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TO RID YOURSELF OF WARTS APPLY CASTOR OIL TO THE WART.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Remedy |
Date learned: 02-00-1979
TO STOP A NOSEBLEED PLACE COLD RAGS ON THE FOREHEAD AND THROAT.
Submitter comment:
PLACING COLD RAGS OR TOWELS ON THE PERSON STOPS THE BLEEDING
BECAUSE THE COOLNESS SLOWS THE FLOW OF BLOOD.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Remedy |
Date learned: 02-00-1979
CURE
PUT RAW BACON ON A SPLINTER, TO TAKE OUT INFECTION.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WYANDOTTE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Remedy |
CURE
CURE FOR HICCUPS: SWALLOW A TEASPOON OF SUGAR, FOLLOWED BY SOME
WATER AND THEY WILL GO AWAY.
Submitter comment:
I THINK THAT THIS IS A VERY VALID CURE, BECAUSE WHEN I WAS YOUNGER
MY MOTHER USED TO GIVE THIS TO ME AND IT WORKED.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WYANDOTTE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Remedy BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 00001960'S
FOLK REMEDIES.
BICARBONATE SODA AND WATER FOR STOMACH ACHES.
Submitter comment:
WHEN I WAS LITTLE, I USED TO TAKE THIS, AND IT GOT RID OF MY
STOMACH ACHES.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Remedy |
FOLK REMEDIES.
TO CLEAN TEETH AND WHITEN THEM YOU BRUSH WITH BICARBONATE SODA.
Submitter comment:
I USED TO DO THIS AND IT REALLY WORKS. IT ALSO LEAVES YOUR MOUTH
FEELING REALLY CLEAN.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness BELIEF -- Remedy |
Date learned: 04-00-1979
FOLK REMEDIES.
BICARBONATE SODA UNDER ARMPITS TO DISPELL BODY ODOR.
Submitter comment: MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER USED THIS METHOD.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness BELIEF -- Remedy |
Date learned: 04-00-1979
EVIL EYE "MALOCCHIO"
A CURSE IS PLACED ON SOMEONE. TO FIND OUT IF A PERSON HAS IT
FIRST MAKE THE SIGN OF THE CROSS ON YOUR FOREHEAD THEN DROP OIL
INTO A BOWL CONTAINING WATER. IF THE OIL DISPERSES, THE PERSON
HAS THE CURSE. IF THE OIL COMES TO THE CENTER, THERE IS NONE.
CURSES ARE REMOVED BY MAKING THE SIGN OF THE CROSS ON YOUR FOREHEAD
THREE TIMES AND RECITING PRAYERS WITH INTENT FOR IT TO BE REMOVED.
Submitter comment: "MALOCCHIO" MEANS TO LOOK ASKANCE AT SOMEONE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; CAMPUS
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple BELIEF -- Prayer BELIEF -- Curse BELIEF -- Sign Geometric figure Cross and its various modifications BELIEF -- Remedy BELIEF -- Conversions |
"FATTURA"
WISHING ILLNESS BY PLACING A LETTER STATING THIS IN A FEATHER
PILLOW. SICKNESS CAUSED A PERSON TO BE TOTALLY IMMOBLIZED AND
WOULD HAVE TO REMAIN IN BED. IF A PERSON WAS KNOWN TO HAVE CURSED
SOMEONE WITH SICKNESS, THEN SALT WAS THROWN AFTER THAT PERSON BY
THE PERSON WHO WAS CURSED (WITHOUT THEM SEEING IT DONE) WHEN
THE PERSON RECOVERED FROM THE ILLNESS.
Submitter comment: "FATTURA" MEANS CHARM OR SPELL.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; CAMPUS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mineral BELIEF -- Curse BELIEF -- Word Letter BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness BELIEF -- Remedy BELIEF -- Conversions |
Date learned: 02-26-1979
HONEY AND LEMON WITH WHISKEY FOR COLDS.(TEA IS OPTIONAL)
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT DORMS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Remedy |
Date learned: 00-00-1978
SORE THROAT REMEDY
MY GREAT AUNT, CECILIA FREDERICKS, BELIEVED THAT TYING A
DIRTY SOCK AROUND ONE'S NECK WOULD CURE A SORE THROAT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Remedy |
Date learned: 03-00-1979
REMEDY
TO TEMPORARILY RELIEVE A COUGH, A TEASPOON OF WHISKEY, FOLLOWED BY A
TEASPOON OF HONEY WAS SWALLOWED BY THE PERSON WITH THE COUGH.
Submitter comment: THIS WAS LEARNED BY THE INFORMANT'S GREAT, GREAT GRANDMOTHER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SOUTHFIELD
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Remedy |
REMEDY
IN ORDER TO REMOVE A SPLINTER, A TOWEL FILLED WITH MOIST BREAD CRUMB
IS APPLIED TO THE AFFECTED AREA, SECURED, AND ALLOWED TO REMAIN ON
OVERNIGHT. TO PREPARE THE PACK, A FEW PIECES OF BREAD ARE BROKEN UP
PUT IN A BOWL, AND BOILING WATER IS POURED OVER THEM. THE MOIST
BREAD CRUMBS ARE THEN PICKED UP AND PUT INTO A TOWEL. THE TOWEL IS
ROLLED UP, PLACED ON THE AFFECTED AREA, AND SECURED.
Submitter comment:
THIS CURE WAS LEARNED BY THE INFORMANT'S MOTHER WHO LEARNED IT FROM
A NEIGHBOR.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SOUTHFIELD
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Remedy |
Date learned: CA00001972
FOLK TALE
IN MY HOME PARISH OF ST. LADISLAUS
CATHOLICS GET THEIR THROATS BLESSED
ON THE FEAST OF ST. BLASE, BISHOP
AND MARTYR. THE PRIEST TELLS THEM
TO BE SORRY FOR THEIR SINS AND TO ASK GOD'S HEALING AND SAVING POWER
TO MAKE ITSELF PRESENT IN THEIR LIVES.
SOME STUDENTS CARRIED THIS BELIEF
TOO FAR AND ONE POOR GIRL EVEN CLAIMED
IT CURED HER OF VENEREAL DISEASE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; TROY
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Religious hero CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- Church BELIEF -- Religious hero BELIEF -- Remedy |
Date learned: 00-00-1979
CURE FOR A COUGH
THE BEST CURE FOR A COUGH IS:
1 SHOT OF WHISKEY
2 SHOTS OF LEMON JUICE
3 SHOTS OF HONEY, MIX WELL AND DRINK IT DOWN.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; LIVONIA
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Remedy |
Date learned: CA02001980
CURE
TO REMOVE A WART ONE SHOULD DIRECTLY APPLY ONE'S MORNING URINE TO TH
WART. A WOMAN'S MENSTRUATION MAY BE USED IN PLACE OF THE URINE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROSEVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Remedy |
Date learned: 00001930S ; 02-16-1980
FAMILY CURE ALL
APPLE CIDER VINEGAR, AND HONEY CURES ANYTHING
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROSEVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Remedy |
Date learned: 04-00-1980
PUTTING WINTERGREEN LEAVES ON YOUR SKIN WILL TAKE AWAY THE PAIN OF
A SUNBURN.
Submitter comment: SHE LEARNED THIS WHILE IN FLORIDA.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROCHESTER HILLS
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Remedy BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 00-00-1979
IF A PERSON IS ANEMIC HE CAN BE HELPED BY PLACING IRON NAILS INTO AN
APPLE AND LETTING IT SIT FOR AWHILE. AFTER IT HAS SAT, REMOVE THE
NAILS, AND EAT THE APPLE.
Submitter comment:
THIS BELIEF HAS SOME TRUTH TO IT. THE IRON FROM THE NAILS REPLACES
THE IRON MISSING FROM THE BLOOD THAT CAUSES A PERSON TO BE ANEMIC.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SAINT CLAIR SHORES
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Remedy |