Horses will be cured of any one of several diseases if you will insert a bit of silver—a dime is the favorite coin—in the part affected; but it is imperative that you do this by the “light of the moon.”
Clover Bend, Ark.
Superstition #1113
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 1113.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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