Occult Science
My grandmother’s mom lived in rural Mississippi just outside of Greenwood where some of her ancestors of Choctaw and African descent spent their lives in forced servitude. Roxanne, my grandmother’s mom was never a slave; she was the family’s first born emancipated. As such, she was afforded the opportunity to have input on her future education and after taking a liking to a mid-wife, learning the trade, Roxanne delivered her first baby at sixteen year old. Not only did she win trust and respect from everyone in her community for her skills as a mid-wife, she was soon respected as a healer. She learned what herbs and roots are needed to make medicines to stop pain, break fevers and treat burns. By the time she was twenty one, she was regularly called upon to tend the young and elderly until one day she was labeled as a witch by a doctor who came to treat a young boy and saw, to his surprise, the boy healed and active. In those days and in thos...