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Something Told Her to Dig
Volume 1, entries 902. 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 902
I remember a story. A lady friend of mine [Miz Annie] - this wus real, too. It happen here in the city of Wilmington - it's not been over two years ago [1935]. An' a lady came to her home and she wus supposed to be a friend of her daughter [Alberta]. An' this girl [lady friend of Alberta] wus livin' in her home, roomin' in the home with this lady, Miz Annie. Miz Annie wus a friend of mine. An' so Miz Annie's daughter [Alberta] became sick an' she kept ailing all along. An' they didn't know whut wus de trouble with her, an' she wus always off the job, and didn't know whut, you know, the trouble with her. She kept so sickly, they couldn't do anything with her. So after awhile she [Alberta] went to de doctor and the doctor told her that he didn't know, he couldn't see any reason why, he couldn't account for her sickness - he jis' couldn't - she'd jis' have spells and jis' fall right down. An' so after - one evening her mother came in an' she says, "Now, Alberta, she says, "how are you feeling. An' Alberta said, "Munmee," she says, "I'm so sick I don't know whut to do." An' this same lady [Alberta's friend] wus livin' in de house, rentin'; so she went unto work. An' [while this friend wus at work] another lady [doctor] told her [the mother] - she [the mother] went to another lady [this doctor] which she knew from South Carolina an' ast this lady about how people acted when they were like that [cunjured]. So she [the mother] told her how she [Alberta] do-ed. Then she taken Alberta and carried her to this lady, an' when she carried her to this lady, the lady told her she had been hurt an' it wus somethin' buried under her steps. An' so Miz Annie came back home. An' after Miz Annie came back home and she - somepin told her to go get the hoe and dig right under her steps an' she would found a bottle buried there. [The doctor had already told her this, but somepin told her was the spirit confirming the doctor. Miz Annie and the woman in the preceding story (No. 901) could dig up the buried article without danger only because each had permission from a doctor. Permission from the spirit is also sufficient authority.] An' so she digged under there an' she found this bottle, an' it wus a bottle about that high, purta near hold a quart. After she taken this bottle up she taken this bottle over to the lady [doctor] an' dey found in this bottle - they dumped it out and it wus camphor an' hair an' pins an' a - somepin else she told me - bluestone wus in this bottle. It wus buried under de steps. An' kerosene - why, you see, that smell, odor of kerosene in it. An' after they got dis bottle up, den Alberta got all right. They burned it up, made a fire an' burned it. Ever'thin' like that tha' chew get up, anythin' like that, chew burn it. That destroys it.