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POKER - RED-HOT - TO CATCH CHICKENS

Volume 4, entries 8932. Source context: ADDITIONAL RITES AND BELIEFS → THEFT. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.

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Entry 8932

Volume 4 · printed page 3628 · Peters- burg, Va.

I've heard them say that you can take a red-hot poker and stick it in the chicken house and all the chickens will jump on it and you can take them out and no one will ever know it. [For another chicken-stealing rite, see 8936.]

Related subjects: Catch, Chicken

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