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Entry 11305
Take some red pepper - nine balls [pods?] of red pep- per [finger peppers?] and put it in meal [cornmeal = maize meal] and make it into a cake. An' don't cook it but put it raw under the door- step and bury it deep, and the dog would stay home.
(Where do you get this hair from the dog?)
Right in back of his neck, get the hair from the back of his neck.
Entry 2582
Yo' kin dress de house, 'sposed tuh be wit rice - raw rice. House kin be dressed wit raw rice - whole grain rice, no breaked rice. Yo' kin go tuh work an' yo' kin take a teaspoonful of raw rice an' put it in each one of yore shoes an' wear it in dere 72 hours an' then yo' kin take an' sprinkle it all ovah yore flo'. Dat's one of de highest luck things dat ah evah used, an' ah'm goin' on 50 yeahs in it. (That's to bring in customers. Well, do you use that with this water or use it separately?) Well, dat's separately.
(That water is one way of bringing them in? And the rice is another way?)
Rice is one of de highest. Ah don't reckon yo' heard 'bout dat.
Entry 3791
(You eat these red onions raw?)
Eat red onions raw. Jes' cut 'em up yo' understan' an' eat 'em. Yo' undah- stan', wit vinegar an' black peppah. Yo' seen 'em lak dat. Dey mostly be able tuh give a man courage.
Entry 6673
(A turtle. What do they do with a turtle?)
Well, ah see a person take a turtle aig. Take a turtle aig an' break it raw an' put alcohol on it, an' yo' save it. (You save it?) Yo' put it aside. But ah think a fellah mean an'( dirty enough tuh take dat few drops of al- cohol off dat turtle egg. An' yo' put it in some whiskey or somepin an' give somebody dat tuh drink. It will kill 'em right away. Dat's de way yo' kill people dataway.
Entry 7028
[For MINNOW and MULLET, see later; CATFISH already given.]
Yo' kin take fish. Den yo' mash de fish an' put hit in some whiskey, a raw piece of fish. Put it in whiskey. An' if yo' wan' chore husban' or yore wife tuh quit drinkin' - an' evah time dey ask fo' a drink of whiskey, yo' give dem a drink of dat.
Entry 13232
All right, ah'm gonna tell yo'. Yo' take de sock, de dirty sock. Yo' take de seven steak. Yo' git a little seven steak wit a number seven on it. [A seven steak or 7 steak is a T-bone steak, its bone shaped something like a 7!]
[It took me some time to identify the steak!]
(Where do you get that?)
[I must have thought this was a stake with No.7 on it, something from a hoo- doo shop!] At de market. Yo' git de raw meat. Git a box of salt an' a box of Epsom salts, red peppah. Git a spool of black thread. [Don't forget] cookin' salt, cayenne peppah. [Informant does not complete this holding two-persons-together rite. These articles are put in man's soiled sock and tied with a piece of the new black thread. We now come to the separating-two-persons rite.1 Yo' wanta break this person's footsteps [that is, separate two persons but using their footsteps] or break 'em up with that person an' - yo' write their names nine times across [you write his name down 9 times and then cross them with her names 9 times] an' yo' put it. An' then you'll bury it in yore yard, yo' see.
(That heals them up.)