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Bluestone
Volume 1, entries 1129–1130. 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 1129
Well, you've gotta go to work then to get you some - you kin dress your home, you have to dress your home with bluestone water to keep down all danger, you see. You sprinkles with that every morning - you sprinkle your home with bluestone water. You have a sprinkler, you know, and you go round and you sprinkle all around your steps and everything like that. That kills out the power of everything. Bluestone is the strongest thing in the world that you could use.
Entry 1130
Wear powdered bluestone in both shoes; change bluestone once a week. [Wilmington, N. Car., (?), 233:1.] Bluestone worn in bag round neck. [Richmond, Va., (?), 336:1.] If feet swollen from walking over something [surface or buried hoodoo object], bathe with bluestone and sulphur and throw some [of this water] about door. [Norfolk, Va., (?), 530:6.] Burn bluestone in house; kills evil and cun, juration. [Charleston, S. Car., (502), 546:10.]