potter
n.— «According to people who claim to have seen the oldman performed, he used to chafe his body with white chalk/clay (known in the Liberian parlance as “potter”) and dive into the Tah-river.» —“In Toe Town, Grand Gedeh County ‘Devil’ Murdered!—Chiefs, Elders Angry, Demand Justice” by Gibson W. Jerue The Analyst (Monrovia, Liberia) July 6, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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