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MOSS [SPANISH] - PREVENTS BIRTHMARKS
Volume 5, entries 12465. Source context: "CHANNEL DE WORLD". Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 12465
[To guard against unfulfilled desires during pregnancy:] Take the [Spanish] moss down and the woman wears this here moss across her breast, under her bubbies there; and of course, if things that she wish to want, and differ- ent [things] like that, why she wouldn't wish for that, and it won't bring her a birth-marked child.
(She just wears that moss on her breast.)
In a little bag or anything that she wants to wear it in. [For birthmarks, cause and removal, see FOLKLORE FROM ADAMS COUNTY ILLINOIS, 2nd ed.,965, Pp.111-130.]