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Home Remedy for Pneumonia

Take cow manure, boil it, strain it in a sieve, put sugar in
it. Drink and pneumonia will clear up. Boiling cow manure will
also keep evil spirits away.

James Callow comment: "Tea made from the steeping of cow manure is a cure for
pneumonia" (Negro, East Cleveland, 1964); "... shyster tea"
(Negro, Cleveland, 1958) -- Puckett, Ohio, no. 10782.

Where learned: TENNESSEE ; Fort Pillow

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Devil Demon
BELIEF -- Animal

Date learned: 00-00-1955

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