Browse:Brimstone (Volume 1, entries 1133–1134)
Brimstone
Volume 1, entries 1133–1134. 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 1133
If yo' think dat chew got something in yo', yo' know, poison; then if yo' take a dose of brimstone, it couldn't stay in yo' - yo'd have to throw it up. (What kind of poison do you mean?) Ah mean ordinary poison - ah don't mean drug poison. [He means cunjure or hoodoo poison, as drug poison and brimstone show. Since brimstone comes from the devil it is often used against his work.]
Entry 1134
Burn a broomstraw if a chile won't walk [and with the charred end] put some cross marks 'gin [against] de bottom of each one of his feet and he'll walk in eight or nine days.