Browse:Asafetida (Volume 1, entries 1106–1110)
Asafetida
Volume 1, entries 1106–1110. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → FOLK MEDICINE → CURE AND PROTECTION. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
Entries
Entry 1106
A good many of 'em use assafitidee and pepper and salt and dey put it in a little bag around dere neck and dat supposed to keep 'em from hurtin' you, too. They put all these things together in this bag. Dey sew it up in dere and put it around dere neck.
(I see. Any kind of a colored bag or any kind of cloth?)
Yeah, a yellow homespun bag. It have to be a yellow homespun an' it has to be new.
Entry 1107
Take and sew a piece of assafitidee and a piece of red flannel into a bag: You make a bag of the flannel, wear it in your pocket next to your heart and, if you have any enemies or anything, that will keep them down.
Entry 1108
You can get some assafitidee and gunpowder and wear it around your waist, and sprinkle a little in your shoes; that'll keep the spell off of you.
Entry 1109
If anybody puttin' things down lak dat, then yo' kin carry asafetida - yo' kin git it at de drug sto' - it'll stop all othah germs. Take this asafetida an' put it in a little bottle wit sulphur into it an' wrap it up. Say yo' kin walk ovah anything.
Entry 1110
You kin take three sticks of assafetidee an' you kin wrap 'em up in a black rag an' sew it up, you know, an' you jis' wure [wear] it in your clothes. But you had'a soak [feed] it once a week with yore urine an' once a week with whiskey: An' jis' as long as you wure that in your clothes, why you needn't worry - nobody kin harm you.