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FROG URINE
Volume 4, entries 6565. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → FOLK MEDICINE → LIVE THINGS IN YOU. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 6565
Down right on Hanover Street, why SHE HAD FROGS IN HER. Suah [sure] she had frogs. Now, dey li'le toadfrogs what jump aroun', understand. Jis' lak yo' out in de country, see dese li'le ole rough back frogs jumpin', yo' know, why jis' ketch 'em an' yo' kept 'em an' jes' let 'em - put 'em on a rag or sompin lak dat an' let 'em make a li'le watah, yo' undahstan'. All right, dey make a li'le watah an' yo' jis' kin take dat an put it across a person [person's] somepin tuh eat, yo' undahstan', yo' more dan apt tuh git frogs an' skippahs an' crawfish - all kind of insex intuh yo' by dat. [The word skipper I have discussed elsewhere. It is not something looking like a butterfly, but a maggot infesting meat. I personally knew only the skipper in bone-cured ham, the world's greatest jumper for its size.]