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SORE REMEDY

IF YOU HAVE A SORE PUT DIRT ON IT AND IT'LL STOP THE BLEEDING.

Submitter comment: MY FATHER PUT DIRT ON HIS SORES WHEN HE WAS YOUNG, AND HE SAID,
"MY SORES DIDN'T GET INFECTED, BUT HEALED AND GOT SCABS ON THEM."
THEY CALLED THEIR SCABS "DIRT SCABS."

Where learned: ALABAMA

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Mineral

Date learned: 00-00-1940

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