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river In a canoe. She let us stay all night with her, and we went on to TGrandpap C&tpbells‘ t (y~ always called him grandpap instead of rn.aster, as the others did.) When he saw us commt he sA,id ‘Lawd havo mercy here coenes them poor little chillun‘.

“I stayed with them that time until I was big en~ugh to be a house girl.


Then I weiit to live with the Harrison family in Albany; and lived with thon

t j 1 1 1 rnarr led o id Sam Dunc an and c orne to Wayne C ounty to live • I ~ vo raised

a family of nine children and have thirty..sven grand children and Ewonty great grand children.

“Ever~ one of iuiy children wears a silver dime on a string around their


leg, to keep o~f t~ie witches speii. One time, before my daughter Della got to wearing it, she was going down the road, not far fr~ our house, when all p~t once her leg gave way and ~ho could not walk. Of course I knowed what it was. So I went after Linda Vroods, the witch doctor. She come with a bottle of something, all striped with all colors, but when you shake it up it was all the saine color. She rubbed her leg with it and told rae to get all the life everlasting (a weed you know) that I could carry in my arm, and brew it for tea to bathe her ieg in• Then pour it in a hole in the ground, but not to cover it up. Then not to go down the same road for nine days.

tP~Te did all she said, and her leg got all right as soon as we bathed it.

But she did not wait nine days ‚ and starte d down the road the next day. The very same thing happened to her again. Her leg give way under her and she could not walk a step.

~I went after Linda Woods again. This time she said ‘D~..m her, I told


her not to go over that road for nine days.‘ But she came with the striped bottle and destroyed the witch spell again, telling her thin tine if she went over the road again for nine days that she would remain a cripple all her life, for she would not cure her again.