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I'm by Myself
Volume 1, entries 860. 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 860
We's have people that's gifted to these things.
(Now, give me - tell me about yourself. How did you learn these things?)
I'm gifted myself. I'm born the 7th day of May and you kin look in the birth book. I shall be a tree alone - that is, to mean by the tree - I'm by myself. And I sees and reads - foreseen - foreseen for me that you must do things that what nobody never seen. You tell 'em something what happened maybe nine or ten years before.
(Did anyone ever initiate you into your work?)
To my work? Well, I didn't learn the work - I make my living on that.
(Well, did anyone ever initiate you - teach you how to do this?)
Teach me? No sir, don't teach me 'cause I'm gifted. And I'm gifted - that mean that the knowledge is already in you. All you got'a do is to act.
(I see. Now, in your place of business, do you use a altar in your work?)
No, I didn't. I never did have that. I don't need no altar because my altar which is myself is in my brain - you see, because I was gifted for that.
(Were you born in Louisiana, though?)
Born in Louisiana and I'm living over in McDonoghville, over the river.