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Entry 7235

Volume 4 · printed page 3223–3224 · Charleston, S. Car.

Dat would be whut de root man, dis hoodoo doctor - dat would be whut he would do.

(What will he do? Will you tell me that again? What would he do?)

Now in case dat yo' wus hurted by anyone an' yo' would go tuh a root doctor. Well, dis doctor, he would draw dis pichure of de individual who did dat tuh yo' an' den, aftah dat, he would build a fire an' in front of de smoke, yo' see, he'll hold de pichure up yo' undahstan'. Put it, yo' know, on a stick or somepin an' den yo' shoot [the picture drawn by the root doctor].

(Who does the shooting, you or he?)

Yo' do it. Yo' will do it yuhself.

(That keeps away trouble.)

Related subjects: Fire, Hold

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