Part 41 (1/2)

1134. Cut hair in the new moon, bury it in earth near a running brook, and it will make the new hair grow long and abundant.

_Maine._

1135. Clean the spring or well during the increase of the moon, so the water will _run in_ and fill the spring after it is emptied.

_Mansfield, O._

1136. Make soap in the new of the moon.

_Talladega, Ala._

1137. Make soap in the full of the moon.

_Prince Edward Island._

1138. Do not marry or move during the wane (decrease) of the moon.

_Mansfield, O._

1139. To take away warts, steal a dish-rag out of the house, without anybody's knowledge, and go out of doors in the first of the moon, rub the dish-rag on the wart, and say: ”Here, new moon! take away my new wart.” Then throw the dish-rag away where no one can find it, and tell n.o.body.

_Talladega, Ala._

1140. To cure warts, go out of doors when the moon is new, take up a handful of mud, looking at the moon all the time, and rub on the wart.

_Holderness, N.H._

CHAPTER XVI.

SUN.

DOMESTIC AND MECHANICAL OPERATIONS.

1141. To make good bread, stir it with the sun. To make good yeast, make it as near sunrise as possible.

_Northern Ohio._

1142. If you wish to secure lightness, you must always stir cake and eggs a certain way, that is, the way the sun goes.

_Kittery, Me., Nashua, N.H., Eastern Ma.s.sachusetts, and Southern Michigan._

1143. Eggs and cake are commonly beaten and b.u.t.ter made by stirring sunwise.

_Newfoundland._

1144. To make cake light, it must always be stirred the same way.

_Dalton, Ma.s.s., and Alabama._

1145. In cooking soft custard, the stirring must be continued throughout in the direction in which it was begun; otherwise the custard will turn to whey.

_Eastern Ma.s.sachusetts._

1146. If, after turning the crank of a churn for a while with the sun, you change and turn the other way, it will undo all the churning you have done.

_Ferrisburgh, Vt._

1147. Ice cream will not freeze rightly unless the crank is turned the right way.