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.
Superstition #1156
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 1156.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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