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Patient Not Told How Spell Cast
Volume 1, entries 905. 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 905
[Dey put] on me a sleepin' spell - jes' sleep all de time, sleep, sleep. And so all the man did when he'd taken that spell off of me - he came there and he measured each one of my fingernails on my fingers from here to here, from my fingernails to there [demonstrates]. (Up to your wrist - that bone in the wrist.) Measured 'em nine times. Den he tied nine knots in de strings that he measured 'em, and he asked me if I knew de lady and had any idea who it was or was it a man. He say, "I know who it is, but I just want to see if you got any idea." I told him, no, I didn't know who it was. He said, "Well, I know who it is." And he said, "I'm goin' throw dis in runnin Water," he say, "but before I do this, I'm goin' to send her here," he say, "it's one of your best friends." And it was - a woman that I'd taken for a particular friend of mine. Well, I know that she went on to the God that giveth; she Went to the God that giveth. He sent her dere like dis morning and the next night she was dead. I don't know what he said to it when it got to the water, but I know what he done at my house. Maybe he make a wish [when] he got to the Water and throw it overboard. And he guarantee me that she go to the God that giveth.
(Which hand did he measure?)
Dis hand - de left hand, next to your heart.
(Did he tell you what she had done to make you sleep that way?)
No, he tole me lak dis - I don't want to excite you in your nervous condition, he didn't tell me.