Browse:(7) MOLD OF THE HEAD HAIR (Volume 4, entries 6359)
(7) MOLD OF THE HEAD HAIR
Volume 4, entries 6359. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → HAIR. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 6359
[Mold or mould (the latter British) a term for a special place on top of the head, had few sayings or rites in Folklore from Adams County Illinois, lst ed. These few beliefs concerned the top of a baby's head, the still unjoined skull sutures which informants called the soft spot - anatomically the fontanel. An adult mold, sutures grown together and the center from which hair spread in all directions, informants knew as the crown or crown of the head. Some persons knew the name mold for the top of the head but no folklore about it. This top- of-the-head significance of mold appears in Websters New Intermational Dictionary of the English Language, 2nd ed., 1942; but The Random House Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged (1966) omits the definition. Does this omission indicate infrequent usage or obsolescence for a word as old as the Anglo-Saxon language? There are many hair-from-the-mold-of- the-head rites in Hoodoo.] An' den dey kin take de hair ag'in out de mole [mold] of yore haid an' weah it on de body an' make 'em love yo'.