Browse:Spirit 0f Jesus (Volume 1, entries 2310–2311)
Spirit 0f Jesus
Volume 1, entries 2310–2311. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → HANDS: MAGIC HELPERS. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 2310
[During my collecting days I saw many hands (see 1706-1707, p.519f. and Index), but the one with the most unusual indwelling spirit or power I found at Savannah, Georgia. Its maker and owner, an old root doctor, showed me a small cloth bag containing roots - so he described the contents. This root baa he called a guard. Pointing to it he said, "That [[bag]] is the Spirit of Jesus." This substantiates my remark in introductory note, A hand can become a fetish, even a part of oneself (p.519). More interesting than the Spirit of Jesus, this old man himself is a hand of Jesus - "I'm a Jesus Christ Doctor." (For this doctor, see margin-title I'm A Jesus Christ Doctor.)]
Entry 2311
When you're gamblin', if yo' a good winner, if some person kin git behin' yo' an' spit in yore back, well then yo' supposed to begin falling.
(That would kill your luck.)