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Doctor Creates Business
Volume 1, entries 866. 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 866
I can tell you one thing they can do to hurt you. This is very true. I know a lady. She ministrated. A woman taken her clothes and carried it away and buried it in the cemetery. This woman began to get thin. She ministrated every day for about five years. An old woman came by one day traveling and told this woman - the cemetery wasn't far from the house - she told her exactly where this thing Was buried. She carried her out to this spot underneath a big oak tree. It was buried in brown paper. It looked like brown salve. And it had needles and pins - these great long horsepins - and a piece of rusty wire, and it had about six or seven strands of grey hair. And this was put into a little tin box [symbolic coffin]. The box was covered with a piece of someone's shirt or dress. It was buried under this tree. This old cunjure woman taken it up, she burned something and held it over it. She taken this woman down to the branch. She repeated something for her about three times. She let her drop something out of this tin box, each time she repeated these words, into the stream. She taken one of the old rocks which was near and held it on top of the can and bore nine holes in it, and put the rock in the can and dropped it in the stream. The woman now is living. She is not ministrating. She is about fifty-eight years old. [The created situation must have been frequent at one time, both in city and rural districts - see margin-title Doctor Plays Both Sides, p.257; especially story of Old Woman and Razor, No. 782, p.258.]