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Spellcaster Must Cure Spell
Volume 1, entries 1041. 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 1041
Some people be wise enough for to bring 'em [live snakes] from 'um.
(Well, how could they get those out of them?)
Well, if ah'm de one dat put 'em in dere, no one kin get 'em out but me. And if I gets 'em out, I'll never be able to do no more.
(You'll never be able to do it again?)
No - ugh-awh. If I do my work fer you, den turn aroun' and do it against you, I'll never be able to do it anymore. [If this is the Hippocratic oath of hoodoo-conjuration-witchcraft-rootwork, I heard little about it.]
(That same thing anymore - you'll never be able to do it again?)
No, won't do anything - my hand be broke altogether, that's the one that is to take it off.
(He must take it off but if he does take it off, all his power is gone?)
All his power is gone. And then if he dies in the time, you'll never be cured and no one else can git it off you.