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Tidewater and One Way Water
Volume 1, entries 1582–1583. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → FOLK MEDICINE → CURE AND PROTECTION. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 1582
If yo' got a swellin' or anything, yo' kin use de tidewatah, jes' git it when it's high an' den bathe down on it, an' when it goin' back, yo' throw it with it - let 'em go. (If you have a swelling, get tidewater when it is up and bathe down with that. Then, as the tide is going out, you throw this Water out in the same direction - the tide carries it out, the swelling.) Yes sir.
Entry 1583
[The opposite of the preceding rite is also given:]
Throw the article that cunjured you into water running one way; not into out- going tide but into running water. This will either run the evil doer away or harm him.