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HERNIA CURE
RELIEVE PRESSURE BY HANGING UPSIDE DOWN.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Medicine |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
TO HELP BEE STING
APPLY A MUD PACK TO STING.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Medicine |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
TO HELP BEE STING
MAKE A PASTE FROM TOBACCO LEAVES AND SODA AND APPLY TO BITE.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Medicine |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
CURE FOR POISON IVY
APPLY SAP FROM WILLOW TREE TO SORES.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Medicine |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
CURE FOR POISON IVY
BOIL WILLOW LEAVES AND APPLY WATER TO SORES.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Medicine |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
TO CURE POISON IVY, BOIL MULBERRY LEAVES AND USE WATER AS AN
OINTMENT.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Medicine |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
TO CURE POISON IVY
MAKE A PASTE OF SODA AND WATER AND APPLY TO THE SKIN.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Medicine |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IF YOU WANT A DIVORCE, SLEEP WITH AN ONION AROUND YOUR NECK.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | Prediction / Divination |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IF YOU BREAK YOUR GLASSES THREE TIMES IN ONE YEAR YOU WILL SEE
HARD TIMES FOR THE NEXT SEVEN YEARS.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | Prediction / Divination |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
IF YOU FIND A PENNY, PUT IT ON THE TRACK AND LET A TRAIN
SMACH (SIC) IT FLAT, THEN IF YOU WEAR IT FOR TWENTY YEARS IN
YOUR LEFT POCKET, YOU WILL NEVER HAVE ANY HEART TROUBLE.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | Prediction / Divination |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
HOME REMEDY
GARGLE WITH SALT WATER FOR A SORE THROAT.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mineral |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
BELIEF
SHAVING YOUR HAIR OFF MAKES IT GROW IN THICKER.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Body part Senses Hair, on head, mustache, widow's peak |
Date learned: 02-23-1972
PREDICTION--WISHING
TAKE A DANDELION SEED PUFF, MAKE A WISH, AND BLOW THE SEEDS. IF
YOU BLOW ALL THE SEEDS OFF THE STEM AT ONE TIME (WITH ONE BLOW),
YOUR WISH COMES TRUE.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | Prediction / Divination BELIEF -- Plant BELIEF -- Prayer |
Date learned: 04-29-1969
PREDICTING DEATH
I HAD A FRATERNITY BROTHER WHO DIED A FEW YEARS AGO
FROM CANCER. THE NIGHT BEFORE HE DIED, HE WAS TOLD
THAT A PRIEST WOULD BRING HIM COMMUNION AT 6:30 THE
NEXT MORNING. HE REPLIED THAT 6:30 A.M. WOULD BE
TOO LATE, BECAUSE THE BLESSED VIRGIN TOLD HIM HE WOULD
DIE AT 5:30 A.M. THE NEXT MORNING, HE DIED AT 5:30 A.M.
Submitter comment:
THE ABOVE IS HEARSAY. I DON'T REALLY KNOW HOW MUCH
TRUTH IS CONTAINED IN IT.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Religious hero |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN
THE STONE
JESUS CHRIST WAS WALKING AND HE CAME UPON A CROWD
OF WOMEN STONING AN ADULTRESS. HE ORDERED THEM TO
STOP; AND SAID, "ALL THOSE WHO ARE VIRGINS, CAST
THE NEXT STONE!"
SUDDENLY A LARGE ROCK FLEW OUT FROM THE CROWD, HIT
THE SINNER, AND KILLED HER. JESUS TURNED TO THE
WOMAN WHO THREW IT, AND SAID; "MOM, WHY DO YOU
ALWAYS RUIN EVERYTHING."
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Religious hero |
Date learned: 00-00-1968
AT THE AGE OF 3, JAMES, DOYLE'S FATHER DIED.
AS A CONSEQUENCE, HIS MOTHER HAD TO WORK. LEAVING
HER SON AT HOME IN A CRIB, SHE WOULD HAVE A
NEIGHBOR FREQUENTLY CHECK IN ON HIM. ONE DAY AS
HE WAS IN HIS CRIB, THE SMILING FACE OF HIS FATHER
APPEARED TO HIM IN THE CORNER OF HIS ROOM. SEEING
HIS FATHER, HE WHISPERED, "DADDY." THE FACE SHOOK
ITS HEAD YES AND THEN DISAPPEARED.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 03-06-1968
A WOMAN'S HUSBAND PASSED AWAY, BUT AT THE TIME OF HIS
DEATH (4 P.M.) HE TOLD HIS WIFE THAT HE WOULD ALWAYS
BE WITH HER. THE DAY AFTER HE DIED AT APPROXIMATELY
4 P.M. A LITTLE YELLOW BIRD APPEARED ON THE WINDOW
LEDGE IN HER ROOM AND TAPPED HIS BEAK AGAINST IT,
THEN WOULD FLY AWAY. THIS WENT ON FOR 36 DAYS UNTIL
THE WIFE HAD BEEN STRUCK AND KILLED BY A CAR.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 03-12-1968
HAUNTED FOREST
I HAD A DISTANT COUSIN THAT LIVED IN THE OLD COUNTRY,
SICILY. HE WOULD GO UP IN THE FOREST ON THE
MOUNTAIN TO STEEL WOOD FOR HIS HOME. ONE NIGHT
AS HE WAS COMING BACK FROM STEELING WOOD, HE HAD
A MULE PULLING HIS CART FULL OF WOOD, HE SAW TWO
WHITE EYES STARING AT HIM FROM THE TIPS OF THE MULE'S
EARS. HE WAS TOO SCARED TO DO ANYTHING AND AFTER
A WHILE THEY WENT AWAY. HE KEPT GOING AND CAME TO
THIS SMALL BRIDGE. AS HE CAME TO THE BRIDGE, HE SAW
A WOLF SITTING UNDER THE BRIDGE STARING AT HIM WITH
THE SAME WHITE EYES THAT HE SAW ON HIS MULE'S EARS.
FROM THEN ON HE NEVER STOLE ANY MORE WOOD FROM
THAT FOREST.
Data entry tech comment: COLLECTOR'S SPELLING CORRECTED.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN ; SICILY
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Ghost Spirit Phantom Specter |
Date learned: 11-08-1968
UNUSUAL DOG
I ONCE HAD A DOG THAT CHASED AND KILLED PIGS AND ATE
THEM. DOGS DON'T KILL PIGS. THIS WAS THE FIRST DOG
I EVER SAW OR HEARD OF THAT WOULD DO THIS. ONE NIGHT
I HEARD THE PIGS SQUEELING AND I WENT OUT TO SEE WHAT
WAS GOING ON. I SAW THIS DOG OF MINE DOWN THE BIGGEST
SOW I HAD AND EATING IT. I RAN IN THE HOUSE AND GOT
MY SHOTGUN. I AIMED AT THE DOG AND SHOT IT AS IT WAS
PULLING AT THE THROAT OF THE PIG AND IT DIDN'T EVEN
LET GO WHEN IT DIED.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Mammal |
Date learned: 11-08-1968
MARTIN LUTHER
WHEN I WAS LITTLE, MAMIE CLEANED OUR HOUSE EVERY TWO
WEEKS. SHE WAS THE ONLY NON-CATHOLIC, IT SEEMS, I
KNEW. MAMIE USED VINEGAR AND WATER TO WASH WINDOWS
AND I USED TO ASK HER WHY SHE DIDN'T USE "WINDEX"
OR SOMETHING I WOULD SEE IN A MAGAZINE. SHE TOLD ME
SINCE SHE WAS LUTHERAN AND OUR DUST WAS CATHOLIC,
SHE HAD TO USE VINEGAR BLESSED BY MARTIN LUTHER.
Where learned: NOT GIVEN
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Religious hero |
Date learned: NOT GIVEN