A man’s presence symbolizes healing and comfort to the community.

Evidence

The same day Hollis Toomey came, too. He walked into the house without knocking or speaking to anyone. Nobody had sent for him. But whenever anybody in the county was burned, he showed up as if by magic, because he could talk the fire out of you. He did not call himself a faith healer, never spoke of God, didn’t even go to church, although his family did. His was a gift that was real, and everybody in the county knew it was real. — Crews, Harry, A childhood the biography of a place, 686

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Crews, Harry, A childhood the biography of a place, 686
• XREF: connects to: A place has a soul and an intelligence that seeks to heal itself — Gordon Hempton, John Grossmann, One Square Inch of Silence- One Man’s…, 192