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WART CURE
IF YOU COUNT YOUR WARTS,
MAKE A KNOT IN A THREAD FOR EVERY WART,
THROW THE THREAD AWAY,
AND THE WARTS WILL BE CURED.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): MEASURING ; POWER OF NUMBERS ; SEVERAL SIMILAR COMMENTS IN THE ARCHIVES.
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Medicine BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 10-00-1969
REMEDY
COUNT THE NUMBER OF WARTS OR MOLES,
CONCENTRATE ON THE NUMBER,
AND THEY WILL SOON DISAPPEAR.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): MEASURING ; POWER OF NUMBERS
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Number Counting beliefs BELIEF -- Remedy |
Date learned: 03-10-1970
BELIEF IN A METHOD OF CURING ASTHMA
STAND AN ASTHMATIC CHILD STRAIGHT AGAINST A TREE AND MARK THE SPOT
AT THE TOP OF HIS HEAD WITH A NAIL. AFTER THE CHILD MOVES TO THE
SIDE, DRIVE THE NAIL ALL THE WAY INTO THE TREE. AS SOON AS THE
CHILD'S HEIGHT PASSES THE NAIL, HE WILL BE RID OF HIS ASTHMA.
Submitter comment: INFORMANT LEARNED THIS IN MONTERREY, MEXICO.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; CAMPUS
James Callow Keyword(s): MEASURING
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 02-05-1980 ; 12-00-1979
To cure asthma, take the child outside and place him/her in
front of a tree on your property. Take a nail and drive it
into the tree at the same level as the top of your child's
head. Make sure the nail can slide in and out of the hole
easily, so that the hole will remain a permanent part of the
tree. If it closes up repeat the process, every year until
the asthma goes away.
Submitter comment:
The informant told me that since most children outgrow asthma
as they enter adolescence this is done for only two years
maybe before it is believed that this has cured him/her.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): MEASURING ; PLUGGING
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 03-00-1991
If you have asthma, measure your height to a tree and mark
it. As the tree grows you will grow out of the asthma.
James Callow comment:
Puckett, Ohio, no. 2325: "If a child has asthma, take him
into the woods and find a young tree. Measure the child up to
the tree and mark his height by putting a nail into the tree. As
the tree grows the child will outgrow his asthma."
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; SOUTHFIELD
James Callow Keyword(s): MEASURING
| Subject headings: | Favorites BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Measure of space: distance, height, depth BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 02-07-1992
TIE A HORSE HAIR AROUND A WART AND THE WART WILL DISAPPEAR.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT HEARD THIS SAID WHEN YOUNG (AROUND 1920) BUT DOES
NOT REMEMBER SEEING IT EVER PRACTICED.
Where learned: PENNSYLVANIA ; PITTSBURGH
James Callow Keyword(s): MEASURING
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
Date learned: 10-02-1971
TO GET RID OF A WART ON A HAND FIRST FIND THE
OLDEST WART. PLACE A PIECE OF CLOTH AROUND THE WART AND
TIE THE CLOTH IN PLACE WITH A STRING. LEAVE IT LIKE THIS
FOR A WEEK WITHOUT CHANGING THE CLOTH. AT THE END OF
A WEEK REMOVE THE CLOTH AND THE WART WILL PEEL OFF.
James Callow Keyword(s): MEASURING POULTICE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 11-16-1969
TO GET RID OF WARTS, TIE A STRING AROUND THEM AND TIGHTEN
THE STRING A BIT EACH DAY TO GRADUALLY CUT OFF THE WART.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT LEARNED THIS FROM HER AUNT WHO IS OF ITALIAN
DESCENT.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): MEASURING
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 03-31-1967
MY MOTHER WILL TELL YOU TO GO AND GET 3 (OR MAYBE 7) STONES.
EACH ONE SHE RUBS OVER YOUR WARTS. AND IN SO MANY DAYS THEY
WILL GO AWAY. AND THEY ACTUALLY GO AWAY.
WHEN I WAS 7 OR 8 I HAD A SEED WART AND MOTHER COULDN'T
CHARM IT OFF. HER POWER WOULDN'T WORK IN THE IMMEDIATE
FAMILY. SO I WENT TO A LADY WHO TOOK A BLACK THREAD AND
MADE A LOOP WITH IT AND PUT IT AROUND THE WART AND DREW
IT TIGHT. SHE TOLD ME TO LEAVE IT ALONE AND IT WOULD GO
AWAY. AND IT WAS GONE IN A WEEK OR TWO.
Submitter comment: HAPPENED IN SEYMOUR, INDIANA, WHERE HE LIVED.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; INDIANA ; SOUTHFIELD ; SEYMOUR
James Callow Keyword(s): MEASURING
| Subject headings: | 686 Thirds / Thrice / Three / Triple 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several Favorites BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 05-19-1965
CURE FOR WARTS: TAKE A PIECE OF STRING AND FOR EACH WART, TIE
THREE KNOTS IN THE STRING AND RUB THE STRING OVER THE WART.
THEN FIND A RAINSPOUT WHERE WATER FREQUENTLY DRAINS AND BURY
THE STRING UNDER THIS AREA. WHEN THE STRING ROTS AWAY THE
WARTS WILL BE GONE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): PLUGGING MEASURING
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 03-22-1972
TIE A SILK THREAD AROUND THE WART; WHEN THE THREAD HAS WORN
AWAY, THE WART SHOULD DISAPPEAR.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): MEASURING
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 02-23-1970
ANOTHER CURE FOR A WART IS TO TIE A STRING TIGHTLY AROUND IT
AND LEAVE IT THERE UNTIL THE WART AND STRING FALL OFF.
Where learned: HUNGARY
James Callow Keyword(s): MEASURING
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 00-00-1897
TIE ONE KNOT IN A STRING FOR EACH WART WHICH YOU HAVE,
THEN BURY THE STRING. WHEN THE STRING ROTS, YOUR WARTS
WILL HAVE VANISHED.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; GROSSE POINTE WOODS
James Callow Keyword(s): MEASURING ; PLUGGING
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 10-25-1969
WARTS WILL GO AWAY IF MYLON THREAD IS WOUND TIGHTLY
AROUND THEM.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): MEASURING
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 02-02-1970
TO REMOVE A WART, TIE A STRING AROUND IT TIGHT ENOUGH SO
THAT THE STRING WILL STAY ON. EACH DAY, TIE ANOTHER KNOT
MAKING THE STRING TIGHTER AND TIGHTER AROUND THE WART,
EVENTUALLY, THE WART WILL FALL OFF.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): MEASURING
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 02-25-1970
TIE A STRING AROUND THE WART. THEN REMOVE THE STRING AND PULL
IT UNTIL THE LOOP FORMS A KNOT. PUT THE STRING AWAY AND
WHEN IT ROTS, THE WART WILL BE GONE.
Submitter comment:
INFORMANT SAID SHE DID THIS AS A CHILD. SHE DIDN'T REVEAL
THE RESULTS. SHE DIDN'T BELIEVE IN THE CURE ANYMORE.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; WARREN
James Callow Keyword(s): MEASURING ; PLUGGING
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 02-22-1970
TO GET RID OF WARTS: GET A STRING AND TIE AS MANY KNOTS ON
THE STRING AS YOU HAVE WARTS. THEN TAKE THIS STRING
OUTSIDE, PLACING IT UNDER A ROCK WHICH IS PLACED AT
THE END OF A DRAIN PIPE. WHEN THE STRING HAS ROTTED
AWAY, YOUR WARTS WILL BE GONE.
Submitter comment: TOLD BY GRANDMOTHER TO MOTHER TO MONICA.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): PLUGGING MEASURING
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 09-00-1967
IF YOU HAVE WARTS, YOU TIE A KNOT FOR EACH WART IN A PIECE
OF STRING AND PUT THE STRING IN THE EAVESTROUGH AND WHEN
THE STRING ROTS, THE WARTS WILL GO AWAY
Submitter comment: HE LEARNED IT FROM HIS GRANDMOTHER.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
James Callow Keyword(s): MEASURING ; PLUGGING
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 03-24-1967
IF YOU STICK A NAIL IN YOUR FOOT PULL THE NAIL OUT
AND STICK IT INTO A PIECE OF () AS FAR AS IT HAS BEEN
STUCK IN YOUR FOOT AND THE FOOT WILL HEAL RIGHT AWAY.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
James Callow Keyword(s): MEASURING
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 07-10-1973
CURE FOR RINGWORM:
GO TO A TEAKETTLE OF BOILING WATER, RUB YOUR THUMB IN
A CIRCLE THE SIZE OF THE RINGWORM ON THE INSIDE OF THE
LID AND THEN AROUND THE RINGWORM. DO THIS WITH THE
FOREFINGER AND THEN THE THUMBS AGAIN. DO THIS WITH ALL
THE FINGERS ON THAT HAND, ALTERNATING EACH TIME WITH THE
THUMB. WHEN THROUGH, GO AWAY AND BE SURE NOT TO LOOK
BACK AT THE TEAKETTLE; IT WILL GET WELL.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
James Callow Keyword(s): MEASURING
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 07-10-1973