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(2,710 posts) Sun May 25, 2014, 06:35 AM May 2014

Venomous Finger

There was a superstition that the right forefinger was venomous and not fit to touch any wound or sore.

This was before people knew about germs and bacteria, so pick any finger you want, they were probably all filthy and not fit for poking into wounds.

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