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Blue Eyes, Funny Looking
Volume 1, entries 851. 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 851
I ast a lady how she knowed anybody ever was hurt. She said she was hurt. I ast her how was she hurt. She said that one day a lady come to her house an' she was angry with her sister. She say she ast fer some snuff. She told her that she didn't use snuff, she said, but her sister used snuff, an' she told her, she said, "But I can't give you any because she's not here." An' she said this woman looked at her an' tole her, she said, "I'll get some snuff an' I'll get choo." An' she said the next day she began to swellin'. An' she said the lady over next doah came an' ast her had she had any words wit anyone, an' she said, "Well, I saw this same woman" - she called her name - "hangin' aroun' the steps." She said, "She must of put somepin under the steps for you." An' she said, "Well, I did cross the step." An' she said that they didn't get it out. They didn't found whut it was, she said, but her mother went to a lady. She [the mother] said this woman had blue eyes an' she was re'l funny lookin'. She must of been a root woman, she said she looked so funny.
(A colored woman?)
A colored woman. An' she said dis woman tole her, she said, "You go back home an' get some low John the Conquer an' high John the Conquer." She said, "It's a root." An' she said, "You boil it," an' said, "after you boil it, choo put spirits of turpentine in there," an' said, "jes' rub her good with it." An' she said, joo could see that snake, she said. It would start in her laig an' it would go clean up here, up her thigh an', she said, you could see the snake. An' she said her mother taken her the next day back to this woman. An' she said this woman set her in the chair an' she said she looked right straight at her an' talked a lot, an' she said after while the snake jumped right out of her leg an' she said this woman took this snake an' put it in a bottle an' stopped it up in there, an' she said she ain't seen the snake any more. An' she said she har'ly has been worried with this leg, but the place was in her feet [through which the snake came out].