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EGG WHITE FACIAL
STEAM FACIAL PORES OPEN, PUT EGG WHITE ON FACE, LET HARDEN, WHEN DRY WASH OFF.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; St. Clair's Restaurant
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Animal |
FOR TEETHING PAINS, TIE A BAG OF FLUCK (A WEED) AROUND THE NECK.
Submitter comment:
Data entry tech comment:
Informant learned this from the book "These Are Our Lives" (Kingsport Press, 1939, pp.26-29), a Federal Writers' Project publication featuring the everyday lives of people in the South. This home remedy was shared by Gracie Turner, an African-American sharecropper.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; KINGSPORT ; "These Are Our Lives"
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 00-00-1939
FOR DIARRHEA, INFORMANT'S MOTHER WOULD BREW UP SOME CATNIP TEA, OR GIVE HER "DOG FENAL," SOME TYPE OF A PLANT.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; St. Clair's Restaurant
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 08-12-1970
FOR A COUGH, INFORMANT'S MOTHER WOULD MAKE SOME HOREHOUND CANDY, AND GIVE THIS TO HER CHILDREN ALONG WITH A TEASPOON OR SO OF MOLASSES.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; St. Clair's Restaurant
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Plant |
Date learned: 08-12-1970
CURE FOR CHEST COLD
MAKE A TONIC CONTAINING ONE TEASPOON SUGAR, THREE DROPS COAL OIL, AND TWO DROPS TURPENTINE.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; St. Clair's Restaurant
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mineral |
Date learned: 08-12-1970
INFORMANT WAS ONCE TOLD BY A COLORED HANDYMAN THAT TO CURE MUMPS, YOU SHOULD SCRAPE THE BLACK COATING OFF AN IRON SKILLET AND MAKE AN "X" WITH IT ON THE SWOLLEN PARTS OF YOUR NECK.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; INFORMANT'S HOME
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mineral |
Date learned: 07-07-1970
WART CURE
RUB A WART WITH A PIECE OF RAW POTATO, WRAP IT UP AND PUT IT AWAY. WHOEVER FINDS IT WILL GET THE WART.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; INFORMANT'S HOME
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 08-02-1970
WHEN INFORMANT WAS A BOY, HIS GRANDMOTHER MADE HIM DRINK A SMALL AMOUNT OF TURPENTINE FOR WORMS.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 06-00-1970
CURE FOR COLD OR FLU
COMBINE A SHOT OF WHISKEY, THE JUICE FROM A WHOLE LEMON, AND A TABLESPOON OF SUGAR IN A CUP OF HOT WATER. SIT IN A STEAMING TUB OF BATHWATER AND SIP THIS DRINK. AFTER THE BATH, TAKE TWO ASPIRIN, GO TO BED AND SLEEP FOR AT LEAST EIGHT HOURS.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; St. Clair's Restaurant
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 08-12-1970
HANGOVER CURE
PUT TWO TABLESPOONS OF HONEY IN COFFEE OR ANOTHER HOT DRINK, DRINK IT, THEN TAKE A VERY HOT BATH IN EPSOM SALTS, FOLLOWED BY A COLD BATH OR SHOWER.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; St. Clair's Restaurant
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 08-12-1970
DRINK SUGAR AND WATER IF YOU HAVE THE HICCUPS AND WANT TO CURE THEM.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; INFORMANT'S HOME
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 08-10-1970
CURE FOR HICCUPS
LICK YOUR FINGER AND WRITE THE INITIALS OF YOUR GIRL OR BOYFRIEND ON THE TOE OF YOUR SHOE.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 08-10-1970
CURE FOR WARTS
STEAL SOMEONE'S DIRTY DISHRAG, BURY IT IN A SECRET PLACE, AND IN THREE DAYS THE WART WILL BE GONE.
Submitter comment:
Collected at Helen Mim's home.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 07-15-1970
HANGOVER CURE
TOMATO JUICE AND ALKA-SELTZER.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; INFORMANT'S HOME
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Method of Curing |
Date learned: 07-15-1970
IF FRIENDS ARE LEAVING IN A CAR, IT IS BAD LUCK TO WATCH THAT CAR DEPART UNTIL IT IS OUT OF SIGHT (I.E. DON'T KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE CAR UNTIL YOU CAN'T SEE IT ANY LONGER).
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; INFORMANT'S HOME
| Subject headings: | Prediction / Divination |
Date learned: 07-15-1970
IF YOU TELL A DREAM BEFORE BREAKFAST IT WON'T COME TRUE.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; INFORMANT'S HOME
| Subject headings: | Prediction / Divination |
Date learned: 08-02-1970
IF YOUR NOSE ITCHES, SOMEONE IS COMING TO SEE YOU.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; INFORMANT'S HOME
| Subject headings: | Prediction / Divination |
Date learned: 08-02-1970
WHEN YOU'RE PREGNANT, IF YOU BECOME VERY EXCITED OR FRIGHTENED, AND AT THAT MOMENT TOUCH YOURSELF, YOUR BABY WILL HAVE A BIRTHMARK ON HIS BODY WHEREVER YOU TOUCHED YOURSELF.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; St. Clair's Restaurant
| Subject headings: | Spirit / Mind / Body |
Date learned: 08-12-1970
WHEN SHE WAS A CHILD, INFORMANT HAD A NANNY NAMED AUNT JANE, AN OLD COLORED WOMAN. WHEN AUNT JANE, INFORMANT, AND HER SISTERS USED TO GO TO THE WOODS TO PICK BERRIES, AUNT JANE WOULD OFTEN HEAR A TWIG SNAP AND WOULD SAY, "THE SPIRITS IS CALLIN' ME." BY SPIRITS SHE MEANT LOVED ONES WHO WERE DEAD. SHE TOLD INFORMANT THAT THE SPIRITS COULD BE SEEN IF INFORMANT WOULD LOOK QUICKLY OVER AUNT JANE'S LEFT SHOULDER. OFTEN AUNT JANE WOULD GO OFF INTO THE WOODS BY HERSELF A SHORT DISTANCE (WHEN TWIGS SNAPPED) AND WHISPER WITH THE SPIRITS, WHO SHE SWORE SHE COULD SEE.
AUNT JANE WOULD ALSO SAY THAT THE "SPIRITS IS CALLIN' ME" WHEN SHE WAS DOING A DISAGREABLE TASK. FOR INSTANCE, SHE WOULD BE DOING DISHES, WHEN SUDDENLY THE "SPIRITS" WOULD CALL HER, AND SHE WOULD GO OUT UNDER A TREE AND TALK TO THEM.
AUNT JANE ALSO HAD A HABIT OF SPRINKLING SALT ABOUT THE HOUSE, AND ESPECIALLY AROUND THE ENTRANCE WAYS TO KEEP OUT EVIL SPIRITS.
ALSO, WHEN SHE TOOK THE CHILDREN FISHING AUNT JANE WOULD SAY, "DON'T TALK ABOUT SNAKES OR YOU'LL SEE THEM."
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; INFORMANT'S HOME
| Subject headings: | Spirit / Mind / Body |
Date learned: 07-15-1970
WHEN YOU FIND A WITCHES SKIN BEHIND A DOOR, FILL IT WITH RED PEPPER. WHEN THE WITCH JUMPS IN IT, SHE WILL YELL, "SLIP SKIN, SLIP SKIN, SLIP..!"
Data entry tech comment:
Informant learned this from the book "These Are Our Lives" (Kingsport Press, 1939, pp.26-29), a Federal Writers' Project publication featuring the everyday lives of people in the South.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; KINGSPORT ; "These Are Our Lives"
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Use of Object |
Date learned: 00-00-1970