For toothache take an eyelash, an eyebrow, trimmings of the finger-nails, and toe-nails of the patient, bore a hole in a beech-tree, and put them in. The sufferer must not see the tree, and it must not be cut down or burned.
Cape Breton.
Superstition #833
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 833.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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