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October Spell
Volume 1, entries 933. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → TIME AND HOODOO SPELL → Time (1) Psychological. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 933
There was a lady living in the house with me who called herself a good friend, and her husband had two children by his first wife. She didn't care for his children. They got along so bad together, her husband asked me to take one of the children and I did. She got angry with me and hurt me in my leg. They say she either put it in the water cooler or in my stocking. The woman who cured me, she is dead. They said I was hurt with lizard dust and some kind of weed that blooms in October. I've been down ever' October for years, three weeks or four weeks, I didn't much bother about it because I didn't believe in it [conjuration] until the Lord showed it to me in the spirit. The woman that hurt me came to me as a witch and tried to ride me to death, and said to me that I had tried to hurt her. I said, "No, Mrs. B., I haven't done a thing to you but you are trying to kill me. You'll never kill me as long as Jesus lives." I got a hold of her ankle and said, "As long as Jesus lives her ankle's broke." So after this visioni I went to a fortune teller. She put a belt around my waist and my stomach went just like that [puffed out]. She gave me some stuff to put in my shoes, some dust, and a dime, and I could go over anything I wanted to. After that I got cured. [Fredericksburg, Va., (69), Ed.; woman conjured in Richmond, Va.,1896, and cured 20 years later.]