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Dishwater Removes Sickness
Volume 1, entries 991. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → FOLK MEDICINE → FOLK MEDICINE (1) PRINCIPLES OF HEALING. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 991
My grandmother tole me, "Son, ah tell yah what yo' kin do." [She] say [see later]. Ah goins to ole lady, ole lady stay across at de branch, and she tells me git some dishwater - water what you washin' de dishes, and wipe dat whole hat good; wipe dat hatband roun' an' roun' in de hat, no mind de band, and den says, "Don't wear de hat fer about three-four days and you'll git rid of dat dizziness in de head." [Grandmother previously had said] "Dey give you guinea sickness in yo' head - can't keep you mind - you start on dis and jump off - an tell me somepin and you go tell anodder person somepin [else] - and none of it won't be de trut'." Dey ain't in dey right mind, yo' see. Dat's somepin like de strike off yo' brains [brain stroke].
(They take that bow out of your hat?)
Take de bow out chure hat and bury it. [That gave him guinea sickness.] It blows bad luck to you to take it out. [It is bad luck for the man to remove his own hat bow.]