Old Stories 245
a burn cured
“Once, when I was a young girl, there was a woman lived in our family who said she could cure bums by talkin’ to ‘em. I used to poke fun to her about it. But one day I tipped over a kittle of hot water, and got scalded all along down my arm. It hurt so it didn’t seem as if I could stan’ it, and I begged that woman to do something if she could. She warn’t goin’ to, because she said I didn’t believe she could do anything, and laughed at her. But I told her I wouldn't any more, and I'd believe anything if she’d only cure me. So she passed her hands kind o' light back and forth over the burns, and mumbled some thing, and the pain went away right off. I asked her afterwards what it was she said, but she wouldn’t tell. She said she could only tell it to some man who warn’t any of my relation.”
dealing with ghosts
“If a ghost was to appear to me I wouldn’t be afraid of him,” said Grandmother Brown; “ and if some night some of you children see a ghost, you just tell me. I would know, if a ghost came to me, he either wanted help, or came to
