Elise Goldstein
Flesh and Bone
Flesh and Bone
2010

"…then it’s really just a giant seduction, you know?…. so what, so I meet this being, and I want what this being has to offer, and this being wants what I have to offer, and we make this kind of pact, and then I allow this being to enter me for a time, and only for a time, and then I walk around most of the time without anything in me at all. But then there’s always a residue, or there’s this knowledge that the body has that something was in it."


An Act For Ridding the Body of Unwanted Tenants

(Instructions historically used by the Fox sisters, in the 19th century,
to cleanse a medium after a séance)

Draw a circle of salt on the floor.
Enter the circle.
On a small card, write the name of the visitor with spittle.
Collect the salt into a glass.
Overturn it.
Burn a candle on the base.
When the flame is extinguished, the host will be clear.

1 glass for each body that has entered mine
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