tell yuh.
(What will this do, then?)
[Informant thinks I am asking about the hair.]
Well, dey claim it jis' rots, de person [hair] will. But dey [person] fin'ly [finally] git mindless. Dey git where dey lose dere appetite. Now, ah don know whethah dat's true.
Entry 8196
If a person is away an' yo' wan' 'em back, yo' could take a photograph, no mattah whethah it's tin or pastebo'd. No mattah if it tin or papah, dey kin take dat an' put it on top of de dressah, what choo call de bu- reau. Git ready, yo' take dat. Take a pichure, male or female, an' yo' could take dat an' wrap it up. If a woman wan' tuh bring 'im back, take a piece of 'er clothes an' weah it nex tuh him. [Informant has right idea but may have had a drink.] An' he wrap dat pichure up an' turn it on de haid an' rip dat piece, yo' know whut ah mean, be- hind de glass [of the mirror] an' put it dere lak dat [demonstrates]. Ah don' [care] whäh he is, aftah nine days he'll come, or twelve days, soon as he kin git dere.
Entry 8197
Take yure pitchure an' put it in a looking glass [the carboard behind the small.hand mirror having been removed]. An' turn it [photo] upside down [against mercury backing of mirror, restoring card- board back] an' put it undahneat' [you] an' sleep on it or walk on it or put it somewhere somebody'll tread on it an' break de glass, an' yo' [person of photo] got tuh come back. Go tuh de do' an' burn some disinfect [disinfectant] an' make yure wish [wish] an' burn it in de house. Den go to de do' an' make yuh wush [again] an' come back. An' 'at [that] been done in Short[?] William Street alley [here in Richmond]. Den [another method] yo' put it [photo without mirror] undah- neat' de carpet or in a trunk upside down tuh draw yuh back. Well keep yuh on yure haid or yuh feet till yuh git back home. An' use dat powdah, insex, love insex [love incense] dey call it. Burn it on a stove.
Entry 8198
Jis' lak if yo' got a daughtah run away from home, yo' undahstan', an' she might run away wit some young man dat married, yo' undahstan'. An' yo' don' know where she at an' don' know where she gone, an' she won' write chew or come. See, lak yo' got 'er pichure dere. All yo' gotta. do, take dat pi- chure dat's dere an' turn it bottom upwards. Turn it bottom upwards [demon- strates].
(Take the picture and turn it like that?)
Dat's right.
(Turn it on its face.)
Thah's de pichure right dere leanin' back 'ginst de wall lak dat, yo' see. Bell, all yo' gotta do - some of 'em say take dat pichure an' put it 'ginst de nirror lak dat [demonstrates].
(Put the face to the mirror?)
Dat's right. Well, now, de way ah heah it. See, lak dat [demonstrates], de pichure's facin' yo'. All yo' gotta do, turn de haid down dataway.
(Have the picture standing on its head?)
Dat's right.
(What will that do then?)
Well, dat'll make her git on de haid about chew, an' den she'll come back home.
Entry 8199
Well, ah learnt dat chew kin take a person's photo an' if yo' wants to do dem any harm, sech as killin', dat maybe yo' kin take it an' hold it ovah a lookin'-glass twixt - aftah de sun raise one hour, an' take an' carry it back tuh yure mantelpiece an' put it ovah yore mantelpiece. Turn de glass down ovah it. An' dey say in nine mawnin's he'll be a daid person.
(What kind of a glass do you turn over it?)
A lookin'-glass.
Entry 8200
(What would they do with my photograph?)
Take yure photograph an' place it intuh a small lookin'-glass, face intuh de glass lak yo' would look intuh de glass, an' put it intuh a runnin' place of watah two or three weeks, an' it will run yuh crazy.
Entry 8201
Use it fo' back luck, by scrapin' dat silvah offa dere; well, dat silvah offa [the back of] dat lookin'-glass. Dey take dat an' scrape it offa pichure. Jis' lak if dey wanta harm yo', dey take an' scrape dat silvah off dat pichure [mirror] an' put it in yure face, on yure pichure.
(On the face of your picture?)
Dat's right, an' den dey take it an' put it in sompin, [anything to hold the scrapings and photo], an' bury it, bury it [face] down. Dat'll make yo' dwindle down an' die. Make yo' stay sick an' nuthin will cure yo' unlessen somebody [hoodoo doctor or healer] take an' find whut's wrong wit chew.
Entry 8202
Well, dere's a certain type of people dat believe in de wanishin' [van- ishing], dat yo' kin do away wit a person through an' by a photograph. Yo' could git de actual photograph of a person. Yo' take it an' on de first of de new moon, yo' carry it anywheres where dere's a tree or a stone, anything dat choo kin mark an' know it won't be moved. An' plant it face downward in de soil. An' dey claim dat when dat moon passes away, de nex' new moon will cuz some kinda affliction tuh ovahtake de person, an' dey will grajly [gradually] drift away tuh nuthin. Nuthin will relieve 'em. It impossible tuh cure 'em, until dey will fine'ly
[finally] jis' waste away de same way de photograph do.
Entry 8203
Take a nail an' drive it intuh de left side of a pichure [demonstrates] an' jis' - yo' kin take hit an' drive hit dere fo' de rest of nine mawnin's, an' dat will take a person's life. (You drive it right there in the heart, right where you are pointing.) Right at de point where de heart supposed tuh be.
Entry 8204
Yo' kin take a fellah's photograph an' take it out intuh de woods an' dig yo' a hole down. An' den take a nail, nine nails, an' stick right through it where it come through his heart. An' turn it on its face an' bury it, an' in nine days dis fellah will come tuh fadin' away. In de long run he will come tuh be a dead soul. (Put those nine nails all around his heart.) An' den turn it ovah on its face, turn it down on its face.
Entry 8205
Well, dey can't do anything now wit de photograph, not de late one dat's made, but de one wit de tintype, dey would take dem an' bury dem upside down, see, wit two nails. Look [demonstrates] two nails crossed dataway, an' bury de photograph upside down. An' dat would keep yo' wit a mixed-up mind always, an' prack'ly [practically] wit a bulgin' headache, contin'ly [continually].
(I see.)
BUT RECENTLY DEY DON'T USE DOSE TINTYPES ANY MORE. WELL, DEY DID ONCE UPON A TIME. DEY HAD DE BIGGEST PART OF DE PEOPLE, YO' COULDN'T GIT 'EM TUH TAKE DERE PHOTOGRAPH, UNLESS YO' JIS' STEAL UP ON DEM TUH TAKE IT, BECUZ DEY KNOWED WHAT WOULD BE DE RESULT.
(I see.)
Entry 8206
Suppose yo' want a person tuh live about two months aftah yo' take it. Yo' kin take a tintype an' yo' dig two feet in de ground, an' yo' tell it, "Ah wan' chew tuh die wit'in two months." Yo' write his name, whethah yo' kin see it or not, yo' know how tuh spell dat name. Yo' know yo' kin be writin' it, whethah yo' kin read it on dere, yo' lnow, on dere or not. Yo' write it anyhow, "Ah wan' chew tuh die in two months." Den cross it, 'in two months.' [Cross the first words in two months with the second in two months.] Den yo' take dis. photograph an' do dis, dig dis two-feet hole. Den yo' turn it down on de face of it an' den yo' make yore wish, "Ah want chew tuh be daid in two months." Den yo' covah it up. Slap yore right feet on it an' stomp it fo' six times, 'Ah want chew tuh die in two months, ah want chew tuh die in two months." Dey'll die.
Entry 8207
Well, yo' take - git chew dis name on a tintype an' turn dat bottom upwards, an' bury it undah jis' six inches of soil [symbolical of 6 feet]. An back off ten steps, ah mean nine steps befo' yo' turn yuh back tuh it. An' den walk away an' don't evah look back tuh it ag'in. (And what will that do?) Well, dey claim dat if dey tryin' tuh do somepin tuh yuh, say anything dat dey want did, it will happen dat way. (Well, will that do anything particular to you, burying the photograph that way, that tintype?) It won't even kill yuh or anything, jis' make yuh be through wit 'em so ah undahstand.
(I see.)
Entry 8208
(To make the man come back?)
Well, if yo' have his photograph, yo' kin bring 'im back. Well, yo' kin take his photograph an' sleep wit it an' use dat photograph upside down, see. An' EVAH NIGHT AT TWELVE A'CLOCK CALL "IM DE SAME AS HE WUS DERE. Jis' don' tell 'im anything, but continue callin' 'im. WHEREVAH HE AT, AT DAT PAHTIC'LAH TIME OF DE NIGHT, HE'LL GIT UPSETTED, AN' WHICH AN' WHILE [uSua11y Which and why] DE SPIRIT WILL BRING 'IS MIND ON HOME, AN' HE WILL COME HOME.
(Where do you keep that photograph?)
Well, yo' kin keep it - jis' say fo' a' instan' [instance] if ah want chew tuh do it. See, YO' BRING ME DE PHOTOGRAPH AN' AH'LL DO DE WORK, See. But quite natchly [naturally] if he come tuh Savannah yo' goin' tuh see 'im, see.
Entry 8209
An' den yo' would take an' write a person's - draw a person's pitsture am'write dere name on a tree.
(Do you draw their picture on the tree?)
Yo' draw dere pitsture on a tree, jis' lak yo' would take an' go dere an' draw a pitsture on de tree. If yo' don' wanta skin it where anybody would take notice, yo' would draw a pitsture on de tree, namin' it him, an' den write undah it dat it him. An' take a nail, a fo'-penny nail, an' drive right in de centah of 'is haid. An' says yo' nail dat fo' nine mawnin's, yo' go dere an' tap it, an' de ninth mawnin' yo' drive it plumb in. An' dis person will die.
(You write his name and just say It's him on it?)
[He may have said It's him before recording began. He now says person must not be plainly identified.1 Yo' write his name, yo' make it kinda a sign. Don't make it plain where peo- ple kin read it an' all lak dat, don't chew know, but jis' lak imitatin' writin'. Well, yo' name it. Dat's 'is name. An' yo' draw dat pitsture, jis' - yo' know. An' den yo' take an' drive dat nail in dere an' - fo' nine mawnin's yo' would go dere an' tap dat nail an' de ninth mawnin' yo'd drive it in.
Entry 8210
Now if a man's wife leave him, or 'is sweetheart leave him an' he can't git her back, he takes an' he git a piece of papah an' he write her name. Write his name first an' hers second an' he writes each name three times, an' den call 'er by name. An' he goes an' he git 'er photo an' he goes an' git a glass of cleah watah. An' take dat pichure an' turn it head foremos', turn it head down tuhwards dat watah, jis' don' let it tech de watah. An' in three days why she'll be back.
(What do you do with that paper?)
[A rite of diagnosis (see pp.165-217) follows:]
Take dat papah an' yo' drop it in de watah first, an' if she's comin' back, why dat papah will, when yo' drop it in dere, yo' know, it go tuh de bottom when yo' drop it. When - if she comin' back, it'll rise up tuh de top an' it rise up tuh tech dat pichure. In three days den she'll come back.
Entry 8211
(How would you make a person move out of the house?)
Well, de way ah would do dat - dere's two or three diff'ren ways of doin' it, but de plain way, dey say, fo' instan' maybe yo' live nex' do' tuh me, well ah'm gon'a wait until night, see. An' den yo' kin git some sulphur - in othah words some sulphur an' gun- powdah an' mix dat up. An' about de noon hour of twelve at night, midnight, well yo' kin sprinkle dat befo' de do' an' let it goes in de do'. An' undah nine days time dey'll move. An' dere's anothah way dat chew kin take dat track. Yo' kin take dey track or eithah dey photo or eithah dey name, an' put a rattlesnake mastah root, an' wrap it up wit dey name in it an' dat track. Dey tie it up real tight an' have it so dat it wouldn't sink, not immediately, an' cast it in a runnin' stream of watah. DE SWIFTAH DE STREAM IS DE QUICKAH DEY WILL MOVE. Some people says sompin about aigs, but ah don't use dat. (Well, now, to make them move fast, do you put that rattlesnake master and the photograph together and the foot track or just one of those with the root?) Well, yo' take rattlesnake mastah, de name, an' de dirt dat chew git. Well quite natchly [naturally], if yo' wrap it up in wool, it take quite a bit fo' dat watah tuh soak in dat wool, yo' know.
Entry 8212
They get a hold of your picture, a tintype frame, and draws blood from one of her fingers and write your name and her name on it, and buries it in the ground four feet and cov- ers it up and makes a wish. In two month's time the wish will come true. If you want her to come back to you, if you want her to hate you, anything you wish will come true. [Fredericksburg, Va., by Ediphone.]
Entry 8213
Yo' got de photograph head foremost jis' lak de [this is de] photograph [demonstrates]. Yo' turn it over lak dat an' put dat in de ground. Jis' lak a woman whut yo' wan' tuh handle [con- trol]; a man, anybody yo' wan' tuh handle. Yo' take de photograph an' yo' git tuh yer home where, where yuh home is at, take an' bury it down in the ground. Yo' write huh [her] name dat same way three times. Yo' write de name right on a piece of papah. Pick up a piece a [of] papah or pastebo'd an' put it in wit de photograph, den yo' turn it down. Dat's tuh keep huh down. She cain't do no mo' 'an [= dan = than] yo' say do.
Entry 8214
Yo' put it [photograph] catacornah'd [catercornered], joo know cata- cornah'd across, not hang it straight. Yo' see [demonstrates] lak dis is de cornah heah, an' dere, yo'll hang it ovah diag'- nal dis Way. [The photo hangs with sides tilted.1 An' write dere name three times across dis way [demonstrates]. [These names are written diagonally, each three crossing the other three at the center of the photo, making a six-pointed star-like or wheel-like figure which in a similar form, the dotted triangle, will be found in v.2, p.1833.1 Well, dat'll run 'em crazy.
Entry 8215
Ah heard, quite a while ago now - hit was a lady heah in St. Augustine, Fla., was up heah, but 'uh [her] husban' had quit 'uh. Her an' 'uh husban' ep- arated. Dis was [a] woman [who] was in a li'le busi- ness. Ah don' know whethah it was dry good or grocer- ies. But anyway, huh hus- ban' ruled 'uh outa dis by dis same identical thing ah'm talkin' about now, Witchcraftin'. He ruled 'uh out [of] dis. He went somewhere an' got some kinda stuff an' come back. An' he came back. Well, she didn't have no hopes er [or] nuthin, couldn't have no use tuh do nuthin any place. Well, dey even driven 'uh 'way but she was brought back. Dis woman aftah she came back, she had some money, an' dis man sold out all de goods of dis sto' whut dey had an' taken anothah woman an' lived wit 'uh. Ah had learnt dat he wus in some part a [of] Florida. Anyway, he wus goin' fo' good, goin' tuh sea. But she went an' she had 'im brought back. An' when he wus brought back, he gave huh de money dat he even carried fo' huh. Now, dat wus wit de photograph. Now, yo' take A LOTTA PEOPLE SAY, "AH DON' HAVE MAH PICHURE TAKEN AN' ALL DIS AN' DAT AN' DE OTHAH." NOW, YO' TAKE MAHSELF. HIT'S NUTHIN AH DO'S IN DIS WORL' TUH CUZ DE OFFICAHS AN' DETECTIVES OR ANYTHING LAK DAT TUH BE LOOKIN' FO' ME.
[This is caused by enemies through witcheraftin'.]
Now, ah've been 'rested twice right in dis town heah, one time fo' bein' drunk an' de othah time becuz me an' anothah fellah got intuh a fight. Now, ah has mah pichure, mah pichure's up dere, prob'ly in Atlanta, Ga. BUT NOW AH DON'T GUESS DEY'D DO ANYTHING TO IT AT ALL.
[Informant laughs.]
Well, now yo' kin take a pichure an' cut dis pichure half in two. Let dis li'le book heah now be de pichure. [One of my Nunbers Books I always kept on interviewing table; each informant having a number - see illustration at end of volume 2 of Hoodoo, which shows actual size and contents of one of these books.] Cut dis pichure half in two. See, heah's de pichure right on dere. Dat's de body of dis man's pichure. Cut dis pichure half in two. An' aftah yo' cut dis pichure half in two, git chew a pint flask. Go uptown an' git chew a pack of brand-new needles, a pack of brand-new safety pins, git chew 25 cents bottle of Hearts Cologne. An' aftah yo' cut dis pichure half in two, yo' write his name wit de pins - see, in dis part of de body, wit de pins, see [demonstrates].
(The upper part of the body.)
Dat's right, de uppah part of de body wit de pins, see. Yo' take de pins an' stick 'em dis way, an' dis way, an' one dat way, an' one de othah way, see. Sup- posed tuh be [able] tuh write dat, in de uppah part of dis body. Den yo' take dis part an' turn it haid foremost intuh de body, jis' lak if ah drap [drop] mah haid down lak dat. Yo' take dis part wit de needles an' yo' write wit seven - his name wit de needles in dis part of de pichure. Den instead of turnin' dis pichure down de same as de haid part turnin', turn it up, yo' see [demonstrates].
(Turn the feet up?)
Turn de feet up.
(Lower the head and turn the feet up?)
Dat's right. An' den yo' got de nails in dere. Well, yo' take an' put chew half of dis Hearts Cologne on dere. Yo' kin go tuh de graveyard an' git chew some dirt outa de graveyard. Don't mattah if it's from de haid of de grave or from de foot of de grave or from de centah of de grave, but git chew some of de dirt. Puts it in dis bottle, jis' about a tablespoonful, but let it be sifted, not no tracks er nuthin, jis'.de dirt itself. An' yo' bury dis. Now, dese people kin be in Chicago, Illinois. Dey kin be in Paris, France, or England, dey'll be brought back in a length of time aftah dis is nine days old. Den a person kin take dis pichure ag'in an' dey kin run yo' crazy. Dey kin take dis pichure lak dey do wit chure hair, yo' see. Dey drive yore hair intuh a tree wit a peg.
Entry 8216
Git dey pichure an' it have tuh be a whole body; jis' lak dose pi- chures dere [on the wall of interviewing room] dat girl an' one de li'le chil'- ren, jis' de whole body of a person. Well, yo take it an' it have tuh be - not no papah, see. Jis' lak dem ole common [old-time] pichure. Yo' take a tintype an' yo' take it an' put it in a saucah wit de fellah, woman, or whosomevah it is, an' yo' write it nine times, see.
(What do you write nine times?)
Well, yo' put it on a piece of papah wit ink. See, yo' put it wit ink. (You write that name nine times on a piece of paper. Now where do you put that paper?) Yes, yo' put dat papah undah de saucah, see an' den yo' put de pichure on top of de papah, an' de saucah on top of all of it, mo' tuh de groun'. Den yo' take - yo' have tuh dig de hole six feet, an' den aftah yo' do all dat yo' see, well yo put de steel dust on top of it an' de red peppah, an' all dat diff'ren kind [of things]. Jis' lak dat, yo' know, fo' tuh keep dat tuhgethah, keep de whole thing tuhgethah. Yo' put de dirt on top of it an' when de nine days out, well debody's gone. He's goin' take sick befo' den, but in de meantimes he'll disappeah.
(Why do you put that saucer on top of those things?)
Well, dat saucah, dat's fo' tuh keep it down, yo' see. Tuh keep it mo' tuh de groun'. Mos' of 'em uses Saucahs. EVAHBODY MOS'LY USES SAUCAH WHEN YO' WANTA KILL SOMEBODY IN DAT LINE. (How do you put that picture in there? Do you [I probably demonstrate] put the face up like that?) No, yo' have tuh put de face down on de name.
(And how is the name? Is that name up or is the name down?)
De name is down. De whole thing is down, de pichure, de name an' evah'thing. An' yo' turn de saucah down. All dat down tuh de ground, tuh de earth.
(And you just go out and dig a hole any place?)
Well, YO' HAVE TUH DIG IT SIX FEET. YO' CAIN'T LET NO ONE SEE YO'. ANY PLACE IN DE GROUN', BUT IT HAVE TUH BE YO' KNOW AT NIGHT. Yo' wOuldn't Want nObody [to see you].
Entry 8217
They tell me yo' take a pichure of a man an' put it up ovah yuh do' an' write his name an' turn 'is face intuh de do' comin' [into house], an' call it three mawnin's, three times each mawnin'. Dey tell me he'll come back. I know positively dat's true. I know a lady did it.
Entry 8218
Take dat, de photograph, drive a pusson crazy wit dat photo- graph. Take dat an' turn it upside down right at de haid of de baid, an' call de indivjel [individual] name nine time, see - well, fer three days. An' wit'in dem three days dat pusson'll come tuh yuh.
Entry 8219
Dey take de pichure tuh hurt or tuh do good. Tuh do good, tuh keep yure man, yo' take dat pichure an' yo' take a needle, an' yo' stick a needle right through it jis' lak dat. Right through de pi- chure, right crossways of de pichure lak dat, a sharp needle. An' yo' weah it, jis' lak yo' has a sack [nation sack, See p.1449f., THE NATION SACK WOMAN, first quotation] or anywhere. Yo' kin put it in a li'le sack an' weah it on yo', an' yo' put it down in dat; but yo' turns 'is haid dis way, right dere, see. An' yo' weah dat. An' ah don' care whut direction he's in, dat keeps: 'is mind tumbled up. He's gotta come.
(You wear that any place on your body?)
Yes, in undah yure clothes.
Entry 8220
Take a needle or even a pin and stick in yure face an' bury it an' yo' sill die.
(Your photograph?)
Yes.
Entry 8221
Ah've heard two-three things about photographs. Ah've heard dat chew kin take anybody's photograph, say if yo' wanta 'flict dem some way. Take yo' a needle an' stick in dat part yo' wanta 'flict, an' bury it in de earth face down. See, yo' bury it three feet deep which would represent three things, de Fathah, Son an' de Holy Ghost. Bury it three feet deep. Say fo' in- stance now, yo' wanted 'im lame in de am. Yo' take dat photograph an' stick dat needle in dat arn an' bury it's face down; or in de laig, or in de eye.
(Any place you want them afflicted?)
Yes sir.
(Then all you do is bury it face down?)
Yes sir.
Entry 8222
An' jis' lak if yo' wanta a person tuh die, well yo' take their picture but it have tuh be on tintype an' den yo' bear [bury] it on it's face an' place two needles at de foot an' two at de haid an' jis' let it stay dere an' dey'll finely [finally] wizzle away.
Entry 8223
If it's a man dat's got a woman or a woman got a man, dey take de photograph [of himself or herself] an' git chew a white pocket han'ke'ch'ef [new] an' spread it out. Well, yo' put [stick] nine needles in dat han'ke'ch'ef in a row an' point all of 'ems [to the] name [of the person to be held] jis' lak dis [demonstrates]. Take nine needles an' point 'em, point tuh dat - write yore name first [if a man] an' 'er name. Write her name first [if writer a woman] an' 'is name down at de bottom. [Write on the handker- chief.] Well, yo' point dem nine needles right tuh de end of 'is name, all de Way, evah lettah of 'is name. Den yo' [the woman] take it an' take her pichure [photo of herself] an' put it in a [framed] photograph [or wall picture] an' take dat pocket han'ke'ch'ef an' dem nine needles an' fasten it up in dere [framed Wall picture] an' hang [rehang] it on de wall. Dat will hold 'im an' he'll nevah go until she lose dem needles. If she lose dat pocket han'ke'ch'ef an' [or] dat photograph [framed picture] den he'll be gone. [How confusing the preceding statement was can be learned from my first com- ment, all wrong!] (Here's your handkerchief and he takes a piece of paper and writes his name and her name, and she puts these nine needles in it pointing toward his name. Then she wraps that piece of paper either in the photograph or this handkerchief. Wraps them all up in the handkerchief?) Dat's right - no suh, takes dis photograph - [I mean] an' take dis han'ke' ch'ef an' spread it out in de back of dat [framed] photograph.
(This is the frame - in the photograph frame?)
Yessuh, an' den put 'er pichure in dat wit de frame. [Is this a framed photo of herself hanging on the wall, or does she put her photo and other articles inside the back of the wall picture?]
(She doesn't use his picture?)
Doesn't use his picture. (She puts her picture in this frame and then puts this handkerchief and needles [and 2 names] in the back of it. Takes off the back of the frame and puts that in there?) Yessuh.
Entry 8224
[Preceding informant gives another version of the nine-needle theme:]
Take his pichure an' write his name. Write chure name firs' an' den 'is; will follah yures, yo' know. (You write your name first?) Yes, an' 'is name nex'.
(Underneath?)
Yessuh, an' den yo' put nine needles an' put it in de closet, an' yo' put chure pichure aside of it an' dat'll make 'im stay stay. He can't go no place.
(You stick these needles into the picture?)
Yessuh, nine needles. (You write your name and then you write his name right underneath your name? And you put your picture right next to that picture in the closet.)
Entry 8225
I heard talk that you take a photograph and wrap it up in a new piece of material, and put it in a drawer; and if the person is away, they'll soon come.
Entry 8226
Use de photograph to gain love. Well, yo' photograph, if yo' like a gurl an' perhaps she tryin' tuh gain love wit yuh, an' yo', yo' know, might have de privilege of visitin' 'er. Well, she might have some kin'a small or large photograph in 'er home. Perhaps yo' might git a chance to take it, or steal it in othah words we call it. An' yo' take dis photograph. Yo' take dis photograph an' yo' bury it. Yo' see, yo' bury dis photograph fer nine days, but befo' buryin' it yo' takes [some sort of oil]. (What kind of oil is it? Is it something you mean - where do you buy this oil?) Well, yo' kin buy it in de drug store. (Well, go ahead with the rest of the story and give me the name when you think of the name later.) Well, yo' take dis [mineral?] oil an' yo' take it an' rub it on de face of de pichure. an' yo' let dis pichure. yo' know, stay buried fer nine days. yo' see. Dat's how to gain 'er love, to make a short story of it. [For 9 days, see alsc preceding margin title CIRCUMAMBULATE etc.]
Entry 8227
Bury it on de face.
(Bury it? What will that do?)
In nine days yo'll be buried. (I see.) On a tintype.
Entry 8228
If yo' kin git aholt of someone's photograph an' yo' got it in fo' dem, why yo' take dey photograph an' yo' clip de photograph in nine diff'ren' ways.
(How do you mean, cut it nine different ways?)
Yo' cut de fo' cornahs offa it. But yo' ain't gotta cut it plumb up. When yo' cut de fo' cornahs, dat's fo' ways. Well, yo' kin take it an' cut it five mo' diff'ren' ways. Cut it all de way round, but jis' don' cut it up [photo must be left inone piece]. Den take dat pichure an' carry it to runnin' watah. Well, dey'll be harmed, gits in a car wreck or sompin. Dey goin' git out chure way.
[Stopped machine. Informant added a remark. Restart to repeat the addition.]
(They get cut up or something of that sort?)
Yes.
Entry 8229
Tuh break up a home, well yo' kin take gunpowdah.
(How would you use that?)
Well yo' would take de gunpowdah an' yo' draw a pichure lak it's fo' two peo- ple. Yo' draw 'em jis' lak dey goin' tuh fight - yo' know how chil'ren kin draw funny pichures - jis' lak dey goin' tuh fight. Yo' takes de gunpowdah an' nine pinches of salt, an' nine pinches of red peppah, an' yo' put it in de stove an' make yure wishes. An' dat breaks 'em up. (Well, what do you do with the picture then?) Well, yo' take de pichure perhaps an' stand it on de head an' put it in a dark closet.
(No, this picture that you draw. What do you do with that?)
Oh, what you drew. Yo' burns dat. Yo' writes dere names on dis papah. Yo' draws on a plain piece of white papah, den yo' takes dis pichure, de man's havin' a fight, yo' puts de gunpowdah in dere, nine pinches, nine pinches of salt, an' nine pinches of cayenne peppah, red peppah. An' den yo' put it in de stove fo' nine mawnin's.
(I see, you put the stuff into the picture?)
Yeah.
(You have to draw that thing nine times?)
Uh-huh. Yo' don't have tuh draw it zactly [exactly] lak 'em, but yo' draw it lak a man if yo' kin or do it lak a woman, see.
(Well, do you do that over again and again?)
Ovah ag'in fer nine mawnin's.
Entry 8230
Yo' take yore pichure. Ah've heah dat yo' take yore pichure. See, jis' lak if a person didn't lak yo' or wanted tuh git chew outa de way. Yo'd take dat pichure an' go outdo's. If yo' wanted tuh, go right in yore yard at de lef' cornah, [or] de no'th cornah of yore chimley, an' dig a hole an' bury it on yore face. Bury de pichure on de face. Well, yo' see, as long as it lay on yore face, fades away, dat person will die.
Entry 8231
Well, yo' kin take a person's photograph - but chew gotta be mad wit 'em, yo' know, don' lak 'em no way. Yo' take dat an' take it tuh de no'th cornah of yore house. Dig a hole an' bury it bottom side upwards tuh de no'th cornah of yore house. Bury it bottom side upwards an' den, yo' know, curse 'em anything dat chew think of, an' yo' won' have no mo' trouble wit 'em. Dey be sickly all de time.
Entry 8232
Well, yo' take dat pichure an' put it in yore pocket, if yo' wanta carry it wit chew. Yo' kin take dat pichure an' yo' want dem tuh love yo'. Dat whut chew wanta know. Take dat pichure an' git some olive oil an' put nine drops of dat pichure right around, yo' know, right around de haid. An' put dat pichure in yore pocket an' tote it wit yo'. Den fo' nine days yo' read de 23rd Psalms ovah it, an' dat'll make dem people care fo' yo'.
Entry 8233
Take de photograph an' dey'll put it in- tuh a basin an' dey'll put cologne on it until it change it's face, dat chew'll fall in love wit 'em. Now dat's true. But dey keep it in dat basin till it fades. Yo'll fall in love wit 'em den.
Entry 8234
Yo' take de photograph an' take some perfume, put it on de pikture, an' a needle an' stick de needle in de pik- ture right acrost de fo'haid, an' hide it some place an' she'll love yuh.
Entry 8235
Jis' take a woman's hair an' pichure an' cut it all up an' put it in a bot- tle tuhgethah an' take an' po' dis Heart's Own Perfume on it. She'll nevah quit 'im an' she'll always run aftah 'im.
(What do they do with that bottle then?)
Well, hide it off in de loft of de house where she be goin' undah it or sompin lakdat.
Entry 8236
Take dere pichure an' put it undah yore baid, undah de haid of yore pillah an' sleep on it nine days, an' he cain't go nowhere or quit chew. (That will keep the man? Just place it under there any way, under the pillow?) Undah de pillah.
Entry 8237
Take a person's photograph an' take a pin an' stick dat pin in de heart of dat pichure, where de per- son's heart is on dat pichure, an' dat person will die. Dat will kill a person.
Entry 8238
Take dey photograph an' put brass pins in it an' bury it wit de face down an' dat'll cuz 'em tuh die. (How many brass pins do you take?) Fo' on each cornah.
Entry 8239
Yo' take a person's photo- graph an' take nine pins an' stick 'em in it, right through de heart, an' take an' carry it tuh runnin' watah an' throw it in. Why dat person will fall daid right anywhere dey at. Aftah nine days why dey'll fall daid.
Entry 8240
Dey kin take yore pichure - ah ain't nevah done it but ah've heered dis, undahstan'. Dey stick nine holes in it, one hole evah mawnin' fo' nine mawnin's. An' de ninth mawnin' aftah dey stick dat las' hole in it - when dey put de firs' hole in dere, in dat pichure, in de heart of dat pichure - lak dis is mah pi- chure an' dis is mah heart. Jes' take dat pin an' stick a hole in dat heart on dat pichure. Stick one dis mawnin', one tuhmorrah mawnin', an' one de nex' mawn- in', until de ninth mawnin'. An' de ninth mawnin', when dat last hole will be stuck in dere, de man will be in bad condition. Dere can't nobody do him no good. Can't nobody do him no good nohow unless dey kin git dat air [that there] pichure an' kin remend dem holes. But if dey don't do dat, why dat'll kill 'im.
Entry 8241
I heard tuh give yuh bad luck an' misfortune, tuh take yure photograph an' turn de face of it tuh de earth, an' put it undah, yo' know, de things [ties] where de train track go along. Put it undah one a [of] dose posttus [posts railroad ties] down undahneath dere, an' turn it [photo] down an' yo'll [person of photo will] have all kin'a bad luck.
Entry 8242
Well, den yo' kin take a person's pichure at home [and make them love you].
(How could you make them love you with that picture. How do you do that?)
Well, yo' weahs de pichure an' keep it all de time, an' yo' dress it. In othah words, yo' kin dress dat pichure wit High John de Conkah vine, an' yo' kin take dat Eve an' Adam [Adam and Eve] an' dress it. Why den dere's a root dey call de devil's shoestring. Yo' kin take dat home an' dress it.
(What do you do with those roots?)
Well, yo' would have - said when yo' boil de roots, undahstan', an' soak dat pichure an' keep it in a dark room - a dark place all de time. An' dat person will soon be absent-minded. (Thought you were telling me that you could make them love you that way?) Well, yo' kin... [This rite is quite all right.]
Entry 8243
Tuh make a person lak yuh, yo' will take his or her photograph tuh a root workah an' have it dressed.
Entry 8244
Jis' lak düh [the] wife tak' 'er 'usban' pichure, an' lif' up duh en' of duh rug, an' t'ün [turn] duh face dun [down] tuh duh floah, an' valk ovah dat. She puts it dun var she kin valk ovah it - see, jis' put it in a place var she go mos'ly huhse'f. Dat's suppose tuh keep 'em hum [home].
Entry 8245
Ah hearn dat chew could take de photograph an' bury it in de sand, an' when dat photograph melt away offa dat whut it's taken on, yo'll die.
Entry 8246
(If a man leaves his wife, how would she make him come back?) Make him come back?
(How would the woman make him come back?)
Well, dey kin go buy a box of salt an' take his pichure. Take dat pichure an' de box of salt an' put dat pichure head foremost - put de head down an' feet up - dat [feet] on top, de top of 'is feet in dere. See, dis side up. An' aftah it set in dere nine days, yo' take dat salt off. Take dat pichure, aftah he come - soon as he come home - take dat pichure an' put it up. If yo' wan' tuh make him come quick, take dat pichure an' put it in a li'le frame, an' put it close tuh de stove, an' keep a fiah in dat stove. An' den, if yo' want's it hot, den yo' sprinkle peppah on de bottom part of dat pichure. I heah sometime dey put....
Entry 8247
I have heard of boys and girls being inti- mate together, and if this girl would have a pic- ture of this boy, and if she had any feelings of any kind against him, she would take this picture and scratch it all up to give him bad luck.
Entry 8248
Dey take dere undies an' shake it in 'is face [the face of his photo] any time she wan' tuh see him. Any hour of de night she jis' wish fo' him an' he'll come. An' jis' whutevah she want, if he have it, he'll give it tuh her.
Entry 8249
I worked in a place and lost my job. The man went out of business. I vas living with a very old colored woman and got behind in my rent. She had been going with a man. This man got mad at her and stopped her. When she found out I could draw pretty well, so she had me to draw his picture as near his likeness as I could. She would put this picture in the bottom of her shoe and wear it until ft Was almost porn out, and have me draw another. I don't know whether that caused him to come back or not, but he certainly came back. [Ocean City, Md., by Ediphone.]
Entry 8250
Concernin' photographs: Now, heah's some photographs. Yo' may go ovah in town dere tuh New Orleans, an' yo'll have yore pichures taken on papah, some- whut lak celluloid or sompin othah. Dere's no harm at all tuh dat, no harm at all. It's de tintype, tin [that causes harm]. Now usin' dis, it's mos'ly used fo' gittin' rid of a woman. Dat's all. Yo' cannot bring 'er tuh yo', but yo' kin git rid of 'er. Now, see dis po'tion [portion] of yore shoe heah [demonstrates], dis heah?
(That inner sole?)
Yessuh, yo' raise dis [demonstrates].
(The heel of it.)
Dat's right. Place dat tintype pichure undah dere an' weah it. Now, dat's l yo' place it back on. Quite nature [naturally] de shoe is gonna weah jis' lak steel will, an' as yo' weah dat shoe, dat person weahs an' jis' withah [wither] off from yo'. Yo' won' know whut become of 'em, an' dey won' know whut become of yo'. Dat's de onliest way dey kin harm yo' wit a tintype pichure.
Entry 8251
Dat's if a woman's husban' should leave her, or sweetheart, anything lak dat, jis' take de photograph, see, an' put in 'er shoe an' jis' weah it. Beah it till it weah out. Den git anothah one an' den weah dat un', so long as yo' weah one, an' he'll follah yo'. He'll be so good tuh yo', he be too good tuh yo'. Yo' jis' put it - it's always bes' tuh put in undah de leathah of de shoe, becuz somebody else might see it, see.
(In what shoe does she wear it, either shoe?)
Yo' kin weah it in either shoe. Ah prefer de left shoe, though.
Entry 8252
Take dis photograph an' yo' kin put it in yore shoes an' weah it, an' if yo' want dis guy back, yo' kin git 'im.
(Whose photograph is it?)
It supposed tuh be de man or de woman or whosomevah dat chew want. If yo' a woman, yo' kin weah him in yore shoes an' yo' kin git 'im back.
(You wear this photograph in either shoe?)
In de right one, yo' mus' weah it in de right one.
Entry 8253
It's lak if a person mistreats yo' an' yo' wanta git even wit 'im, an' he's got yore pichure an' yo' got 'is. Ah mean if de girl is got yore [his] pichure an' yo' got one lak it, take it an' put it an' weah it in de bottom of yore right-foot shoe an' wear it, clean it...
(What will that do?)
Dat will make 'im sick.
Entry 8254
Git 'is photograph. She kin go tuh any place an' have anothah one taken. Put one in 'er right shoe, an' bury one undah de do'step. Bury it wit de face down, an' weah one in de bottom of 'er shoe, an' see whut results yo' git outa dat. (What do you do that for?) Dat's if yo' wanta bring 'im back, an' rule 'im, put 'im undah 'er command.
Entry 8255
Yo' take dere name as yo' do de othah re sēts' [= resLi-pes = rites] an' [if] yo' wanta keep 'em tuh yo'. Well, yo' use dat same ingrediment [in- gredient] an' yo' write it nine times an' put it undah yore lef' linin' of yore shoe an' weah it all de time. (That will bring them to you?) Yes, de photograph.
Entry 8256
It's prak'ally [practically] de same. An' dis woman she wuz jis' givin' me so much trouble wit mah husban', dat he wuz almos' out fo' good. Ah didn't wan'a 'sturb [disturb] mah place. Ah wondah'd whut tuh do. Ah loved mah husban' an' ah wuz jis' so crazy 'bout 'im, an' jealous ah guess. So it seem lak it come tuh me one night in mah sleep, say, Jis' take his pichure an' weah it. Ah got up through de night an' ah taken dat pichure an' ah put it in mah shoe, an' ah didn't tell anybody whut ah did. Ah put dat pichure in mah shoe an' ah wore it dere. Dat one wored out an' he com- mence tuh grow bettah. Ah looked roun' an' ah found 'nothah one, photograph, an ah put dat one dere. An' ah wanta tell yo' dere ain't a bettah man dat walks, dan mah husban'. Dat's mah one experience. An' ah tole two or three othahs de same things. (I AM LETTING THIS WOMAN GO FOR THE MOMENT BECAUSE THERE IS A SPECIALL HOODOO MAN JUST CAME THAT I WANT TO TALK TO. I AM AFRAID HE MIGHT LEAVE. I'LL TALK TO HER LATER.)
Entry 8257
[For the outstanding story of this margin title, though picture drawn on a shingle is shot, see the shooting of Uncle Mack's picture - No.3103, p.925.] Says dey kin take yore photograph. Dey kin take yore photograph an' take it an', if dey ti'ed [tired] of yuh or anythin' lak dat, dey kin take it off [some- where] an' shoot it fo' a target. Say yo'll git killed purtty soon. An' if dey want chew [want to keep you], say dey kin take it an' put it in de bottom of dey trunk, an' lay it flat down, an' dat chew'll nevah go nowhere. (How do you mean lay it down?) Lay it down on it's face.
Entry 8258
Yo' see when peoples dislaks [dislikes] yo' or somepin lak dat, undahstand, dey kin take yore pichure, an' take yore pichure an' shoot yore pichure an' yo' will die.
(How will they shoot that picture?)
Jis' take it an' shoot it wit a pistol or somepin lak dat, an' yo'll die. So dat's de way ah've heard dat.
Entry 8259
Take a person's pichure an' shoot it an' dey die. Wheresomevah dey be at, dey'll die.
(Where do they shoot that picture?)
Dey shoot it in de face, anywhere, yo' know.
(Where do they put that picture when they shoot it?)
Have it any place, eny place shoot it.
Entry 8260
I've heard that they could shoot your photograph and you'll die quick- ly; and if they bury your photograph, you'll die a slow death.
Entry 8261
Hear 'em say if dey Wanted tuh kill yo' quick, take yore track. Ah've seen dat. Says yo' bo' a hole in a tree, in a pine tree or oak tree. Cut de head off heah [hair off top of head] an' put it in dere an' den drive a peg in it. An' as 'er hair goes away, yo' go. [For my comment about this elderly man, see later. While recording machine was off, he began a photo rite:]
(The tintype. What did they use to say years ago?)
Take an' shoot at yore pichure an' shootin' de pichure would kill yo'.
(But they generally put that picture in a certain way you said.)
Yes, toward where he's at or she's at. (You have to put that picture up in the direction in which that person is liv- ing?) Yes. (THIS OLD MAN WHO WAS JUST IN HERE WAS 87 YEARS OLD AND WAS BAREFOOT.)
Entry 8262
Ah heard dat if yo' wanted tuh kill a person wit dere photograph, yo' could take his photograph an' set it behin' a burnin' bush or a pile of bushes, an' shoot it wit a rifle or pistol or sompin of dat sort. (Set it behind what kind of a bush?) Behin' a briar pile of bushes. Builds up de fiah an' put de pichure ovah tuh de side of it an' shoot through de fiah. Dat will kill dem. (You build a fire with the bushes and then you put this picture near the side. Right on the side?) On de side an' shoot right through de fiah.
Entry 8263
If someone wanta give yo' real bad luck, says dey kin take - if dey got a grudge ag'inst chew - dat dey kin go an' git chure pichure an' take dis pichure an' build a fiah, an' set de pichure behin' de fiah. Dat's [demonstrates] de pichure an' heah's de fiah. Dat's de pi- chure. Set it off lak dat. Yo' git ovah heah. Yo' [they] take a gun an' dey shoot through dis pichure, through dis fiah an' hit de pichure. Take a shotgun, scattah shots. An' shoot through de fiah an' shoot a hole through dis pichure. Well, when dey shoots a hole through dis picture, dey says den, dat gives yo' bad luck. It'll take dat - on dat time in evah yeah an' evah month, on dat day, yo'll have pains. Whatevah day of de month it was, dey say yo'll have pains, sharp pains jis' lak if yo' were shot. (Now this is the picture across the fire, and it is looking at you - face towards you?) Yes sir.
Entry 8264
Yo' take a photograph an' go in de woods tuh a tree, an' yo' jis' lay it up from de ground up side de tree. Yo' kin go dat high from de ground, eight feet high. Ah'd take a ten- penny nail an' drive dat through de forehead ontuh de tree. An' git choo some splintahs - fat-lighter [pine] splintahs [here, split pieces of wood, not small splinters] - some people call 'em torches - an' make a smoke right down here [at the bottom of the tree]. Jis' make a fiah, an' de smoke goes right straight on up [over the photo]. An' yo' git choo a shotgun an' go back about twenty-five or thirty feet from de tree, an' shoot right through that smoke at dat pitchure. Dey tell me dat'll kill yuh. [Large pieces of fat-lighter pine (several pines so called) were used at night as outdoor hand torches. This is described some- where in the text by a woman, from Orangeburg, S. Car., whose grandmother de- scribed a slave burial at night - a limited number of torches, no singing, etc.]
Entry 8265
Lak yo' got a pichure, see, jis a pichure of yo'. All right, lak dey love yo', see, an' don't want see any- body else wit chew. Dey go tuh de fo'k of de road an' take a pistol an' shootdat pistol right in de centah of yo' face. When dey come back yo'll be daid. (You shoot this picture at the forks of the road.)
Entry 8266
Yo' go tuh de fo'ks of de road, if someone done sompin tuh yo' an' yo' doesn't lak 'em, an' yo' wanta git rid of 'em fo' good, git 'em clean out de worl', yo' go dere fo' eight mawnin's wit dere pichure. An' den de ninth mawnin' yo' could take it an' shoot it on de lef' side, an' dey certainly are daid. Den yo' know yo' got rid of dem.
(You take that picture out each morning and bring it back?)
Yessuh.
(What do you do with the picture then?)
Yo' shoot it on de left side.
(Where do you put the picture when you shoot it?)
Carry it back home or eithah leave it down dere, but mos' de people says yo' leave it fo' nine mawnin's an' shoot it on de lef' side.
Entry 8267
Yo' kin take a man's pichure, anybody's pichure, an' go tuh de fo'k of de road an' shoot at dat pichure. Go nine times an' shoot at it nine mawnin's an' - eithah nine nights. An' yo' kin shoot at dat pichure nine times an' dat man will die.
(Where do you put that picture out at the fork of the road?)
Put it right at de fo'k of de road.
(Put it on the ground or up in the air or where?)
Put it on de ground. Yo' know, quite natural yo' kin take a stick yo' know an' pin it up so he kin see it, chew know, an' shoot at it.
Entry 8268
Take de tintype an' point de fo' cornahs an' shoot it an' yo'll soon die. (They do what to the four corners?) Turn it round, de fo' cornahs, dey meet de cornahs of it. (Show me. Say that's the tintype there.) Take de pistol dis way an' turn it ovah an' shoot it [this corner], an' yo' turn dis cornah an' shoot on dat cornah.
(Shoot it in all four corners turning it around?)
Turn it roun' an' den throw it in runnin' watah.
(What will that do?)
As dat go down yo's goin' go down den too.
Entry 8269
De nex' thing, if a person don' lak yo' an' wants tuh do yo' dirty, dey kin go tuh work an' take dat photograph an' shoot it right directly to de heart line, an' in nine days he'll be a daid man.
Entry 8270
Take dat photograph an' shoot it right in de heart, where de heart supposed tuh be, an' bury it face foremos', say dey'll die.
Entry 8271
Ah've heard dey take a pichure an' put it up an' shoot on de left side
[heart side] an' hit'll kill de person.
Entry 8272
A person's photograph, pichure, yo' kin take it an' care [carry] hit in de woods an' tack it up side a tree, an' yo' kin take yore gun an' yo' kin shoot hit. An' when yo' shoot hit, he's shore [sure] tuh die.
Entry 8273
Ah heard dat a person kin take yore pichure an' put it on a tree or a stump an' shoot dat pichure an' it'll kill yo'. Ah have heard of dat.
Entry 8274
Tack it up 'ginst a tree an' make a mark outa it an' shoot it.
(Shoot the photograph. What would that do?)
SayS WhOSOmeVah yo' DONE SHOT AT DEY BREAK OUT WIT CANCERS AN' CAN'T BE CURED OR EITHAH BE KILT.
Entry 8275
Well now, I've heard dey could take yure pitchure, take an' put it up aside a tree an' shoot it; see, yo'll git shot.
Entry 8276
Alcohol - put three drops of alcohol on it, on de photograph an' stick it up side a tree an' shoot it, an' yo' ain't goin' stay heah long.
(What will it do, drive you away or kill you?)
Kill yo'.
Entry 8277
Take a photograph an' take it down tuh a tree, mos' any kinda tree, an' cut a hole in de pine tree, jis' fer 'nuff [enough] fo' de photograph tuh set in, an' cuss dat photograph three time an' back off [walk backwards] from it, an' fiah toward de photograph. Ah've tried it. Dat will kill de person.
Entry 8278
Yo've heard of de oldtime gun waddin'? Dey put dis pichure [torn up] in dis gun waddin' an' dey care [carry] it tuh a tree in some lone isolated place. An' dey shoot de gun off. Dey shoot de tree. Instead of powder, yo' know, lak dey shooting someone. [Gunman pretends that this mixture of gun wad- ding and torn-up picture is a shell and the tree is the person being shot.] An' dey say dat'll cuz dat person tuh have bad luck.
Entry 8279
Take dat photograph, an' if yo' wants dem, woman or man, yo' wants dem out de way. DEY AIN'T GOT HEART ENOUGH FO' YO' AN' YO' WANTS EM TUH GIT KILLED IN A ACCIDENT, OR SOMEONE GIT IN A FIGHT WIT 'EM AN' KILL DEM. Take dat phot0- graph an' git chew one dese heah li'le beebee rifles, if yo' kin [git] holt of it, an' take it in de woods, an' jes' lak yo' tack it 'ginst de wall [of interviewing room, you tack it against a tree], an' take a good bead [on the target] wit de [beebee] shotgun - ain't evah'body kin do it but some kin - an' shoot dat pichure. Be sure dat yo' shoot it on de heart side. Be sure dat chew hit it wit dat beebee ball [shot], it's a li'le ball dat jis' [makes] a li'le bit of hole dere, dat chew hit it on de heart side. Well, WHEN YO' PLUG IT ON DE HEART SIDE LAK DAT, HE'LL GO AN' HE'LL GIT IN A FUSS; AN' WHERE DAT BULLET HITS 'IM ON DE HEART SIDE, DEY PLUG 'IM DERE DE SAME WAY.
(They will hit him right there.)
Don't care where yo' go, dat de end of yo' - right dere.
Entry 8280
Take it an' carry it in de woods an' cut a green pine - or any green tree - an' make it smooth [a smooth place] an' tack dat photograph up ag'inst de tree, an' git off at yore distance an' shoot dis photograph. Try tuh hit it in de haid or in de heart, dey say, an' jes' lak yo' do dat photograph, dat jes' lak whut would happen tuh de person. [Green tree is a common term for live tree, ordinary meaning avoid a dead tree or a tree not in leaf.]
Entry 8281
Ah've heard of a person takin' anothah person's pichure, a pichure of 'em, if dey dislak 'em, an' takin' it in de woods an' bo'in' [boring] a hole in dere an' stickin' de pichure in de tree, face downwards, an' den shootin' holes in it. Ah've heard of dat. An' dey'll soon die.
Entry 8282
Take dat an' nail dat up in a tree an', if dey wanta kill yuh, dey kin nail dat photograph up an', if yo' in New York or even Philadelphia or Boston, an' dey call yure name, an' put a pistol dere an' shoot dat photo- graph in de heart, won't kill yuh right off; but yo'll pine away, pine away, pine away until yo' die.
Entry 8283
Well, yo' see, yo' kin take dat 'ere [photo] an' [a note of mlne says informant very shaky, a stutterer] an' bury it down in dirt an'...meal buries... eithah meal. Dey eithah buries it in de groun' where dey walk ovah it fo' nine days, an' make any kinda wishes yo' wants fo' it, yo' see. An' den take it out, yo' see, an' nail it up side of de tree at de ninth day an' shoot it, sompin lak dat, wit No.8 shot.
(What is that supposed to do to you?)
Dey say de person will die. (You take this photograph first and you bury it in the ground, face down, you say. And then what do you put on that?) Make any kinda wishes yo' wants tuh.
(You said something about meal. What did you say about meal?)
Even if yo' don't want tuh bury it down in de ground, yo' kin bury it in de meal.
(Oh, if you don't bury it in the ground, you bury it in the meal. Corn meal?)
Yes, sir. An' den yo' leave it fo' nine days. Den yo' see, yo' kin make yere wishes, any kinda wish yo' want. An' de ninth day yo' kin take it up an' shoot it.
Entry 8284
Dey go ahaid an' tack it [photo] up on de tree an' shoot it, an' dat'll kill yuh. Dey go dere nine mawnin's an' shoot it. Dat'll kill yuh. Jis' turn it bottom upwards an' shoot it about de heart.
Entry 8285
Dey tell me dat dey kin take yuh photergraph an' carry it in de woods, an' put it on a pine tree. An' if dey kin shoot, yo' know, right in a serious part fo' nine mawnin's...an' dey say aftah dat it'll kill yuh.
Entry 8286
If yo' wanta harm a person, kill a person, say fo' instance, yo' kin draw de fo'm [form] of dat per- son as neah as yo' kin, yo' know. If it's a woman, yo' draw de fo'm of a woman; if it's a man, yo' draw de fo'm of a man. An' yo' git chew a tenpenny nail an' yo' kin go tuh a tree out some- where, an' yo' nail dat fo'm up on dat tree. An' yo' kin take dat powdah outa dat shell, an' yo' kin take a li'le of dat powdah. Yo' go dere fo' nine mawnin's an' yo' take a li'le of dat powdah an' put it aroun' dat nail in dere. Den yo' shoot dat pichure fo' nine mawnin's. An' dat'll kill a person or eithah put 'em in such a shape dat dey'll jis' wanta be daid.
(You don't do anything with that powder at all?)
No, yo' jis' - aftah yo' use a li'le aroun' dat nail, when yo' firs' put de pichure up dere. Put a li'le of dat powdah right aroun' dat nail. Den yo' kin use dat - shoot dat pichure fo' nine mawnin's. But yo' kin use de powdah fo' woman, miscarriage...
Entry 8287
Dey take yore pichure an' draw it in willah [willow] tree an' run a speah through yer heart. See, shape yer heart an' put a speah through yer heart. An' dey shoot yer pichure nine times an' dat'll cuz yo' tuh drag until yo' die. Well, AH HAVE SAW DAT CUZ AH SAW IT ON DE BAYOU, de photo Wuz in de trE. (An ordinary photograph? Or do you draw the form of that photograph?) Yes [you draw the form as informant stated]. An' dey put it in de tree an' dey made dere wish, but dey put some kinda - dey put lode- stone in it, too, an' dey put dat blood, dragon's blood in it, an' dey had a speah through de heart. Yo' know, lak yo' speah it through de heart. An' dey shot it nine times, shot de heart nine times.
Entry 8288
Ah heard dat dey could take yore photograph tuh de woods an' nail it up on de no'th [north] side of a tree, an' shoot at it nine times an dat will kill a person. Yo'll have hemorrhage an' die.
(Well, do they shoot that nine times all at once?)
Nine times, nine days. See, yo' go dere nine times.
(You shoot it once each day?)
Yes.
Entry 8289
Well, I've heard of 'em takin' it [a photograph] an' takin' it out [to] de cemetery, an' puttin' it [head down with face out] up side a tree, an' shooten it nine times [once each day for nine days early in the morning]. The person will finally die.
Entry 8290
Take de photograph - yo' mean yo' pichure? Well, some folks say yo' kin take dis an' shoot it. Put it on de no'th side of a tree, sompin lak dat. Shoot it or sompin othah an' kill yo'.
Entry 8291
Dey take yore photograph an' dey wanta do somepin tuh yo' mean. Take dat photograph if it's on a tintype an' carry it off in de woods befo' sunup. An' nail it up on de no'th side of a tree an' take yore gun an' shoot it. Shoot chure heart be' fo' sunup. Ah don' care where yo' at, if yo' in New Yawk, dat'll kill yuh.
Entry 8292
Ah heard dey kin take a tin- type photograph an' carry it tuh de oak tree, an' if dey wanted tuh harm yuh, an' nail it dere wit a tenpenny nail an' den shoot. Say dat would kill yo'.
Entry 8293
[Quicksilver in hoodoo is rarely the. metallic element mercury; it is usually tin foil, or scrapings from the metallic amalgram backing a mirror. There are other examples of this quicksilver in Hoodoo, and perhaps one or two of the real substance.] Ah said dey take a gun an' load it wit quicksilvah an' shoot chure pichure, in yo' arm or somepin lak dat. Make a card, don't chew undahstand, an' if yo' don' do somepin fer it, why it will jis' keep arottin' an' rottin' till it ruin yo', yo' undahstand, wit bloodpoison. (How could you shoot quicksilver in a gun?) Take yore [gun] powdah an' put it in dere an' den yo' pack it. Now yo' [add] buckshot. Den yo' take yo' quicksilvah lak dat [put these 3 things in gun or shell] don't chew undahstand, an' put it in de gun.
Entry 8294
Ah heah mah gran'mothah use tuh say dat dey could take yuh photograph an' could take dat an' put it up side a tree. An' said yo' take a silvah bullet an' shoot at it, an' shoot yuh in yuh lef' side neah yuh heart. Shootin' yuh heart, it would kill right away.
Entry 8295
(Now what are you going to do with the photograph?) Yo' puts it on a black gum tree an' dat's purely tuh harm yo'. An' den yo'll tell it [tree] whut chew want. [You talk to the tree spirit.] Yo' kin nail it on dat tree an' den yo' shoot it. Dat fer as ah know of dat. It's a black gum an' [or] a short-leaf pine, jes' dem two, either one, but let it be in de swamp.
Entry 8296
Yes sir, yo' kin take a pichure, take it down tuh runnin' watah an' tack it on a tree an' shoot it, if yo' wanta kill 'em. Well, now, yo' kin kill 'em lak dat. Yes sir, jis' take it an' carry it tuh runnin' watah, jis' tack it on a li'le tree right by de runnin' watah, yo' know, de face of it. Shoot it. Well dat kills 'em. Dat's whut ah learnt from an ole man.
Entry 8297
They put them [a tintype] in a pan of water, with the face up, and shoot at them. That disfigures their face and makes them moult away. [Fred- ericksburg, Va., by Ediphone.]
Entry 8298
At least ah know about de photograph. Well yo' take a person's photo- graph, dat's providin' if it's on a tintype. Yo' take a person's photograph an' prob'ly yowanta git shet [rid] of 'em out de worl' where dey won't worry yo' no mo'. Take dat photograph an' carry it tuh a - prob'ly some ole field or nothah, an' bury it on de face." An' aftah yo' bury it on de face, yo' prob'ly could walk away ahummin' some ole re- ligious song. An' aftah yo' bury it on de face an' walk away, hummin' dat ole religious song, it won't be long befo' dey be throwin' dirt in dere face. It won't be long befo' dey be daid.
(Well, what do you do with the photograph?)
What would yo' do wlt it? Yo' bury it. Yo'll die!
Entry 8299
Dey could do two things tuh yo' [with photograph]. Dey could kill yo' or dey could drive yo' away.
(Suppose somebody wants to kill me, now?)
Bury it face downwards.
(Bury the photograph with the face down?)
Yes.
(Well, suppose you want to drive me away?)
Well, if dey wanta drive yo' away, dey bury it standin'; yo' heah [in the interviewing room of Eureka Hotel, for blacks, see v.1, p. XxxIII]. Bury it standin' up, wit de face away from yo'. No, not on its haid, jis' lak it is standin' upward, lak dis pichure heah. Wit de face away.
Entry 8300
Well, yore photograph, dey kin weah it in de hose tuh make yo' love 'em or eithah put it ovah a glass of watah, if yo' off from 'em an' draw yo' tuh 'em. (You just lay this photograph over the water?) Yes sir, turn it down ovah a glass of watah an' dat'll draw yo' tuh 'em.
Entry 8301
De photograph, yo' kin po' [pour] sugah on dat an' burn dis photograph an' in nine days, whosomevah pichure dat is, dey must be daid in dem nine days. (You burn that photograph with the sugar on it.
Entry 8302
Take dat [photograph] an' bury it on it's face nex' tuh de sundown. Dat will kill yo'. (How do you mean they bury this photo- graph next to the sundown? What do you mean by that?) Jes' take de pichure where de sun go down an' bury it on de.face, an' turn de face towards de sundown.
(Turn the head toward the sundown?)
Yes suh.
Entry 8303
Dey always tell me tuh take dis man pichure, if yo' got 'is pichure in yore house. Take dis man pichure an' wrop it up in a piece of papah an' stick a pin in it, a clothes pin [not clothespin], jis' a stickin'- pin, stick anywheres dere. Take it an' pin it tuh de haid of yore bed or 'er bed, an' all she den gotta do, tell 'im now, co'se she know 'er husban' name. "Yo' stayed 'way long 'nuff. Ah think yo bettah come back home." Dey say dat will bring 'im back home. Jes' a straight pin, one of dem straight pins, an' stick in dat an' pin it tuh de haid of yore bed.
Entry 8304
Dey [a woman] said dey could take yo' pitchure. Jis' lak if a woman husband leave huh or eithah a man leaves 'is wife, or somepin, dat dey could take de pitchure an' turn it on de haid, turn de pitchure down on its haid, somewhere where it kin stan' up undah de bed outa sight. An' tell it [she, who told informant the story] said dat, "Yo' lef' me but choo're comin' back; yo'll be on yer haid tuh see me." She [woman who told her experience.to informant] said dey'll come back or be on dere haid tuh come back. An' dey will come back.
Entry 8305
Ah don't know where he [the doctor] come from, but he told me tuh take his photograph an' put up ovah de do', bottom upwards, an' talk tuh it nine mawn- in's an' he'd come back. (That's to make him come back. They turn it upside down for nine mornings and talk to it?) Yes.
Entry 8306
Go an' git 'is pichure an' stand it on it's haid undah de haid of 'er bed an' talk tuh it. Call 'im back nine mawnin's an' he'll come back.
Entry 8307
Yo' could take a pichure. Now, if yo' wanta do good, if yo' wanted de person tuh love yo' or somepin an' - yo' put dat pichure tuh de haid of yore bed, an' call de person's name nine mawnin's. An' wit a pin dat's nevah been used, a new pin, yo' put nine holes intuh dis pichure fo' nine mawnin's. An' while yo' punch dose holes, yo' talk tuh de pichure jis' lak yo' talkin' tuh de person. An' aftah de nine mawnin's, jis' whatevah de statements were dat chew made, dat person will do jis' lak yo' ast dem tuh do, but chew must keep dat pichure dere.
(You punch one hole each morning or nine holes?)
Nine holes for nine mawnin's.
(That's nine times nine?)
Eighty-one.
(And you keep it at the head of the bed?)
Yo' keep it dere tuh de haid of yore bed.
(Now you do harm you say with the photograph. Tell me about that.)
Well, if yo' wanta do harm wit de pichure, yo' could take dat pichure an' yo' take dat tuh de graveyard, an' yo' go an' yo' call de spirits of de dead. When yo' think dat de spirit is dere, yo' take out nine han'fuls of dirt out of dat grave. Den yo' place dis pichure down dere an' yo' explain tuh de spirit jis' whut yo' want 'em tuh do tuh dat pahticlah [particular] person, see. An' what- evah yo' say, den yo' pay dat spirit.
(Well, now. What do you usually pay the spirit?)
Well, it goes - Well, NOW DE FIRST DEGREE IS THREE PENNIES. DE SECOND IS NINE AN' DE THIRD IS THIRTEEN. [I do not recall that these sums of money paid the spirit are called degree elsewhere in Hoodoo.]
(Then you cover that picture up in there?)
Let it stay dere. An' yo' have tuh explain tuh dis spirit whut tuh do tuh dat pahticlah person, an' pay dem tuh do dat. Dey'll do it jis' lak yo' ast dem tuh do.
Entry 8308
Well, dere sev'ral things dat chew kin do wit dat. Now yo' kin take a person's - now lak if a person is off an' yo' wanta draw dem tuh yo' wit dere photograph. Yo' kin take dat pichure an' yo' kin turn it - it will show yo' see. Yo' kin take dat pichure lak dis tuh de east part of de world - yo' kin take dat pichure an' turn de face of it lak dat [demonstrates] in de dark. (The face to the east?) To de east. See [demon- strates] lak dis is de face here. Yo' do dat, see, lak, an' let it be in de east part, an' let de face be towards dat way. An' nine mawnin's yo' go tuh dat pi- chure an' lak, if yo' face de haid up dere, yo' go tuh it lak dis [demonstrates and talks].
(Have that part upside down, turn it upside down and talk to it.)
Talk tuh it.
[Informant demonstrates while I describe demonstration.]
(Now this picture is upward on the mantel [of the interviewing room], but the face is against the wall facing to the east and the head is up. When you go there these nine mornings, you pick up the picture and just turn it back so that YOU ARE TALKING TO THE FELLOW WHOSE HEAD IS UPSIDE DOWN. ALL RIGHT, NOW, WHAT DO YOU SAY?) Well, now, yo' call 'im by his name.
(You call this picture by his name.)
Jis' lak, fo' instance, say his name is John. Yo' jis' take his pichure up an' say, "John, ah mean fo' yo' tuh come home, '' say, "yo' heard me talkin' tuh yo'. Come home, In de Name of de Lord." See, an' if yo' use a holy name, why yo' kin call, CALL DAT HOLY SPIRIT'S NAME, yo' See, SUCH AS JACK OR WHATEVAH SPIRIT NAME YO' USE. Call it dat way. When, if yo' not dealin' wit de spirits, why den yo' call 'im [the man]. Jis' call 'im, say, "John, ' say, "ah mean fo' yo' tuh come home." Say, "Yo' know ah want chew tuh come home. Ah mean fo' yo' tuh come. Yo' heerd me callin' yo'. Come home!" See, an' talk tuh 'im dat Way. Turn it [photo] an' leave back up dere; but do dat as early as yo' kin in de mawnin' 'fore twelve aclock, see. An' if yo' don't ketch it in de mawnin' 'fore twelve aclock, den yo' ketch it at nine aclock at night or eithah right aftah twelve at night.
(And you say you do this for nine days?)
Yes sir, fo' nine days.
(And that will bring him back?)
Dat'll bring 'im back. An' den again yo' kin use salt, jis' common cookin' salt tuh bring a person back whatevah direction. If yo' know whatevah direction de party is in - say, north, east or south - whatevah direction, yo' kin jis' take a li'le pinch of salt an' go tuh de do' in de yard where yo' kin throw it. All right, throw it in dat direction an' call 'em by dere name. An' call 'em in dat way an' dey'll git so restless an' uneasy, an' dere mind will jis' git on dat place where yo' want 'em tuh come, cuz dey'll have tuh come.
Entry 8309
It has been said dat if yo' take de photo- graph of a person an'.shuts it up in a enclosed tight place, an' de nex' day dey takes it an' tear it up tuh pieces an' throw it away, say dat will also cuz de person tuh be hurt some way lak dat. [For tearing up photo, see preceding margin title GUN WADDING, p.3460.]
(Why do they put this photograph in some tight place?)
In some tight place - wedge it up in some close place somewhere where dere no draft. An' take it de nex' day an' tear it up. Tear it up in pieces an' throw it away.
Entry 8310
If yo' have a photograph of 'em, yo' could take dat photograph an' burn it bottomside upwards, which an' why, turn de haid part down, an' put chure right hand tuh yare heart, In de Name of de Fathah, de Son an' de Holy Ghost, dat chew wan' 'em tuh return back tuh yuh. An' dey will come back.
Entry 8311
Take de photograph an' bury it in de ground, in three days yo' will be daid. (How do you bury it in the ground?) Bury it wit yuh face turned tuh de groun', in three days yo' will be daid.
Entry 8312
Dey kin take yore photograph, lak it be a li'le small pichure, an' take some - if dey Wanta hurt cha, dey kin hurt cha wit yore photograph. An' den dey kin bring yuh home tuh dem wit de photograph. But de way dey hurt chew wit de photograph, dey take de photograph an' dig a hole an' put it down in de hole. Bury it an' about five inches down in de ground, an' put salt an' peppah on it, cayenne peppah, dis here pulvahized cayenne peppah an' saltpetah [3 ingredients]. An' bury dat down in dere an' dat will make yuh git down sick, jes' on a drag. An' de mo' dat photograph rot, de mo' closah tuh de grave yo' will be goin'; an' aftah de photograph rots, yo' will be daid.
Entry 8313
If ah had 'is pichure, ah could take it an' bury it wit a horsehair or somepin lak dat undah 'is do'step an' put a li'le vinegar in it an' salt [3 ingredients] an' ah's fix 'im - li'le vinegah an' salt an' den bury it undah his do'step. An' when he come out de house in de mawnin', he's be paralyzed in 'is laigs.
(They bury this photograph with a horsehair, you say?)
Wit a horsehair an' some vinegah an' salt. An' put it undah 'is do'step. An' when he come out he'll be paralyzed in 'is laigs de nex' mawnin'.
Entry 8314
Yo' kin take a person's pichure an' cut dey throat of de pichure - cut de throat. (Cut the throat?) Yassuh, an' dey say de person will git murdered 'fore dey die.
Entry 8315
It depend upon if yo' know de hour or purtty much de time of dat dat de photograph was taken. Dey kin take it an' do whatevah dey wanta. If dey don' know de hour, purtty much de hour, when yo' had yore photo- graph taken, it's hard tuh do. But if dey kin come an' say, in [within] two hour's time, dey'll take dat photograph an' turn on its face, bury it on its face, an' it will - from time tuh time yo' will jis' begin tuh Wonder [wander], jis' begin - yo've seen people wonderin' [wandering], jis' goin' an' it don't look like, dey treats evahbody nice but 'is mind, people say, "Well, ah knows when yo' was a fine fellah. Ah knows when yo' was jis all right." Do enything fer yuh in de world. Look lak he's lost 'is mind or somepin. Well, dat's de trouble.
Entry 8316
Take a man's pichure an' go tuh dis open toilet. Take dat pichure an' push it down in dere, dat'll make him leave dat place. He won't stay roun' dere no mo'. (Do you push it down any special way?) No, jis' push it down in dere, in de open toi- let.
(Out in the back yard.)
Entry 8317
She kin take his pichure an' tear it in fo' parts, an' put it in de commode an' flush it fo' times, an' call his name fo' times, an' he'll come home. (You mean, put it in the toilet and flush it?) Pull it fo' times, jis' as many parts as she have it cut in, see an' den call 'is name fo' times, an' he'll come back tuh her. (If he's out of town, he's left her. You mean, she puts it in the toilet and you [she] flush [flushes] the water.)
Entry 8318
[We have already met in this section on photographs a considerable number of rites concerned with shooting them on a tree - see Nos.8272-8295. Here are non-shooting ones in a workable order, a logical one being impossible.] Ah heard talk of 'em drivin' a nail in a tree, but now yo'd have tuh have yore pichure. Now, yo' see, dey tell me dat yo' takes a pi- chure an' if it's a tintype pichure - a pichure made on a tin - say yo' take dis heah pichure an' yo' takes a nail. An' yo' goes tuh dis heah - puts it on a apple' tree. An' yo' jes' sticks it in dis mawnin' an' hits it. An' yo' goes tuh it fo' nine mawnin' an' yo' drive dat nail, an' say on de ninth mawnin' dat chew drive dat nail [all the way into tree]. Dey say den it would kill yo'. An' den, say if yo' make it on a - jes' a papah or pastebo'd, den fo' de ninth mawnin' yo' go dere an' hit it, say it would make yo' sick.
(Do they put that nail any special place in the picture?)
Put it right in de heart, right through de heart of de individual whosomevah dey is on de pichure, jes' as neah in de heart as dey kin git it. Jes' imagine de heart an' put dis nail in de heart.
Entry 8319
Take a person's photograph an' yo' go on de no'th side of a tree. An' yo' take dat tree an' hew dat bark offa dere, an' put dat photograph in dere an' nail it up. An' yo' Walk back from dat tree nine times [steps] an' cuss, an' say whutevah yo' cuss, an' whosevah name yo' call, dat person die.
(You just fasten that on the north side of the tree?)
Yes, cut de bark out an' put de photograph intuh it. (And walk backwards nine steps and cuss and call their name.)
Entry 8320
Take de pichure an' cut a piece out of de tree an' put it in dat place whut chew cut - jis' a piece out de tree an' den nail it back up dere. An' dey say dat will kill 'em.
(Cut a hole in the tree and put this picture in and nail it back up?)
Yessuh.
Entry 8321
She [his grandmother] say, "Put chure pichures up, son, don't let chure pichure hang around, if ah got holt of 'em" - she tell me about dis, say, "people kin take dat pichure an' run yo' crazy." Ah say, "Yeah?'" Ah wants tuh know it, yo' know. She say, "Dey kin take dis pichure an' run yo' crazy, boy. Yore pichure should be put up." [Informant now tells what he heard from his grandmother.] Dey take dis pichure heah an' dey go tuh de toilet, an' git some of dat stuff out of de toilet an' put on dis pichure. An' dey'll go way out in de woods some- where an' cut a little piece of bark off a tree, dat is hangin' down lak dis [demonstrates] yo' know, an' put dat pichure up dere. An' tack it up dere an' put dat bark back up dere. An' since dat tree is constantly growin', yo' know, an' dat pichure being wit dat stuff dere, why see, dat will constantly make dat thing go back ovah dere. Say it will run yo' crazy, dat pichure being in dat tree dere.
Entry 8322
Well, de ole han's, de ole folks yo' know, dat ah've heard talk about dese things, dey usely [usually] take de photograph, but it have tuh be a tin- type. It cain't be no paste- bo'd. It have tuh be a tin- type, an' dey take it an' take sixpenny nails an' go tuh a cedah tree an' drive it. Don't hit but nine licks an' drive it on de sunrise side. An' dat person usely dies. But ah've nevah known it atchly [actually] tuh happen, 'cuz ah nevah seen it done.
(They drive one nail into this?)
Yeah, a sixpenny nail an' strike it nine licks.
(All at once, at the same time?)
Strike it nine licks an' drive it in de centah; right in de centah of de pi- chure, or in de centah of de fo'head, or eithah in de centah right in de stomic part of it yo' see.
Entry 8323
Dey said dat sometimes if people git hold of yer pitchure, an' dey said dat dey could take yer pitchure, seal it up intuh a tree an' stop it up tight, let dat pitchure stay dere fer nine days, den aftah nine days go back dere an' cross dat pitchure, dat means cross dat stop [wooden peg], put a cross mark on it [peg]. Den dey say aftah dat he comes tuh be crazy.
Entry 8324
(You bore a hole into what?) Jis' about a inch hole in a dogwood tree, jis' about a inch augah or bit chew know. An' bo' it jis' big enough tuh stuff de pichure in it tight an' den stop it up. Dat'll perish 'em away.
Entry 8325
Ah don't know whethah it's true, but ah heer'd dis, see. Yo' kin take a photo- graph an' yo' kin take it an' put it undah de steps an' yo' kin walk ovah it, or eithah yo' kin take it an' carry it tuh a tree facin' east. Bo' a hole an' put in dere an' in a length of time yo' will die.
(Why do you put that photograph under the step?)
De person have tuh walk ovah it - see, dat photograph belongs tuh - walk ovah it. An' den aftah dey walk ovah it, dey know dey come outa de house sometime, see, den dey take it tuh dat tree an' bo' de hole in it. (You put it under the step, then you put it in the tree. Do you stop it up in the tree in any way?) Aftah yo' take de bolt outa dere, den put dat bolt back in - bolt or plug - dat peg back in dere.
Entry 8326
Yo' kin take dat, de pichure an' pluck out ev'ry eyes. Carry it in de woods to a tree to de sundown side an' nail it on dat tree an' fo' nine mawnin's ev'ry mawnin' go dere an' give a tap on dat nail fo' nine mawnin's. In nine mawnin's dey'll drift on away.
(You first pluck out the eyes?)
Yes.
Entry 8327
Nail it tuh de.tree - nail de face up tuh a tree. In othah words, nail it up backwards, an' dat supposed tuh run 'em crazy.
Entry 8328
Yo' kin take his pichure an' make him come back.
(How would they do that?)
Well, yo' kin go tuh a tree an' cut it on a certain side an' nail 'is pichure up in dere wit de face tuhwards it, an' dat'll make him come back.
(The face toward what?)
De tree. Cut de tree an' put 'is pichure right up dere, an' nail it up in dere - up in dat tree. (Well, you said, the face towards what?) De inside of de tree - inside. (And what side of the tree did you make that hole in?) Well, it depend on which way yo' think he's gone; de south side, de north side, eithah one [whatevah direction].
(I see, to make this man come back, when he's run away from that...)
An' dey said yo' could bury de person on dey face an' dat'll make him come back.
(I see.)
Entry 8329
Ah heard dat chew could take dat photograph an' climb up a tree an' turn it bottomside upwards an' nail it tuh a forked limb an' dat would make yo' go crazy.
Entry 8330
Well, in a gum tree. Well ah think befo' de sun rise - yes, yo' stick it [photo- graph] in de tree an' shut it up, wit dat person's name in it, but where dey cain't git it among othah trees.
(What will that do?)
Well, dat will set 'em crazy an' dey cain't git tuhgethah, yo' know.
Entry 8331
Den yo' kin take - if he's 'way from yo' an' yo' worried, mad becuz he's gone - yo' kin take his pichure or her's an' go tuh a tree, an' put it on de side dat de sun rises on. Well, yo' gits up early in de mawnin' 'bout six 'clock or six-thirty an' don' say a word tuh anyone. Well, yo' goes out dere den an' yo' hit dis heah pichure, drive a nail through dat in de heart, an' yo' hit it right on dere. Well, now yo' hit it fo' nine mawnin's an' in nine mawnin's yo'll die.
Entry 8332
Yo' kin take a per- son's photograph, a tin, on a tintype, an' yo' kin take it an' turn it downwards an' put it on de north side of a tree. An' nail it up an' shot it right by where yore heart is an' yo' will die.
(Where do you put that on the tree, up high or low or what?)
Yo'll put it up about six foot from de ground.
[The person of the photo will soon be 6 feet underground.]
[This rite should have gone under preceding margin title SHoOTING.]
Entry 8333
Dey kin take an' bo' a hole in de side of a tree an' dey kin kill yo' wit dat. Bo' a hole wit a brace an' bit chew know, 'bout dat size [demonstrates] an' take a piece of wood an' plug it up in dere. (What do you put in that hole?) Put de pichure in dere, den take a piece of wood an' drive it in an' plug it up.
Entry 8334
Well, yo' see if yo' git anybody tuh snap a person's photograph - now, ah don' keep mah pichures. If ah take a pichure, an' ah lets people look at it - ah'll keep it an' ah'll take it an' ah'll do 'way wit it, becuz yo' could take a man's pichure, jes' have somebody snap it, den go tuh a tree an' bo' a hole in it - a fast-growin' tree - roll it [snapshot] up, an' take an augah, a very small one. Yo' jes' take a li'le bit a [augerl, li'le five-eights [of an inch] an' bo' a li'le hole in a fast growin' tree. An' put it in dere an' jes' grab a li'le dirt tuh smear ovah de end of it. [Hole is filled with dirt, not wooden peg.] Dat's de last of 'em. If yo' don't git it outa dat, he'll die. Dat shows yo' cut it off, cover it
[hole] ovah.
Entry 8335
Well, yo' kin take her pichure an' carry it tuh a tree an' nail it three times, nail a hole in it three times. An' take it an' put it in runnin' watah, an' dat will make a person leave yo'. (You take this picture to a tree an' you take one nail?) Yeah, yo' nail it three times. (Against the tree?) Against de tree, an' den yo' take de pichure down an' put it in runnin' watah an' dat person will keep goin'.
(You only use one nail though? Just make three holes in it against the tree?)
Yes, against de tree, an' den yo' jes' take de pichure out an' put it in run- nin' watah. (This is the woman that went out when the root doctor came in.)
Entry 8336
Dey take yore photograph tuh a tree an' on de east side hew out a place in dat tree an' cut dat pichure small enough tuh go intuh dat place. (Sort of a crack?) No, no, must be in dere flat-lak. Yo' take a horseshoe nail an' stick as neah as yo' - yo' kin guess about where de heart is an' hit it. Yo' gotta go dere nine mawnin's an' hit dat nail wit a hammah, an' turn an' walk way from it~ Yo' gotta do dat jes' as de sun peepin'. Turn an' walk away from it an' don't look back at it. As yo' hits it call dere name. An' de ninth mawnin' when dey hit dat, dey must drive it all de way up wit dat one lick. An' in nine hours yo'll be daid if yo' don't drop daid immediately.
Entry 8337
Takes de photograph an' carry it out tuh a tree an' stick a ice pick in it, right intuh de fo'haid. An' dat person will git killed.
Entry 8338
Kin do in de tree. Co'se now yo' kin take if yo' kin git a tintype photograph, yo' know, whut takes only dese li'le tencent tintypes, see. An' dat will do anything. An' if yo' wanta ruin a person wit it, yo' kin go right tuh a young pine, a young tree, an' yo' kin jes' take yore knife an' yo' cut chew a deep hole in dat tree, see. An' yo' drive yo' a li'le tack. Yo' tack dat tintype pichure upside down on dat tree, yo' see. Den, if yo' wanta, yo' kin tack sompin ovah it, yo' see. An' dat tree be drawin' [growing] up. An' yo' kin mess a man up, yo' see. Yo' kin lock 'is bowels or yo' kin jes' keep 'im....
Entry 8339
Yo' take a tintype an' go tuh a tree, make yuh wishes whatsomevah [where] yo' want dis person tuh go, what time yo' wan' 'em tuh go. Git chew a brand-new tenpenny nail an' scrape it on de left side of a tree, clean it off, clean de bark off. An' nail dat pichure dere as neah de heart as yo' kin an' judge it as neah as yo' kin tuh drive dat nail. Den yo' only hit it once a mawnin', fer 9 mawnin's. Yo' hit it an' make yuh wish. Dat evil wish dis person an' evah mawnin' yo' go dere an' hit dat nail. De ninth mawnin' try tuh judge it so dat yo' kin drive it tuh de haid de ninth mawnin'. An' dat person will be lak a bug on de watah, jes' dead from de world [like a dead bug floating on the water].
Entry 8340
(What do they do with a person's photograph?) Well, yo' kin take one an' nail it de height of a person on de tree. Git de height an' put dis pichure on de tree an' nail de nail through de haid, an' kill de person - through de haid of de photograph. Or yo' kin shoot it an' person will die.
Entry 8341
Say yo' could take dat pichure - a woman or a man, eithah one, could take de individual's pichure an' stick it in a tree. An' put a nail right in de middle of it, an' hit dat nail fo' nine mawnin's, an' say in de ninth mawnin' yo'll drop daid.
Entry 8342
Lak if yo' don' lak nobody yo' kin take it [photograph] an' [put] it upon a tree, an' nail it an' put dat nail right in its mouth, an' nail it nine mawnin's an' dey'll die.
Entry 8343
Dey tell me yo' takes it [photograph] an' yo' stick it up on a tree, right up on a tree, an' git a nail, a tenpenny nail, an' stick it right heah in de photo an' drive it right in dere fer as yo' kin git dat haid tuh go down in dere, 'an' dat'll kill dem, he'll die.
Entry 8344
All right if yo' wants tuh kill a person, yo' gits yo' a pichure an' drive a sixtypenny nail through de haid an' through de body. Carry it to an ole cedah tree an' drive it in dat cedah tree. Ah'll guarantee yo' in twenty-fo' hours dey'll be daid. (How many nails do you drive in there, just one nail?) Two nails, one through de heart of de pichure an' one through de haid. An' ah'll guarantee yo' dey'll be daid in twenty-fo' hours.
Entry 8345
Dey say if dey git holt [hold] of de pitchure, jes' lak now ah be mad wit joo, take it an' care [carry] it tuh a tree. An' go right tuhwards de way de sun rise, an' nail it intuh de tree. An' den yo' name de day, an' say when dem days is out de person will be out.
Entry 8346
Dey kin take yore photograph an' tack it up on a tree or anywhere in de house an' jes' about - yo' kin tell jes' about where yore heart lay, an' yo' kin drive a nail dere. An' yo' start de nail wit one lick an' evah mawnin' yo' call dat person's name an' hit dat nail one lick - evah mawnin' fo' nine mawnin's. But evah time yo' hit de nail one lick, call de person's name an' sompin will happen tuh him. He'll eithah fall an' git killed, git run ovah, or gits done 'way wit.
(That kills him?)
Yes sir. [Brunswick, Ga., (just before No.1240). 2104:9.]
Entry 8347
I heard they say they kin take it [photo] an' nail it up side a tree, I think. An' they say fer nine mornin's, I think, they go there an' nail a nail, I think, in the heart of it. An' name it, call this person name. An' they say they'd die.
Entry 8348
Or yo' kin take a person pichure an' put it intuh a tree. Bo' a augah hole intuh a tree an' put it in dere, an' put a tenpenny nail in dere at de middle of it, about where de navel be in de pichure, an' drive one lick on dat nail evah day fo' nine days. An' de last day yo'll drive dat nail in de tree, dat person ceases out - it will kill dat person.
Entry 8349
Dat photograph - yo' take dat photograph an' yo' judge by de person's heart, jis' if yo' kin kill 'em. See, yo' take a pin or needle dat's nevah been used an' yo' stick it right zactly where yo' think dat dere [heart] stands at. Find a young saplin' an' yo' skin dat bark an' shove dat pichure behin' dat bark, an' stick dat pin right through it. Graj'ly [gradually] dey will pine away.
(You stick that pin through in order to hold that bark back on the sapling?)
Dat's right, right zactly where de heart is at. An' when dat sap go down an' come up, dey'll die.
Entry 8350
Whut chew kin do wit dat. Yo' take dis heah pichure whut yo' made yo know, if a fellah wants tuh do sompin real bad tuh yo', he kin take dat pichure an' go 'bout, chew might say, "cross de woods up 'ginst a long tall pine tree. An' he kin take, whut chew might say, dese eight- penny nails, an' he kin take dat pichure an' stick it 'ginst de tree an' nail dat dere. An' go dere fo' nine mawnin's, yo' might say, hit dat nail on de haid. An' it will run yo' stone crazy.
Entry 8351
Take a nail an' go tuh a pine tree an' drive dat nail in it nine times. Drive it nine times in dat pichure an' in nine days, dat person will have to come home. Ah don't care where dey is.
Entry 8352
Take yer pitchure an' carry it an' nail it up to a tree or some place, a small pitchure. Yo' put a nail about where yer heart is an' go hit dat pit- chure fo' nine mawnin's. An' yo'll soon be gone.
Entry 8353
Yo' kin take dat photograph an' put it up an' stob a tenpenny nail intuh it. Put de tenpenny nail right about de heart an' yo' go dere nine days, nine mawnin's an' drive dat; or nine evenin's jes' befo' de sun go down. An' hit it jes' one lick, an' yo' keep dat up until yo' drive it down tuh de haid.
(What will that do to you?)
It will kill yo'.
Entry 8354
Well, dey say dey take yore photograph an' take nine nails an' carry it tuh a pine tree an' yo' stab nine nails down in dat photograph. Dat would kill a person, dat will kill yo'. Dat will kill yo' if dey do dat. In nine days yo'd be daid.
Entry 8355
Well, a person kin take yore photograph an' take it an' put it up, nail it up on de tree fo' nine mawnin's. De ninth mawnin' drive dat last [nail] in, don't put 'em in all de way at once; de last mawnin' drive dat dere nail clean in. An' whosomevah dat is, he'll die.
(You only use one nail?)
Dat's right, a nail a day.
(You use nine nails?)
Yes.
Entry 8356
Ah learnt dat chew kin take dose nine nails an' dey would be rusty nails, undahstand. Ah learnt dat chew kin take an' drive 'em intuh a person's pichure, undahstand, an' dat would injure dem. In othah words dey would die, wit dose rusty nails, nine of 'em. (Where would you drive them? Into that... Where would you tack them? Against the wall or what?) No, intuh a tree.
[I stop machine too soon and must restart to add word heart.]
(All nine nails into the heart you say?)
Well, as neah as yo' kin git 'em intuh it.
Entry 8357
If she wants tuh kill yuh, she kin take it in de woods an' tack it up agin a tree an' hit it nine times, an' de tenth time she hit, it kills yuh.
(I see, your photograph.)
Entry 8358
Dey tell me yo' kin take it, de photograph, take it an' carry it tuh de no'th side of a tree, an' nail it in de no'th side of a tree. As long as dey keep it in dere, long as dey keep it in, it almos' run yo' crazy.
Entry 8359
Upside down on de no'th side of a.tree. Jis' lak if it's a woman's photograph an' yo' dislak dese people, an' as it fades yo'll fade away wit it. On de no'th side of de tree bury it bottom upwards. An' as dat pichure fades yo'll fade away wit it.
(You mean standing on their head bottom upwards?)
Bottom upwards on its haid.
Entry 8360
Yeah, yo' takes a pichure. Well, yo' take de person pichure even if yo' in love wit 'em an' even if yo' see where dey don' mean tuh stay wit choo, an' yo' Wanta git rid of 'em fo' good. Yo' takes de pichure an' yo' goes tuh whut dey call a'simmon tree, an' de firs' two [limbs forming a] no'th fo'ks yo' see, den yo' takes de pichure an' tacks it up in de no'th fo'k. De no'th fo'k. Yo' find two fo'ks [limbs] run out jes' lak dat [demonstrates]. Put de pichure right in de daid centah.
(In the center of that fork?)
Yeah, right in de centah of dat fo'k. De fo'k may be a long ways up yondah, but still yo' kin see dat pichure.
(Well, how would you put it in that fork?)
Yo' don't put it intuh dat. Yo' nails, it, drive a nail through de centah. Den yo' walk back tuh it three days. Yo' pass dat same tree three days. An' when yo' pass dere yuh mind will git on dat tree forcible. Den aftah de third day, yo' take de pichure down an' conceal it from yo' fo' good.
(Hide it any place?)
Yes, anywhere, anywhere dat chew won' come in contact wit it any mo'.
(What will that do then?)
Well, dat'll put off whatevah yo' goin' through ovah wit. Dat will send 'em away fo' good.
(They won't come back again?)
Dey won't come back.
Entry 8361
Yo' wan'a take a oak tree an' take a tintype photo - only got'a be a photo on tintype. Any yer cardbo'd wouldn't work. An' dig a hole undah dis tree an' put dis photo in dere. An' as long as de photo is in dere, it continue [to] sink. Nachure [naturally] yo'll begin tuh be sickly an' will sink along wit de photo.
Entry 8362
Ah heah dey say dey take a person's photograph an' carry it tuh de woods tuh a tree, an' stick a knife in de side an' stick nine pins in dere, an' dat'll kill yo'...
[Recording stopped too soon for following north side.]
(It must be on the north side of the tree?)
Yes.
Entry 8363
Take yore photograph picture, tintype. Yo' go out in de woods tuh a pine tree an' take yo' nails, see an' put dat pichure up in de tree wit de hammah an' nails. An' yo' nail dat pitchure tuh a tree, yo' see. An' evah time, evah place where dat nail go therough [through] dat pitchure, dat person will have a pain in dat spot, yo' see. Yo' kin kill 'em wit dat.
Entry 8364
Dey tell me dat yo' kin take a person's photograph an' carry it jes' 300 yards away from dere house, git right at de root of a tree, an' dig a fresh hole an' turn it face down, an' covah it up. Dey will follah shortly tuh de grave. Tuh save yo'self would be dat if yo' know 'em or had de idea of de people who dey had went tuh, tuh beat it dere [rush] as quick as yo' could an' have it turned roun' [turn spell back on spell caster]. Doesn't remembah whut dey say yo' could do wit it aftah yo' take it up.
Entry 8365
Dey say dat if dey take yore pichure an' put it up on a tree where no one kin see yo', dat it will run yo' crazy.
(How do you put it up in the tree?)
Nail it up wit a tack. (What else did you say they do with the picture?) Or eithah take it an' put it in run- nin' watah. Or eithah take some of yore watah an' po' it in some runnin' watah, an' run yo' crazy.
(They put your photograph in running Water and that will run you crazy.)
Entry 8366
Yo' kin take a photograph an' yo' kin put it in a pine tree wit a twen- ty-penny nail an' - an' a hammer. See, yo' go dere an' yo' hit dat twenty-penny nail fo' nine mawnin's, an' each time yo' hit dat twenty- penny nail, yo' kin look back ovah yore left shoulder, so dey says, an' de ninth mawnin' yo' hit dat twenty-penny nail, drive it all de way in. Dat person will die.
(Why do you look back over that shoulder, do you know?)
No suh, ah don'. [You will probably see the devil or the spirit of the person being killed. Or this lays the ghost of the dying person.]
Entry 8367
Dey tell me yo' could take it in de woods an' put it on de sunrise side of a tree an' tack it dere, an' dey'll die.
(This photograph?)
Yes.
Entry 8369
Dey say dat dey could take yore pichure an' put it in a tree on de sunrise side, an' nail it fo' nine mawnin's, an' dey say yo'll drizzle away.
(That will kill you?)
Yes.
Entry 8370
Dey take dat [photo] out in de woods an' put it on de east side of de tree. Den take a nail an' stick it right dere [through the heart (see later)] an' go dere nine mawnin's jis befo' sunrise an' hit it. De firs' time yo' put it up dere jis' hit lak dat [demonstrates i hit]. Let it be right through yuh heart. An' yo' go dere nine mawnin's [hitting it once each morning]. An dey tell me on de tenth mawnin' dat yo'll be a corpse.
Entry 8371
Den anothah thing ah wanta tell yo' 'bout de pichure. Ah got sompin else tuh tell yo' 'bout a pichure - dat pichure ag'in. Yo' take a man's pichure or a woman's pichure or whutsomevah pichure or whosomevah pichure i'tis [it is]. If yo're [you arel mad wit dat person, an' yo' intend doin' sompin tuh 'em on de sly, an' don' let dem know it. Yo' jis' go an' take dat pichure an' as de sun is risin' in de mawnin', an' yo' put it on de side de sundown on. An' yo' take a tenpenny nail, a new nail, an' stick it right about de heart, an' yo' hit dat nail nine times at dat time. An' go back dere evah mawnin' fo' nine mawnin's an' hit it nine time each mawnin'. An' de las' lick yo' give it de ninth mawnin', dat person will fall dead.
(Where do you nail this picture?)
Nail it on a tree on de sundown side. Yo' goes when de sun rise. An' yo' see, evah mawnin' when yo' goes dere, yo' goes when de sun's jis' risin'. Hit it nine times.
Entry 8372
Den, if it was a tintype pichure, yo' kin take dat an' carry it out an' cuz a person tuh fade away. Dat kin cuz death, kill a person. Yo'll take dat an' tack on a tree. Put tacks all through de body an' dat cuz de person tuh have actual pains. Yo' see some people doctorin' an' nobody kin cure 'em? Well dat's why a lotta people ain't havin' pichure made tuhday.
Entry 8373
[They say it was that piece, an' then he had all them things in it going off. They say they take that [photo] an' carry it in de country jis' like you do the hair, an' turn it upside down [on a tree] an' drive a nail in it ev'ry mawnin' fo' nine mawnin's. An' make a oath, drive this nail into it till they git tuh the end of that. (How many times do they drive this nail in it then?) They hits it three licks ev'ry mawnin', an' de last mawnin' they hits it nine licks.
(And then they die.)
Entry 8374
Yo' take de pichure an' turn de pichure upside down an' yo' bury it undahneat' de tree, not in de bark lak ah wuz tellin' yo' 'bout de hair. Yo' put it undahneat' de tree bottom upwards. Turn de face down an' de back part up jis' lak dat [demonstrates], dis de face, turn it upside down. In nine days dey cain't make it. Dey dies.
(You put that down under any kind of a tree?)
No, a fig tree.
Entry 8376
Git chure photo- graph an' nail it - carry it in de branch [stream of water] or in de swamp an' git small nails an' nail it tuh a tree an' it'll kill de person.
[This tree must have its roots in water.]
Entry 8377
Take de photograph an' git it an' take a pencil an' puts dat on de photograph. An' take it tuh a big oak tree down 'side of a stream. An' take it an' cut a place in it - take a axe an' split a place in dere, So yo' kin jes' stick de photo in dere lak dat. An' take some ole dirt or somepin othah an' jes' put it in dere, in de place, so de pichure cain't be taken out - so de photograph cain't be taken out. An' dey tell me dat will run 'em crazy. Ah've nevah experienced dat.
Entry 8378
Jes' lak a woman or anythin' got yore pichure. DAT'S WHY DERE SO MANY PEOPLE TUHDAY DEY'S ALWAYS 'STURB [DISTURBED], DEY AIN'T GOT NO STEADY MIND. DEY LEAVE DERE PICHURES TOO MANY PLAC[ES]. A woman kin take yore pichure an' yo' be a hunderd miles away, an' she'll take it an' go in a swamp where dere's runnin' watah, dere's a branch across it, where dere's a tree right in de middle of de place, an' a tree outside, an' de watah don' be but twelve feet each way - three trees. An' she kin take dat tenpenny nail, or any 'mount nail, jes' so dat she hit de heart of dat tree [picture] an' nail yore pichure [face] tuh- ward it. Wherevah she nail yore pichure at, see yo'll hit a bump evahtime she's drivin' a nail intuh dat pichure.
(What does she do that for?)
If she's mad wit yuh, wanta kill yuh, she could do dat. (Now what about these trees down at the branch? They have to be near each other?) See, de way it is dey cain't be ovah twelve foot apart - twelve foot. It don't make no diff'rence if it ain't no big branch, but de watah gotta be six- teen inch, an' if de fellah is a hunderd mile off, dat'll count sixty percent of one hunderd.
(What do you do? You only put that picture on one tree?)
Jes' one tree.
(And where is that one tree?)
Well, de one set nex' tuh de watah, closah tuh de watah, put it dere, but turn it facin' de watah, see. An' whenevah yo' drive a nail, yo'll heah sompin pop.
(This tree has to be near the water?)
Yes, neah de watah, an' have de pichure facin' de watah.
(And this tree has to be twelve feet from the water?)
No, dey has to be three trees, but dey has tuh be twelve foot apart.
(And you only put it on one of those trees, though?)
One dose trees an' de one closah tuh de watah. (You must find three trees near a branch, and the trees must be twelve feet apart, but the tree that's nearest to the branch, you put the picture on?) Dat's right, an' turn it neah tuh de watah.
Entry 8379
Dey say dey take it [photo] an' put it [against] a tree towards [facing] de sun- down, an' stick a nail through de heart of it. An' ven [when] de sun go down, yo' see, dat make dat pitchure fades away [so the person of the picture will fade away].
Entry 8380
Den yo' kin take dat photograph an' yo' take it tuh a green saplin', anywhere where yo' knows yo' won't come in contact wit anybody. Tack it right up in de tree an' yo' cali de person by name an' turn yuh face tuhwards de sundown, tuh- Wards de direction yo' want 'em tuh come down. An' put dat pichure [let it face] in dat direction. An' in de time it take tuh put de pi- chure dere, don't keer where yo' are, yo' kin be in New York, Canada, any place, so long as dat chure photograph an' yuh name is called. When dat happen it's all ovah. Ah know dat tuh be true. (Well, now why did you put that nail in half way in that first tree? Why did you put the nail in lightly?) Well, if yo' drives de nail in, yo' know, dat tend tuh complete a job. Dat will break de job, cuz yo've got tuh hit de nail if yo' want tuh complete de job. Yo've got tuh hit de nail so many licks, nine times, de las' lick is a hard one an' it's all ovah. (Then the job's completed. I see.)
Entry 8381
Take a ord'nary pichure an' go tuh a white pine, go on de right side of de white pine. (The right side as you are walking to it?) Dere yo' are, as yo' walkin' tuh it. Git chew a tenpenny nail an' drive it as neah tuh de heart as possible. An' den go dere fo' nine days, drivin' dis nail an' on de ninth day, drive it up. An' den dat would kill 'im.
Entry 8382
Well, ah heard people say if yo' put one's pichure on a tree an' - yo' know, yo' bo' a hole in de tree an' put it up in dere. An' if yo' drive a tenpenny nail, yo' go dere an' yo' knock dat nai Lfo'[ nine mawnin's, jes' one time each mawnin', an' make yore wish whut chew wanta happen, an' it will.
(Anything you want done?)
Yes.
Entry 8383
Take yore pichures. Now ef yo' got a tintype pichure - can't do a thing wit a pastebo'd pichure - but if yo' got a tintype pichure, take dat pi- chure an' go tuh a trunk an' place dat pichure down. Turn it upside down in dat trunk. Put de clothes on de bottom of dat trunk. An' if a man really love a woman dat she could do enything in de world wit 'im, she kin turn 'im enyway dat she Wanta. But she kin have any perfection of 'im - wouldn't hurt nuthin but would draw out love an' all 'is attention an' care fer dis woman.
Entry 8384
Dey kin take yore photograph, if de man an' wife broked up, sompin lak dat. Well, if de man got de photograph or de woman, she kin take de photograph an' carry it home, an' put it in de trunk an' turn de face down, an' dat boy will pine away or whosomevah it is till he daid.
(It will kill him?)
Dat's right, shu' will.
Entry 8385
Somebody takes dat photograph an' lay it down on de face in a trunk an' put some things on it, clothes lak dat, an' dey shore come back. (If they want me to come back, they take my photograph and put it in the trunk face down, and put some clothing on it. Whose clothing?) Some of dere clothes.
(Not my clothes but some of the woman's clothing. Then I will come back.)
Entry 8386
(What can they do to me with my photograph?)
If it's on a tintype, dey bury it. It'll kill yo'. But if it's on a paste- bo'd, dey jes'bury it, dat'll bring yo', dat'll keep yo' dah. But if it's on tintype, it will kill yo'. (How do they bury that tintype?) De tintype's buried in turpentine. (Just how do they bury that?) Jes' take it an' dig a hole fer a foot an' a half an' yo' turpentine it good. Put de turpentine at de bottom where yo' lay it, an' yo' put dat - jes' put it right down in dere lak dat an' pack de dirt on.
(You turn the face up?)
Turn de face down. Yes, de face is turned down. Well, dat divides dem.
Entry 8387
De one dat's left, dey take dey photograph an' turn de haid down lak dat an' de feet up, an' dat would make 'em come home an' dey couldn't leave again.
Entry 8388
Yo' kin take his pichure an' turn it upside down an' dat'll make dem love yuh. Wilmington, N. Car., (243), 166:1+85.]
Entry 8389
Take yuh photograph an' turn it upside down an' let it stay dere nine days, an' dem nine days yo'll soon be gone.
Entry 8390
Now, dis photograph, if yo' wanta kill a woman or kill a man, yo' take de pichure an' bury it in de ground. Turn de face tuh de ground an' yo' po' pee all ovah it, an' den yo' covah it up. An' dis pichure, aftah yo' do dis pichure lak dis, dis person will die. Or yo' kin live undah six months, den dey'll die.
Entry 8391
Kin take de photograph an' dose pictures, take de haid yo' know. Take de pichures or sompin lak dat an' take his haid. She take an' wipe [that photo] yo' know wit a little pee yo' undahstan', see. Well, dat pichure standin' ovah heah. Yo' know, a girl, she Will do most anythin', so dat boy cain't quit 'er an' go no place yo' undahstand.
(She just puts her pee on his photograph?)
Dat's it.
(And she keeps it some place?)
Dat's right.
Entry 8392
If yo's went away, take yore pichure an' put it in watah dat chew make yoreself, an' turn dat pichure down when yo' put it in dere. An' dis pichure will come tuh de top, an' whenevah dis pichure come tuh de top, dis person will come home. (You just put this picture in there face down in this chamber lye, and that will bring the person back.)
Entry 8393
Yo' kin take de photograph if yo' want tuh. Take dere photograph an' git chew some of yore chamber lye, an' yo' kin jes' keep dis face turned down tuhwards de - in de chamber lye, an' he'll be right dere. An' long as dat pi- chure stay dere, he'll be right dere. (You don't put the picture in the chamber lye?) No suh, jes' put it on top of it. See, jes' lak yo' got a li'le jar or sompin lak dat wit chure chamber lye, yo' undahstand. An' yo' put it [photo] right ovah dat [jar]. If he starts, yo' kin call 'im back by jes' goin' on back tuh dis chamber lye an' say, "Come on back heah tuh me. Where yo' goin'?" An' he'll make lak he leave sompin tuh de house or sompin of de kind, yo' undahstand [and come on back for it]. Well, he gotta come back dere.
Entry 8394
Yo' take yore photograph, yo' undahstand, a tintype an' jes' turn it down an' bury it, yo' undahstand, an' use yore - fo' nine mawnin's, 'cordin' tuh whut dey wants tuh do wit chew. (Use your what?) Yore, yo' know, yore urinate. Po' dat nine mawnin'. Yo' see, yo' bury dat photograph, dat tintype, an' fo' nine mawnin's yo' kin jes' put dat - yo' urinate on dat tintype fo' nine mawnin's.
(All right, then what does it do?)
Yo'll do anything ah wish yo' tuh do den, if det [that] were me.
Entry 8395
De onliest thing, yo' kin go tuh de fork of de road tuh do. Yo' kin take yuh husband's pichure an' go tuh de fork of de road an' bury it. Go dere fo' nine mawnin's an' make watah on it. An' if yo' want 'im tuh die, or if yo' want 'im tuh leave yuh, yo' kin run 'im out of de house dataway.
Entry 8396
Yo' kin take a photograph of me, yo', anybody, an' yo' kin draw dat photograph dere an' yo' will natchly [naturally] run a person wild. (What would you do with that photograph?) Well, ah tell yo' whut chew do wit it. De way ah undahstand, yo' kin take dat photograph an' yo' kin turn it down fo' nine days, see, an' put it through a solution.
(What kind of a solution?)
Well, a chamber lye solution, an' yo' kin run a person wild - not wild, whut ah mean, but yo' kin have 'em all upset.
(About what?)
Oh, well, about anything. (Now wait a minute, when you do my photograph, do you run me crazy or do you make me crazy about someone. I mean be definite about it.) Dat would make me crazy about de particular one dat worked it.
Entry 8397
Dey takes yore photograph, if dey wants tuh kill yuh or if dey wanta control yo'. Dey will take dat photograph an' dey will keep dat photograph in a place, where it's in dey shoe, an' dey weah it, if dey wants chew undah dere feet. But if dey Wants tuh kill yuh, dey will take dat photograph an' bury it on its face, an' leave it dere, an' take dere urinate an' wet on it, yo' undahstand. Wet on dat photograph fo' nine mawnin's an' dat's de end of dat. An' dey say as dat decay, when dat has fully decayed, why yo'll die.
Entry 8398
Nex' thin', yo' kin take a photograph an' use it. Lak some people use a jar lak dey make watah in, yo' know. Dey'll take dat photograph an' dip right down in dat watah nine times evah night fer three nights. Dat pusson come tuh yuh an' tell yo' evah- thin' dat on yuh mind.
Entry 8399
As fer as ah know 'bout usin' de photograph, now yo' kin take a per- son's photograph an' yo's in love wit a woman an' she quits yo', yo' take her photograph an' turn it bottomside upwards an' bury it an' dat'll kill 'em.
(How do you mean, turn it bottomside upwards?)
Bury it face down an' bury it in vinegah, an' dat'll make dem perish away.
Entry 8400
Put it in vinegah an' soak it an' stop it up tight, tight so no air can't git it, an' dat will - see, dat will pine 'em away, pine 'em away quick.
(I see, this photograph, put in the vinegar.)
Entry 8401
I've heard that you can take a person's photograph an' soak it in warm water and vinegar for sev- eral hours, so much so that the paint leaves the photograph. And take it out- doors and put it in some old outhouse, and turn the face to the wall, and leave it there for twenty-eight hours. Then bring it back and put it where it was at first, and bad luck will happen to this person.
Entry 8402
Well, dey kin run yuh crazy, or kill yuh, or make yuh git down sick, eithah.
(How do they do that?)
Dey take dat photograph an' git chew a saucah an' fill it about half full of vinegah, an' turn dat photograph down on de face in dat vinegah, an' take yo' a drinkin' glass an' set ovah it, an' let it set dere. An' when de vinegah eat all dat, yuh future [features] out of dat photograph, why yo' go crazy. Dey keep dat glass ovah it tuh keep de air from hittin' it. Yo' see, yo' can't let de air git in dere.
Entry 8403
Dey take a photograph an' place it in vinegah, turn de photograph down. See, yo' know what ah mean, turn de face down an' place it in vinegah. An' den let it stay in vinegah fo' - ah think it's nine mawnin's. An' den yo' take it, aftah yo' let it stay in dat vin- egah - see, it fades, yo' know. Den yo' take a hen aig an' push a li'le tiny hole in de hen egg an' let it drip right on dat pichure.
(What will that do?)
What dat will 'fect - it's almost similah tuh yore hair [in a previous rite by informant], but it jis' won't run yuh as bad. It will cuz yuh tuh have a Wondah- in' [wandering] mind, yo' know, become dissatisfied.
Entry 8404
Take a pichure an' yo' kin turn it up- side down, de photograph, an' yo' kin turn it upside down on de wall, so dey says, an' yo' run de person crazy wit de haid down.
Entry 8405
Well, ah've heard of 'em takin' yore photograph an' turnin' tuh de wall fo' three an' foah days, an' go tuh Six an' Seven Books of Moses an' read a cer- tain passage of dat.
(What passage?)
But now....
Entry 8406
If ah wanted tuh hurt anybody really bad - well, if yo' have anybody photograph an' dey don't want chew, yo' want dem, yo' take it an' turn it on de face in a basin of watah. An' if yo' want dem tuh die, yo' could repeat dis word, "Let I be true, In de Name of de Fathah, Son an' Holy Ghost." (Will that kill them?) No, not tuh kill 'em, but dey'll come back tuh yo'.
Entry 8407
Well a man tole me - lived right heah in town, supposed to be a expert root doctor - he tole me dey take yo' pichure an' put it in a glass of watah. Tip it up, wit chure face turned down. He claim dat it kill yuh in so Bany days, say it would surely kill yuh.
Entry 8408
Some one tole me dat - say if yo' got anybody's photograph, an' if yo' take dis photograph an' turn it upside down ovah a glass of watah, regardless of where dis man is, he's gotta come back. Dat's all ah know about dat.
(What did you say?)
Turn 'em upside down ovah a glass of watah an' regardless of where dis person lives, he gotta come.
Entry 8409
Ah've seen 'em take yore pichure. Yo' git a glass of watah an' turn it [photo] up. Yo' know, turn it bottom up lak dat [demonstrates]. It won't hurt cha, it twon' kill yo', but it jis' keeps yo' sick, sick, sick all de time.
Entry 8410
Well, dey said lak, yo' know, dey goin' wit a gurl an' dey happen tuh leave 'uh, dey say she could take a glass of watah an' turn dis pitchure, yo' know, down ovah it - de face down, yo' know, nex' tuh de watah. Wheresomevah yo' wus, yo' know, yo'd come back.
Entry 8411
(Tell me the whole story about the photograph.)
It have tuh be tintype - not pastebo'd - tintype. An' lak ah have yores right tuh mah baid, ah kin take it an' put a cup of watah. Now ah've tried dat, don't want yo' say nuthin, but ah've tried dat. An' put dat cup of watah undah mah baid an' take dis tintype pichure an' turn it down lak dat. Ah don' care where yo' at, yo' shore comin' soon. It ain't goin' be ovah twenty-four hours. Ah know dat, ah've tried dat.
Entry 8412
Well, fo' instan' yo' could take, if dis photograph is on a tintype, if yo's off some place, say, "Now, dere's a gurl, ah want 'er back tuh me, she's gone." Or a man gone or a woman wanta bring 'im back. Yo' take an' put dat photo- graph on a glass of watah undah de haid of de baid an' set it, if it's on a tintype, an' set down undah dere, an' purtty soon he'll 'vance [advance] back.
Entry 8413
Jis' lak ah'd have a man's photograph an' wanted dat man an' he had quit me, say. Why ah kin take dat photograph an' carry it - take it an' put it in a glass of watah. Put it undah de haid of yore bed turnin' de haid down, intuh dat glass, an' dey say dat makes de man come back tuh yo'.
Entry 8414
Dey take yuh photograph an' turn it bottomsides upward over a glass of watah, an' tie it tuh de haid of yer baid. Turn yer haid downwards in de watah an' dat'll make a man love yuh.
Entry 8415
Take a glass of watah an' put it behin' de bed, an' turn de face down on de glass of watah - ovah de glass of watah. (This photograph?) Yes, dat will keep dem home, but ah don' know about runnin' 'em crazy. [Sumter, S. Car. (1353), 2363:4.]
Entry 8416
Well den, if he leave home lak dat, yo' kin take a glass of watah an' set it tuh de no'th side of yore bed lak dat, in a dark place an' put 'is photograph up ovah de watah, see. An' when dat photograph, dat pitchure change, lak dat 'is face be goin' off it, ah don' care where he is, well dat'll draw him back home, if he not daid some place.
(How do you put that photograph glass? Show me.)
See, jis' lak dis de glass of watah. Yo' put it on de no'th side of de bed lak dat, in de da'k right behin' dere. Well, yo' take dat pitchure an' put it ovah de glass of watah, see on top de glass of watah jis' lak dat, wit de face down tuh de watah.
Entry 8417
Or yo' kin take yore pichure - ah heah mah ole grandmothah talk about dat often. Yo' kin take a pichure an' put it ovah a glass of hot boilin' watah an' - in othah words yo' sterilize it - an' den yo' go crazy. Dere isn't anything yo' kin do fo' dat. Aftah yo' git dat pichure sterilized see, when dat pichure fades away, well dey say den yo' crazy. Yo' be upset an' yo' be wantin' tuh go places all de time.
Entry 8418
If ah want chew tuh come back tuh me, well ah would put it [photo] in a glass of watah an' set it in a cornah, in a dark cornah, an' let it stay down dere. Turn de haid, heel foremost Iturn head where heel should bel yo' know. So ah jis' let it stay in dat dark cornah an' yo' is comin' back home.
Entry 8419
Well, anybody photograph, yo' ain't got a thing tuh do but tuh git chew a glass of watah an' turn it [photo] bottomside upwards an' set it in de left cornah of de house. Well, yo'll jes' wandah an' wandah all de time.
(This is to send you away or what?)
Yes sir, yo' can't stay in dat town see.
Entry 8420
Take yo' pichure now - if yo' had a fellah's pichure an' wanted tuh draw 'im back tuh yo', take dat pichure an' turn it down ovah a glass of watah. Put a lookin'-glass on top of it.
(You turn that face down over the glass of water.)
Face down. (Then you put a mirror over that? A mirror ovah it. Dat'll draw 'im back tuh yo'. Dat's all yo' have to do.
Entry 8421
An' ah hearn dat chew kin take one [photograph] - jes' lak somebody's Way off at somewhere in a furrinah [foreign] country or sompin an' yo' want 'em tuh come back - take it an' turn it down on a glass of watah, an' push it undah a bed an' let it stay nine days, an' in de tenth day dat person will come. Ah've seen dat happen.
Entry 8422
Yo' kin take a person's pichure an' set it in a glass of watah an' put it in a washstand right facin'. An' set de pichure down in de cornah of it. [Set corner of picture cater- cornahed in glass of water.] Don't kear [care] how long dey been gone, if yo' way in New Yawk somewheres, yo' mind will fall on de people whut's back heah an' dey'll [you'll] come. (You put this glass of water on the dresser. Where do you put this picture now?) Put it in dere [glass] katyfied [catercornered]. Put de cornah of it [photo] kinda lak dis.
(What we call cater-cornered. Do you put it in the glass of water?)
An' set it right in de face of de washstan' drawah, an' let it set dere fo' nine mawnin's. An' dem folks will come in less time den two weeks.
(Do you put this picture in the glass of water or behind it?)
Set it [photo] down in it [glass]. Let one cornah [of photo] be in de glass of watah, an' dat pichure will fade away, but hit'll come back. (You put that glass in that drawer and close that drawer so as to hold the photograph?) Yes sir.
Entry 8423
Yo' take de man pitchure, if yo' wan'a draw 'im back, an' put it on a glass of watah, face tuh de watah, ovah top'a de watah an' put a heavy weight on, an' let it stay dere fah nine days, an' he'll come back.
Entry 8424
If yo' wan' tuh make a boy love yuh, yo' take a glass of watah, a glass dat choo're not gon'a evah use ag'in, an' turn dat pitchure down ovah dat glass an' put nine drops of Hearts Cologne or Blue Moon perfume, eithah one is jis' as good, in dat glass of watah. An' let dat pitchure stay ovah dat glass of watah until yo' see some results of dat boy comin' towards yuh. If de boy has turn ag'in [against] sho [you] all tuhgethah an' yo' kin git 'is pit- chure, why dat'll bring 'im back. Put de glass under de haid of yuh bed.
Entry 8425
Dey say dey kin take yuh photergraph an' turn it ovah a glass of watah intuh a dahk place. Put it in a dahk cornah, an' turn yuh photergraph de haid up tuh dis watah. An' put some spice an' cloves in it, an' let sit dey [there] fo' nine mawnin's. Well dey say, well, if's anybody leaves yuh, anybody da'choo [that you] want, dey say he'll come back tuh yuh.
Entry 8426
Ah take de photograph an' put it ovah a tumblah of.watah an' set it undah de edge of mah bed, de watah an' de pichure undah de bed. "In de Name of de Fathah, de Son an' de Holy Ghost, ah want chew tuh love me."
(You - how often do you do that?)
Fo' nine nights.
(You say that once for nine nights?)
Yes sir.
Entry 8427
Ah heard dat chew could take a photograph an' put it ovah a glass of watah, dat is if a person is outa town an' cross watahs. An' pray nine times ovah it each day, one prayah a day. Fo' nine days, pray. In yo' own mannah, yo' see, yo' should pray. An' take it out den an' put it undah yore rug as yo' come in de do', wit de face down. Well, dat's tuh bring 'em froa cross vatahs.
(To bring a person back?)
Outa towm 'cross vatahs. (You put this picture over the water you say?) Ovah de glass of watah, jes' turn de face down. Yo' kin put it in yore bed an' sleep right where dat is, right ovah it. See, yo' put it neah yore heart up heah, yo' think where yore heart is, de glass jes' stand dere.
Entry 8428
If someone is away from yuh an' yo' wan' 'im tuh come, dey say if yo' take a glass of watah an' take him down [his photo] an' put 'im undahneat' yuh bed, an' turn de face down - let it stay undah dere fo' nine mawn- ings. An' dey say evah mawnin yo' go dere an' take de pichure up an' talk tuh it, an' tell 'im yo' wan' 'im tuh come. An' aftah nine days, dat dere watah will work against is mind an' he'll come.
Entry 8429
If yo' has gone away, dey kin take yuh photograph an' git a glass of watah, an' put chure photograph on dat glass of watah, face down. Aftah yo' put it on dere, yo' stand ovah it an' say, "I want chew tuh come back home. Yo've been gone long enough. Come back! Come back! Come back! An' let dat stay dere fo' nine days an' de tenth day dat person will be back. Ah've seen dat tried. [Wilmington, N. Car., 238:2.]
Entry 8430
If a man gotta wife an' she leaves home an' it makes no diff'rent how fer she may go, if he kin git 'er pichure. She may be cross de watahs but if he kin bring 'er back.... Now he take dat pichure an' he turns it. He takes a cleah glass of watah. He takes dat glass of watah an' he looks tuh all fo' cornahs of de house. An' he take dat glass of watah an' he sets it behin' de haid of de bed. An' he turns dat pichure down, an' evah evenin' jes' at sundown, he goes tuh de haid of dat bed an' he'll call 'er jes' as loud as yo' can, jes' as though he wus angry wit 'er - fo' nine days. An' if she ain't dere in nine days den she been carried out tuh de cemetery. (You say you look in the four directions? Then you put that water down. How do you put that photograph over it?) Yo' lay it flat down ovah de top of it, de face of it down right ovah de watah.
Entry 8431
De reason ah know dat, a woman, she tell me dis. Her husban' went away an' leave her an' she want 'im tuh come back home. An' she had a pichure of his'n an' she take a glass of watah an' set it in a dark corner in de house an' turn de pichure down ovah it an' call his name. An' when dem nine mawnin's wuz up, he came home. (Did she just call his name once?) Three times. (How did she call his name?) She call his name three time. (Just that one time when she put that picture over there?) When she put dat watah, de glass of watah in a dark cornah, turn de pichure down ovah it an' she call 'is name three times.
Entry 8432
Take his pichure yo' mean an' make him come back tuh her? Take his pichure an' put a [glass] jar of watah ovah dere lak on de dressah an' put dat pichure ovah dere be- hin' dat watah. An' evah mawnin' befo' de sunrise, fo' nine mawnin's dat chew'd git up an' call dat pichure's name twice, fo' nine mawnin's, an' it would bring 'im back.
(Every morning before the sunrise.)
Befo' de sunrise an' befo' yo' say anything tuh anybody. [A note of mine reads: Woman who had epileptic fit after she Zeft me!]
Entry 8433
Well, she take his pichure an' her pichure, undahstand, if he gone away from 'er. Take a watahglass, set it down, her face an' his'n tuhgethah. (Whose does she put down first?) Put 'er pichure down first, an' his'n on top of 'ers. Dat'll bring 'im back. (Do you put her picture down under water?) See, on top. See, both de faces is face tuh face, an' de glass of watah, an' let it stay right at de haid of 'er baid. An' dat'll make dis man worried. He can't wait till he sees 'er all de time.
Entry 8434
Well, ah hear 'em say, dey takes it [photo] an' turns it up on de head, yo' know, an' gits a glass of watah wit sugah in it. An' dey say dat makes yo' have de blues about 'em.
(I see.)
Entry 8435
Ah heard a lady said dat she knew a frien' dat a woman taken 'er photo- graph, 'cuz she wus mad wit dis woman about 'er own husband. An' she'd taken dis photograph an' taken it tuh a branch, yo' know a marsh place where a li'le watah runs all de time. An' said dey turned dis photograph ovah on de face an' let dis watah run an' run ovah it until all dat - all de person, yo' know, de flesh be, yo' know, cain't see any of 'em, until all of it's gone. An' dey say when dat's gone, say yo'll go on away from here. Gone, she say, "cuz she know a friend of hers says dis woman's taken 'er an' showed what she'd done.
Entry 8436
Jes' lak a photograph [demonstrates with something]. Dat's de breast. Right in de centah of yore heart. Go tuh a mahsh [marsh] an' yo' jes' - jes' lak yo' are on side of de sea down dere. Yo' git dat pitchure an' yo' put it right down dere. Yo' git chew a tenpenny nail....
[Informant has been demonstrating all the while.]
(Wait now, you turn that picture upside down.)
Dis heah is de face [demonstrates].
(I see, turn it over on its face.)
Dat in de centah of de mahsh.
(Right in this marsh.)
An' yo' got dat thing right in de centah. Yo' turn dat pitchure down jes' so. Git chew a tenpenny nail dat ain't nevah been drove an' drive it down dere[demon- strates].
(Drive it through the heart.)
Yes, sir, right through de heart. Git chew some leaves an' covah it. In nine days yo'll be daid.
Entry 8437
Yo' take de photograph when in love an' put it in a basin of watah, an' if it floated on top, yo' an' 'er will be in good love; but if it goes tuh de bottom, she wan' tuh run away from yo' jes' as fer as she kin git. (Now, which is which?) Yo' couldn't git 'er if she goes tuh de bottom, no. See, becuz de watah washin' 'er offa dat pichure, yo' see, washin' 'er photograph 'way from yo'. It nevah will be on dat card atall, it will wash off.
Entry 8438
Lak if yo' 'way an' dey want chew tuh come back. Dey kin take a pitchah of watah an' take dis pichure an' set it be- hin' dis pitchah of watah. An' fo' nine mawnin's befo' sunrise, dey git up an' call yo' three times - call yore name three times. In nine days yo' mo' den apt tuh be back.
Entry 8439
An' den yo' kin again take dis pichure an' put it where runnin' watah run ovah it, an' dis person will jes' have tuh go, can't stay in one place - dey jes' have tuh keep goin'.
Entry 8440
Take dere pichure an' put it intuh runnin' watah, an' dat'll put a person tuh walkin'. Dey cain't stay at a place contented.
Entry 8441
Now, yo' could take a pichure, an' yo' could take it an' throw it in runnin' watah. An' ah don't care where dat person go, dey couldn't stay an' be satisfied. Evahwhere dey go dey wanta wandah.
Entry 8442
They say they kin take yuh pitchure an' throw it in some runnin' watah. An' if yo' be anywhere, yo'd come back home. [This belief is quite possible, but at the moment I am unable to think of a parallel.]
Entry 8443
Git chure [photograph] on a piece of tin [a tintype] an' throw dat ovahbo'd an' dat makes yo' leave. Ah know dat. Ah had it done. If dey take yuh photograph - dat's de reason ah won't take one. Dey jes' take dat in a jar or anything an' throw it ovahbo'd. Two or three days aftah dat, yo' done gone right dere [to the same place and jump into the water].
Entry 8444
An' den dey kin take yuh photograph an' throw it ovahbo'd. Dat will drown yuh. But dey got'a read de 108 Psalm.
Entry 8445
Jes' lak if dey take yore photograph an' throw it ovahbo'd - if yo' mad wit de person an' throw dat photograph ovahbo'd, dat would cuz de person tuh git drowned.
Entry 8446
An' yo' kin take dat picture an' go to a runnin' rivah an' throw dat picture ovah your haid an' don't look back, an' go off, an' it will run 'em crazy.
Entry 8447
Put it in runnin' watah.
(This photograph. What will that do?)
De same, make yo' lose yore mind.
Entry 8449
(What?)
Throw it in runnin' water...
(Throw this photograph in running water? And what will that do?)
That will run you crazy.
Entry 8450
Dey would take dat pichure, dat photograph an' turn it down, an' throw it in runnin' watah. (What will that do?) Yo' would go long as dat pichure was runnin'.
(What do you mean? Would [it] run you away or kill you or what?)
No, it wouldn't kill yo' but yo' be goin'.
Entry 8451
If dey wanta drive yo' 'way outa town or keep yo' goin', dey take yore photograph an' take it tuh anything dat's sealed airtight, an' set it in dat so it float on de watah. An' put it in dere an' tighten it up good, an' turn dat pichure bot- tomsides, upside down. Jes' as long as dat watah runnin' an' dat pichure floatin' yo' continue goin', yo' see. (How do you mean you turn this picture upside down, in this container you mean?) In de containah - lak jes' de glass heah [glass jar for my cigar ashes?]. Dis de glass. Why yo' [demonstrates] turn de pichure upside down dat way, see. Den yo' take it tuh de rivah. Screw it up airtight so de watah can't git in dere, see lak it float on de watah. Anyway so it will float. Jes' as long as dat watah runnin' an' dis in dere, why yo' continue tuh go. If it evah stops, yo' know, it dry up lak, see yo' begin tuh stop. Well, den if de watah come back flowin' again, yo' begin tuh go again.
Entry 8452
Dey kin take yore photograph an' nail it to a board an' put it in an' care it to a rivah an' nail it through yo' two eyes....de nail in 'tween it, an throw it in de rivah or eithah in any runnin' watah, an' it'll run yo' crazy an' run yo' away from dere. Jis' lak if it wuz me an' yo' didn't wanta see me or nuthin...any time yo' git one of mah photographs an' nail it to a bo'd an' nail it through mah two eyes on de bo'd an' throw it in de lak [in there like] bottomside upwards an' 'long as it's in dat runnin' watah den it runs me away an' ah keeps goin' jis' lak a person goin' crazy....
(The face down?)
Yessuh, wit de face down.
Entry 8453
Dey takes dat photograph, lak if dey wants yo' tuh - ah may say run yo' away or maybe sometime have yo' daid or somepin lak dat. Dey take it an' fold it up in a piece of white rag also an' put a zinc [see later] on it an' throw it in runnin' watah, an' dat supposed tuh make yo' mindless. [Zinc = sink = sinker, a lead weight used in fishing.] If dey don't do dat, dey'll take an' bury it on de face. When dey bury it on de face it supposed tuh kill yo'.
Entry 8454
Well, dey tell me, if yo' do any hahm [harm] tuh a woman an' she love yuh in any way, she could take yuh pitchure an' turn it down a certain way. Yo'll have tuh come back [to her] or it run yuh mindless until yo' kin git tuh yuh pitchure or have some root doctor git it. An' [she] have it turned down in run- nin' watah. Jis' turn it right - haid upward, an' yuh foots up an' yuh haid down [downstream] on runnin' watah. She place it [tie it] down dere where it cain't git away, yo' know. She goes down dere evah mawnin' an' look an' take it up an' let it go back down. Evah mawnin' fo' about ah think twenty-two mawnin'. Den aftah dat happen, an' if shoo [you] don' come back tuh 'er, yo' jis' go crazy.
Entry 8455
Dey say yo' take de pichure an' put it in runnin' watah an' dat will run yo' crazy. Put yo' wit de haid down de stream an' de feet upstream, pointin' up. See, yore haid go down which will be in front, an' it will run yo' crazy in nine days.
Entry 8456
Yore photograph is yore pichure. Well, ah've heard dat people have taken yore pichure an' some quicksilvah an' throwed it in watah an' run yo' crazy or make yo' leave home. (Well, what would they do with that quicksilver?) Dey taken an' put it on de pichure [quicksilver here probably tinfoil] an' put it in a li'le sack, an' throw it in a stream of cleah runnin' watah. Jes' lak dis watah's runnin' downstream an' throw it in dat stream of watah, an' turn yo' back on it an' go on back. An' it'll eithah run yo' crazy or make yo' leave home.
(You just spread that quicksilver on the picture? The back of it or?)
On de back of it.
Entry 8457
Dey kin take dis pichure heah an' cut dis pichure half in two an' put it intuh a pint bottle. Don't put nuthin dere but jis' put dat pichure in dat pint bottle an' stop it up airtight. An' go tuh de rivah or any place where de watah's powahful strong an' throw it ovahbo'd. Jis' throw it ovah dere an' dey's gone, dey's gone.
Entry 8458
Yes, ah've heard 'em tell of dat. Lak if yo' got dey pitchure an' yo' wanta git rid of a man, want 'im tuh leave or somepin lak dat, yo' take dis pitchure an' yo' cut it up. Jes' take an' cut it up in fine pieces. Take an' cut it up in a jumple. Well, yo' take an' fix yo' a kinda a li'le sack, kinda lak a woman has fo' change - keeps a li'le money sack about dat long an' it got a zippah on it. Dey take dat pitchure an' dey chip it up fine an' take yo' some salt an' jes' mash it on dere. Sprinkle dat salt intuh dat pitchure. An' den take yo' some sulphuh an' put dat sulphuh intuh it. Den yo' take an' put dis zippah on dere an' tie it up good an' tight. Well, yo' leave home, ah reckin, 'bout twelve aclock, jes' long as it round midnight on a dark, cloudy night. When yo' leave dere, go right straight tuh a stream of strong runnin' watah. An' yo' take dis zippah [sack] whut dis pitchure an' stuff is in, an' yo' take yore pocket han'ke'- chef an' yo' blindfold yo'self. an' den yo' throw it right in dat stream of run- nin' watah. An' dat's de way yo' git rid of 'em.
(That's to get rid of them. That means to run them away, send them away?)
Dat's right, tuh drive 'em outa dere.
Entry 8459
Take dat photograph an' throw it in dat stream where dere running water, it goin' so'th, an' dat will run yo' crazy.
(Runs you crazy. Must the water run south?)
Runnin' so'th, yeah.
(What if it ran north?)
Well, ah haven't heard about dat.
(It must be water running south.)
Entry 8460
Takes 'is pichure an' throw it in a stream of runnin' watah goin' so'th, a deep stream, an' dat'll kill 'im.
Entry 8461
Well, dey say dat if yo' kin git a person pichure, say if it's a woman an' she has not been faithful tuh 'er husban', or if she's, yo' undahstan', goin' wit some othah man, an' he kin take her photograph down tuh some bubblin' spring befo' sun- rise an' stay dere until it's light enough fo' him tuh see de reflection of dat pichure in dat stream, in dat bubblin' stream. Why do dat three diff'ren' mawnin'. An' some says nine diff'ren' mawnin's. Now ah don' know de truth of it. Ah'm jes' tellin' de truth but dat's whut dey say, dat dat woman would event'ly [eventually] turn 'er face back tuh dat man.
(You say you hold that picture over the water?)
Ovah de watah, ovah a bubblin' spring. It gotta be where de spring is, don' chew know. Yo' go befo' sunrise an' stay dere until it's light enough tuh see de reflection of dat pichure in dat stream, yo' see. [This is undoubtedly a divination rite, a part of which informant has forgotten. Any suggestion on my part would have been a suggested answer. What the reflection revealed can be guessed. If the reflection showed a woman, she was faithful to her husband; if a man, unfaithful. The bubblin' spring of course complicated the answer!]
Entry 8462
Ah kin give yuh two practices on dat. Now, dey kin take yure photo- graph, yo' know, what yo' have already gotten yureself, since dat's yo'. Write chure name at de bottom first, write chure name on de top an' tote chew right down tuh any stream of watah dat goes up an' down [tide- water stream], you git tuh a piece of wood [= woods, collection of trees] where dere a tree what de watah comes up on. Yo' know, as it comin' up it looks lak dat [water covers a part of the tree trunk].
(As the tide comes up?)
Dat's right. Turn de haid right down an' take a rusty nail an' nail it right in dere. Don't drive de nail haid in, don't drive de haid in. Jis' drive it enough tuh hold it. Evah time when de tide comes up, why yo' know yo' will jis' be all crazy, evahthing looks funny tuh yuh. An' when de tide's goin' out, why yo'll jis' set in one place - lie down in one place an' sleep all de time. Sleep comes ovah yuh jis' lak dat.
Entry 8463
I've heard people say that people could git chere fortergraph - I think its on de tintype, we call it - an' put it down tuh the lowah watahmark; an' de tide rises ovah that an' comes tuh de high watahmark an' it covahs it. They say [they] can do somepin tuh yuh by that way.
Entry 8464
Now, yo' take some dose people kin git holt of yore photograph an' dey take it an' dey carry it tuh streamin' watah, yo' know, an' put it in streamin' branch watah. Let it run up an' turn round, den dey take it out an' bury it undahneath de do'step, an' dat will kinda worry yo' a li'le bit. (Wait! About this photograph. They put it in a stream of running water and let it go up the stream.) Dat's it.
(Then turn it around and let it go back.)
Float back.
(It goes up with the tide.)
Go up wit de tide an' come back right tuh de tide. Pick it up an' bury it right undahneath yuh do'step anywhere where yo' could walk ovah it.
(They bury it under my doorstep?)
Yes sir.
Entry 8465
They can, yo' know, throw 'em [a photograph] in this run- ning water, or the tidewater as it's going out, an' run yo' crazy.
Entry 8466
A person kin take yuh pitchure an', if dere isn't any watah between yuh an' dat person, dey kin take yuh pitchure an' a piece of dere hair [demon- strates], right from aroun' heah, right in back of de eah [ear], de right eah, an' put it, de face up tuh yuh pitchure, an' wrap it up good an' care [carry] it right in heah, in de bosom nex' tuh de heart. If dey wan' choo tuh love 'em, dey kin do dat.
Entry 8467
They can take your picture an' wear it on their person an' bring them to you.
Entry 8468
Well, dey will get chure photo an' a glassful of whiskey an' turn dat photo upside down [over the glass] an' de person dat de photo b'longs tuh will come. If he's away or wherevah he is, he'll come tuh dat place.
Entry 8469
(Now wait a minute! That's the photograph. What do they do that for?) Well, they do that, they say to keep the ole man or make him come back home. (First they do what with it?) Put it ovah a glass of whis- key an' they lay that ovah there - the photograph ovah that an' then they let it stay ovah there a day an' a night, an' then after that they take it off an' put it on the backside of their bed where they sleep, stand it up on the head - like that.
(That's to bring him back.)
Entry 8470
Now, whut ah've heard about de photograph. Yo' kin take a woman's photograph, if yo' lovin' dat woman an' yo' can't git any love wit her, yo' kin take dat an' weah it in yore pocket an' a bran'-new pocket han'ke'ch'ef. Keep it wrapped up in it an' jes' keep it damp wit a li'le likkah. An' dat woman will go crazy ovah yo' until yo' be's ready tuh quit 'er.
(You keep that pocket handkerchief anointed with liquor?)
A bran'-new one ain't nevah been used.
(Do you have to keep it in your pocket in any particular Way or anything?)
Yes sir, in yore left [the heart] pocket.
Entry 8471
( Get a person's photograph. Yo' kin take that an' use the best of whis- key an' put it in a dark closet. An' yo' kin take their photograph an' turn it bottom upwards. Well, they won't be satisfied till they see the person according tuh the wishes yo'd make. If yo'd wish fer them to stay away, they'll stay; if yo' wish fer 'em tuh come tuh yuh, they'll come.
(What do you do with that whiskey?)
Yo' takes the whiskey an' puts in a glass. Yo' turns the photo bottom upwards over the glass.
(The photo doesn't touch the whiskey at all?)
No.
(I see, it just sets over the glass of whiskey.)
But yo' is standing on your head.
Entry 8472
Now, if I wan'a keep yo' in trouble - kin yo' hear me? [I probably nodded yes.] If I wan'a keep yo' in trouble, I get a glassful of whiskey, half full, and turn you [your photograph] down in [not on] that glass, and put [in] three old brass pen- nies, yo' know. Pennies, yo' know. And let it [photograph] stay upside down in there, and you will be in trouble the balance of yore days. [3 pennies symbolize Three Holy Names or are taken over from payment to grave spirit for graveyard dirt.]
Entry 8473
Dey take alcohol.
(After they got the fingernails.)
After dey got de fingahnails an' aftah yo' take de alcohol, dey put it intuh dis alcohol. All right, den dey go git chure photo, yore pichure. Dey have tuh take yore photo an' dey puts yo' down, standin' down on yore haid. Well, all right, dey takes an' put fo' strings in dat; dat's if a woman wants a man tuh come back tuh 'er. (They put the four strings in what?) Intuh dis pichure. (How do they put them into the picture?) Wal, take a thread, yo' know in de fo' cornahs. Den dey turn it down, turn yuh down on yo' haid, see; an' dey take dis pichure an' dey place it ovah, behin' dis alcohol wheah yo' fingahnails is. See, an' den go tuh de back of de baid an' den dey tie dis string [in each of 4 corners of photo]. Well, dey covah it [photo] up where yo' cain't see it an' den event'ly [eventually], yo' come.
(This man is supposed to come home?)
Yeah.
Entry 8474
When yo' call a person's spirit, twelve 'clock at night, yo' draws on a person.
(Draw her picture?)
Draw his pichure. Git 'is name an' address. Yo' set [in] a dark room by yo'- self. Yo' take a sheet an' put it ovah yo' haid, wit chure eyes out so yo' kin see. Yo' set a li'le bit of whiskey in a glass [to draw his spirit back, spirits lov- ing whiskey, see ALCOHOL FOR an' yo' gotta memorize de person name, an' yo' call 'is name three times. Durin' de time yo's callin' 'is name, take a needle wit chure lef' han' an' punch nine holes in it. (Nine holes in what?) Nine holes in de pichure, in de form what chew draws. An' when yo' done cut de nine holes in it an' yo' watch de pichure an' blow on it. An' durin' de time aftah yo' done blowin' on it, an' if yo' hit it again tuh [do something] den chew light yo' lamp. Aftah dat, den yo' set a match tuh it. See what side she [match] bendin'; if she bend going, if she bend comin' back. She'll [match will] fall back in yuh hands. If she [match] bend goin', goin' de direc- tion she [or hel was [had departedl. she'll [match'll] fall dat way; an' if she [match leans to] dis side, she'll fall dat side; an' if she's [woman's] comin' back, she'll [match'll] fall right up in de woman form. [She] come right on back tuh you. [Informant alternating the sexes is confusing.] An' durin' de time dat dey bring 'er back, yo' git up an' yo' take yo' dishrag an' wring it ovah de do' an' call 'er name. Dat's cases if she gone an' leave yo'. If she gone an' leave yuh, if she leave any she [not her] clothes in dere lak a dress or pettycoat, lak dat, jes' take an' ball it up an' put it 'neat' chure pillah an' she will come back less dan three day's time, if she's able tuh, if she's in de city.
(That's to bring the woman back. You are calling her spirit back that way.)
Yes sir.
Entry 8475
Say yo' takes 'er pichure. Yo' goes an' git a gun an' regardless tuh who she is or how much money she got, if yo' loved 'er, git 'er photograph an' turns 'er photograph on de desk, layin' de photograph an' call 'it 'er pichure, an' mark it wit a "X' - a cross, 'X'. Take an' folds it up in a piece of news- pahah an' put it in yore shoes. Hoids up de linin' of yore shoes an' put it in dere, an' turns de haid of 'er pichure down tuh de ground an' tuhward de back of yore heel. Weah it three days an' take it an' delivah it out. An' pertends [pretends] yo' drinkin' whiskey, two glasses. Drink yores an' name hers wit de pichure ovah it. An' let it stay dere fo' three days an' she'll return tuh yo'.
(After you wear this in your shoe, you take it, the third day, and then you?)
Put it in two drinks of likkah, put it in two separate glasses. Fulls [fill] de glasses up each, an' drink one. An' put de othah one back an' name it wit de pichure in it, ovah de glass wit de face down tuh whiskey.
Entry 8476
(Or sometimes they say they get hold of your photograph. [I am repeat- ing informant's preceding statement unrecorded.] What do they say about that?) Oh, yes sir. Well, I heah dem say, I don't know whethah it is true, but I tell yo' what I heard dem say. Say dey kin take yer photograph an' turn it like dis [demonstrates]. Here photograph, dey turn dat down.
(Oh, they turn it down.)
Yes, dey turn dat down lak dat.
(Well, what does that do?)
An' make a wish on it. Dey say dat will carry yo' away, run yo' away.
(I see, run you away.)
Entry 8477
I have heard they take your photograph and get the hair out of your head, and wish anything would happen to that image, and attach that hair onto your pic- ture, and that wish will come true.
Entry 8478
Ah heard dey could take dat chew know. (This photograph.) Take dat an' make a wish three times an' bury it on de face an' de loved one will return. [Waycross, Ga.,
(1126), 1831:8.]
[The second section Of division THE THREE GREAT SUBSTITUTES FOR HUMAN BODY (the first section PHOTOGRAPH, p.3419f.) contains a goodly' number of rites, considering the fact that hundreds of examples have already been given in the text, and that more will follow this present section. Such imbalance occurs because names normally are merely a part of a larger or more important rite.]
Entry 8479
Well, you open that banana - you see, not far enough for it to be shown - and write that name and put it in, and put it up overhead and the apple too. That will keep them right there with you, just like that urine. That is supposed to make them care for you. [While recording Was stopped I asked informant about the 9 times previously mentioned.] You write the name nine times on the paper, yes sir, and put it in the hole, stick in the hole in the apple or orange or banana; just fix it up, you know, so it won't be laid open. Then you wrap it up into somepin. And then you put it up overhead, anywhere high. When you wrap it, you wrap to you like this [demon- strates] and put it up overhead where they pass by. [Wrapping, as here, is often a magic rite - see later margin title WRAPPING.]
Entry 8480
They say you can take that spittle [= spit] and take some sage, green sage, and mix that with it, and write the names of the Twelve Apostles on that sage [12 sage leaves]. And you mix it with it [spit with leaves] and then take that and hide it under a doorstep. Put it under a doorstep where it'll be covered, where it can't be seen. And that individual will begin to pine away and finally go into consumption [tuberculosis].
Entry 8481
Dey kin walk backwards an' call a person name, an' if dey continue tuh do dat fo' a certain many days, dat'll run yo' crazy.
Entry 8482
Jes' lak yo' were enemies tuhgethah, sompin lak dat, an' yo' wanted dem tuh go, why den yo' go ahaid an' take dere name. Take dere name - jes' lak ah'm enemies ag'inst yo' - take dere name an' write it nine times. An' wrap it up in a piece of papah wit de bird aigs an' put it in de bird nest. An' den dat'll make dem, yo' know, go wild; have a wild mind, a goin' mind tuh go. Dey won' be satisfied nowhere dey go.
Entry 8738
Take dat photograph of dis individual. Den yo' want peace, yo' wants love, Wants happiness. Yo' take dat photograph but chew gotta steal it. Don't let no one give it tuh yo', yo' steal it, or else let someone else git it fo' yo', if yo' wants peace or wants dat individual. Yo' write his name three times on it. An' keep it in yore pillah an' turn it down on.its face. An' it will be peace dere tuh yo', if it's yore sweetheart or yore wife; or whoevah it is, whoevah he may be.
Entry 8849
Dey say dey kin take yuh han'writin', eithah yuh pitture [picture] an' hang it up on de wall, an' p'int [point] at choo fer nine mawnin' wit a knife, eithah icepick, an' some kin'a words dey use. An' aftah dey u' [use] dat - dey said yuh do dat fer nine mawnin' - an' dey call yuh some bad name jis' lak a bad cuss-word. Jis' whut dey don't lak, dey call yuh dat. An' somepin would happen tuh yuh bad.
Entry 10157
You take the photograph and you take a new glass of water [new glass fllled with water] and a new saucer, white saucer, and you take the photograph yoa turn it upside down on top of [against] the glass of water. You take a F] red candle and you light it and write [on new paper] his name nine times demeath and write yours nine times on top, and you burn that [candle] three das a day. (What'll that do?) That is to bring him back, bring him to you. (Now I place the glass of water and this photograph I turn it upside down?) You hand [lean] it up with the feet up [head down] and the glass of water in the center of the photograph [photo centered against glass] and the name underneath it and the candle right in front of it. The name is under the glass. You write the name nine times on a piece of parchment paper, and nine times write yours on top. See, you always got yours on top and you got him underneath you. And put the paper under the saucer, and the water in the glass, and the picture upside down. And you burn that candle three times a day - a red candle. You burn it at six in the morn- ing, at twelve o'clock [noon], six in the evening; only three times a day.
Entry 10162
Take his photograph and turn it up bottom [upside down] to the [look- ing] glass and burn the candles, nine of them; claim if you's in Europe that would bring you back. (How would you do that?) With a candle. Put your name on it nine times - put mine on top and write yours up to mine. And turn you [in photograph] up, bottomside up [upside down] to the looking glass. And burn the candle for nine days. That'll bring you back.
(I see.)
Entry 10174
To run crazv. stand pic- ture upside down behind bed, face to wall, light candle, red, burn "plum out" - make wish.
Entry 11236
[Since we are now in the letter "D" of CHANNEL DE WORLD material - a division arranged alphabetically instead of sectionally to avoid typing compli- cations - the following 30 pages or more will be concerned with doctors, something by them or about them. Doctors of course will appear among later letters of the alphabet, but here was a convenient place to concentrate some of them. I begin with a folding rite that contains a close relative, a wrapping rite. The verb to fold does not appear in the index of Folklore from Adams County Illinois, 1st ed., 1935, and I doubt its appearance in the indexless 2nd ed. There is an index only in the files of the Center for the Study of Comparative Folklore and Mythology, University of California, Los Angeles, California. De- spite rarity, HOODOO has a number of folding rites, some of them quite compli- cated: Nos.3126, 3182-3190, etc., v.3 and elsewhere. To fold to you or away from you is a usual theme, but our present rite is an accordian fold. Especially interesting to me is the doctor, place of hearing, and time. My record concern- ing him reads: "Thurs. Feb. 15, 1940, informant No.1565, man 45, Crackerjack Store, paid, ng." (From note books E Series, 2nd New Orleans trip, numbers of informants 1558 to 1605). More about that ng in a moment. Informant was brought to me by the black man preceding him, a man who worked at the Crackerjack Store - sometimes called drug store - a famous hoodoo emporiun of that date. During the following interview I was utterly unaware that this would be my last dat at Pat- terson Hotel, 759 S. Rampart St., corner of Julia, New Orleans, La. Years later I would pay my respects to the old building by printing her picture at the end of HOODOO volume 2! The folding rite follows:] Say fo' instance yo' wanta git rid of a man. All right yo'd git his photo- graph, not a tintype. Git a cardboard [photograph] an' de medium size. Git it an' fold it in half an' find, say lak a dead chicken or a dead dog or somepin aroun' [or lying about] wit maggots. Ah mean large-size maggots as dey walkin'.... Well, yo' crease de photograph in nine folds an' as yo fold it in de nine folds, yo' drop a maggot in each one of 'em; in every fold until yo' git de nine mag- gots. Den yo' git chew a piece of separate black cord an' tie it [folded photo] nine times; den yo' git chew a piece of red [cord] an' yo' make six knots [about folded photo]. An' put in dem nine knots an' six knots.... Dat [package] is representin' dey cof- fin. Aftah yo' git through wit dat, den yo' wrap it up in a piece of cloth, which would be about fully de same size, an' git chew de nine of spades, an' wrap dat up nine times, an' jes' take an' fold it wit [3 ingredients]: one flake [flick = pinch] of salt, an' one flake of black peppah, an' one flake of red pep- pah - cayenne peppah. An' wrap 'em all up. An' yo' close it up an' regardless of whut de individual's name may be, yo' put it down nine times in a piece of silk tissue papah, fold it every time nine times. Take a match an' burn it, an' as yo' burn it, leave dem ashes go right on top.... Den yo' take all dat cloth [the several packages together] tuhgethah an' reenfold it [in one cloth] an' git chew some rivah sand, an' jes' put it in dere an' dry [tie] it up [into one pack- age]. Den yo' goes on tuh de neahest runnin' watah dat yo' kin git tuh an' dig yo' a small pit, jes' a small hole.... Dig it out six inches, jes' as dere grave. Aftah yo' do it, den yo' says - be mastah of de ceremony which is his funeral. As yo' be blessin' de body as it goin' down, every word yo' say yo' curse in between it, which is his name in between. An' as yo' doin' dat, den yo' throws a little bit of sherry wine, or if he drinks, regardless of whatevah it is, jes' throw it right on in dere....an' covah it up - an' drop it as it [coffin] goin' doup: [After this mock funeral ceremony] nine words yo' says, every day nine words, an' in de 18th day whoevah de individual will be, dey comin' unnormal deathly sick. De doctor [M.D.] or no othah one will undahstan' his case no kinda way. He'll die an' swell up [he'll swell up and die] in de next, say six or seven months, or maybe in de comin' future yeahs, from dat date.... (And you say you say nine words to that thing each day. Have you any special words you say?) Lak if de individual wuz a gamblah or a thief or a murderah, he may come home an' he'll be worried or somepin. Well yo' jes' curse him in dat name, "Yo' son of bitch. Yo' bastard. Yore mothah's no good. Yore fathah's no good. An aftah yo' hit me, whut ah won't do tuh yo'." An' aftah whut chew do to him, yo' say a prayah, "Name de Fathah, de Son an' de Holy Ghost, Amen. "... Every day [the unrecorded things done I pick up in my following comment].
(You say just nine prayers like that. Nine things you say.)
Cussin' him all de time.... [Informant had seen his best days as a doctor, that is why I preserved the remainder of his interview under the last alphabetical division XYZ. Those 4....indicate repetition of what had been said.]
Entry 12671
Ah understan' about de snail an' a person's photo. Well, yo' kin take a photo an' bury it upside down in de graveyard, an' yo' take a snail an' yo' git some steel dust an' yo' write dat indivi- dual name down an' yo' glue it onto de snail yo' see. An' whatsomevah yo' make yore wish, whatsomevah yo' wants tuh, yo' know, make it fo'. If yo' want a person tuh drag lak dat [snail] an' as dat snail crawl yo' see an' de picture fade away, well, dat person will jis' drag until dey die. (You do those two things but you don't do anything to the photograph at all except bury it in the graveyard.) Yo' take de photograph an' yo' write de person name on it nine times, an' if yo' want 'em tuh drag or sompin, why yo' write whatsomevah yo' want, yo' know, tuh happen tuh 'em, an' turn it upside down [and bury it] in de graveyard. An' probably, maybe somebody whut chew know died bad yo' see. Yo' turn it, point it tuh where dey died [buried?] at yo' understan', upside down. An' yo' take de snail an' yo' git some steel dust an' yo' write dere name down on a piece of papah an' yo' put dat steel dust in dere, an' yo' take it - glue it, yo' know, onto de snail. An' yo' see, yo' know, a snail crawl away slow; an' jis' as dey [the snail] crawl an' dat picture fades away, well, dose people will drag an' dey'll pass out.
(Do you write this in any special way, with just an ordinary pencil or what?)
Well, yo' could write it with blue ink if yo' wanted tuh.
Source passage
printed interview with editorial and production layers · Source-local attribution; no resolved person identity is asserted.
context only; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
fold away from you. Here we have a special magic rite of overlapping or corre- sponding or accordion folds.]
interviewer · Hyatt (interviewer); context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
(You put his handkerchief in the pot and you put this piece of paper in, too?)
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
In too - into it an' tie it nine times.
interviewer · Hyatt (interviewer); context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
(Tie that handkerchief nine times.)
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
[Make nine knots in it.]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
But yo' put dat sugah in dere now, remembah. An' yo' put de sugah in dere an' put it on in watah an' start it tuh cookin'. Den yo' call 'im by 'is name, say,
recited or prescribed formula · Current practitioner speaking in this passage · So-an'-so (prescribed addressee); context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
"Come on back heah, So-an'-so, "
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
an' so on.
interviewer · Hyatt (interviewer); context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
(After this water has finished cooking, you take it out and scrub with it.)
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
Scrub yore front steps. He'll come on back. Yo' take de right-foot sock an' put it right up in de front of de do' an' yo' pee on it nine mawnin's an' yo' leave it dere. Dat's tuh keep 'im from gittin' away. Dat's one way of
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
[doing]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
it.
interviewer · Hyatt (interviewer); context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
(Do you put it down any special way?)
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
Put de toe tuh de do' an' spread it out wit de toe tuh de do', wit de nail in de middle of each toe, so it will be smooth. Ah don' take no 'mount of nails. Ah jis' nail it down till it's smooth, so it won't be no wrinkle undah yore rug, becuz de man is a superstitious
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
[suspicious]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
thing. Yo' have tuh look fo'
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
[watch]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
hin as well as he do yo'. Yo' pee on it fo' nine mawnin's. Dat's one way. But de way ah have of doin', ah bear
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
[bury]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
it undah de steps, de same way
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
[with the nails]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
, but ah druthah
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
[rather]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
bear it undah de steps becuz he won't hunt it dere.
interviewer · Hyatt (interviewer); context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
(He won't see it there.)
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
Yo' kin pee in front of dere fo' nine mawnin's. Yo' kin run people away wit dey shoe. Yo' kin go on down heah to de railroad an' git abo'd one dem flatcars, an' take yo' five 20-penny nails an' nail it down dere jis' tuh de box
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
[over the hotbox]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
, an' when dat car roll yo'll roll - yore an'will roll an' keep yo' rollin'. Ah burn 'em.
interviewer · Hyatt (interviewer); context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
(What do you burn the shoe for?)
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
Aw, fo' luck. Ah take sulphah, sugah, cinnamon an' bluestone an' burn 'em an' puts money an' burns money in 'em - take some nickels or dimes, pennies or Ohatevah yo' got. See, de money is jis' as good as it evah wuz. Put it in dere am'take a little oil of cedar an' put in dere an' burn it - see, opposite de do' lak dat
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
[demonstrates]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
.
interviewer · Hyatt (interviewer); context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
(Right in the middle of the front of the door, the saddle of the door. What Ls that supposed to do?)
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
Fo' luck - spo'tin'
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
[sporting]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
houses, fo' transits
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
[transients]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
, anythin'. If he's done quit chew an' gone off - see, dis bed heah.
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
[On my first trip to Memphis, I interviewed in a bedroom of the down-town hotel for black people, Eureka Hotel - see INTRO., v.1, p. XXxl11.]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; supporting excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
Yo' take his pichure an' git chew fo' pins. Yo' turn 'is haid down, undah- stan', pin it on de back of dat bed, an' go on an' lay down. Dat keeps 'is min on yo' in dat bed.
interviewer · Hyatt (interviewer); context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
(Which way do you stick it, looking outside
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
[away from]
interviewer · Hyatt (interviewer); context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
or facing the bed?)
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
Tuh de bed.
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
[The man in the photograph at the back of the bed, his head down, looks chrough the bed headboard at the woman on the bed!]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
interviewer · Hyatt (interviewer); context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
(What else can you do with the picture?)
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; supporting excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
Well, yo' kin take it an' put it ovah watah an' draw 'im back.
interviewer · Hyatt (interviewer); context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
(How do you do that?)
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1863
Take de glass an' take de pichure an' set de watah lak dat, but if it's a
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; supporting excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
small one, smallah dan de glass, den yo' know whut chew do, yo' git chew a little whiskey glass an' put watah in it but don' let de pichure tech it. An' yo' double dat lil pichure on dat lil whiskey glass an' set it in de inside - yo' know, let it spread out enough dat it will hold itself. Put it undah yore bed.
interviewer · Hyatt (interviewer); context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
(Do you put that.picture in
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
[the glass]
interviewer · Hyatt (interviewer); context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
just any way or do you put the head standing up?)
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
On 'is haid alway8. Dat
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
[dragon's blood]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
one de greates' thin's yo' kin use. Yo' kin use it fo' peace or yo' kin use it fo' de devil. Fo' peace ah use it wit sugah, but dragon blood will stop it
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
[devil work]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
. Any time yo' don' want a fuss, yo' gotta put sugah in it.
interviewer · Hyatt (interviewer); context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
(What do you do, burn it?)
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
Burn it. Den yo' covah it. Dere lotta thin's yo' mix wit it tuh keep people from knowin' whut it is - Balt. An' yo' dig roots, but chew don' wan' people tuh know whut de roots are.
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
[The FOLLOWING STATEMENT ABOUT THE UNUSUAL BLACK CAT ASHES IS AMAZING. My informant first tells how she or rumor says these ashes are made and then, after our brief digression with the black cat bone we return to the use and price of black cat ashes.]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
Git chure own black ket aahes, Yo' git some undahtakah to take de ket
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
[cat]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
an' fill it fulla fohnenhide
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
[= foam-en-hide = formaldehyde]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
, joo know, an' den yo' go where dere de crematory an' git 'im tuh burn dat, an' den yo' ketch all de ashes. See, yo've made yer own ashes. An' jis' git chew a ket yo'self an' kill 'im
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
[and take him to the undertaker]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
.
interviewer · Hyatt (interviewer); context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
(What about the black cat bone?)
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
Aw, well, yo' put 'em in boilin' hot watah an' cook 'im an' de bone dat rises tuh de top, yo' take it tuh a gtream of watah. All de rest of dem will sink, sho'
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
[sure]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
as ah'm livin', but chew mus' sell yo' soul tuh de devil tuh mastah dat.
interviewer · Hyatt (interviewer); context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
(How do you sell your soul to the devil?)
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
Ah've nevah learn tuh do dat. But sellin' yo'self to de devil, yo' know whut dat is don' chew? Yo' don' believe dere is a God, dere nevah wuz a God.
interviewer · Hyatt (interviewer); context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
(How do you use these black cat ashes?)
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
Dat black ket ashes ia 'bout one de highest
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
[hoodoo ingredients]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
yo' kin buy. Yo' cain't buy undah five dollahs right roun' at de cornah heah.
interviewer · Hyatt (interviewer); context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
(You mean at the drug store?)
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
Five dollahs.
interviewer · Hyatt (interviewer); context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
(What do they use it for?)
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
Well, sometime dey use it fo' success - dey fo' drawin'.
interviewer · Hyatt (interviewer); context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
(Mostly hands?)
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
Gamblin' han's.
interviewer · Hyatt (interviewer); context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
(How would you make a good gambling hand?)
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
Well, sometime ah'd git bat hearts, dry 'em. Yo' know dey'll dry if yo' jis' take 'em an' lay.'em in de sun an' dey'll wizzle
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
[= wizen]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
up. An' yo' take dat bat heart an' yo' take nine needles an' yo' break dose needles off at de top. An' yo' stick nine needles right aroun' dat heart. Yo' take yo' a piece of lode- stone - it's cordin' tuh whut colah it is, whoevah yo' makin' a han' fo'. When yo' read
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
[the cards]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
fo' 'im yo' kin
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
[tell]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
what he needs. Yo' kin take white lodestone or black lodestone an' dere is a she lodestone made lak a woman. Dat's a she lodestone
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
[demonstrates, or does she show me one?]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
.
interviewer · Hyatt (interviewer); context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
(Just in the shape of a woman.)
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
Yeah. Yo' kin git dat at Dahinton
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
[Darlington?]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
Bros., Natchez, Miss.
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1864
[She lodestone in the shape of. a woman is rare in my experience. This would
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
be powdered she lodestone pressed into the semblance of a woman, a very small form so that it could fit into a hand. This figurine appears to have been a spe- ciality (or specialty) of this business firm. See margin-title LODESTONE: HE AND SHE, Pp.601-603. [We now return to the gambling hand made with a bat heart.]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
Yo' take de nine needles, yo' break 'em off sho't
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
[short]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
yo' know, but yo' stick 'em in de heart. Den yo' put yore heart in cloth, silk an' flannen - red flannen
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
[flannel]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
.
interviewer · Hyatt (interviewer); context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
(You use both of them?)
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
Uh-huh, one's de inside bag an' one's a' outside bag. Some of 'em use shammy. An'den yo' take dat
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
[heart]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
out an'
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
[as a substitute]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
yo' put dat lodestone in dere an' yo' keep a silvah dime in dere. Dat silvah dime, dat'll las' yo' a long time, not gratin' it. An' yo' put a lil dat silvah money in dere, an' yo' put dis lodestone an' nine needles, an' yo' put a lil piece of John de Conkah, an' yo' take a lil piece of devil's-shoestring, an' yo' sew dat bag up an' wish. An' den yo' dress it. Wish success tuh yo'.
interviewer · Hyatt (interviewer); context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
(What do you use specially to dress it?)
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
Hell, ah use - sometime ah use bergamine
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
[bergamot]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
an' wintahgreen mixed, but ah us'lly use oil of cedar an' Jockey Club
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
[Perfume]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
. But yo' see in some in- stance, tuh make yore stuff go fur
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
[further]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
, yo' git chew toilet watah an' halfa bottle of Jockey Club, becuz it's
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
[a full bottle is]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
mo' expensive. But chew Hn make it
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
[go further]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
.
interviewer · Hyatt (interviewer); context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
(The inner bag is of silk and the outer one is the flannel?)
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
No suh, innah bag is flannen, an' de outah bag is de silk. Take a bath in sweet spirits of nitre fo' nine days an' garlic. Yo' take it an' po' it in yore bath watah. Yo' take a little Red Seal Lye, yo' know. a lil lye on a knife. Yo' put it into yore bath watah an' den yo' po' de sweet spirits of nitre in dere an' nine pods of garlic cut up, an' take a bath in dat. Den yo' Hn go tuh de rivah an' take a bath in runnin' watah, an' dat's luck.
interviewer · Hyatt (interviewer); context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
(After you take the bath?)
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
Bo, ah say eithah one of dose. Dey are two diff'ren' thin's dat ah'm tellin'. One if yo' in a stream of bad luck an' yo' want chure bad luck
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
[to change]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
. Some people
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
[doctors]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
send dere customahs to de
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
[Mississippi]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
rivah tuh take a bath in runnin' watah tuh wash de jinx off an' it'll roll on down
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
[the river]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
.
interviewer · Hyatt (interviewer); context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
(Hou of ten do you do that?)
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
Fell, one or twice, but yore luck will change.
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
{For bathing in the Mississippi River at New Orleans on May 1, see p.381, No. 986.
interviewer · Hyatt (interviewer); context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
(For this luck in gambling
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
[I mean]
interviewer · Hyatt (interviewer); context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
for this bath nine times, do you take it at any special time?)
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
Any time you kin make it
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
[= any time you get ready]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
. De furse thin' yo' do, yo' git chew some love powdahs, yo' kin buy 'em at Mff'ren' places,
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
[and]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
peace powdahs. Den anothah way yo' kin do, if yo' know de man's name. Den jis' lak yo' know bo yo' goin' tuh work fa', well yo' go dere, an' yo' go to de icehouse an' yo dt chew a dime piece of ice, an' write his name an' put it in dat ice, an' wrap at ice up tight an' don' 'low
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
[allow]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
nobody tuh break dat ice. Dat cools 'im Ian' he'll talk wit yo'.
interviewer · Hyatt (interviewer); context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
(hat do you do with that love powder in the meantime?)
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
gell, dey use it sometime an' women use it tuh make men love 'em, tuh make boevah yo' meet be cool, peaceful.
interviewer · Hyatt (interviewer); context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
Do you make your own love powder?)
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1865
Bo suh, ah don't make mah own love powdahs but ah do makes some powdahs.
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1866
Yo' kin go - jis' lak yo' git up in de mawnin' an' take jis' nine clear buck- ets Of watah. YO' DO SOMETHIN' DIFF'REN' EVAH TIME YO' MAKE LUCK IN BUSINESS.
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1866
[This is an unusual rule, probably informant's own, one that will keep an expert operator like the informant mentally agile. For this type of luck, see BUSINESS AND CUSTOMERS, Pp.669-744.
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1866
Yo' throw nine buckets of watah on yore front po'ch an' sweep. Don' nevah sweep yore po'ch off, always sweep it back. Cleah watah from de hydran'
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1866
[con- sidered running water]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1866
. But don' speak to nobody while yo' doin' it. But evah time yo' do somethin' diff'ren'. Well, de nex' time ah do it, ah use bergamine an' wintahgreen mixed; scrub mah front wit it, dat an' one bucket of watah. A dime's worth will be enough fo' two scrubbin's. Go an' git chew some pure hick'ry an' take dat hick'ry an' burn it in de stove, an' yo' rake it out an' git chew some bluein', de stick bluein'. It blue clothes, yo' know. Yo' wanta keep de blues away
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1866
[cops wearing blue suits]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1866
. Yo' take dat hick'ry an' bluein' an' mix it togethah an' yo' put it ovah yore do'. Put de ashes an' de bluein' ovah yore do'. Pulvahize it tuhgethah, in any- thin' yo' want. Eithah put it in a lil box so it ovah dat do'.
interviewer · Hyatt (interviewer); context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1866
(That will keep the law away.)
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1866
Den lak yo' wanta win a suit or anythin'
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1866
[any court case]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1866
. Yo' go down heah
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1866
[the market]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1866
- yo' know whut double pansy whut grows in gardens an' thin's.
interviewer · Hyatt (interviewer); context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1866
(Double pansy.)
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1866
Well, yo' git chew nine new leaves of double pansy an' yo' put it in yore shoe an' yo' write six Disciple names an' wrap dat double pansy up in dat papah where de six Disciple names are in. Yo' write de Twelve Disciple name an' weah six in each shoe an' put a piece of double pansy in each shoe. Undahstan' me, but chew fold it in papah an' den put it in yore shoe. Now, de furse six take an' put it in yore right shoe, de nex' six yo' put dem in yore left shoe, when yo' go into co't Or anythin' lak dat. ANYTHIN' DAT CHEW WANTA MASTAH, YO' WEAH DEM TWELVE DISCIPLES. De way tuh do lak yo' got a lotta enemies. In dat case an' yo' wanta git rid of 'em so dey cain't talk, yo' go git chew a beef tongue. Yo' take dat beef tongue an' yo' write dere name, all dere names, an' yo' stick a hole in dis part of de tongue - de tip of de tongue - an' yo' stick dose names up in dere. Dat's used personal, understan'. Den yo' take it to a flue an' let it down dere an start chew a hot fiah, an' go on to co't
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1866
[court]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1866
. Yo' kin jis' put it on a wire yo' know, so it will hang dere. Yo' hangin' 'em.
interviewer · Hyatt (interviewer); context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1866
(Well, why do you want to warm then?)
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1866
Ah'm hangin' 'em
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1866
[not warming them]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1866
.
editorial gloss or commentary; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1866
[This rite causes a hung jury.]
informant · Current practitioner speaking in this passage; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1866
context only; context excerpt · Vol. 3, p. 1866
Ah know from experience. Yo'll laff when ah tell yah. A fellah killed mah uncle heah, two of 'em, an' ah drawed em back heah. Ah tole 'em, ah said, "Dey goin' ketch 'em, ah ain't goin' put mahself tuh no trouble." See, yo' gotta have fo' aig an' dey mus' be de aig of a black hen. Dey cain't stay 'way. Yo' put two undah his [murdered man's] arm, two undah his haid. Yo take yo' a pair of scissahs an' cross it in his back - steel. [To open the closed scissors makes a cross of steel.] It done wit steel, an' shet dem han's up an' let dem arms tight down on dem aigs. When dem aigs bus' he cain't stay still. Dey'll git back heah. He'll come back hisself, yo' don' have tuh hunt fo' 'im. (This case with your uncle, did you get the man?) Yessuh. (Did that happen right here in Memphis?) Right heah in Memphis. Dere a piece in de papah about hoodoo hero[ine] dis
Nested source context: recited or prescribed formula · Vol. 3, p. 1863
"Come on back heah, So-an'-so, "
Nested source context: continuing window edge · Vol. 3, p. 1863
fold away from you. Here we have a special magic rite of overlapping or corre- sponding or accordion folds.]
Nested source context: reported quotation · Vol. 3, p. 1866
"Dey goin' ketch 'em, ah ain't goin' put mahself tuh no trouble."
Nested source context: continuing window edge · Vol. 3, p. 1866
Ah know from experience. Yo'll laff when ah tell yah. A fellah killed mah uncle heah, two of 'em, an' ah drawed em back heah. Ah tole 'em, ah said, "Dey goin' ketch 'em, ah ain't goin' put mahself tuh no trouble." See, yo' gotta have fo' aig an' dey mus' be de aig of a black hen. Dey cain't stay 'way. Yo' put two undah his [murdered man's] arm, two undah his haid. Yo take yo' a pair of scissahs an' cross it in his back - steel. [To open the closed scissors makes a cross of steel.] It done wit steel, an' shet dem han's up an' let dem arms tight down on dem aigs. When dem aigs bus' he cain't stay still. Dey'll git back heah. He'll come back hisself, yo' don' have tuh hunt fo' 'im. (This case with your uncle, did you get the man?) Yessuh. (Did that happen right here in Memphis?) Right heah in Memphis. Dere a piece in de papah about hoodoo hero[ine] dis
Nested source context: cross page editorial continuation · Vol. 3, p. 1864
[She lodestone in the shape of. a woman is rare in my experience. This would
Nested source context: editorial expansion · Vol. 3, p. 1866
[con- sidered running water]
Nested source context: rumor or informant qualification · Vol. 3, p. 1864
[The FOLLOWING STATEMENT ABOUT THE UNUSUAL BLACK CAT ASHES IS AMAZING. My informant first tells how she or rumor says these ashes are made and then, after our brief digression with the black cat bone we return to the use and price of black cat ashes.]
Nested source context: condition and negation qualification · Vol. 3, p. 1864
as ah'm livin', but chew mus' sell yo' soul tuh de devil tuh mastah dat. (How do you sell your soul to the devil?) Ah've nevah learn tuh do da
Nested source context: substitution qualification · Vol. 3, p. 1865
[heart] out an' [as a substitute] yo' put dat lodestone in dere an' yo' keep a silvah dime in dere. Dat silvah dime, dat'll las' yo' a long time, not gratin' it. An' yo' put a lil dat silvah money in dere, an' yo' put dis lodestone an' nine needles, an' yo' put a lil piece of John de Conkah, an' yo' take a lil piece of devil's-shoestring, an' yo' sew dat bag up an' wish. An' den yo' dress it. Wish success tuh yo'.
Nested source context: answer correction qualification · Vol. 3, p. 1865
(The inner bag is of silk and the outer one is the flannel?) No suh, innah bag is flannen, an' de outah bag is de s
Nested source context: alternative baths qualification · Vol. 3, p. 1865
(After you take the bath?) Bo, ah say eithah one of dose. Dey are two diff'ren' thin's dat ah'm te
Nested source context: editorial interpretation qualification · Vol. 3, p. 1866
[This rite causes a hung jury.]
partial continuing interview window with context only edges
This passage contains part of a continuing interview; neither the complete interview nor every topic is included.
The opening editorial discussion of folding continues from the preceding page; it is included as context only.
The closing recollection about an uncle and a murder continues on printed page 1867; it is included as context only.
Missing bracket/brace and malformed prompt delimiters remain literal; authored bounds distinguish editorial and live source.
Hyatt explicitly frames cat-ashes preparation as informant or rumor; do not infer personal practice.
Retain cat-bone sell-soul qualification and never-learned answer; bat-heart/lodestone substitution; reversed bag correction; alternative baths.
Local practitioner identity only; no resolved person, plant or business identity.
Bounded passage retrieval, not complete corpus coverage or practitioner consensus.
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