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Black Pepper
Volume 1, entries 1123. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → FOLK MEDICINE → CURE AND PROTECTION. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 1123
I've heard of them taking black pepper and putting it in the shoe to keep a person from getting the dirt out of their footprint. They said the footprint won't register in the sand if they have black pepper in the shoe. [Snow Hill, Md., (83), 2:22; Nansemond Co., Va.] [Black pepper like red pepper usually occurs in combinations of ingredients; it being less frequently used than red.]