Records
Satrustegi
SD-004a
- Recording date: 1981-12-01
- Owner: Euskarabidea-mediateka
- Informant: Juli Arrola Uriarte, 63 urte. (Mendibil-Leioa). Gregorio Andonegi Lizarraga, 57 urte, (Etxarri-Larraun) Ilarregiko apaiza Eugenio Ulaiar, Lakuntzako apaiza. Demetrio Zelaia (Urdiain). Sebastian Flores (Lakuntza).
- Researcher: Josu Saénz de la Maza
- Main theme: Traditional medicine.
- View allowed: Free
- Publication allowed: Limited
- Sound quality: Bad
| Town | Dialects | Maps |
| Piece | Length | Temas | Sumario |
| A01 | 00:00:00 00:09:00 |
jobs:, medicine: | Apolonia Uriarte Arteagagoitia lived in Kukularra and she got married to Mendibil. Many people would go to her to get her cures. Anecdotes about what happened to some people. There are still people in Leioa who know rural medicine. |
| A02 | 00:09:00 00:18:10 |
jobs:, medicine: | Gregorio knew the doctor, José de Uitzi. That man did not know how to read or write. The year before the war started the mayor of Valencia came to him. He had a ten year-old son who had one leg shorter than the other. They brought him to José and he said, as was his custom, that the problem was simple. He stretched the short leg so that it was the same as the other. (12:40") An uncle of Gregorio’s had his piles cured by him. And the same man came out of the war with his wrist out of action and the man cured it for him.A woman from Oiartzun was very ill and they said that she wouldn’t last past midnight. José cured her. |
| A03 | 00:18:10 00:25:05 |
jobs:, medicine: | In Ilarregi there was also another female faith-healer, Maria Ezkurra. She used to heal bones. As a young girl she went to America and she worked as a serving-girl to a faith healer there. One time when the faith healer was not at home a patient called and asked the girl to do what she could. She arrived back here with a husband and she started to do that work here. The people would go to her place. The doctors brought her to court but she passed the test the doctors had prepared for her so that not only did she win the court-case but she also won the right to continue to do that work. The parish priest, José Castillo, was imperfectly treated for an arm injury and the faith-healer from Ilarregi put the arm right for him. |
| A04 | 00:25:05 00:27:30 |
disease:, medicine: | There is a man in Ziordia who takes out warts.Two women from Madrid told Demetrio what that man had told the women about how he would get rid of the warts. He would go to the mountain and he would do something.In Arruazu each person counts their warts and tell another person. They go to the mountain and pick up a leaf from among the fallen leaves. They return to the village and then go to another mountain. They put the leaf under a stone and it is said that, as the leaf gradually rots away so will the warts gradually disappear. |
| A05 | 00:27:30 00:32:57 |
jobs:, medicine: | The midwife in Lakuntza was Elvira, who came from a house of midwives. She use to cure ligament problems. She cured them by using just a kind of liquid, like a kind of olive oil and with her fingers. There used to be also another woman in Lekuntza who cured certain illnesses, using poultices;: swellings, sore throats etc.Sebastian had an infection and the doctor’s pills were not having much effect. A friend gave him birch and told him to drink two infusions per day with it. |
| Pista | Hear file | Length |
| SD-004a-A | 33:58 |