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Volume 1, entries 558. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → DIAGNOSIS. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 558
I had a aunt, she got hurt, and it started up in her head and it jes' keep on worryin' her head. And so she went to a doctor and found out that some- body had put somepin down for her. It somepin wrahpped up in a little bondle and they had it over the door. It was some kinda powder and some sharp instruments in there, look kinda like pins - it didn't have heads on it but it jis' was straight sharp. It was a rootman find it. He took a little somepin like a watch and laid a fifty cents on that, and anywhere they got anything down, it was a little hand turned [either a compass or buried-treasure finder], and that little hand turned toward that door and he went and got it. He took that [cunjuring object] - I don't know what he did wit it. He gave her some sweet milk and sheep bur [round droppings - dung] and sul- phur mixed together. They boil that [sheep dung] and get the juice out of it - the sheep bur - and pour that in there and then mix the sulphur with it. And then she got well. [Wilmington, N. Car., (245), 241:5; happened near Sumter, S. Car.,1934.]