"One of his followers had a nice black, fat, pet sheep. He told them it was revealed to him that they should dig a trench around a certain spot'[and] cut the artery in the sheep's neck, walk him around the trench and form a circle of blood"to keep the evil spirit out of the circle."then commence digging; but if any one spoke a word the treasure would surely vanish." ...
"[He] cut the artery in the sheep's neck, walk him around the trench and form a circle of blood" to keep the evil spirit out of the circle. "then commence digging."...
"But if any one spoke a word the treasure would surely vanish."
[Sara Melissa Ingersoll, "Mormonism Unveiled," copy in letter to Hellen Miller Gould, 27 November 1899, as quoted in A Topical Guide of Treasure-Seeking Rituals From the American Northeast during the 18th and 19th Centuries, Compiled by Joseph T. Antley (2010)]
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