Browse:You Don't Have To Tell Me (Volume 1, entries 881)
You Don't Have To Tell Me
Volume 1, entries 881. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → Consultation Technique. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
Entries
Entry 881
[The first two parts of a hoodoo consultation have been given: You come to me just in time or You came too late, and You're on uour way to the araveuard The third and final part concludes the omniscience of the Doctor: Don't tell me a thing, not a word; I knew all about your trouble even before you came - what caused it, who did it, and where to find it:] Somebody buried something in my yard. I went out to the line to hang up some clothes and I got a pain in my foot. I thought I sprained it at first. I sent for the doctor and he gave me some medicine. After awhile it come to hurt again. And my daughter she realized more than I did about such things, sitting around and reading, and she went to somebody and when she came back she say, "Mama, you're hurt." So she bought a bottle of medicine. I had to take it and rub with it. She got it from a root doctor. Then Iwent to his house. And he say, "I know just where they're at. They seem to be up your leg. You don't have to tell me. They're in the bend of your leg going down to your heel." He gave me two kinds of medicine. One was white to rub my head in and the other was green to rub mv body in. So then I got better. So he told me to take some salt and sprinkle in the back yard to the front yard and round to the back [make a circle of salt around the house]. I was to take this salt right from the store - you don't use that yourself, new salt - and he say, "Nobody will be able never to hurt you. You put it down there and when they come to throw anything else in your yard, they'll pick it up them- selves and it will turn right back on them."