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Author a Radio Broadcaster
Volume 1, entries 804. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → THE DOCTORS THEMSELVES: BIRTH TO DEATH: DESCRIBED BY LAYMEN. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 804
You can, and you see, it's a peculiar way about it - you just have to go and try to work on yourself and see. Now, if you hurt, doctor's medicine won't do you no good. And you just have to try some other way, and of course, people that dwell with spirits dey kin dwell with de spirits and find out things. And of course, I do most of my work through de spirits and de Bible - reading certain chapters and deal with those things reveal to me. I can see 'em as a flash. In visions like that I kin tell. And if such a thing is true, why you kin go to work on yourself for that. (Well, suppose I had something wrong with me and I came to you - you say you only take care of women, but suppose I came to you. What would you do? HoW would you proceed to handle my case?) Well, depend on what's wrong with you. [Good.] [I either turned off my machine for a moment while we talked or recording too bad to transcribe:] (I see. You'd have to have a vision of it first - of what's wrong with me? I see. And then you'd give your remedy.) [Here I either left out some material about Madame Kaye, which I cannot find or it may have been badly recorded and not transcribed.] (And you say, you don't - you only have women customers, you don't take men at all. Isn't there someone around here that just takes men, in town - someone that fust takes men?) I don't know.
(You said Madam Kaye only takes women, too.)
She just takes women. (I see. Well, now, how did you happen to learn this work - did you learn it from some member of your family?) No.
(I see. Did you have any special gift for it?)
A special gift - that's mostly what I have, a special gift and then course I have learnt from another certain woman which knows. (I see. Well, now, do you ever make up any of your own remedies or cures or do you get most of them out of a book?) I get most out of books. And I know a woman that I works with - ah mostly get 'em from her, she fixes 'em.
(That woman lives here? Would she come around and talk to me, I wonder?)
I think she will if I kin get in touch with her. She doesn't live in Mobile.
(Oh, I see - she lives out of town.)
Lives out of town.
(I see - how far out?)
Well, it's about 25 miles.
(I see - she lives up in the country some place?)
Yes. (End of 709 - this woman was brought by Mrs. Bracy. She's supposed to be a woman who puts men and women together [a technical expression], and she only works for women. Now, Madam Kaye, here in town, who is a white woman, does the same type of work. She only works for women - will not have any men clients.) (This woman, as you see on the cylinders, didn't tell me very much. She might have been a little bit timid - she was, in fact, frightened and THoUGHT THAT I WAS BROADCASTING HER SPEECH. However, she used the Sixth and Seventh Book of Moses and I doubt very much whether she knows many things.) [My comment after woman left.]