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EEL BLOOD FOR 9 DAYS
Volume 4, entries 7025. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → FOLK MEDICINE → ALCOHOLICS. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 7025
A eel.
(You take: an eel?)
Yo' kin take a eel an' take de blood of a eel an' stop anybody from drinkin'. (How do you do that?) Yo' see, jis' whut dey drink, yo' take dat eel's blood an' yo' drop it in dere. An' when dey be drinkin', yo'll git enough an' yo'll do it fo' nine days. An' evah time yo' give dem a drink, yo'll put some of dat eel's blood in dere, but it'll make 'em awful sick. But yo'll stop 'um from drinkin'.