CURES

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• #1151

  In rubbing for rheumatism, etc., rub from left to right (sunwise).

  Concord, Mass.
• #1152

  Ringworm may be killed by moistening the finger in the mouth and rubbing sunwise around the diseased spot.

  Central Maine.
• #1153

  To rub for “sweeney.” Rub the diseased part of the horse’s shoulder with a corn-cob with the sun every third morning.

  Northern Ohio.
• #1154

  Rub a corn, a wen, etc., with the sun if by day, with the moon if by night. The sun or moon will draw all the pain away. Related by a Pennsylvania German.

  Northern Ohio.
• #1155

  To cure a curb in a horse, rub it with a bone, at the going down of the sun.

  Plymouth, O.
• #1156

  A “conjurer” can rub away a “rising” (boil) by coming to your bedside about daybreak, before you speak to any one, and rubbing the “rising” for nine successive days.

  Talladega, Ala.
• #1157

  To cure a burn, moisten it with saliva, repeating:—

  As far as the east is from the west,
  Come out fire and go in frost.
  In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
  Come out fire and go in frost.

  Blow three times, and rub sunwise three times. To be taught to not more than three persons of the opposite sex.

  Eastern Tennessee.