Subject:Skillet
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Entry 13063
Well, ah heard dat if she make him eat out of de fryin' pan an' pot, he'd stay home. He won't be so happy tuh go off. (How do you mean, eat out of the frying pan and pot?) Well, wherevah it's cooked, yo' know, let him eat out of that an' don't put it into a plate - jes' let him eat out of de pan - de fryin' pan or skillet or anything lak a pot.
Entry 2177
Take your onion, a raw onion and put it in the middle of the fish, don't sprinkle it, just take a whole onion and put it in there. You clean it and put it on in the fish, and you ain't going to have none left - all them going to be sold out.
(That's when you're having your fish fry. Do you put it in each fish?)
That? No, just put that in the skillet in the first fish you fry - just that whole onion in the middle of it when it's frying. Put it on top of the fish there and let your fish fry. And your next one [skillet] you fry, just put it on there, all your fish will be eat.
(Each fish that you fry?)
Not each fish, just in the front of the skillet. Turn your fish over and take the onion up and set it back, don't set it where it'll burn, set it on top of there. You clean it but you don't cut it up. Use catfish and buffalo. All of them will sell out.
Entry 608
Wal, ah tole him [Edward, my contact man] ah wus poison one time. An' ah had moved in a house an' de woman had dressed de hat fo' me 'cause she didn't Want to move out of de house, an' mah han's got so till ah couldn't use 'em - mah fingers, yo' know, jes' lak a person have poison. An' ah wus in jes' sech a bad fix - two doctors wus tendin' me. Ah wus jes' about - ah thought ah wus goin' die. So a gentleman recommend me to anothah man, but he went an' got dis man an' bring him to me. An' dis man put a silver dime in mah mouth, an' ah kept it in dere fifteen minutes an' dat dime done turn black. Den he took de dime after it turn black an' put it in a black fryin' pan an' he boiled dat dime in dat fryin' pan fifteen minutes. An' when he boiled it fifteen minutes, he took de watah dat boil in de dime an' gi' me a tablespoonsful of it fo' thirty minutes. An' in twenty-fo' hours ah felt as good as ah feel right now. An' two doctors give me up.
(You say this woman had fixed you in a hat?)
Dressed me in a hat. Ah had done took de hat down an' shaken it - sweepin' yo' know, de house out, an' didn't know dat de hat was dressed fo' me.
Entry 1334
They tell me you can take a frog, catch a frog alive, and you put him into any kind of a pot or skillet and you parch it until it come to a dust, and you sprinkle this over the food - you know, just parch it until you can just make a dust out of it and put it in the food. And when they eat it it become live again in 'em. They do the same thing wit a snake or scorpion.
(How do they get those things out of them?)
How do you get 'em out? You takes sweet milk and something they call hog hoof - that's a powder you get it down here at the Cracker Jack Drug Store and you put it in there and you boils it. See, get fresh sweet milk. Well, you put it in there [the hog hoof powder] and you boils it up. Well, you drink that and you vomit it up.
Entry 10741
Ah heard yo' could take chicken blood when yore periods is on, an' git chew a steak an' wear it. Jes' lak at five minutes tuh twelve tuh have yore hus- ban's dinnah, yo' wear that right there, pin it an' jes' wear it there. Have yore grease good an' hot an' then yo' take it out jes' as he walk in, an' put it ovah in de skillet, see. An' then yo' fry that nice an' brown, an' yo' serve that an' [let] no one eat it but him. An' yo' cain't git rid of 'im tuh save yore life.
(You don't use chicken blood on it though?)
Yes yo' do. Yo' put chicken blood on that steak, too, an' yore blood together. [That chicken blood is for good measure. The stake itself, under normal condi- tions is sufficient; the chicken blood merely makes him chicken-hearted, an easier prey magically.]