Folk-lore from the Dominican republic / by Manuel J. Andrade.

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Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society

y orasion pa subi a gosai
a tan aito Senoi.
Aito devino Sefioi,
cueipo sagrado y heimoso,
ei mio faiso y enganioso
po lo pecado que jise.
A mi confesoi no dije
- Confiesome a ti, Senoi.
Vo sabe lo que soy.
Le pido penitensia,
veidadera aisolusion
pa que mi aima no se pieida
ni muera sin confesion.
Ad6rote, Veronica,
casa santa de Roma.
En la tiniebla dite lu,
de la tre caida dei suelo
que Dio midio con la cru.
Oh, Vigen, madre de Dio!
Eposa de mi lu
consuelo jayate ai pie de la cru.
Con gran soleda
socorre, Seniora, mi nesesida.
Dio te saive, Maria,
etreya de la aurora,
que sola te jayate,
devina Sefiora.
Santa Maria de la geraiquia,
ruega po nojotro, devina Maria.
Padre San Isidro,
vo labradoi,
ruega po nojotro,
devino seii6i.
Amen.
The following is credited with a great deal of power against evil
spirits, or failure in any enterprise. It was known everywhere I
spoke of it, and the title at least was familiar even to educated
persons in the cities. A copy of it is frequently carried as an amulet.
In one farmer's home I was permitted to copy one which was
always kept under the image of the Virgin of Altagracia, the patroness of the Dominican Republic.