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TO STOP A HEADACHE PUT LEECHES ON THE FOREHEAD.
Submitter comment: THE LEECHES DRAW THE PAIN FROM THE HEAD.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 02-00-1979
FOR AN EASY CHILD BIRTH PUT AN ALLIGATOR HEAD OVER THE DOOR.
Submitter comment: THE INFORMANT DID NOT KNOW OF AN INSTANCE WHERE THIS WAS USED.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 02-00-1979
TO REMOVE WARTS TIE A HORSE HAIR AROUND THE WART AND SAY,
''WART GO AWAY WITH THE HORSE.''
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 02-00-1979
METHOD OF CURING WITH GOOSE GREASE
TAKE THE GREASE FROM A COOKED GOOSE AND RUB IT ON YOUR CHEST TO CURE A COLD
I DO NOT KWOW IF THIS WORKS, BUT I HAVE HEARD IT FROM A LOT OF
PEOPLE.
Submitter comment:
NONE
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WYANDOTTE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 00-00-1974
REMEDY
RUB GOOSE GREASE ON YOUR THROAT TO CURE A CHEST COLD & CONGESTION.
Where learned: HOME ; OHIO ; TOLEDO
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 03-00-1979
REMEDY
EATING SNAKE MEAT WILL CURE RHEUMATISM.
Submitter comment:
HE HEARD THIS FROM HIS GRANDMOTHER, WHO SAID IT WORKED FOR HER. YOU
HAVE TO EAT IT REGULARLY IN ORDER FOR IT TO DO ANY GOOD. RATTLESNAKE
MEAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE BEST.
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): MEXICAN-AMERICAN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 03-00-1979
REMEDY
A CURE FOR A SORE THROAT IS GOOSE GREASE.
Submitter comment: THIS IS ORIGINALLY A FRENCH-CANADIAN CURE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; FERNDALE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 02-00-1979
REMEDY
TO REMOVE A SPLINTER, A PIECE OF RAW BACON SHOULD BE APPLIED TO THE
AREA WHICH IS THEN COVERED UP WITH A TOWEL. THE TOWEL SHOULD BE
SECURED IN SOME WAY AND THEN ALLOWED TO REMAIN ON THE PERSON
OVERNIGHT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; SOUTHFIELD
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 11-12-1979
SORE THROAT CURE
IF YOU HAVE A SORE THROAT, GARGLE WITH HERRING JUICE.
Submitter comment:
THIS CURE IS BASED ON THE MEDICINAL POWERS OF SALT. (HERRING
JUICE IS MOSTLY SALT.) THIS CURE IS CONSIDERED VILE, BUT EFFECTIVE.
Where learned: DETROIT
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mineral BELIEF -- Animal BELIEF -- Mineral |
Date learned: CA00001916 ; 01-13-1980
A CURE FOR TUBERCULOSIS.
IN VERACRUZ IT IS BELIEVED THAT TUBERCULOSIS CAN BE CURED BY DRINKIN
THE WARM BLOOD OF A FRESHLY SLAUGHTERED COW..
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROSEVILLE
James Callow Keyword(s): MEXICO
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 04-00-1980
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