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Did you know that burning dried orange peel will,keep away mosquitoes? Or that an itching knee,denotes imminent travel? This book captures the,folklore and almost forgotten remedies of Jamaica,and the Caribbean in four intriguing sections:,Beliefs and Myths; Remedies; Folk Ways and Means;,and Diet and Folklore. Augmented with almost 30,b/w photographs of plants and common utensils,this is a must-read for anyone interested in this,are, that brings a long forgotten culture back to,life.Ayre, Sylvester is the author of 'Bush Doctor' with ISBN 9789768184160 and ISBN 9768184167.
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