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RATTLESNAKE-HEAD POWDER - SEND IN LETTER - BLINDS

Volume 5, entries 13097. Source context: "CHANNEL DE WORLD". Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.

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Entry 13097

Volume 5 · printed page 4435–4436 · Brunswick, Ga.

Jes' lak dere lotsa stuff we got down heah [in this part of the country] eah now. Yo' call dese rattlesnakes, ah guess yo' know whut dey are. Jes take de head of dem an' powdah it up, an' even ah could send it tuh yo' in a lettah, an' time yo' open de lettah, soon as it hit yore eyeballs, yo' lose yore sight. Dat's whut dey do tuh blind people - rattlesnake dust. Yo' nevah vill receive yore sight any mo'.

Related subjects: Blindness, Powder, Snake

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