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CURE FOR SUMMER COMPLAINT:
TAKE COUNTRY BACON, OLD SMOKE CURED BACON, SLICE IT IN THIN
PIECES AND BROIL UNTIL BRITTLE AND GIVE THE CHILD. TAKE
ALL MEDICINE AWAY AND JUST GIVE THE CHILD BACON.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 07-10-1973
CURE FOR STY:
CUT THE END OF A BLACK CAT'S TAIL UNTIL IT WILL BLEED
AND PUT A DROP OF BLOOD ON THE STY.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mammal BELIEF -- Color BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 07-10-1973
CRAMPS:
CAPESCUM, RED PEPPER TEA
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
James Callow Keyword(s): CAPESKIN? CAPSKIN? IF SO, A SHEEPSKIN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 07-10-1973
SASSAFRAS TEA AND HONEY IS (ARE) NEEDFUL TO THIN YOUR
BLOOD IN THE SPRINGTIME.
Where learned: TENNESSEE, ASSUMED ; MADISON
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Measure of time Spring BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 07-09-1973
BLACK SNAKE IN A BARN WILL KILL HARMFUL VARMITS.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 09-17-1973
PUT A PIECE OF FAT MEAT ON AN INFECTED SORE AND IT WILL HEAL.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 08-07-1977
CURE FOR PNEUMONIA:
PLACE A MEAT PACK ON THE PERSON'S CHEST AND KEEP HIM COVERED.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 09-26-1973
TO CURE A SORE THROAT TIE SOMETHING WOOL AROUND YOUR NECK.
Where learned: NEW JERSEY ; IRVINGTON
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 00-00-1970
TO STOP BLEEDING, PUT SPIDER WEBS ACROSS THE WOUND.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; SPRINGFIELD
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 10-12-1977
CURE FOR KIDNEY TROUBLE:
IF YOU DRINK OIL FROM EGGS, LITTLE BY LITTLE YOU WILL GET WELL.
IT'S ALSO GOOD FOR A HEALTHY PERSON TO DRINK IT TO PREVENT
FROM THIS ILLNESS.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; JAPAN, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 09-25-1977
PNEUMONIA:
MAKE A MEAT JACKET (FATTY MEAT).
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IF YOU DON'T WANT YOUR DOG TO LEAVE HOME, CUT THE HAIR OFF
THE END OF HIS TAIL AND BURY IT UNDER THE DOOR.
Submitter comment:
WE HAD AN OLD NIGGER WOMAN WHO BELIEVED THAT. MY SON
US'T TO BRING HOME A LOT OF STRAY DOGS. AND WE COULDN'T
GET 'EM TO GO AWAY. SHE ALWAYS US'T SWEEP UNDER THE FRONT
PORCH 'CAUSE HE WAS BOUND TO HAVE HAIR UNDER THERE.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; HENDERSONVILLE
James Callow Keyword(s): AGE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Hair, on head, mustache, widow's peak BELIEF -- Mammal BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 00-00-1972
SHEEP BALL TEA
GO OUT IN A SHEEP PASTURE AND YOU GET "WHAT'S IN A SHEEP
PASTURE" AND YOU BOIL IT, THEN DRINK IT AND IT CURES YOU.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT DOESN'T KNOW WHAT IT CURES. OTHER SOURCES SAY
FEED IT TO A BABY TO CURE DIARRHEA.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
James Callow Keyword(s): EUPHEMISM ; SHEEP DUNG
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 00-00-1972
TEETHING
IF A PERSON HAS ASTHMA, IF HE SLEEPS WITH A CHIHUAHUA IT
WILL CURE HIM.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
James Callow Keyword(s): DOG
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mammal BELIEF -- Animal |
RAISING A DOG
FEED A DOG GUNPOWDER EACH DAY AND HE'LL GROW UP TO BE MEAN.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 07-08-1973
CATS
IF A CAT IS LEFT IN THE HOUSE AT NIGHT, IT WILL SUCK THE
BREATH OUT OF A BABY.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; GALLATIN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 06-24-1973
SUPERSTITION ABOUT FARM ANIMALS
IN ORDER TO PROTECT CHICKENS FROM HAWKS, A HORSESHOE HAS TO BE
HUNG IN THE CHIMNEY.
Where learned: ALABAMA ; DOUBLE SPRINGS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 04-01-1972
BAD LUCK SAYING
THE BODY MUST NEVER BE LEFT ALONE FOR FEAR SOME ANIMAL AS A
CAT MIGHT SNIFF AT THE CORPSE, SOME BAD LUCK WOULD OVERTAKE
THE FAMILY.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
OLD TALE
IF A SINGLE HORSEHAIR IS PLACED IN WATER IN THE SUMMERTIME
IT IS BELIEVED TO TURN INTO A SNAKE.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN