Browse:FROG: EGGS - BLOOD - POWDER (Volume 5, entries 9919)
FROG: EGGS - BLOOD - POWDER
Volume 5, entries 9919. Source context: ADDITIONAL RITES AND BELIEFS → FROG AND TOADFROG. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 9919
Put frog eggs in food; creates frogs inside. [Mobile, Ala., 945:4]. Tuo drops of frog blood in drink creates frogs in person. Can be cured by sweet milk, saltpeter, and alum. [Mobile, Ala., 920:4]. Starve frog to death, parch head to powder, feed to a person, frogs inside you. [Vicksburg, Miss., 997:3]. Frog burned to powder, mix with graveyard dirt, across enemy's path for bad luck. [Snowhill, Md., from man born and lived early life near Sewanee, Tenn., 9:1].