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GERMAN-AMERICAN REMEDY
WRAPPING LIMBERGER CHEESE IN A TOWEL AND PLACING IT OVER THE
THROAT WILL CURE A SORE THROAT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: CA00001930
GERMAN-AMERICAN REMEDY
PIN A STRIP OF BACON OR SALT PORK TO A PIECE OF FLANNEL AND LAY
IT OVER THE THROAT TO CURE A SORE THROAT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: CA00001920
FOLK CURE AND REMEDY
MIX SPIDER WEBS WITH SOFT BREAD AND PUT IT ON A SORE TO HELP IT
HEAL FASTER.
Submitter comment:
THE INFORMANT FIRST HEARD OF THIS FOLK REMEDY AROUND 1910 IN
POLAND. SCIENCE DOES NOT SEEM TO BE INVOLVED WITH THIS, SUGGESTING
THAT IT WILL SURVIVE LONGER. THE COLLECTOR CAN FIND NO REASON WHY
A SPIDER WEB WOULD PROMOTE HEALING OTHER THAN THE ASSOCIATION THAT
SPIDERS KILL UNWANTED THINGS (FLIES AND BUGS, ETC.)
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Insect BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 10-00-1980 ; CA00001910
REMEDY
RAW BACON WITH PEPPER MAKES A POULTICE FOR DRAWING OUT PAIN OR
SORENESS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Mineral |
Date learned: 00001930S
REMEDY
WHEN YOU HAVE A STONE BRUISE YOU CAN DRAW OUT THE SORENESS BY
PUTTING COW MANURE IN YOUR SOCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 00001930S
CURE FOR COUGH
GOOSE GREASE ON NECK WITH A FLANNEL CLOTH WRAPPED AROUND THE THROAT
WAS USED TO CURE COUGHS.
Submitter comment:
MY GRANDMOTHER REASSURED ME WITHOUT ANY DOUBT THAT THIS REMEDY FROM
POLAND WORKED WELL.
Where learned: ILLINOIS ; CHICAGO
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Remedy BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 00-00-1930
CURE FOR BOILS
COW MANURE PUT ON CHEESE CLOTH AND WRAPPED AROUND AN OPEN WOUND OR
BOIL WAS USED FOR HEALING.
Submitter comment:
THE BAD THING MY GRANDMOTHER FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS REMEDY FROM
CHICAGO WAS THAT ITS USE LED TO ISOLATION FOR AWHILE.
Where learned: ILLINOIS ; CHICAGO
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Remedy BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 00-00-1920
USING BUTTER TO FREE GUM FROM ONE OF HER PLAYFUL GRANDCHILDREN'S HAIR
WAS ONE OF THE FOLK REMEDIES I REMEMBER FROM MY CHILDHOOD.
Submitter comment:
I REMEMBER THIS FOLK REMEDY BECAUSE MY GRANDMOTHER ADMINISTERED IT
ON ME QUITE A FEW TIMES.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WYANDOTTE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 00-00-1963
SUPERSTITION
IF A PERSON HAS TAPE WORMS, ONE CURE FOR THEM IS TO PLACE A BOWL
OF RAW EGGS IN FRONT OF THE PATIENT AND THE WORMS WILL CRAWL UP THE
THROAT AND INTO THE BOWL.
Submitter comment:
THIS WAS STATED WITH A GRUESOME SMILE. SHE HEARD OF IT AS A CHILD
FROM HER GRANDMOTHER.
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 00-00-1980
MEDICINE
WHEN A MAN BREAKS HIS LEG, HE GOES TO A HERBALIST. THE HERBALIST
BREAKS THE SAME LEG OF A CHICKEN AND TREATS THE CHICKEN'S LEG. THE
HEALING THAT THE CHICKEN EXPERIENCES IS THE SAME THAT YOUR LEG WILL
EXPERIENCE.
Submitter comment: THIS IS DONE IN NIGERIA
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): HOMEOPATHIC MAGIC
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 10-00-1981
MEDICINE
A SYRIAN CURE FOR WARTS HOLDS THAT THEY CAN BE TREATED
SUCCESSFULLY IF AN EGG IS BROKEN OVER THEM AND THEN BURIED.
Where learned: DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): TRANSFER ; TRANSFER
| Subject headings: | Food Drink -- Animal product Egg BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 00001920S
TO STOP SOMEONE FROM CHOKING, BREAK AN EGG IN A CUP AND GIVE THE
WHITE PART TO THE PERSON CHOKING. THIS USUALLY CATCHES AROUND THE
OBSTACLE AND SLIDES IT OUT.
Submitter comment:
ALTHOUGH THE INFORMANT LIVED ON A FARM AND WOULD HAVE HAD EASY
ACCESS TO EGGS, SHE DOESN'T REMEMBER EVER USING THIS METHOD.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 03-04-1982
IF YOU ARE CLUMSY, THEN YOU NEED TO HAVE YOUR HAND RUBBED WITH
THE SKIN OF A SNAKE.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
COLD REMEDY
WARM ORANGE JUICE AND TWO TEA SPOONS OF HONEY IS GOOD MEDICINE FOR
A COLD.
Submitter comment: SHE STILL USES THIS REMEDY.
Where learned: OHIO
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 00-00-1950
REMEDY
IF YOU STEP ON AN OLD NAIL, USE A PENNY AND FAT PORK TO DRAW THE
POISON OUT OF THE WOUNDED FOOT.
Submitter comment: I DON'T KNOW HOW THIS REMEDY WORKED, BUT THIS IS WHAT WAS DONE.
Where learned: ALABAMA
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Mineral |
Date learned: 00-00-1940
A CORN OF A PIG'S HOOF (LIKE A TOE NAIL) MIXED WITH SALT GRINDED
TOGETHER, AND IF PLACED ON BOILS AND BUMPS THEY WILL GO AWAY.
Submitter comment: CREOLE REMEDY FOR ACNE
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Lansing
James Callow Keyword(s): ACNE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Mineral |
Date learned: 00-00-1970
CURE
TO RID OF AN INFECTION YOU SHOULD APPLY
LEECHES TO THE SORE TO SUCK OUT THE INFECTION.
Submitter comment:
THIS WAS PRACTICED BY A FEW POLISH
IMMIGRANTS DURING THE 1930'S AND 1940'S.
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 00-00-1940
GOOSE GREASE CURE
MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER USED GOOSE GREASE AS AN OINTMENT
AND AS A CURE FOR COLDS. TO CURE COLDS, SHE RUBBED IT
DIRECTLY ON THE CHEST. ON ONE OCCASION, A FRIEND'S
DAUGHTER WAS IN CRISIS (COULD NOT BREATHE) WITH DIPHTHERIA.
MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER MELTED SOME GOOSE GREASE, POURED
IT DOWN THE GIRL'S THROAT, AND SWABBED THE OUTSIDE OF
HER THROAT WITH MORE GOOSE GREASE. THE GIRL WAS ABLE TO
BREATHE IMMEDIATELY, AND SUBSEQUENTLY RECOVERED COMPLETELY.
MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER CAME TO THIS COUNTRY FROM
CZECHOSLOVAKIA IN 1893. MY GRANDMOTHER TOLD THIS STORY
TO MY MOTHER IN ATHENS, OHIO AROUND 1967 AND MENTIONED
THAT SHE BELIEVED THAT GOOSE GREASE WAS USED FOR MEDICINAL
PURPOSES IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA.
Submitter comment:
THE GREAT-GRANDMOTHER'S NAME IS MARY ANN DORULLA, BORN IN
CZECHOSLOVAKIA, DATE OF BIRTH UNKNOWN. SHE CAME TO THIS
COUNTRY IN 1893 AND MARRIED ANOTHER CZECH IMMIGRANT IN
1896. THE GRANDMOTHER, ELIZABETH DORULLA MARTIN, SETTLED
IN PENNSYLVANIA DURING THE 1920'S. THE INFORMANT'S MOTHER
IS MARY MORSILLO GINGERICH, BORN OCTOBER 3, 1937, FARRELL,
PENNSYLVANIA.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROYAL OAK
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 09-00-1982
CURE FOR STYES AND BOILS
PLACE THE MEMBRANE FROM THE INSIDE OF AN EGG ON A STY OR
A BOIL. CHANGE THE MEMBRANE FREQUENTLY UNTIL THE STY OR
BOIL COMES TO A HEAD AND BURSTS. THIS WAS A COMMONPLACE
CURE AMONG RURAL MISSISSIPPI BLACKS IN THE 1930'S AND
ALTHOUGH WE NEVER HAD CAUSE TO TRY IT, PEOPLE WHO DID
CLAIMED SUCCESS.
Submitter comment:
THE INFORMANT WAS BORN IN LOUISVILLE, MISSISSIPPI IN
1925 AND LIVED THERE UNTIL COMING TO DETROIT DURING WORLD
WAR II.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 09-00-1982
TO CURE THE MUMPS PUT SARDINE OIL ON THE
PERSON'S FACE, TIE A WHITE RAG AROUND THE PERSON'S HEAD,
THEN GIVE THE PERSON SARDINES TO EAT.
Submitter comment:
SHE SAYS THIS IS HOW SHE CURED HER CHILDREN
AND GRANDCHILDREN
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 03-00-1983