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KNOTS LOOK LAK DEY'S 'LIVE UNDAH DERE SKIN
Volume 4, entries 6657. 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 6657
[In the following statement, as well as elsewhere in the text, the old belief about live things in you has been watered down to knots and things that look alive under the skin.] If yo' wanta damage anyone wit de snake, yo' kin kill de snake, pound it up an' put it in whiskey an' give it tuh someone. It will cause dem tuh go crazy, an' [have] knots look lak dey's 'live undah dere skin - knots lak dat, an' thin's lak lizards.