Browse:Bible (Volume 1, entries 1118–1119)
Bible
Volume 1, entries 1118–1119. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → FOLK MEDICINE → CURE AND PROTECTION. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 1118
I know on one occasion John Crutchfield was telling me he stayed at a house one night; nobody could stay there and he went in there. And things got so disagreeable in there: that he couldn't do nothing - very noisey, threw the cover off of him, moved his stuff around. Finally, he got a Bible that he had and started reading it backwards, and he began to pray, and the spirit left and he got along all right. [Fredericksburg, Va., (37), Ed.; King George Co., Va.,1906.]
Entry 1119
Whenevah ah'm afraid of someone doin' me harm ah read the 37 Psalms [Psalm 37] an' co'se ah leaves the Bible open with the head of it turned to the east as many as three days. An' den sometimes ah read it an' ah have read it an' left it open nine days - each mawnin' until aftah twelve at eatin' an' [then] ah closed it. An' ah found out that it re'lly did help me.