Subject:High man
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The geographically qualified practitioner title high man in the source’s editorial terminology, without treating it as a universal synonym.
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Entry 11239
The root doctor regardless of his various titles was usually called "high man on Deal Island and elsewhere on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, the land between Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. There are other examples of this name in HOODOO. [Deal Island, Md., (107), 20: last item on record.]