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SIFTER AT DOOR
Volume 5, entries 10478. Source context: ADDITIONAL RITES AND BELIEFS → HAG AND WITCH RETURN. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 10478
A witch is worser than a ghost, they tell me. You know these old hand sifters? You put that at the door of your room. He has got to go through every hole in that sifter before he can come in your room. And if daylight catches him, he was found in the sifter. Then kill whatever you find in the sifter and they kill the witch. [Old Point Comfort, Va., (21, from somewhere nearby), by hand, probably out on street somewhere.]