A dispatch from Statesville says: “Somebody in Burke county put a skinned rattlesnake in a gallon of mountain liquor, and the theory is that the liquor was to be used by some one afflicted with tuberculosis, says the Statesville Sentinel.
The booze was found by the side of the road about 15 miles from Morganton. There was no one near it. It was fine and clear. The finder says he was unable to tell exactly why the snake was put in the liquor but that he had heard that the mountain people believed that liquor into which had been put a skinned rattlesnake would cure tuberculosis if the snake were kept in the liquor for any length of time, the longer, the better.”
From page 6 of The Moore County News, Carthage, July 26, 1923
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