(From Ron Gatewood)
Jimmy’s Chinese Folk Medicine
While going through and sorting some of my treasured San Soo material I found this photo of Jimmy and felt it was necessary to explain
the marks on his face. When he was a young child he got sick and his parents felt he would die. They believed in devil-spirits and felt they might come looking for him and take him away. They felt they should change his appearance so they wouldn’t recognize him. His parents took something – possibly red hot coals – and burned three deep holes on his face. There were two on one side and one on the other. When I met him those scars were deep and as he aged they become less noticeable. They somewhat closed and became less visible. Here’s a photo of him during the early years when I met him.