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BLACK MASTER
Volume 4, entries 6707. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → FOLK MEDICINE → CURES FOR AND PROTECTION AGAINST AILMENT AND DISEASE. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 6707
[The following 3 beliefs I reduced years ago to short statements or footnotes: Carry black master root, no one can harm you (Norfolk, Va., 476: ll; chew black master, if given poison, brings up (Norfolk, Va., 530:11; informant says in North Carolina black master is called silkweed (Norfolk, Va., 477:4).] [Silkweed is the milkweed.]