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Higher High Man
Volume 1, entries 914–915. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → Consultation Technique. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 914
He [Mike] was a relation to my wife. He's dead now. And he's supposed to be a bully. And one of his nieces [nephews] wanted to be a good rassler. He rassled with a certain feller all de time and dis feller could throw him. So dis old man [boy's uncle] he got tired of it. He says, "Boy, I'm gon'a fix you up to rassle." And he taken him and rubbed him down [dressed him with a root preparation]. And so after dat, dis man, dis boy was throwin' him [the former victor] ever' time he met. After dis old man rubbed him down, why, he said he could [throw] dis boy. Dis boy couldn't throw him any more.
(What did he use?)
Of course dey wouldn't tell what dey do. He [uncle] was called a high man. Dis man was named Mike Jones, this bully-man. He used to go aroun' preachin'. And dis man [another high man] was to rassle with him a certain day. He [Mike] was to a camp meetin' den. So dis feller went down in de woods. So he [Mike returned from camp meeting] watched him, [being hidden by] thick bushes. He said dis feller had crotched two posts settled in de groun' and a log acrost each way
[each crotch]. And he said he had pulled off his clothes, and his foot [feet]
hung over dis crosspiece and he was goin' aroun' over and over on dat pole. Dis Jones was to ra8sle with him. So after he seen him do dat he wouldn't rassZe. He hollered to him - dis teller didn't see him, he [Mike] was stooped down in de bushes - and he says, "HeyI" Dis feller jumped down and run then. But he said he wasn't goin' to rassle with him. He wouldn't rassle with him after he seen him do that, 'cause he know he was a higher man than he was.
The account calls one wrestler a higher man; the Power link is interpretive and does not verify unusual ability.
Entry 915
(Suppose I want to break up a man and woman going together.)
Well, dey will have tuh go to somebody dat mo' pow'ful den de one dat chew went to fo' tuh git loose from dat - see, because.yo' see, yo' went tuh someone an' got all dis heah.