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CATFISH OR GARFISH - 3 DROPS OF BLOOD
Volume 4, entries 7006. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → FOLK MEDICINE → ALCOHOLICS. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 7006
Ket' choo [ketch choo = catch you] a live catfish or garfish, an' while he alive, an' git choo a halfa pinta likkah an' put three dropsa blood in it, while he's [the fish is] alive, an' give it'im [the man]. (That will stop him from drinking?) Stop 'im from drinkin'. [This may be the only reference in Hoodoo to the gar, or billy gar as we used to call it during my childhood at Quincy, Illinois, on the Mississippi River. The fresh-water gars of the U. S. A. are ga- noids of the order Holostei family, Lapisosteidae, widely distributed in eastern and central U. S. A., as long-nosed gar and short-nosed gar. Our present gar may be the alligator gar, a much larger fish found farther south.]