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POTATO - WHITE OR IRISH
Volume 4, entries 6868. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → FOLK MEDICINE → CURES FOR AND PROTECTION AGAINST AILMENT AND DISEASE. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 6868
Ah wus tole whut hindah 'em from hurtin' yuh. A lady tole me dat. It Wus a simple thing. Jis' take a white potatah [so called to distinguish it from the yellow sweet potato] an' cut it half in two, an' cut it in fo' part [signifying the four corners of the earth] an' weah it in a bag roun' yuh waist till it git hard, an' den burn it up. [The gitting hard signified that potato had soaked up all the disease floating round about you. The burning indicated that the disease was sent by cunjure.]