filtered against evil
So, have you ever heard of onychophagia? It means compulsive nail biting. Sometimes people get so addicted to biting their nails that they bite off their fingernails and keep them in jars to gnaw on at a later date, when their fingers just have stumpy cuticles. Then, sometimes, these people die and begin haunting bed & breakfasts and pushing people down stairs to replicate their own death at the hands of their brother. In these cases, in order to rid the bed & breakfast of said ghost, the toenails count as part of their remains, like bones or hair.
Why, yes, I did spend Sunday crawling through a basement to find and burn jars of finger and toenails while an irate ghost threw things at my head/spent the day before the toenail discovery trying to toss Jaina and I down flights of stairs. How was your weekend?
...I'm still going on another hunt when I get a chance though.