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BURNS MINISTRATION HE STEALS - MAN WEARS ASHES
Volume 5, entries 10729. Source context: "CHANNEL DE WORLD". Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 10729
[Belief and practices concerning menstrual blood - except those in the interviews of volumes 2 and 3 - are collected in subsection "HER PRIVATE TIME numbers 2513-2540, volume 3.] You could ketch a woman during the time of her monthly minis- tration, you see. You steal it and burn it, and take the ashes from it and carry it around, why the woman would follow 'em [himl or wouldn't want anybody but dem. [To burn menstrual blood is usually dangerous; kills the woman (No.3858), keeps her home (No.3859), makes her weak-minded (No.3860), or this blood smoked in the chimney dries up woman's blood (No.3867) - all references in volume 3.]