uses: 16878
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id | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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16878 | 1851 | 173 | 20 | 432 | 2 | 61 | Root used to smudge a fire and drive away a bad spirit from the camp of the hunter. There is a bad spirit who is always present trying to steal away one's luck in hunting game. He must be driven away from the camp of the hunter by smudging a fire with the roots. This gets into the spirit's eyes and he cannot see the hunter leave the camp, so naturally does not follow and bother him. | Smith, Huron H., 1932, Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of Milwaukee 4:327-525, page 432 |