Bold hives, also known as boll hives, bull hives, bow hives, bone hives, red hives, little red hives, or stretch hives, was a folk illness thought to be fatal to infants in the Appalachian South in the United States and to infants of Black Americans born outside of the South. == Description == The bold hives manifested as an "eruptive skin disease" (thus the "hives"), and/or a croup-like lung disease.
Bold hives, also known as boll hives, bull hives, bow hives, bone hives, red hives, little red hives, or stretch hives, was a folk illness thought to be fatal to infants in the Appalachian South in the United States and to infants of Black Americans born outside of the South. == Description == The bold hives manifested as an "eruptive skin disease" (thus the "hives"), and/or a croup-like lung disease.
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