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Two-Head or Double-Headed Doctor
Volume 1, entries 815–816. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → THE DOCTORS THEMSELVES: BIRTH TO DEATH: DESCRIBED BY LAYMEN. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 815
(What do you mean - a two-headed person?)
Well, if de people - jis' lak yo' go to a person called a fortune-teller an' dey tell yore fortune; see, jis' lak if yo' lost yore horse or somepin an' yo' go to dem an' dey tell yo', say, "Well, yes, yo' lost yore horse an' yore nex' do' neighbor got chure horse an' he'll bring it back in so-many an' so-many days. Well, dey eventual will bring it back. An' den a lotta dese peoples, dey read cards - an' some of 'em are spiritualist peoples.
Entry 816
A white fellow came to me and asked me to go with him down to one of these double-head doctors. He made a deal with a party and he [party] wasn't satisfied and was going to law. He wanted to know if he couldn't stop his ideas of going to court. We goes down and she fixed him. She told his fortune and told him what to do and stopped him from going to court. That was down in Caroline [County, Virginia]. I heard of taking hair out of people's head and cut it up and put it in a bottle and put in a little water and seal it up tight and it will make snakes. They put it under the door [for you to walk over] and they tell me as long as that is there you will have misery in the head. You get one of these double-head doctors to find it.