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RUB A POTATO ON ANY WARTS AND BURY THE POTATO. WHEN THE
POTATO ROTS, THE WARTS WILL DISAPPEAR.
Submitter comment: THIS IS A BELIEF COMMON IN THE OSWALD FAMILY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): PLUGGING TRANSFER
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 09-20-1967
TO GET RID OF A WART, RUB A POTATO ON THE WART AND THEN BURY
THE POTATO. WHEN THE POTATO ROTS, THE WART WILL BE GONE.
Submitter comment: FROM MRS. LAWRENCE, OF POLISH DESCENT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE
James Callow Keyword(s): TRANSFER PLUGGING
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 00001964 SUMMER
TO CURE A WART, TOUCH A POTATO TO THE WART AND THEN BURY THE
POTATO SOMEPLACE; WHEN THE POTATO ROTS, THE WART WILL
DISAPPEAR.
Submitter comment: MISS MAYER LEARNED THIS FROM HER MOTHER.
Where learned: HOME
James Callow Keyword(s): PLUGGING TRANSFER
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 01-11-1964
TO REMOVE WARTS, CUT A POTATO IN HALF, RUB IT ON THE WARTS,
AND THEN BURY IT. IN ABOUT THREE WEEKS THE WART WILL GO
AWAY. EVERY DAY USE HALF A POTATO AND EACH TIME YOU USE
A POTATO BURY IT.
Submitter comment:
THE INFORMANT LEARNED THIS FROM HER MOTHER, JENNY TORRANCE,
IN DETROIT (MICHIGAN) IN THE 1890S.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SOUTHFIELD
James Callow Keyword(s): TRANSFER PLUGGING
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 05-12-1965 ; 00001890S
IN ORDER TO CURE OR REMOVE A WART, YOU TAKE ONE HALF OF A
POTATO AND RUB IT ON THE WART, THEN TOSS IT OVER YOUR
LEFT SHOULDER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): TRANSFER PLUGGING
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 10-15-1969
EAT CARROTS FOR GOOD EYES; EAT FISH FOR BRAINS.
Submitter comment: THIS IS A BELIEF COMMON IN THE OSWALD FAMILY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Fish BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 09-20-1967
PINE PITCH MAY BE USED FOR THE QUICK HEALING OF
CUTS, WHEN RUBBED ON THE SORE.
Submitter comment: USED BY INFORMANT'S FATHER-IN-LAW, 20-30 YEARS AGO.
Where learned: NEW YORK ; LE ROY
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 02-00-1971
A MIXTURE OF OIL OF WINTERGREEN (2 DROPS) AND HARD
APPLE CIDER (GLASSFUL) MAY BE TAKEN INTERNALLY TO
ACT AS A CURE FOR ARTHRITIS OR RHEUMATISM.
Where learned: ROCHESTER ; NEW YORK, ASSUMED
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 03-00-1969
A MIXTURE OF LARD AND TURPENTINE MAY BE RUBBED ON
CHEST FOR RELIEF OF COLDS.
Where learned: NEW YORK ; LE ROY
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 02-00-1971
A RAW ONION PLACED ON A WART WILL REMOVE IT WITHIN
A MONTH.
Submitter comment:
A REMEDY, RECALLED BY MY MOTHER, WHICH I REMEMBER
HAVING WORKED ON ME SEVERAL YEARS AGO.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DEARBORN HEIGHTS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 10-11-1970
IF A PERSON SWALLOWS A CLOVE OF GARLIC BEFORE
BREAKFAST EVERY MORNING, HE WOULD BE CURED OF THE
EVIL OMEN.
Submitter comment:
THIS CURE IS STILL IN EFFECT IN ITALY FOR THE
MORE PRIMITIVE PEOPLE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Measure of time WeekDayHour BELIEF -- Curse BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 11-20-1967
A PERSON WOULD GREASE THE SUPPORTS OF THE HOUSE
WITH PORK FAT; THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO CURE THE
EVIL OMEN.
Submitter comment: PEOPLE IN ITALY STILL DO THIS TODAY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | ART CRAFT ARCHITECTURE -- Foundation Floor BELIEF -- Curse BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 11-20-1967
CUT A LEMON IN HALF AND SQUEEZE EACH SECTION TO
REMOVE JUICE. RUB THE ELBOWS WITH THE REMAINING
RIND AND THE DIRT WILL BE REMOVED.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT HEARD THIS FROM HER MOTHER (1920S)
AND STILL PRACTICES IT. SHE CLAIMS IT WORKS.
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; PITTSBURGH
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Upper body, arms, neck BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 10-02-1971 ; 00001920S
FOR TEETHING PAINS, TIE A BAG OF FLUCK (A WEED) AROUND THE NECK.
Submitter comment:
Data entry tech comment:
Informant learned this from the book "These Are Our Lives" (Kingsport Press, 1939, pp.26-29), a Federal Writers' Project publication featuring the everyday lives of people in the South. This home remedy was shared by Gracie Turner, an African-American sharecropper.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; KINGSPORT ; "These Are Our Lives"
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 00-00-1939
FOR DIARRHEA, INFORMANT'S MOTHER WOULD BREW UP SOME CATNIP TEA, OR GIVE HER "DOG FENAL," SOME TYPE OF A PLANT.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; St. Clair's Restaurant
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 08-12-1970
FOR A COUGH, INFORMANT'S MOTHER WOULD MAKE SOME HOREHOUND CANDY, AND GIVE THIS TO HER CHILDREN ALONG WITH A TEASPOON OR SO OF MOLASSES.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; St. Clair's Restaurant
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 08-12-1970
PURIFY THE BLOOD
DRINK A MIXTURE OF SULPHUR AND MOLASSES.
Where learned: TENNESSEE RIDGE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 07-28-1968
BLOOD THINNER--SPRING TONIC
IN THE SPRING FOLKS WENT TO THE WOODS AND GATHERED THE ROOT
OF THE RED SASSAFRAS. IT WAS USED AS A SPRING TONIC TO THIN
YOUR BLOOD. MAYBE IT WAS A TONIC, BUT MOST FAMILIES HAD A
POT OF IT ON THE SUPPER TABLE. THE POT WAS USUALLY EMPTY.
IF IT WASN'T EMPTY THE REMAINING TEA WAS REBOILED AND WAS
BETTER THAN BEFORE. SASSAFRAS TEA AND CRACKLING BREAD WERE
PRESCRIBED BY THE HOME DOCTOR WHO WAS ALSO THE NURSE--THE
MOTHER.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Measure of time Spring BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness BELIEF -- Plant |