WATER

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• #836

  Rub the hands with the first snow that falls and you’ll not have sore hands all winter.

  Winn, Me.
• #837

  On Ash Wednesday before sunrise dip a pail of water in a running brook (up stream), bottle it, and keep as a cure for anything.

  Maine.
• #838

  Catch the last snow of the season (e. g., in April), melt and put into a bottle. It will cure sore eyes.

  Chestertown, Md.
• #839

  Water made from snow that falls in the month of May will cure sore eyes.

  Prince Edward Island.
• #840

  Rain-water caught the first of June will cure freckles. It will not putrefy.

  Massachusetts.
• #841

  An Indian doctor used for inflammation of the eyes rain-water caught on the third, fourth, and fifth of June. It is said that this will not putrefy.

  New Hampshire.
• #842

  The first water that falls in June is supposed to cure all skin diseases; and I am informed “it is dretful good for the insides, too.”

  Westford, Mass.
• #843

  Water in which a blacksmith has cooled his iron is a cure for freckles.

  Malden, Mass.