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LUMBER - NEW
Volume 5, entries 10444. Source context: ADDITIONAL RITES AND BELIEFS → HAG AND WITCH RETURN. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 10444
New lumber keeps spirits or ghosts away - believed every- where [Mobile, Ala., 865:3].
The account says new lumber keeps spirits or ghosts away. The alternative wording and broad belief remark establish neither equivalence, measured prevalence nor a protective effect.