Treat biliousness by boring three holes in a tree and walking three times around it, saying, “Go away, bilious.”
Eastern Shore of Maryland.

Treat biliousness by boring three holes in a tree and walking three times around it, saying, “Go away, bilious.”
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 834.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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