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Lumbee /ay/, Prospect (Male, b. 1919)


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JB: There are times you can go in the woodses, you can cut a tree for wood. That wood wouldn't cure, dry out, to save your life. It'll lay right there and rot. And there are other times you can cut it, in three days' time you can get it a-burnin'.
FW1: When can you cut it? Like what are the times you can't...
JB: Right on the full of the moon.
FW2: On the full of the moon?
JB: Right on the full of the moon.
FW1: That's when you should cut it?
JB: Cut it, and it'll dry right out. I've cut--what would you--cut stove wood to cook with, pines? Cut it right on the full of the moon, three days' time you could cook with that wood. But if you cut it in dark nights, that's when the moon ain't a-shine at all, it'll lay there and sod-rot. Stay so wet the water'll run out of it.


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