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St. John's Weed
Volume 1, entries 1455. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → FOLK MEDICINE → CURE AND PROTECTION. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 1455
"Story too long, too diffuse [to transcribe]. [This quotation is my note about it.] Make tea of St. John weed, bathe down on legs three different times - with same water - then throw towards sunrise - wood sawyers came out through toes - 'white worms with big heads' - over 50 years ago, before 1936. Cf. St. John's weed and European witchcraft." [This is a St.-John's-wort, but which plant of the genus Hypericum, I do not know.]