_she var_

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/55365

she pro "In the spring of the year you needs to have a cleaning out, the best thing to do is to get the tops of the "_she var_" and boil them and drink the juice." Uncle Anthony Lear told me that about 40 years ago when he was at Bateau, Labrador, where they used to fish, he had the boils and they behind that this was caused by dirt in the blood and this had to be cleared up with some laxative. an old woman got the tops of [reverse] the "she var" or female fir tree and boiled them and gave him the juice to drink. Well, he had hardly got it down when he said" it took him. He runned An the stage and there was skutters and allelulias going everywhere" as he called it. He said he got weak & thought he was going to die but he liked and the boils went away and he said he felt relieved and clean like a new man. DICT CEN. DNE-cit NOV 25 1965 [check] Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 3 Used I HE, she-moon, HE-MOON, she var, MAIDEN FIR, VAR, WE, [see 'var', 'fir', etc.][also 'she var', 'maiden vir', 'maiden fir'] NEWFOUNDLAND FOLKLORE SURVEY.The source is listed as C 66-10 in DNE. Reverse side of S_15786.