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FEVER
TO REDUCE A FEVER, HOLD TWO FULL-SIZED GARLICS IN YOUR ARMPITS
OVERNIGHT.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 10-00-1971
FEVER
WRAP GARLIC AROUND PARTS OF YOUR BODY (WAIST, ARMS, LEGS) TO DRAW OUT
FEVER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; WHILE DRINKING AT WORK
Keyword(s): TRANSFERENCE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 11-05-1971
CURE FOR HEADACHE
PUT A RHUBARB ON THE PERSON'S HEAD.
Where learned: HOME
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 03-07-1971
FOR A REALLY BAD HEADACHE IN THE SUMMER, CUT A POTATO REAL THIN AND
PLACE SLICE ON YOUR HEAD. THE SLICES WOULD BE COLD JUST LIKE ICE AND
CURE YOUR HEADACHE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ALLEN PARK
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 02-06-1972
HEADACHE
CURE FOR HEADACHE: GET TWO FRESH CRANBERRIES AND STICK ONE IN EACH
EAR. KEEP THE BERRIES THERE UNTIL THE HEADACHE DISAPPEARS.
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 04-05-1972
HEADACHE
FOLK CURE FOR HEADACHES AND NERVOUSNESS: ASARES LEAVES FROM A PLANT
ARE DRIED AND BOILED IN WATER, HAS A VERY GOOD FLAVOR.
Submitter comment: THE INFORMANT HAS ALWAYS BEEN HAPPY WITH THE RESULTS OF THIS TEA.
Where learned: WESTERN YMCA ; TOLD AT
Keyword(s): NERVOUSNESS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 11-11-1971
HEADACHE
FOR THE CURE OF HEADACHES, CHOP ONIONS FINE AND PREPARE A
POULTICE AND PLACE ON THE CALVES OF THE LEGS.
Where learned: DETROIT
Keyword(s): POULTICE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 10-26-1969
HEART TROUBLE
FOXGLOVE CAN BE MADE INTO A TEA THAT FUNCTIONS AS DIGITALIS.
Data entry tech comment: DIGITALIS IS USED AS A HEART STIMULANT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ;
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 11-00-1971
HICCUPS
ONE WAY TO GET RID OF THE HICCUPS IS TO PLACE A TOOTHPICK
ACROSS YOUR MOUTH AND DRINK WATER.
THE TOOTHPICK SHOULD BE LYING HORIZONTALLY IN YOUR MOUTH.
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 10-29-1969
MUSCLES, MUSCULAR CONDITIONS
A MIXTURE OF OIL OF WINTERGREEN AND ALCOHOL
RUBBED ON SORE MUSCLES WILL RELIEVE THE PAIN.
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 11-12-1968
PLANT CUREALLS
IF YOU CUT A SPANISH ONION AND SIT IT AT THE FOOT OF YOUR BED
WHEN YOU ARE SICK
AND THEN OPEN YOUR WINDOW A LITTLE,
IT WILL DRAW THE SICKNESS OUT OF THE ROOM.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; TOLD AT COLLECTORS HOME ; GROSSE POINTE PARK
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 11-16-1971
TAPEWORM
IN ORDER TO CURE A TAPEWORM, A PIECE OF GARLIC MUST BE WORN ABOUT THE
NECK FOR A CERTAIN LENGTH OF TIME. THE INFORMANT REMEMBERS HEARING
THIS FROM HER MOTHER WHEN YOUNG.
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 04-11-1965
CHILD WORMS
ITALIANS BELIEVE THAT STOMACH WORMS IN CHILDREN CAN BE CURED
BY HAVING THE CHILD WEAR A SPRIG OF GARLIC AROUND HIS NECK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; MILFORD
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
WORMS
WEAR A PIECE OF GARLIC AROUND NECK TO CHASE OFF BAD SPIRITS AND TO
CURE STOMACH WORMS.
Where learned: DETROIT ; TOLD AT INFORMANTS HOME
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 04-00-1970
REMEDY FOR GETTING RID OF WARTS.
TAKE A MILKWEED PLANT AND CUT IT OPEN AT THE STEM AND PUT THE JUICE
THAT COMES OUT ON THE WARTS AND THEY SHOULD DISAPPEAR WITHIN DAYS.
Submitter comment:
THIS REMEDY WAS TOLD TO ME BECAUSE I HAD WARTS ON MY KNEE AND THERE
WAS MILKWEED AROUND ME. I USED IT BUT IT DIDN'T WORK.
Where learned: CANADA ; ONTARIO
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
A CURE FOR A COLD IS TO CUT UP A WHOLE GRAPEFRUIT, RIND AND ALL,
AND PUT IT IN WATER. LET IT COME TO A BOIL FOR ABOUT TEN MINUTES
ONCE IT HAS BOILED LONG ENOUGH, DRINK THE ENTIRE MIXTURE.
WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS YOUR COLD SHOULD BE CURED.
Submitter comment:
I GOT THE ITEM FROM A GIRL WHO GOT IT FROM A PERSON SHE
WORKS WITH AT FORD MOTOR COMPANY.
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
OLD FOLK-MEDICINE
OLD TAR, PINE AND HONEY, GOOD FOR COMMON COLDS.
Submitter comment:
YOU CAN BUY THIS OLD FASHIONED MEDICINE AT ANY REXALL DRUG STORE.
THIS OLD FASHIONED MEDICINE WAS VERY WELL KNOWN AROUND THE 1950'S.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
FOLK MEDICINE
WEAR GARLIC, AND YOU WILL NEVER CATCH COLD.
Submitter comment:
THE STRENGTH OF THE GARLIC IS REPRESENTED IN THIS PIECE
OF FOLK MEDICINE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 10-10-1977
BELIEF
WHEN YOU FINISH THE EGGS YOU CAN PUT THE SHELLS UNDER THE
ROSEBUSHES, (TO) MAKE THEM GROW BETTER.
Submitter comment:
FR. LEO WAS REFERRING TO EASTER EGGS IN THIS BELIEF. THIS
INFORMATION WAS COLLECTED IN A POLISH CATHOLIC CHURCH ON HOLY
SATURDAY WHEN THE EASTER BASKETS WERE BEING BLESSED.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 663 Holy Saturday BELIEF -- Plant husbandry Farming BELIEF -- Plant |
BELIEF
BROTHERS, SISTERS OR LOVED ONES SHOULD NOT BE SEPERATED BY POLES OR TREES ETC.
WHILE WALKING TOGETHER.
Submitter comment:
THERE ARE MANY THINGS TO USE ON A BOIL; PINE RESIN, PEACH SKINS,
EGG WHITES, PLUM SKINS.
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Street Trip Relations between relatives, friends, host and guest Social class Rank BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Plant |