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Trumpet Root
Volume 1, entries 2343. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → HANDS: MAGIC HELPERS. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 2343
Ah've heard dat chew kin git dose trumpet roots, git five trumpet roots - de little bush which grows about dat high an' it got a top like dat. Yo' git dose little round roots - kind round like a ball - marble. An' yo' git five of dose an' tie 'em in a rag - tie a knot - put one in each knot.
(Like a necklace - like a string of beads?)
Yes, and have it long enough to go around your waist. An' if yo' wear dat up, why dey claims it takes a great influence, if yo' go up in co't or anything lak dat. (When you go up before the judge. Where do you find these roots? On the ground or in the water?) Dey don't grow in de water - they grow right in a flat place yo' know - course not up on a hill but on de side of a falls like, yo' know. Yo' see 'em, dey got a white top.
(White top and a green stem.)