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AFTER BOASTING, KNOCK ON WOOD.

Submitter comment: THIS BELIEF ORIGINATES WITH THE THEORY THAT POWERFUL
GODS LIVED IN TREES.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Coldwater

Subject headings: BELIEF -- Product or activity of man or animal
BELIEF -- Conversions P883.22
SPEECH -- Knocking on wood

Date learned: 00-00-1958

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