[Ads-l] "High John the Conqueror" (Not in OED)

[Shapiro, Fred]

High John the Conqueror (not in OED)

1899 Journal of American Folklore 12:229 (JSTOR)

The king root of the forest is called 'High John, the Conqueror.'  All believers in conjuring quake when they see a bit of it in the hand of any one.

Fred Shapiro

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