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IF YOU HAVE A SPLINTER IN YOUR FINGER, TAKE IT OUT AND PUT IT IN YOUR HAIR, AND YOUR FINGER WON'T BE SORE.
Submitter comment:
Collected at informant's home.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 07-07-1970
ASPHIDITY SEWN IN A CLOTH BAG AND WORN AROUND A CHILD'S NECK WILL WARD OFF CHILDHOOD DISEASES AND TOOTHACHE.
Submitter comment:
Collected at St. Clair's Restaurant.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; St. Clair's Restaurant
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 08-12-1970
IN THE SPRING, INFORMANT'S MOTHER WOULD GIVE HER A TONIC OF MOLASSES AND SULPHER.
Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE ; St. Clair's Restaurant
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 08-12-1970
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