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Blaydeh - thorny bush. Take young shoots, cook, put juice in the 
mouth of man bitten by snake. Acts as emetic. 
Gewgaw - a leaf to rub on your hand before handling snakes, 
Kyeh - Wash hands with this after touching palm kernel oil 
Bulagaw - used for revenge, A leaf put in the fire under your 
enemy's bath water will cause him to develop fever. The antidote 
is a piece of palm leaf. Keep a piece, and if the man doesn't pay 
you, throw it in a stream and the man grows thin, 
Kiapu - hold in mouth to keep snake s away, 
Nyungweh - Medicine for childbirth (revenge). The woman drinks it 
and gets cold inside, 
Dah if one's membership in the snake society is doubted, tie this 
plant in a loop, and when the snake dance using the small girl 
acrobats is being given, the girl will die, A milder revenge is 
to hold the plant, when the girl will fall and break her leg. It 
can't be healed unless the loop is undone , which might be possible 
if one ’ s membership is acknowledged and a gift of kola given, 
Keladeh - Pern, parasite of palm tree, antidote for snake bite. 
It IGPBoiled in a pot, the bitten foot held over the steam to extract 
the poison, 
Banswah - If you are refused palm nuts, put banswah in the fire and 
plain water boils out instead of oil. 
To oh - For sore toe or finger, beat t ooh and rub it on. 
Glakboo - medicine carried on deer's horn, made from leaf of the 
tree that never has a snake in it. If you rub It on yovir hands, and 
then touch a snake, the snake dies, A leaf placed on a snake causes 
it to become as inanimate as a cutlass. To make the medicine, burn 
three pieces of the stick, mash it, rub with palm oil, and put in 
deer's horn. Poisonous to man. 
Any time we want another lesson, we were told, we must give the snake 
man a kola and an iron, and further instruction will be given. 
These two lessons took three hours last night, and two this morning. 
We were escorted back to our palaver kitchen by the whole society, 
with me proudly carrying the horn of medicine as symbol of my new 
tank. One man carried the cassada snake, others beat drums and 
sang. We gave them the money for a chicken dinner, and four more 
irons as a sign of permission that they could go home now. 
