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St. Roc
Volume 1, entries 3063. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → (3) SAINTS. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 3063
Now, I got a cousin. His grandmother sold him to a evil spirit.
(Do you know how she did that?)
Now, she went - she wanted money and she went down to St. Roc. They had a church down there long years ago and she went down there.
(Where? Here in New Orleans?) Yes, sir. (Where was this church years ago?)
Down there on St. Roc's Avenue. And she went down there and she sold this child to the evil spirit. It was a evil church, didn't do nothing but evil work. And she sold her grandchild to these evil spirits. And the poor little thing he couldn't go nowhere. If he was settin' here, they Wouldn't harm you; but they just would chunk - well, you wouldn't have nothing in there that would set still. Ever'thing would move - chunk bricks and ever'thing. He used to come home to my mama's house and be settin' there eatin' and they'd take all the dishes - we didn't see where they was comin' from though - they just would go chunk. Well, you have to get rid of the child. You had to leave the child go out and you couldn't follow him; they'd chunk you all up and down the street. And that child couldn't get that spell off of him. They had policeman and ever'thing at the house, watchin' to see where the things was comin' from, but nobody never seen them or nothin' else - not until his grandmother died. (Do you know how she sold him to the devil? What she did do to sell him to the devil?) No, we didn't go down there with her, 'cause she didn't let none of us know it. His grandmother did it. And she went down to that church - it was a old church down there, and they went down there and she sold him to a evil spirit.
(Is that church still there?)
No, sir, it's tore down.
(I see. That was years ago?)
Yes, sir.