Charlie Tadei~s Father
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	—2— He wa~ paralized five montbß, helpless as a baby, couldn‘t dress
himself. An herb doctor settled at Green Grove and used herbs for tea and poultices and cured him. The doctors and the law run him out of there. His naine was Hopkins from Popular Bluff, Missouri.

Charlie Vaden used to have rheumatism and he carried a buckeye in each pants pocket to rr~ke the rheumatism ligbter. He thought it did so~ne good.

He has a birthmark. Said his mother must have craved. pig tails. He never had enough pig tails to eat in his life. The butchers give them to him them he co~nes to Hazen or Des Arc. He said he would “f~ight a circle saw for a pig ta1l,~‘

He can‘t remember a~y old songs or old tales. In tact he was too sr~ll when his mother died (±‘ive years old).

He believes in herb medicine of all kinds but oau‘t remenber except garlic poultice is good tor neuralgia. Saassafras le a good tea, a good blood purifier in the spring of the yesr~

He knows a weather sigi that seld~n or never falls. “Thunder in the morning, rain before noon.“ “Seldom rains at night In Zruly In Arkansas.“

He has seen lots of lucky things but doesn‘t rerneraber them. “It ‚ ~ bad luck to carry hoes and rakes in the livIng house.“ “It‘s bad luck to spy the new moon through bushes or. trees.“

He doesn‘t believe in witches, but he believes in spirits that direct your course as long as you are good aiid do right. He goes to church all the time If they have preaching. Green grove is a Baptist church. He is not atraid o~ dead people, “They can‘t hurt you 1f they are dead.“