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SALT AND RED PEPPER WITCH SHEDS
Volume 5, entries 10461. Source context: ADDITIONAL RITES AND BELIEFS → HAG AND WITCH RETURN. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 10461
Ah heard mah mother tell de story about a witch would come every night an' git in de girl's bed. When de girl went out [of room or away for evening] an' she [hag] come in an' would git out of her skin an' git in her bed. An' one night she came in an' de girl came in an' seen de skin dere an' she put [usually red] pepper an' salt on it. An' den when she come to git back in her skin it jes' runned her crazy. The witch left dere an' dey say never came back no mo'.
The narrator reports a mother's story involving discarded skin. Editorial glosses remain separate, and neither shedding, the alleged reaction nor later nonreturn is established.