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FOR TEETHING PAINS, TIE A BAG OF FLUCK (A WEED) AROUND THE NECK.

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Informant learned this from the book "These Are Our Lives" (Kingsport Press, 1939, pp.26-29), a Federal Writers' Project publication featuring the everyday lives of people in the South. This home remedy was shared by Gracie Turner, an African-American sharecropper.

Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; KINGSPORT ; "These Are Our Lives"

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Plant

Date learned: 00-00-1939

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