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Francis Grose, Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence (London: S. Hooper, 1785), p. 204.

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Janet Hoskins, ‘The Menstrual Hut and the Witch’s Lair in Two Eastern Indonesian Societies’, Ethnology , 41.4 (2002), p. 317 < https://doi.org/10.2307/4153011>.

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