Browse:Part for Whole Transference (Volume 1, entries 1001–1003)
Part for Whole Transference
Volume 1, entries 1001–1003. 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 1001
You taken a man or woman subject with astmee [asthma] - you make 'em passage, you go to a tree and you dig a hole, bore a hole in the tree and put that down in there - bore a hole with a auger and put that in there and stop that up. He's got no more astmee. [Stopping up a person's passage a dangerous rite - see Excrement and Black Bottle in Index.]
Entry 1002
De ole people say if yo' have hemorrhage - yo' know whut a hemorrhage is - well, yo' take dat blood an' put hit in a bottle an' stop it up an' throw dat in runnin' watah an' don't look back. Dey say dat will stop de hemorrhage. [Fayetteville, N. Car., (1397), 2516:7.] [The magic rite of confinement - as in drawing a circle - is also involved in the two preceding rites.]
Entry 1003
Yo' let 'em bowels move an' put it in a bucket or can an' go to de rivah an' throw it in de rivah. Go dere fo' nine mawnin's.
(What will that do then?)
Git chew straight so yo' kin git out an' git tuh walkin' an' do an' talk to yo'self. (If a person is hoodooed and you want to cure him, you take his stool and put it in a can in the water?) In de watah. Throw it in de rivah. Co'se he kin walk ovah dere an' jes' throw it in de rivah.
(But he must do that for nine mornings.)
Nine mawnin's, throw it in dere.
(Do you throw it in there any special way?)
No way - jes' throw it in dere an' walk right off - away, ain't gotta stay round dere.