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This Wus Bad Fix
Volume 1, entries 880. 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 880
I heard of a woman oncest - a ole man that loved her - she was a young girl. An' so he told her one day that she was goin' git hurt, an' told her that if she would trim her toenails an' her fingernails purtty close an' give 'em to him, that he could fix it, you know, where nobody could hurt her. But he wanted to hurt her hisself so she would love 'im. So he took her fingernails an' her toenails an' put 'em in - he was a married man an' he loved this girl but still he had a wife. An' so he took her fingernails an' her toenails - an' she cut 'em off, she had 'em ready, when he come back, an' give 'em to him. An' he took 'em an' put 'em [in] some kin'a little tube concern. She said a little somepin about that long - a little tube, it was leather. She said he put those fingernails [and toenails] in that tube an' he carried 'em home an' put 'em in his trunk. An' she say she look like she jis' los' her min' - it look like she didn't know what she wanted to do. An' she fin'lly said she [was] there stayin' with 'im an' his wife. An' she said she wus worried an' look like ev'ry night she could dream of her dead brother tellin' 'er to go back home becus you knowed it wasn't right. An' she said one day she wus lookin' aroun' in de house. She said he was gone off. She say he even had his wife crazy, too. She loved this girl, too. An' she was lookin' aroun' one day an' she looked in de trunk an' foun' this tube. An' say she took this tube an' she carried [was going to carry] it to her mother, an' said that she was goin' to get on the train an' said his wife ask her where wus: she goin'. An' she said she told her she was goin' home. An' his wife told her, she say, "You reckon" - I didn't know what de man name - "you reckon Mr. So- an'-So will like it about choo goin' home?' She tell her she didn't care if he didn't like that she was goin' home. So she took this tube an' carried it on home to her mother. An' it was a ole man that liveded aroun' there an' he could, you know, look after root an' thing like that. So he took this tube an' he looked at it an' he shuck his head. He told her this wus bad fix. He told her that he could 'cuse [excuse = release] her of this thing an' make her stay away from this man house, but it was goin' make her sick an' then it was goin' make this man go crazy. An' so he took this stuff an' he burnt it up with sulphur an' stuff. An' this man he went crazy by doin' this girl like that. An' she come all right. [Wilmington, N. Car., (299b), 223:5; "3 years ago [1934]] Silverton or Summerton, S. C., couldn't get [[under- stand]] name" - Note on my original pencil transcription.]