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KNOTCHED STICK - AT FORKS OF ROAD

Volume 4, entries 6848. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → FOLK MEDICINE → CURES FOR AND PROTECTION AGAINST AILMENT AND DISEASE. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.

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Entry 6848

Volume 4 · printed page 3131–3132 · Wilmington, N. Car.

Ah hear'd dey go dere an' take a stick, if dey got a soah [sore] on 'em or anythin' lak dat dey wan'a git rid of. Take some kine a stick, trim it an' cut dem notches in it, an' take evah one a dem notches an' rub it crost [across] de sōah. Dey say de one - dey stick right up at de fo'ks of de road, an' de one dat take de stick up will git de soah.

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