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Wrong Remedy: Doll Baby Booby Trap
Volume 1, entries 1048. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → FOLK MEDICINE → FOLK MEDICINE (1) PRINCIPLES OF HEALING. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 1048
It was a nachur'l doll. They seem to think it was. And they had this doll baby fixed. And she went away to her mother's home and when she came back, de doll baby was in her door when she opened de door and she wouldn't put her hand on de doll. And they had this doll fixed for her and she took de doll and swept de doll in de fiah. And aftah she'd swept de doll in de fiah, three weeks aftah that, she got burned up. She burned de doll up. And they had de doll fixed so if she burned de doll up, then three weeks aftah that she caught afire and she burned up. [For an amazing example of victim fixed to burn to death, see story under margin-title Doctor Harris.]
(What should she have done with the doll?)
They said she ought to throw him away or get someone, you see, that understand that [kind of work] to take it up from there, and she don't have nuthin to do with it - jis' have it tooken away, jis' like they does now, anything that they take [and put down] and have anything [like that] taken away. [For doll baby, see following story, also No. 197, p.54, and Index.]