Coharie Roy
02-04-2006, 11:45 AM
Removing Warts
(This was originally posted on the BIG CLUE thread of the Other Blackfoot board.)
My grandfather was able to remove warts. In fact, he removed one from me and one from my then girlfriend. When he did it, I didn't believe that he could do it. I'd regarded him all my life as a teller of tall tales. However, while visiting grandpa Albert once during the mid 80s, he noticed warts on my and my girlfriend's arms.
Grandpa says, "I can take those off if you want."
I said, "Sure, why not."
Grandpa went out to the shed in the back of the house and came back a few minutes later with something in his closed hand.
Garandpa says to my girlfriend, "Give me your arm."
My girlfriend holds out her arm to grandpa and he begins rubbing the wart on her arm with the secret object concealed in his closed fingers, all the while softly speaking some mumbo jumbo gibberish (or, speaking some language I'd never heard before). In 10 seconds he was done and then he did the same to me.
He said, "Now go on about your business and forget about your wart. After two weeks, the next time you look, it'll be gone."
Like I say, I regarded grandpa as a teller of tall tales and I didn't put any stock into his mysterious hocus pocus wart removal ritual. But then, after about a month, while at my girlfriend's house one Saturday night, she says to me, "My wart's gone! Your grandfather's magic worked!"
I looked at her arm and sure enough it was gone. Then I looked at my arm, and to my amazement, my wart was gone also.
True story.
p.s.- I never saw what he held in his concealed hand but it felt hard and smooth. My father said it was a small animal bone but I'm not sure how he knew that.
I later asked grandpa how he did it but he said that if he told anyone, he'd lose the power. He did however say that he would pass it on to my father before he died and that my father in turn would pass the power on to me. But, sadly, he died about five years later without ever telling my father the secret.
p.s.s.- My father says that my grandpa could also "talk the fire out." "Talking the fire out" is the ability to somehow remove the heat from a burn such that it never blisters. I have no idea how it's done, but dad says he witnessed grandpa "talking the fire out" of a person at least once.
p.s.s.- Does anyone know anything about something called "Conjuring?" Apparently, grandpa belived in conjuring. My father won't speak of it. He says it's evil and for the weak minded. I'm guessing it's like voodoo or fortune telling or something similar. But what I really want to know is if conjuring is rooted in Indian traditions or African traditions? Or both? And what is it exactly.
(This was originally posted on the BIG CLUE thread of the Other Blackfoot board.)
My grandfather was able to remove warts. In fact, he removed one from me and one from my then girlfriend. When he did it, I didn't believe that he could do it. I'd regarded him all my life as a teller of tall tales. However, while visiting grandpa Albert once during the mid 80s, he noticed warts on my and my girlfriend's arms.
Grandpa says, "I can take those off if you want."
I said, "Sure, why not."
Grandpa went out to the shed in the back of the house and came back a few minutes later with something in his closed hand.
Garandpa says to my girlfriend, "Give me your arm."
My girlfriend holds out her arm to grandpa and he begins rubbing the wart on her arm with the secret object concealed in his closed fingers, all the while softly speaking some mumbo jumbo gibberish (or, speaking some language I'd never heard before). In 10 seconds he was done and then he did the same to me.
He said, "Now go on about your business and forget about your wart. After two weeks, the next time you look, it'll be gone."
Like I say, I regarded grandpa as a teller of tall tales and I didn't put any stock into his mysterious hocus pocus wart removal ritual. But then, after about a month, while at my girlfriend's house one Saturday night, she says to me, "My wart's gone! Your grandfather's magic worked!"
I looked at her arm and sure enough it was gone. Then I looked at my arm, and to my amazement, my wart was gone also.
True story.
p.s.- I never saw what he held in his concealed hand but it felt hard and smooth. My father said it was a small animal bone but I'm not sure how he knew that.
I later asked grandpa how he did it but he said that if he told anyone, he'd lose the power. He did however say that he would pass it on to my father before he died and that my father in turn would pass the power on to me. But, sadly, he died about five years later without ever telling my father the secret.
p.s.s.- My father says that my grandpa could also "talk the fire out." "Talking the fire out" is the ability to somehow remove the heat from a burn such that it never blisters. I have no idea how it's done, but dad says he witnessed grandpa "talking the fire out" of a person at least once.
p.s.s.- Does anyone know anything about something called "Conjuring?" Apparently, grandpa belived in conjuring. My father won't speak of it. He says it's evil and for the weak minded. I'm guessing it's like voodoo or fortune telling or something similar. But what I really want to know is if conjuring is rooted in Indian traditions or African traditions? Or both? And what is it exactly.