Transcripts: Southern Appalachian English

Zilphie Sutton

(Chestnut Branch, North Carolina) was age 72 when interviewed.  She was a farm housewife.

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Well, they's, you can put fat meat on a rising, or you can get fernan bark, fernan bark, nan bark, and make a poultice, put it on it, and they was a weed that they call wild indigo.  You can take hit, and it'll stop the blood poison.  Take the roots and beat it up.  Put sweet milk in it, and put it on it, and it'll draw it white, and cure it up.