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Volume 1, entries 2382. 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 2382

Volume 1 · printed page 665 · Old Point Comfort, Va.

I know of a whale drifting ashore at Phoebus [Virginia] once and lots of people got bones from this whale and they cut them up and strung them like beads and worn 'em around their neck for luck.

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