Browse:DIAGNOSIS - WHETHER PATIENT WITCHCRAFTED (Volume 4, entries 6765)
DIAGNOSIS - WHETHER PATIENT WITCHCRAFTED
Volume 4, entries 6765. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → FOLK MEDICINE → CURES FOR AND PROTECTION AGAINST AILMENT AND DISEASE. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
Entries
Entry 6765
If yo' is sick, if somebody put a bad spell on yo', why yo'll have funy feelin's. Dat spell will stay on yo', dat funny feelin' will stay in yo' all de time. If yo' sick [have an ordinary sickness], dat pain will go an' come. But if somebody put a spell on yo', dat spell keep aworkin' on yo', keep aworkin' on yo' all de time, till yo' goes tuh somebody tuh take dat spell offa yo'. [Diagnosis to determine obether the patient has an ordinary illness or has been hurt or witchcrafted, is an important matter in the practice of hoodoo curing. See v.l, pp.165-217 for examples.]