Part 41 (2/2)

_Concord, Ma.s.s._

1148. In making lye soap, if you stir it backward it will turn back to lye.

_Warren Co., N.Y., and Alabama._

1149. In melting sugar for taffy, stir always one way, or it will grain.

_Allston, Ma.s.s._

1150. In greasing the wheels of a carriage, always begin at a certain wheel and go round in a set way.

_Peabody, Ma.s.s._

CURES.

1151. In rubbing for rheumatism, etc., rub from left to right (sunwise).

_Concord, Ma.s.s._

1152. Ringworm may be killed by moistening the finger in the mouth and rubbing sunwise around the diseased spot.

_Central Maine._

1153. To rub for ”sweeney.” Rub the diseased part of the horse's shoulder with a corn-cob with the sun every third morning.

_Northern Ohio._

1154. Rub a corn, a wen, etc., with the sun if by day, with the moon if by night. The sun or moon will draw all the pain away. Related by a Pennsylvania German.

_Northern Ohio._

1155. To cure a curb in a horse, rub it with a bone, at the going down of the sun.

_Plymouth, O._

1156. 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._

1157. To cure a burn, moisten it with saliva, repeating:--

As far as the east is from the west, Come out fire and go in frost.

In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Come out fire and go in frost.

Blow three times, and rub sunwise three times. To be taught to not more than three persons of the opposite s.e.x.

_Eastern Tennessee._

CHAPTER XVII.

DEATH OMENS.

1158. To raise an umbrella in a house is a sign of an approaching death.

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