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Thread #150752 Message #3514406
Posted By: Bat Goddess
12-May-13 - 10:11 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Tar rubbed in the scalp
Subject: RE: Folklore: Tar rubbed in the scalp
Hmm...I'll have to look up my sources but, it seems to me, that Lawrence Durrell in one of his Mediterranean travel books (I think "Bitter Lemons" about Cyprus) said that a mixture of goat dung and ground up roofing tiles would put hair back on a bald man's head.
I don't think he said anything about pine tar....
Linn