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CURE NOSEBLEED
WEAR LEAD BAND AROUND WRIST TO CURE NOSEBLEED.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
ARTHRITIS CURE
TO CURE ARTHRITIS, WEAR BRASS WRIST BAND.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 07-00-1972
COLD CURE
FOR CHEST COLD, MAKE AN ONION POULTICE.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 06-00-1972
CURES
FEED A COLD AND STARVE A FEVER.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 06-00-1972
CROUP CURE
A SPOONGUL OF SUGAR WITH A FAEW DROPS OF KEROSENE TO CURE
CROUP.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 07-00-1972
ITCH CURE
SULPHUR AND LARD WILL CURE AN ITCH.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 07-00-1972
STOP PAIN OF BURN
ALUM AND EGG WHITE WILL STOP PAIN OF BURN.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 07-00-1972
COLIC CURE
TO CURE A BABY'S COLIC, GIVE IT A SPOONFUL OF TEA MADE FROM
MULLEIN LEAVES.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 06-00-1972
POWER DOCTOR TALE
RELIEVE THE PAIN FROM A BURN BY BLOWING UPON THE BURNED PLACE,
TOUCHES IT WITH HIS FINGERTIPS AND SAID A PRAYER. THE PRAYER
MAY BE TOLD TO PERSONS OF THE OTHER SEX, BUT NEVER TO ONE OF
THE SAME SEX.
ONE LITTLE INDIAN, TWO LITTLE INDIANS,
ONE NAMED EAST, ONE NAMED WEST,
THE SON AND THE FATHER AND THE HOLY GHOST.
IN GOES THE FROST, OUT COMES THE FIRE,
ASK IT ALL IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
OLD SAYING
IN TREATING A STY THE PERSON GOES ALONE TO A CROSSROADS AT
MIDNIGHT IN THE DARK OF THE MOON AND SAYS:
STY, STY LEAVE MY EYE,
GO TO THE NEXT FELLER PASSIN' BY!
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
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STOPPING BLEEDING BY QUOTING BIBLE
SEVERAL YEARS AGO THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN AROUND WHO CLAIMED SHE
COULD STOP BLEEDING BY REPEATING OVER AND OVER A VERSE OF
SCRIPTURE. I CAN'T REMEMBER NOW WHICH VERSE IT WAS. WHEN MY
BROTHER CUT AN ARTERY IN HIS LEG, NOBODY WENT TO THE DOCTOR
FOR THINGS LIKE THAT, THEN MY MOTHER TOOK HIM TO THIS WOMAN
AND SHE SAID THIS VERSE OVER AND OVER. HIS LEG DID STOP
BLEEDING, BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW EFFECTIVE SHE WAS. IT PROBABLY
JUST BLED ALL IT WAS GOING TO AND QUIT.
Where learned: MISSOURI ; PUXICO
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 07-28-1968
REMEDY: MOUTH-DRYNESS
IF YOUR MOUTH IS DRY, LICK YOUR HAND TO GET IT MOIST AGAIN.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 11-21-1969
HOW TO BLEED PEOPLE
PUT LEECHES ON PEOPLE TO BLEED THEM.
Where learned: HAMPSHIRE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 07-25-1968
CURE FOR COLDS
WEAR GARLIC AROUND YOUR NECK TO GET RID OF COLDS.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 08-10-1973
CURE FOR EARACHE
PUT RAW ONION ON YOUR EAR TO GET RID OF AN EARACHE.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 08-10-1973
CURE FOR WARTS
STEAL YOUR MOTHER'S DISHRAG AND BURY IT. WHEN IT ROTS, THE WART
WILL GO AWAY.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 06-14-1973
WART CURES
HAVE A PERSON WHO HAS NEVER SEEN HIS FATHER RUB THE WART.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 06-13-1973
WART CURES
TO CURE WARTS, PUT A DIRTY WASHRAG OVER THE WARTS, THEN BURY.
THREE DAYS LATER, THE WARTS SHOULD BE GONE.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 07-05-1973
WART CURE
FIND A PERSIMMON WATER SPROUT AND CUT ONE NOTCH IN IT FOR EACH
WART YOU HAVE. PUT THE SWITCH UNDER THE HOUSE AND YOUR WARTS
WILL GO AWAY.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; HOHENWALD
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 06-11-1972