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Dressing
Volume 1, entries 1045. 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 1045
[Any article a doctor prepares for his patient is dressed - prepared magically, because the doctor himself is a person with magic. See Dressing in Index.] I heard one day that a man had tricked 'im. This other man told 'im, he said, "Well, '' he says, "you tricked me but, '" he say, "I'll turn it back on you." An' [he goes to a root doctor]. He [doctor] says, "You take this [dressed] nail and go to a tree on the sundown side an," he said, "you driv that nail right into the tree in seven licks [blows of the hammer] an' he said, "tomorrow before twelve o'clock he'll be here where's he a-plowin' an'." An' he said he done it. An' he said jis' about three o'clock, he said, he wus plowin' in the field. He said he saw de man comin' han' [hand] on his head - looked like it[ [his head] about to run 'im crazy.