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GUARD: MEANING OF FAIRLY RARE WORD
Volume 5, entries 11832. Source context: "CHANNEL DE WORLD". Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 11832
"She has a guard as well as she [the other woman] had and she [first woman] say [the other woman with a guard] couldn't turn it [spell, trick, etc. back] on her." [Here we have irresistible force meeting immovable object! A hoodoo standoff! (See TWO FIGHTING "DEVIL- No.917, p.337, v.1.) As you can see, this word quard has nothing to do with sex, it is a protective device, something worn or kept in the house or elsewhere to protect its owner from hoodoo or witchcraft. Normally such pro- tection would come from a special hand, jomoh, toby, etc., one formerly prepared by a professional doctor. In other words I found guard rare compared to the more usual names.]