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A KNIFE UNDER YOUR PILLOW WILL KEEP A WITCH FROM RIDING YOU AT NIGHT.

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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.

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

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Use of Object

Date learned: 00-00-1970

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