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Unfound Hoodoo Object Hedge Against Failure
Volume 1, entries 904. 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 904
Dey kin take chamber lye, too - jes' lak if yo' wants [tol save someone dat sick or upset or somepin. Well, now, dat wus one experience ah had mahself. Dey supposed to say mah mother-in-law did it. Ah went to live with her - ah went to live wit mah mother-in-law. She like me all right but there was somepin in de family befo' that. Well, see, she wanted to git this out of me. So she gits some of mah chamber lye an' she stopped it up in a bottle, an' so ah wus sick fo' a long time. Ah could git up in de mawnin' an' ah would go out. [I felt well.] Ah work all day but when ah come back in de house, ah wus sick - ah had to go right to bed an' ah be lak dat all night long. We had doctors an' doctors an' doctors fo' me, an' so someone telled me ah should see someone. So they took me to this man. Dey took me to some kind of a root man. An' when ah went there he worked on me an' didn't seem to do no good. So he said he'd read fo' me. An' he did that. An' so when ah came back - ah had another 'pointment wit 'im, he tole me when tuh come back - when ah went back, he tole me then were tuh look fo' the stuff, an' he tole me, said, she had some of mah chamber lye. An' so he tole me where it was an' where to look fo' it. An he tole me to go move de head of mah bed - move mah bed, yo' know, lak mah bed Was on one side, to move it. So ah did that an' ah find it. So he said if ah find this bottle there, he tole me to po' it out, whut to do with it; an' if ah find de bottle ah would git well, but if ah didn't find de bottle - as long as she have, dere wusn't anything that ah could do. Yo' know, long as de bottle is level lak dat ah'm all right; but when she git ready fo' me to have those sick spells, she turn de bottle upside down - see, 'cause he tole me to notice when dese spells would come on me. An' when she want a spell come on me, she turn de bottle upside down. Well, it took me fo' a good while 'fore ah could git to dat bottle. But fin'lly ah found it an' ah po'd it out lak he tole me.