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Cursing

Volume 1, entries 1076. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → FOLK MEDICINE → FOLK MEDICINE (1) PRINCIPLES OF HEALING. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.

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Entry 1076

Volume 1 · printed page 405–406 · Wilson, N. Car.

[Cursing rites come in many forms - here's an unusual one:]

Walk over it an' cuss, it couldn't do anything to yo' lak dat. Ah heered dat.

(If you thought you were walking over something that somebody put down for you. All you do - just curse as you walked over it and it wouldn't harm you?)

Yes.

Related subjects: Curse, Harm

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