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MULLEIN
Volume 3, entries 3229. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → SEXUAL IMPOTENCE → CAUSES OF SEXUAL IMPOTENCE → MISCELLANEOUS. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 3229
If he [a husband] goes to his wife - to keep 'im [any other man] from havin' intahco'se wit 'er, [they] say yo' kin go to a - dere's a kinda bush out in de woods called de mullein. (The mullein vine.) Take a mullein an' put chure han' tuh de top of it an' strip it right down lak dat [demonstrates], an' take dat stuff yo' strip down lak dat, an' put it right in a pot an' boil it an' draw some tea outa it, an' put chure fingah in de tea an' stick it down in dere.
(You put your finger in this tea and then do what?)
Have de tea where yo' kin do it on 'er. Put chure fingah in it an' put it down in 'er yo' see. An' de man cain't git up de heart tuh go wit 'er.
(Who would do this?)
Her husband.
(You mean her husband would do it and [but] that man wouldn't. He [other man]
Wouldn't be able to do anything with her then?) No, de outside man couldn't do it. (Oh! the outside man couldn't. Yet the husband dresses her with this mullein tea. Then no outside man can come.) (And in getting this mullein, you've got to strip it right from the top, you have to strip it right down.) Jes' as de sun rise in de mornin'. (Just at sunrise In the morning, you have to strip it all down. Any number of times or just once?) No, jes' once, jes' take yo' hand an' come right down wit it.
(Just once, all at once.)