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Scatologic Rite
Volume 1, entries 1060. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → FOLK MEDICINE → FOLK MEDICINE (1) PRINCIPLES OF HEALING. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 1060
This waiter, he was sick, he was cunjured right, poisoned to death, he couldn't walk, and I made it my work and took it off. I just got some red oak bark and boiled it and made a liquid, and went there and washed him good, I washed his feet, and put it down in the [outdoors] toilet and made a wish. [For an unusual example of scatology, one of the remarkable stories in this book, see No. 822, p.284; for "into privy' rites among persons of German descent, see FACI,2ed., Nos. 16488, p.905 and 16260, p.855.]