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MATTRESS - BOILED EGG IN
Volume 4, entries 9303. Source context: ADDITIONAL RITES AND BELIEFS → THE AMAZING CHICKEN EGG. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 9303
Take a chicken aig an' boil it, boil it done. An' yo' take dat chicken aig an' put it in de mattress, de side dat he sleeps on, an' he'll nevah leave. (Any kind of a chicken egg?) Yes sir, any kind. (This should be a black hen's egg.) [This comment of mine shows that I restarted recording machine to add the unrecorded black-hen information.]