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Some Doctors Refuse to Reverse Spell
Volume 1, entries 909. 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 909
Once mah mother had a cousin an' so she married - dis girl married. So it was another lady she was mad with about her husband. So she went on then an she kept - she was mad with her 'bout two-three months, an' so she 'cided to fix 'er. So one day mah cousin was goin' through de gate - an she'd fixed her wit dese straight pins - an' so she, jes' de time she walked ovah de straight pins she fell. So she went to a root person an' de man tole her how she was fixed wit de straight pins. De lady had put de straight points of de pins up.- nine of 'em - stuck 'em straight up an' she stepped ovah dem at her gate, an' so she stayed sick a long time. She was sick in bed in all of her joints an' her fingers had turnt dark - an' ev'ry joint in her laig an' ev'rything - she was real bright-skinned. So she went to de man an' de man axed her did she want him to take it off her an' she tole him yes. So he said he'd take it off her about three dollars. So she said she wanted it turned back on 'em, so he wouldn't turn it back on 'em. But she didn't do anything - jes' took dem nine straight pins up she walked ovah. De man tole her to go to her front gate, after she had seen him, an' scratch down in one of her tracks an' pick up nine straight pins - rumple dem up an' brought 'em to him. An' she dig those - she carried it all to him an' he says, "Dem is de straight pins yo' is fixed with." An' dem pins had turnt dark.
(What did he do with those pins, do you know?)
Well, he didn't do anything - jest throwed dem away.
(That cured her?)
Shore - but he give her a bottle of medicine to take.