Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Boies

(2 syl.). Priests of the savages of Florida. Each priest has his special idol, which must be invoked by the fumes of tobacco. (American Indian mythology.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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