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SOPORIFIC NATURE OF GRAVEYARD DIRT
Volume 4, entries 7529. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → DEATH AND BURIAL AND GRAVEYARD → HOW TO OBTAIN GRAVEYARD DIRT → THE SPIRIT IN GRAVEYARD DIRT. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 7529
[Not so well known as the violent side of graveyard dirt is its cause of sleep. What could be more logical, the word cemetery itself means sleeping place? Unfortunately this quieter aspect of graveyard dirt has fewer examples: a thief with straw blowing graveyard dust through keyhole to keep his victim in house asleep; and chicken thief scattering graveyard dirt to put watchdog asleep, even chickens asleep! Here is another one: Someone put graveyard dirt in a mon's hat and every time he sat down he went to sleep! Short story. This was a short story I read on the Richmond cylinders but did not transcribe. Further I probably on the cylinder-space tab drew an X indicating to transcriber not to transcribe. My original notation in pencil is attached as given above except for the reference: Richmond, Va., (402), 350:5+85.]