Children were told that the "stork" brought babies. | March 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Children were told storks brought babies. | January 10 1977 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Children are told that: (1) Stork brought babies. (2) Found under a cabbage head. | July 1 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Children come from a stork. | November 23 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Babies were brought by the stork. | October 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Babies were delivered by the storks which at one time roosted on European chimneys and were considered good luck. | October 6 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Children are told that the stork brings babies. Babies are found in a hollow stump. | July 1 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Children were told that children came from storks, cabbage patch - from under a leaf of cabbage out from behind the barn. | October 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
The stork brought babies. | April 1977 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Babies came from stork. | June 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
The stork brought babies. | January 27 1977 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Stork brought babies. | February 17 1977 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Children were told that the stork brought babies. | November 30 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Babies come from storks or out of a stump. | December 10 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Children were taught that the stork brought babies. | October 19 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
The stork brings babies from heaven. | October 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Babies come from Doctors' black satchel, cabbage patch, stork. | April 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Stork brought children. | July 1 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Children were told the stork brought babies. | September 1 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Children came from storks. | June 1977 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
The stork brought children. | July 1977 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Children were told that the stork brought babies. | April 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Babies come from storks. Told to me by my parents. (Pa Dutch). | December 12 1975 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Children are told that the stork brings babies. | November 15 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Children were told stork brought babies. | November 19 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Children were told that the stork brings babies. | November 15 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Children were told that the stork brings babies. | September 21 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Children are told that a stork brought them. | October 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Children were told that the stork brought babies. Or under a rose bush. | June 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Children were told that the stork brought babies. | May 15 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Children were told that the stork brought babies. | May 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Children come out of the cabbage patch. | November 23 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Children were told babies came from the pond with the toad. | January 21 1977 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Children came from under cabbage leaves. | June 1977 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Babies found in cabbage patch. | November 30 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Babies come from bumps on malformed trees. | September 14 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Babies were found in the cabbage plot. | November 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Children come from a stump. | November 23 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Children were told that babies come from the woods. | December 20 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Children came from cabbage heads. | December 20 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Babies were found under a cabbage patch. | October 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Children were told babies come from baby tree. | March 1977 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Children told babies come from the cabbage patch. | December 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Babies come from the garden patch. | December 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Children were told babies come from the cabbage patch. | October 6 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Babies come from under rocks in the forest. Collected from Bev. Knox; her grandmother Lillian Spangler, age 99 (German) told her. | December 18 1975 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Children come from the doctor's bag. | November 23 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Children were told that the doctor brought babies. | December 20 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
The Dr. brought babies in his bag. | April 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Babies are brought in the doctor's satchel. | November 15 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Babies came from the doctor's little black bag. | October 6 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Doctors brough babies in black bags. | January 17 1977 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
The Dr. brought babies. | April 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Children were told that babies came from heaven. | October 11 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Children were told that children come from their knee. | October 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Origin of Children |
Only older women could plant parsley. If a young girl planted parsley, she would become pregnant. | February 1979 | Birth, Infancy Childhood | Fertility, Sterility |
If you rocked an empty cradle, you won't have any children. | April 19800 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Fertility, Sterility |
To get pregnant: sit in chair vacated by a pregnant woman. (English friend said it worked). | March 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Fertility, Sterility |
If you put a baby on a newlywed's bed, they'll soon conceive a child. | April 26 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Fertility, Sterility |
If you lay a new baby on some one's bed they will be the next to have a baby. | July 1977 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Fertility, Sterility |
By putting a new baby on the bed you could become pregnant. | 1977 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Fertility, Sterility |
If you rocked an empty cradle, you couldn't or wouldn't have any kids. | March 28 1980 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Fertility, Sterility |
The third person who lights a cigarette off of the same match will become pregnant. | February 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Conception, Contraception |
The surest way to detect pregnancy was the appearance of lines at the corner of the girl's eyes. | April 1981 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Pregnancy, Confinement |
A woman during her pregnancy was formerly thought to be surrounded by spiritual and material perils which threatened both her and the unborn child. | April 2 1980 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Pregnancy, Confinement |
If you fall upstairs - if female, she's pregnant. | October 12 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Pregnancy, Confinement |
Increase in birth rate of babies at new moon. | April 1980 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | |
Babies are born during a full moon. | April 3 1980 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | |
A lot of births occur at the new moon. | November 5 1981 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | |
Birth of babies occur at new moon. | April 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | |
Babies are born at the new moon. | March 1980 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | |
If woman is pregnant - in 9th month new moon she would deliver. | July 1 1980 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | |
Most Babies are born when the moon is full or new. | April 1 1980 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | |
Babies are usually born at the new moon. | January 17 1977 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | |
Pregnant woman have their (?) babies when the moon changes or full moon. | February 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | |
More babies are born during the full moon. | March 12 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | |
Babies are born in the new moon. | October 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | |
Quinine tablets and turpentine works every time. You take the quinine tablets, then you mix boiling water with the turpentine and pour it in a pot and sit on it for three hours. When she gets up, she walks like this, for a couple a days. That turpentine makes you raw. But it works. | January 18 1969 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscarriage, Abortion |
New moon brings on labor. | September 21 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Labor |
Put an axe under the bed when a woman is having a baby and it will stop the bleeding. | March 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Labor |
This used to be a superstition but they found it was true. That when you're pregnant, you're not supposed to read (?) above your head or the cord will get tangled around the baby's neck. | November 30 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Pregnancy, Confinement |
The old midwives used to say don't wash the body, just wipe it off with a cloth and then when they'd grown up, they'd have this odor they couldn't get rid of; no matter how much they'd wash or how much (?) they used. | November 30 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Afterbirth |
If a pregnant woman walks under a wash line, the baby will be born with the umbilical cord around its neck. | April 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Pregnancy, Confinement |
The mother and baby were always kept in a dark room for something like two weeks because they believed that the baby would go blind if he saw any light. | November 30 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Afterpains, Childbed Ailments, Tabus |
If a pregnant woman has a craving for strawberries (or any other fruit), the baby will love that fruit. | July 1964 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Prenatal Influences |
Birthmarks on a baby's face or body are often said to be caused by something seen or or touched by the mother during her pregnancy. | April 2 1980 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Birthmarks |
Woman who ate strawberries while pregnant had babies with red marks on their bodies. | September 21 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Birthmarks |
If someone throws a berry at a pregnant woman she'll have a baby with a birthmark, probably red. (Heard in Rockland about 1920) | 1964 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Birthmarks |
Birthmarks are caused by a fright the mother experienced while pregnant. | June 1979 | Birthmarks | |
Birthmarks; fright of mother created symbol of thing feared. | October 6 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Birthmarks |
Birth marks were caused by a fright to the mother while carrying child. If a pregnant woman saw something horrible and frrightening, she'd have a deformed child. | July 1 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Birthmarks |
If a pregnant woman encounters a frightening object it is possible for her child to be born with a birthmark similar to the likeness. | February 1971 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Birthmarks |
If you are startled when pregnant, then touch your body someplace, the baby will have a mark in that place. | March 17 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Birthmarks |
If a mother gets scared and hits herself it will mark the baby. | February 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Birthmarks |
A scare while pregnant caused birthmarks. | March 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Birthmarks |
Birthmarks - Caused by looking at corpse while carrying child. | March 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Birthmarks |
A woman was scared by a man with a club foot while pregnant and it was said her child would be born with a club foot. | September 21 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Birthmarks |
Long lines on the palm means long life. Other lines deal with marriage and the amount of children one will have. | | Birth, Infancy, Childhood/Human Body, Folk Medicine | Number of Children |
Lines on hand=How long you will live. How many times you will marry. Number of children. If you have ESP. Bad luck or good. | May 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Number of Children |
A long life line tells how long you'll live and also how many children you'll have. | April 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood/Human Body, Folk Medicine | Number of Children |
Spots on the fingernails-the number of children you'll have. | March 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Number of Children |
White spots on fingernails-that's how many children you will have. | October 1978 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Number of Children |
The number of spots on a girl's fingernails, the number of children she will have. | November 1978 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Number of Children |
Spots on fingernails-how many children you'll have. | April 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Number of Children |
White spots on fingernails-how many children you will have. | April 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Number of Children |
white spots on fingernails-how many children you would have. | March 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Number of Children |
Spots on fingernails-how many children you would have. | March 12 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Number of Children |
As many white spots as you have on your fingernails, that's how many children you will have. | October 1978 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Number of Children |
Count the number of spots on your fingernails and that will be the number of children you will have. | November 15 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Number of Children |
If you sow parsley you'll have another baby. | March 7 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Fertility, Sterility |
Blow out candles on cake and remaining lit tell number of children you have. | March 1980 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood, Fertility | Number of Children |
Never cut a new born baby's finger nails-bite them off or 1. Baby will grow up to steal. 2. You'll have another baby real soon. | May 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood, Superstitions | Number of Children |
If you rock an empty cradle, it means you're wishing for a baby. | April 19 1980 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood, Superstitions | Number of Children |
If you rocked an empty cradle, baby on the way. | 1980 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Number of Children |
If you rocked an empty cradle, a child was on the way. | April 30 1980 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Number of Children |
If you rocked an empty cradle, you were going to have a baby. | March 1980 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Number of Children |
rocked empty cradle-baby would come. | March 1977 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Number of Children |
rock an empty cradle-another baby is on the way. | December 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Number of Children |
If you rocked an empty cradle, wife would become pregnant. | 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Number of Children |
If you rocked an empty cradle, you were going to have a baby. | October 176 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Number of Children |
If you rock an empty cradle, Belly ache in the baby. Another baby in the cradle. | April 1976 | Birth, Infancy Childhood | Number of Children |
If you rock an empty cradle, you'll never have children on your own. | May 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Fertility, Sterility |
If you rocked an empty cradle, you wouldn't bear another child. | April 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Fertility, Sterility |
If you put a newborn baby on someone's bed, that person will become a parent. | November 15 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Fertility, Sterility |
The first person you go to visit and lay your new-born baby on their bed will be the next to have a baby. | February 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Fertility, Sterility |
The child should be taken first to someone's home who wished for a child. | May 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Fertility, Sterility |
If you left by a different door than the one you entered, someone may get pregnant. | April 1980 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Conception, Contraception |
If you rocked an empty cradle, the cradle will be filled within a year. | April 1980 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Number of Children |
Don't bake on Good Friday or someone will be born or will die. (Bake one in or one out.) | March 7 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood/Death and Funereal Customs | |
If you rocked an empty cradle, it meant no babies. | November 30 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Fertility, Sterility |
At baby showers, they swing a needle over the wrist, if it swings in a circle it's a girl; back and forth, a boy will be born. (Old Mennonite). | April 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Sex |
If the mother drank water from the top of a well, a boy would come. Water drunk from the bottom of the well would bring a girl. | April 1981 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Sex |
Children wishing for a boy brother placed a sugar cube facing west on the attic windowsill. The sugar was for the stork, who would take it and leave a baby. | April 1981 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Sex |
Down South they used to say that if the baby is carried low it's a girl-up high, a boy. | December 7 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Sex |
To predict what sex the child would be, the mother's cheeks were closely inspected. Because boys were supposed to cause their mothers worry, haggard, thin cheeks foretold a male child. Girls, because they weren't as troublesome as boys, were foretold by full, round cheeks. | April 1981 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Sex |
If a woman is overdue in her pregnancy and it's a girl, they say she carried it too long the stem dropped off. | January 31 1973 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Sex |
If you rocked an empty cradle, your next baby would be a girl. | November 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Sex |
Take a new born baby to a pregnant woman, lay it on the bed. If the child wets on the bed, the baby to be born would be the same sex as the child that wet. | May 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Sex |
Two vegetables grow together (such as carrots) mean a set of twins in the family. | March 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Sex |
Babies are named after dead people. | July 19 1978 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Naming |
Babies were given Bible names. | April 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Naming |
Jews had to name first born after the death of last relative. | March 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Naming |
To name a child after a living person meant one or the other would die. | April 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Naming |
Whoever named the baby, they had the next one. | March 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Naming |
Delaying the baptismal ceremony for a few weeks was considered extremely dangerous. The baby was believed to be in constant peril from evil spirits until he was christened. | April 2 1980 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | |
When boys and girls came together to be baptized, the boys had to have priority, otherwise they would grow up beardless, while the girls who preceded them at the font would grow up with beards instead of them. | April 2 1980 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | |
It was unwise to wipe the baptismal water from the baby's face. | April 2 1980 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | |
Ugly in the cradle, handsome at the table. | April 1980 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Physical Attributes, Growth, etc. |
An unborn child becomes the same type of person the mother stares at or loathes, while she is pregnant. | October 12 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Physical Attributes, Growth, etc. |
Take a string and see with the string if the baby is seven times the length of the foot to see if the baby is growing properly. | April 1981 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Physical Attributes, Growth, etc. |
When I was a baby my grandmother insisted I "be measured for the take-off" since she she felt I grew slowly. | December 10 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Physical Attributes, Growth, etc. |
If you cut babies' hair before a year old he'll never grow. | January 17 1977 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Physical Attributes, Growth, etc. |
If you step across the legs of a child lying on the floor it will stop the growth of the child. | April 1980 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Physical Attributes, Growth, etc. |
Don't step over a child or he won't grow. | July 1964 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Physical Attributes, Growth, etc. |
Don't step over a baby-they won't grow right. | February 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Physical Attributes, Growth, etc. |
If you jump over a child, it will not grow right. | April 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Physical Attributes, Growth, etc. |
A child must not go through an open window or his growth will be stunted. | September 17 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Physical Attributes, Growth, etc. |
If you rocked an empty cradle, the baby would cry. | March 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Disposition |
If you rocked an empty cradle-a sick baby. | November 15 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Disposition |
If you rocked an empty cradle, your baby would have a bellyache. | April 1 1980 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Disposition |
If you rocked the empty cradle you "took away" the babies' rest. | November 1978 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Disposition |
If you rocked an empty cradle, it gave the baby colic. | March 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Disposition |
If you rock an empty cradle, you will take away the sleep of the child. | January 20 1977 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Disposition |
If you rock an empty cradle, the next baby that sleeps in it will have a bellyache. | March 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Disposition |
If you rocked an empty cradle, the baby would cry. | April 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Disposition |
If you rock an empty cradle, bad luck. | March 1980 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Disposition |
Bad luck to rock an empty cradle. | April 6 1980 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Disposition |
Bad luck if you rocked an empty cradle. | February 28 1980 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Disposition |
Bad luck if you rocked an empty cradle. | July 1980 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Disposition |
If you rocked an empty cradle, it meant bad luck. | May 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Disposition |
It's bad luck to rock an empty cradle. The cradle will remain empty. | August 10 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Disposition |
It was bad luck to rock an empty cradle. | June 1977 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Disposition |
It's bad luck to rock an empty cradle. | October 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Disposition |
It's bad luck to rock an empty cradle. | November 23 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Disposition |
Bad luck to rock an empty cradle. | January 17 1977 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Disposition |
If you rock an empty cradle, it's bad luck. If you rocked an empty rocking chair, it's bad luck. | March 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood/Home, Domestic Pursuits | Disposition |
Rock an empty cradle-bad luck. | March 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Disposition |
It's bad luck to rock an empty cradle. | March 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Disposition |
To rock an empty cradle or an empty chair was extremely bad luck. | March 1976 | Birth Infancy, Childhood/Home, Domestic Pursuits | Disposition |
If you left by a different door: have bad luck; take baby's rest. | April 1979 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Entering a House |
The doctor or whoever should make sure to put the baby's right arm in the sleeve first, this has to do with being left or right handed. | April 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | |
To make sure a child would be right-handed, they tied his left hand down to leg. | April 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | |
A child must receive its first nursing at the right breast so that it will not become lefthanded. | July 1964 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | |
Which ever hand a child makes his first reach with will determine if he's right or left handed. | May 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | |
If you put a needle through the umbilical cord of a new born girl she will grow up to be a seamstress. | April 1980 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Character, Talents |
If you put a hammer on the umbilical cord of a new born boy he will grow up to be a carpenter. | April 1980 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Character, Talents |
When you pick up a baby for the first time, put it above your head-otherwise it will go down in the world. | Jule 1964 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Character, Talents |
You should carry a new baby up first so that it will rise in the world. | April 26 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Character, Talents |
Child should be taken first to church. Take up a flight of stairs. | April 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Character, Talents |
You will have good luck if you read, play music, or sing to the unborn child when pregnant. | April 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Character, Talents |
A child will be a musician if he has long fingers. | May 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Character, Talents |
If a baby falls out of bed before age one, it will be smart. | April 26 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Character, Talents |
A child born with a cowlick will be bright. | July 1964 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood/Human Body, Folk Medicine | Character, Talents |
Take a chicken egg and pass it through the baby's mouth three times, then soft boil it and feed it to the baby; baby will speak early, clearly and speak the truth, in fact, never stop talking. | April 1981 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Character, Talents |
Never cut a baby's nails before he's one. | April 1980 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Character, Talents |
Never cut a baby's hair before he is one. | April 1980 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Character, Talents |
Never cut a baby's fingernails with a scissors before age one, or they will steal. | | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Character, Talents |
Don't cut babies fingernails before a year old-if you do he'll steal when he grows up. | January 17 1977 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Character, Talents |
Never cut a baby's fingernails before they're a year old-they's steal. | April 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Character, Talents |
Never cut a baby's fingernails or they'll steal. | Nobember 23 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Character, Talents |
If you cut a baby's nails too quick, you should chew them off, or they will be a thief. | July 1 1980 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Character, Talents |
A baby's fingernails must not be cut but bitten off. | 1964 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Character, Talents |
If you dream someone dies, another person will be born. | April 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Fortune |
If you dream someone has died, there will be a birth. | February 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Fortune |
Dream of death there will be a birth in family and vice versa. | March 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Fortune |
Dream of a funeral, hear of a birth. | October 6 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Fortune |
Dream of a funeral means there will be a birth. | June 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Fortune |
To dream of death means some child will be born. | October 11 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Fortune |
Dream of funeral-sign of birth. | March 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Fortune |
Dream of a funeral means a birth. | March 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Fortune |
Child born with a caul around its head, will be lucky all its life. | July 19 1978 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Fortune |
If a person is born with a veil and carries it with him, he will escape harm. (1908) | September 17 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Fortune |
A baby born with a caul is lucky, but the caul must be burned (in order to insure good luck). | July 1964 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Fortune |
They say I was born with a veil, and they say them was the only people that see and hear things. | December 28 1966 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Fortune |
A child born with an extra toe on one or both of his feet is generally expected to be lucky in life. | April 2 1980 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Fortune |
A newborn baby should never be openly admired for beauty or robust health for fear of incurring the envy of evil spirits. If this should inadvertently happen, to drive them away one should spit. Heard from my parents. | July 1978 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Fortune |
Always put the under shirt on a new born infant on the wrong side, that way it will be protected from an evil eye. | May 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | |
If someone stared at you you got sick, and it was called an overlook. | September 21 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | |
Children were protected from evil eye by wearing a certain golden amulet around the neck. | October 11 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | |
When seeing a new baby, if you say "what a nice baby," be sure to say "God bless you" or something will happen to the baby. | July 1977 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Fortune |
Don't give a "canary" (Yiddish word "Kanahara") by remarking on how well you or some other person looked or felt, or on their good luck, for fear of changing situation. | July 18 1978 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Fortune |
Children wore charms around the neck to protect against evil eye. | November 30 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Fortune |
One should conceal red ribbons under a child's clothes to keep away the "evil eye." | August 1964 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | |
Children wore the Italian horn, hand and goats foot around their neck. | September 21 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | |
A witch put a hex on a baby so it cried constantly. The doctor said to burn all her tee shirts and the hex would go away. The witch came out of her house and her whole right arm was burned and she couldn't explain it, but the baby was fine. | November 13 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | |
To protect against evil eye: Hold dish of water and oil over childs head; dip finger in dish, make sign of the Cross and pray. Pass baby over coal stove three times. | June 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | |
Tie garlic around neck to protect against evil eye or witchcraft. | May 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | |
Another cure for victims of "Evil Eye"; spit on apron and rub on baby's forehead. | June 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | |
Cats suck babies' breath. | July 7 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
Rocking an empty cradle brings bad luck or illness to the new baby. | April 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Health |
If you rock an empty cradle, the baby will get sick. | June 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Health |
If I'd hurt my knee or scratch my arm, this is what my grandmother always did. "Heely, heily, hinkly dreck. Dis moyer free un gunzeleck." If you rub chicken dung on your knee, it will get better. "Heely heily, hinkley dreck. Holy, holy, chicken shit. Dis mahr ya frie en ganze Weck [weg]." This will make you free and completely away. | April 27 1980 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Health |
Dream of water, wet the bed. | April 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Dream of water, wet the bed. | March 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
If you picked dandelions, you will urinate in bed. | July 18 1978 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Picking dandelions made children wet the bed. | June 1977 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
If you play with fire, you'll wet the bed. | April 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
If you pick a dandelion you'll wet the bed. | July 18 1978 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
You will wet the bed if you touched dandelions. | July 1978 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Playing with fire made children wet the bed. | June 1977 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Picking dandelions means you will wet the bed. | July 18 1978 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Bedwetting-caused by some physical affliction, like a cold in the kidneys. Don't give anything to drink in the evening. | June 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Children wet bed because of weak kidneys or bladder. To stop it, use Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root. | May 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Spanking the child near bedtime, causing child to get emotionly upset will make him wet the bed. | May 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Playing with fire made children wet the bed. Playing with rain made children wet the bed. Rain made children wet the bed. | October 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Bedwetting caused by playing with fire. | February 17 1977 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Bedwetting - caused by playing with matches or fire. | December 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Playing with fire made children wet the bed. | 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Playing with matches or fire makes children wet the bed. | July 1 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Play with fire, you will wet the bed. | April 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
If they play with fire, they'll wet the bed. | December 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Playing with fire will make children wet the bed. | April 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Sour pickles made children wet the bed. | November 23 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Running barefoot will make children wet the bed. | April 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Dandelions are called pee the beds. | March 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Children wet the bed because too much liquids before bedtime. Stop drinking at night. | September 21 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
If you pick dandelions, you'll wet the bed. | July 1978 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Playing with matches made children wet the bed. | October 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Bad dreams made children wet the bed. | 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
If a child ate fried mouse pit it would cure him of bed-wetting. | April 1983 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Bed-wetting; clean, dry and pulverize the lining of a chicken gizzard, give to child. | November 23 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Caused by some emotional problem. Give them baked pigs kidney. | September 1 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
You can stop bed-wetting by waking them in the night till they got used to it then they would get up themselves. | April 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Wetting the bed could be stopped by feeding the child a piece of mouse meat cooked. | October 11 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Bed-wetting cures: Tansey tea, dandelion tea, cherry bark tea. | April 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Bedwetting - eating pumpkin seeds. | March 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Bedwetting - swamp root. | March 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
To stop bedwetting, give them parsley tea. | April 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
To stop bedwetting, urinate during a full moon. | December 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Bed-wetting - Make a mattress pad of hard wood leaves; when leaves were worn out, wetting stopped. | December 20 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
To stop bedwetting, take the child to the new grave of a baby and have him wet on it. | September 17 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Bedwetting - Cut down on liquids after 6 P. M. | January 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Bedwetting - Urinate in an open grave. | April 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
If you rocked an empty cradle, the baby would get the colic. | December 20 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
If you rocked an empty cradle, the baby would have colic. | April 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Sprinkle salt in feet of baby's pajamas to reduce fever. | February 28 1980 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Livergrown - pass them around the leg of a table. | April 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
New born babies would become livergrown if it travels too long in a car. Rub baby with camphorated oil. | April 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
You weren't supposed to tickle a baby or it'd get livergrown. | April 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Livergrown-passed under a continuous growing vine. | April 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Babies get livergrown from holding a baby too much... from crawling around a table leg. | April 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Livergrown-take around table leg three times. | March 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Livergrown- Pass the child around the table leg. | April 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Don't take baby on bumpy ride or it will get livergrown. | March 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Livergrown - Rub hot olive oil of the chest. | March 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
livergrown - wear a tight band around the belly (for babies). | March 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailements and Remedies |
livergrown - They took me under the legs of the table. | October 31 1980 | Birth, infancy, childhood | ailmetns and remedies |
livergrown - Pick up a flat stone, spit on it, then throw it over your shoulder and cover your ears with your hands. If you don't hear the stone drop, you're cured. | Febuary 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood, | Ailments |
Livergrown - Grease with grease. | April 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Livergrown - Rub rib area with lard. | April 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments |
Livergrown - Grease and rub cloth around abdomen. | March 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Livergrown - First time you took new baby away, it got livergrown. | April 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments andd Remedies |
Livergrown - Mix melted lard with camphor oil. Rub this over chest area - from neck down breastbone under rib cage- 3 times. Roll patient over from left to right and do the same three times. Repreat process 1 more time. | March 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Livergrown - The afflicted person had to crawl around the table leg facing the morning sun- 3 times. | March 7 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Livergrown - Person must run three times around table leg one way and three times vice versa. | April 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Livergrown - Don't shake baby til soe (?) old. | Febuary 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailements andd Remedies |
Livergrown - Campher oil is rubbed on the liver area and scripture is silently quoted from the Bible. This is done 3 times. Repeat til child is better or pain has stopped. | March 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailemnts and Remedies |
Livergrown - If you shake or jar a baby around to much they become livergrown. | February 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Livergrown - Don't bounce child up and down; will get livergrown. | January 10 1977 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Livergrown - If you take a baby over a rough road in a car it'll be livergrown. | 1942 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Pow wow for livergrown. | March 1977 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Livergrown - Babies would get what they'd call livergrown. They pow wowed for that and they would massage like this. They would go from the breastbone back this way, you know through hereÂ… under their ribs, but they'd take their thumb on each side of the middle there and go back through. | April 13 1976 | Birth, Imfancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Livergrown - That's an old saying. That if you put them through the legs of the table you'll cure liver-grown. | November 22 1964 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Livergrown- Put baby 3 times around table leg. | January 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Livergrown - To cure livergrown. pass the child in and out under the legs of the table. | November 21 1964 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments, Remedies |
Have child crawl around a table three times, or grease diaphragm with mild oil. | March 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Livergrown - Put baby on table with clothes hanging over edge, jerk 3 times. | January 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailements and Remedies |
Liver - They used to have pow wow, doctors pow wow for them. They'd offer prayer. | June 1964 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailements and Remedies |
Tickling a child will cause it to stammer. | July 1964 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
A child that is whipped before it is a year old will stammer. | July 1964 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
If you'd tickle a baby's feet, he'd stammer before he gets a year old. | April 13 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailements and Remedies |
To tickle a child before it is a year old may cause the child to stammer. | April 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
don't scare the child. | March 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
If you tickle babies before they are a year old they will stutter. | January 17 1977 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
A..(?) for teething Bite on something hard. | July 1977 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Bad luck to step on cracks in sidewalk. Told to me by a school friend circa 1963-64. | December 12 1975 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
step on a crack on a sidewalk-bad. | December 10 01976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
If you step on the cracks in the cement sidewalk it will bring you bad luck. | October 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
Rings made of a hard gum [rubber?] were given to babies to bite on. | March 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailements and Remedies |
Rubbing with a piece of rubber. Ice. | April 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
chew on bacon skin. | March 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Chew the food yourself and then give it to the baby. | December 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Chew on a bacon rind. | December 20 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Children chewed on chicken bones. | October 19 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Teething- Rub whiskey on. | June 1976 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Give a smooth round steak bone to chew on. | June 1976 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Rattlesnake rattles are good for children to teethe on. | 1940-1942 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailements and Remedies |
When a rattlesnake is killed, the rattles are removed. There is a legend that the snake does not actually die until sundown. But that if the rattles are not removed, he may not even die then. The rattles are thought to be good for a baby to teethe on. Rattlesnakes grow an extra rattle for every year, so the number of rattles tells the age of the snake. | | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
The rattler of a rattle snake was given to a teething baby on which to chew. | November 1978 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Rattlesnake rattlers around the neck. | April 1976 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Catnip in bag; child would suck or chew. | January 10 1977 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Rub paregoric on gums; teaberry tea on teeth. | October 1976 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
aids for teething - teething biscuits. | September 21 1976 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Rub whiskey on the gums. | October 1976 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailemtns and Remedies |
Rub gums with liquor. | October 11 1976 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Whiskey on baby's gum. | October 19 1976 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Rub whiskey on baby's gum when teething. | March 1982 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Rub warm salt water onto the gums. | December 1976 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailements and Remedies |
Teething aids: teething ring, sugar tit. | November 30 1976 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
rub a little whiskey on gums. | October 1976 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
rub gums with paragoric. | May 1976 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
teething rub paragoric on gums. | Febuary 17 1977 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Medicine applied on gums, such as paregoric or brandy. | September 1 1976 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Use nitre on gums. | March 1976 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Aids for teething - Jobs tears. | July 1 1976 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Rub whiskey on gums | November 19 1976 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Rub gums with whiskey | 27820 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
For teething: A teething ring made of rubber. | 27912 | Birth Infancay Childhood | Ailements and Remedies |
Teething- wet wash cloth. | November 30 1976 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Bite on harness ring (celloid [celluloid]) or rub gums with silver spoon. | May 1976 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Rub a silver thimble over gums. | November 23 1976 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Teething aids; rubbing gums with cold silver spoon or mother using her thimble. | October 6 1976 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Teething aids - a wooden clothespin. | October 6 1976 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Teething- rub gums with ice. | October 6 1976 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Rub gums with thimble or finger. | November 15 1976 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Silver dollar. | August 10 1976 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailmetns and Remedies |
As an aid for teething, chew on a silver dollar. | July 1 1976 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Rub vanilla on gums. | November 23 1976 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Rub patented medicine "Krumrine Red Drops" on gums. | January 1976 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
They used to tie a string on a kid's loose tooth, they let you do that, but they wouldn't let you pull it. Then you'd tie the string on a doorknob and slap the door shut. | May 23 1963 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Throw loose teeth down the cellar stoops for good luck. | October 1978 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Throw the loose tooth behind the stove. | July 19 1978 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Loose teeth-put under the pillow. | Juny 18 1978 | Birth, Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Loose teeth were put under a pillow when they fell out. | July 18 1978 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Loose teeth were placed under the pillow for the good fairy. | July 18 1978 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Tooth fairy- must put your tooth under pillow so it will turn into money. | March 1980 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Loose teeth were put under the pillow for the good fairy. | July 18 1978 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Put loose tooth under pillow and good fairy would give reward. | July 19 1978 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Place loose teeth under pillow. | July 18 1978 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Place tooth under one's pillow and tooth fairy will leave a dime. | July 1978 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Loose teeth were put under a pillow and slept on, then the good fairy left a gift. | July 18 1978 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Children placed loose teeth under pillow for the tooth fairy. | July 18 1978 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Put loose tooth under the pillow and tooth fairy replaced with a penny. | July 1978 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Teeth were put under the pillow for the tooth fairy. | July 1 1976 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Put a loose tooth under your pillow --The good fairy took it and left money. | March 1976 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Place loose teeth under pillow and fairy godmother placed money there. | July 18 1978 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
A tooth that fell out was put under the pillow for the tooth fairy. | March 1976 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Loose teeth placed under pillow. | July 18 1978 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Children placed loose teeth under their pillow and the good fairy left a money gift. Still perpetuated with children in the family. | July 18 1978 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Put loose tooth under child's pillow. The tooth fairy takes the tooth and leaves a gift. | July 1978 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Put loose teeth under the pillow for the tooth fairy. | July 1978 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Put loose teeth under your pillow for the tooth fairy who will leave you money. | October 1978 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
A tooth was saved under one's pillow for tooth fairy treat. | October 6 1976 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
When you loose a tooth, put it under a pillow with a quarter. | April 1976 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Be careful in disposing of teeth. If an animal finds it, you will grow a tooth of that animal | July 18 1978 | Birth Infancy Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
It is believed that if a mother combs her hair over her baby's diaper it will never get whooping cough. | | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Ailments and Remedies |
Always close your mouth when you're around a lizard or it will jump down your throat. | 1948 | Birth, INfancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
Step on a crack, break your back. | April 1 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
When walking the sidewalk-step on a crack break your mother's back. | March 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
Step on a crack, break your mother's back. | April 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
Stepping on a crack (bad luck). | April 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
To avoid bad luck, don't tread on cracks in sidewalk. | March 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
Step on a crack and you will break your mother's back. | April 1980 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
Step on a sidewalk crack/ break you mother's back. | April 1980 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
Step on a crack, break your mother's back. | October 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
It is bad luck to - Step on a crack in a pavement. | April 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
Step on crack- break your mother's back. | Febuary 29 1980 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
It is bad luck to step on a cellar door. | April 1982 | | |
As a youngster [ca. 1900] we always endeavored to miss the dividing lines in cement sidewalks, reciting this ditty, "Step in a crack, break your mother's back." | June 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
To learn something by heart you should sleep with the book under your pillow. | April 1979 | Birth, Infancy,Childhood | Miscellaneous |
You will have good luck if you put a book under your pillow. It is said that you will know everything that is in it. | April 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
Sleep with the books you studied under pillow for good grades. | April 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
Sleep with the book under your pillow to get a good grade. | April 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
It's bad luck to leave a book open overnight because you will forget all the information in it. | April 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
I have a little silver frog I keep in my pocket when taking tests. (Taped interview). | April 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
I used to have a small blue glass heart that gave me good luck (on exams?) but that got lost. (Taped interview). | April 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
Wear a lucky charm to get a good grade on an exam. | March 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
Wear a cross necklace for good luck on exam. (Taped interview). | April 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
Midshipmen at Annapolis throw pennies to the wooden figure of Tecumseh before playing games or passing examination. | April 1979 | | |
Put an empty beer bottle on your head (at the Button Bar in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.), if failing a subject and you'll pass it. | May 1980 | | |
Before taking a test, I always listen to a certain song by Warren Zevon. I've found it relaxes, whether it's luck. Every time I listen to that song I've done well on a test. (Taped interview). | April 1982 | | |
If you wear yellow and green on Thursday, it's a sign you're green. | April 1977 | | |
Don't say "ain't" or you'll fall in the paint. | April 1982 | | |
Rest on Ascension Day - no school or work. | December 1976 | | |
For good luck have different people turn your ring (one for each year of your class date) and you turn it the last time (79) yourself. | January 19 1977 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
If two people said the same thing at the same time, it must have been a lie. | April 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
If two people said the same thing at the same time, that meant it was true. | March 7 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
If two people say the same thing at the same time, "it must be true". we both said it at the same time. | October 1978 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
Two people saying same thing-it must be true. | December 1978 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
When two people say the same thing at once, it must be true. | July 1978 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
If two people said the same thing at once, this meant good luck. | April 18 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
If two people said the same thing at the same time, it's sure to come true. | Febuary 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
If two people say the same thing at the same time, you make a wish. | May 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
Two people say the same thing at the same time it is true. | Febuary 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
If two people say the same thing make a wish. | April 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
When two people say the same thing at the same time, you make a wish on the stars. | Febuary 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
If two people said the same thing at the same time, it will come true. | Febuary 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
When two people say the same thing at once, you should quickly make a wish. The first one to do so will have their wish come true. | October 1978 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
If you say the same thing at the same time as somebody else, hook fingers with him and make a wish. | November 15 1964 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
If two people say the same thing, hook our small fingers together and make a wish. | May 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
If two people say the same thing at once, keep quiet, lock pinkies and make a wish. | July 19 1978 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
If two people say the same thing at the same time, stop talking, hook little fingers, make wish, touch thumbs and shake hands. | March 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
If two people say the same thing, before saying another word you connect your little (pinkie) fingers and stick your thumbs in your mouth, make a wish silently and it will come true. | March 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
If two people say the same thing at the same time, hook little fingers together and make a wish. But don't say anything. | March 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
If two people say the same thing, hook little fingers and make a wish. | April 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
If two people say the same thing at the same time, hook your little fingers together and make a wish. | November 24 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
If two people say the same thing at the same time, and without speaking interlock their little fingers and make a wish, the wish will come true. | 1964 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
If two people say the same thing at the same time-They would bite the little finger on their right hand, link the little fingers close to the tip, and pull hard. | July 1964 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
If two people say the same thing, hold two fingers together and make a wish and touch blue and your wish will come true. | February 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
When two people say the same thing: Link pinky fingers with other person, make a wish, repeat a verse together, with opposite hands separate linked fingers. One who speaks first after that loses his wish. | July 18 1978 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
If two people say the same thing at the same time, lock little fingers, touch thumbs and make a wish. Do not speak until spoken to or wish won't come true. | October 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
When two people say the same thing at once, link fingers (pinkies)-Make a wish-Recite a jingle (I don't recall the words). Break the linked pinkies with left hand and the first one to speak does not have his wish granted. | July 18 1978 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
If two people said the same thing at the same time, press two peoples thumbs together. | April 4 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
If two people say the same thing at the same time-lock little fingers and touch thumbs silently-- then one person says "what goes up the chimney"- the other answers "Santa Claus and smoke"- then the hands are slapped apart. | April 26 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellanious |
If two people said the same thing at the same time, you say "bread and butter". | February 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellanious |
If two people say the same thing, both must count to 10, then say something in unison (like "owe me a cake") repeatedly until one drops out. | April 26 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
If two peole say the same thing at the same time, they owe you something (i.e. to the person who says "jinx" first). | | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
When two people say the same thing at the same time, you have to say "owe me a Coke." | March 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
If two people said the same thing at the same time, they will meet a clown. | April 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
If two people say the same thing at the same time - owe me a pepsi. | April 1982 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
If two people say the same thing at once, they will fight. | July 18 1978 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
If I'd pinch you, you'd owe me a Coke, because we both said the same thing at the time. | November 29 1963 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
If two people said the same thing at the same time, "it is jinxed and the two people can't talk until their name is said." | March 12 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
Losers weepers, finders keepers. | April 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
Finders keepers, losers weepers. | March 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
Lost objects- Didn't you ever spit in your hand and go like that [clapping hands together] and whichever way the spit went that's the way you were to go? | September 26 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
If you find something in the sheet you can spit on it three times. | February 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
If you are lost, moss on side of tree indicated the North. | April 1980 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
If you lose something, you simply chant; "Saint Anthony, Saint Anthony, please come around, something's been lost and it's got to be found" and you'll soon find it. (From an Italian girl). | December 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
Old folks used a twig to find lost objects. | March 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
If your back itches, your're going to get a lickin' (whipping). | | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
My back's itchy. I must be gonna get a beatin'. | September 27 1973 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
If your butt itches, you'll get a spanking. | March 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
Left hand itching means a licking. | January 10 1977 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
Children are told that if they don't behave, they'll get switches for Christmas instead of presents. | December 1962 | | |
Cross your fingers when hoping for good luck. | 1959 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
You didn't shoot marbles on Sunday if you were a kid because you might turn out to a gambler. | April 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
When passing under a bridge with a train going over, be sure to make a wish. | 1964 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
When you see the first white headed bumble bee it's time to go bare foot. | April 28 1978 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
Go barefoot when you hear the first whipporwill. | August 10 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
When you hear the first whippoorwill, it's time to permit kids to go barefooted. | July 1 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | Miscellaneous |
When you heard the first whippoorwill, it was time to go bare foot in order to save shoes. | May 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
When the bumbebees are out, it's okay to go barefoot, the ground's supposed to be warm. | April 20 1980 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
Children shouldn't go barefoot until the white-headed bumblebees are out. | 1940 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
It's too early to go barefoot until you see a white-headed bumblebee. | before 1942 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
When the barn swallow come back you can go barefoot. | May 1984 | | |
Red heads have bad tempers. | July 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red hair-temper. | April 1 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red hair- temper. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red hair- bad temper. | April 5 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Person with red hair has bad and quick temper. | April 1 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red hair means a bad temper. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red hair- hot head, bad temper. | July 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red hair- hot temper. | November 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red hair, hot temper. | November 15 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red hair is supposed to be a sign of a fiery and ungovernable temper, or of a passionate disposition in love. | April 2 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red heads have fiery temper. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red-heads are "spit-fires". | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red hair- hot temper. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red heads were said to be quick tempered. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red hair- have bad tempers. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
red hair means temper. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red hair- bad temper. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red hair- they have a temper. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red hair- they have bad tempers. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red hair- hot temper. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red haired persons have high tempers. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red hair- hot temper. | April 19 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red haired- hot tempered. | April 6 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red haired people have short tempers. | April 24 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red hair-they have bad temper. | May 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red heads are "spit-fires". | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
People with red hair have a short temper. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red hair-fiery tempers. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red haired people have hot tempers. | February 28 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red hair means a wild woman and a hot firey temper. | November 19 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red hair means bad temperament. | December 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red hair-fiery temper. | December 10 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red hair means a person has a temper. | November 30 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red hair-beware of fiery temper. | November 30 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red hair means ill temper. | November 15 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red-hair meant a very hot-tempered person. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
A person with red hair has a bad temper. | November 15 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
People with red hair are supposed to have a nasty temper. Not true. | March 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red hair means a fiery temper. | September 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
People with red hair have very bad tempers. | April 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red hair is a sign of temper. | February 17 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red hair meant a bad temper. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red hair means temper, a fiery disposition. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Humand Body |
Red hair means a fiery temper. | October 19 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red hair - fiery tempers. | January 17 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red hair means a person is quick tempered. | November 23 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
A red-haired woman was sure to have a hasty temper. | September 17 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red haired people considered evil. | October 11 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red hair-you are emotionally unstable and of a terrible temper. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red haired people are haughty. | March 1980 (?) | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Gray hair tells you, the fire will soon be out. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
White hair is a sign of wisdom. | April 6 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red heads have the Devil in them. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Rub red hair and it brings luck. | December 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Red hair- "sexy". | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
If you had red hair you were a criminal. | March 28 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Snow on the roof doesn't mean the fire's out in the furnace! | April 1980 | | |
If a woman has a widow's peak, this is, if her hair grows into a point low down on her forehead, she will live to be a widow. | April 2 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Hair was kept in braids for girls so that no evil spirits could get the hair. | December 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Don't comb hair after dark | February 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Cut hair on Good Friday for good luck. | July 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Cut hair on Good Friday. | June 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Never cut hair on Sunday. | December 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Bad luck to cut hair on Sunday. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Hair is not saved unless it was the first haircut. | December 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
After you cut your hair, bury it or you'll have bad luck. | April 26 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Loose hair was saved to make pin cushions, watch fobs. | July 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Hair was buried under rock so birds couldn't use it for a nest. | November 15 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
You should always burn your hair. Then the birds won't get it to build their nests out of. Daddy had heard the same thing. | July 21 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Loose hair was burned after cutting. | November 30 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Loose hair was buried after cutting. | December 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Burn loose hair after cutting. | August 10 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Make pillows out of discarded hair. | December 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Burn loose hair after cutting. | June 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
If a girl whistles she will grow a mustache. | March 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Boys used to let cats lick their chins to make whiskers grow. | April 23 1963 | | |
When your ear burns: Left at night better than right. | January 10 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
If a person has no earlobes, or the lobes are tight against the head, that's a sign of stinginess. | April 25 1964 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
If your eye itches: Right eye - something good you are going to see. Left eye - something bad you are going to see. | April 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
when your left eye itch - laugh, When your right eye itch - cry. | May 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Eyebrows meeting across the nose are often considered a bad sign, perhaps because of the dark and frowning look they give to the face. They are said to denote a violent temper. | April 2 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
When an eyelash falls out, put it between the tip of your finger tip and someone else's fingertip. Whoever has the eyelash stuck to their finger tip after pulling fingers apart gets to make a wish. | February 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
If your nose itches it means there will be a surprise or a fire in the near future. | February 1971 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
You will have good luck if your nose itches. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Bad luck to sneeze because the devil can enter you then- so you say "God bless you." | April 26 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
To keep from sneezing, put your tongue against the roof of your mouth. | February 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
If you sneeze after a statement, it means it is true or it will come true. (From an Italian girl). | December 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
If you sneeze while talking, you're telling the truth. | July 18 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Sneeze on Thursdays for something better. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Sneeze on Saturday, your sweetheart tomorrow. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Lines in the hand told your life line or if anything good or bad will happen to you. | April 18 1979 | | |
Lines on hands, love line, life line, three lines represent personal characteristics, ability, fate. | April 1979 | | |
Lines in hands = your destiny. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | human body |
Lines in hand tell fortune, thief or honest man. | February 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | human body |
Warm hands means a cold heart. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
If you do (masturbation) hair will grow on the palms of your hands. | July 1964 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
People who masturbate will grow hair on their palms or go blind. | October 11 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | human body |
White spots on fingernails means not enough vitamin A. | April 30 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Cross your fingers for good luck. | February 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Cross your fingers to change your luck. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
White spots on fingernails - bruises.. | April 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
White spots of fingernails 1. fingers 2. Foes 3. Beaus 4.Nose 5. Journeys to go | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
White spots on the fingernails mean presents coming. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Bodu |
When the spot on your fingernail grows out, you will receive a gift. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
White spots on fingernails - a friend, a foe, a present, a beau, and a journey to go. | March 1980 (?) | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Spots on fingernails- Good fortune or how many lies you have told. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
White spots on fingernails - presents. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Spot on the fingernail meant that you would receive a present or money after the spot occurred. | March 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Spots on fingernails tell how many presents you'll get for Christmas | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Count the spots on fingernails and you know how long you will live. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Spots on fingernials "Friend, Foe, Beau, Gift, Journey to Go." | March 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
White spots on fingernails: Count the fingers, starting with the thumb -- friends, foes, presents, beaus, and journeys to go. Check the finger with the white on it. | July 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
White spots on fingernails mean intelligence. | March 28 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Count the spots on your fingernails and you will know how long you will live. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
The long life line in the palm of the hand. | February 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
White spots on fingernails mean: thumb,friends; forefinger,foes; middle finger, letters; right (ring?) finger, beaus; little finger, journeys to go. | November 15 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
White spots on fingernails means long life. | December 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Always cut fingernails from the little finger, one by one to the other little finger. | February 17 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Cut your fingernails down, not up. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Cut on Monday, cut for news. Cut on Tuesday, pair of new shoes. Cut on Wednesday, sign of a letter. Cut on Thursday, something better. Cut on Friday, cut for sorrow. Cut on Saturday, (blank). Cut on Sunday, devil will follow you all week. | February 28 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Cut fingernails in the old of the moon. | November 15 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Cut fingernails when not full moon. | October 11 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
If you cut your nails when the moon is getting big your nails will grow fast. If you cut them when the moon is getting smaller, your nails will grow slow. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Cut fingernails and toe nails in decrease of the moon so they would not grow so fast. | January 10 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Always cut fingernails on Monday. | February 17 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Never cut fingernails on Friday. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Never cut fingernails on Friday. | January 17 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medidine | Human Body |
Good Friday - good day for cutting fingernails. | April 6 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Never cut fingernails on Friday. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Cutting fingernails and toenails on Good Friday brought good luck for the coming year. | June 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Cut fingernails everyday except Friday and Sunday. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Cutting fingernails on Friday or Sunday brings bad luck. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Don't cut fingernails on Sundays. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Never cut fingernails on Sunday. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Bad luck to cut nails on Sunday. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Bad luck to cut your nails on Sunday. | April 26 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Bad luck to cut fingernails on Sunday. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Never cut fingernails on Sunday because it would bring bad luck. | April 24 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Don't cut finger or toe nails on Sundays as it cuts short your life. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Do not cut fingernails on Sunday or you will be ashamed all the week. | September 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Never cut your fingernails on Sunday; Satan will be with you all week. | November 15 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Cutting nails on Sabbath causes one to steal. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Sundays, for cutting fingernails. | December 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
The bigger the feet, the bigger the meat. | February 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
You're not a man till you've fucked a nigger. | 1954 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
A young girl can make her breast grow by rubbing raw potatoes on them. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Horseradish "puts lead in your pencil." | February 2 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
It is a bad omen if anyone shivers suddenly without any obvious reason. | April 2 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Amish children are afraid to have their picture taken. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Children believed they would turn black if they touched a black pupil. | April 27 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
If you don't cover your mouth when you yawn, a ghost will get in and steal your soul and leave a rock instead. | about 1972 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
If you want to gain weight in a hurry, eat a lot of bananas. | 1950 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Folk Medicine, Health, Physical Attricutes, ETC |
If you eat eggs on Easter morning you will have good luck and good health. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Folk Medicine, Health, Physical Attributes, etc |
On Thursday of Holy Week the Dutchman eats many greens such as the lowly dandelion. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Folk Medicine, Health, Physical Attributes, etc |
My mother rose to say "I oughta scrape your tongue" | July 26 1969 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Folk Medicine, Health, Physical Attributes, etc |
You can predict how long someone will live by the lines in palm of hand. | May 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Folk Medicine, Health, Physical Attributes, ect |
In some countries it is said to be unlucky to tell one's age. | April 2 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Folk Medicine, Health, Physical Attributes, etc |
Lines on hand - lifeline. | February 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Folk Medicine, Health, Physical Attributes, ect |
Lines on hand mean long life or short life. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Folk Medicine, Health, Physical Attributes, etc |
Lines on hand. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Folk Medicine, Health, Physical Attributes, etc |
Long life line (on the hand) - long life. | March 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicne | Folk Medicine, Health, Physical Attributes, etc |
The lines on ones hands are an indication of one's life span. Many small crossings of heavy lines indicate changes or incidents. | October 12 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Folk Medicine, Health, Physical Attributes, etc |
Lines on hand told how long you would live, whether you would get married. | March 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Folk Medicine, Health, Physical Attributes, etc |
long lines on the hand mean long life span. | April 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Folk Medicine, Health, Physical Attributes, etc |
A long lifeline [on the hands] means long life. | March 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Folk Medicine, Health, Physical Attributes, etc |
lines on hand - long lines, long life. | March 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Folk Medicine, Health, Physical Attributes, etc |
Lines on the hand tell how long your life will be. | March 12 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Folk Medicine, Health, Physical Attributes, etc |
Dream of dying - means long life. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Folk Medicine, Health, Physical Attributes, etc |
Two people would pull a wishbone in two pieces, and the one with the longest piece would live longer. | April 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Folk Medicine, Health, Physical Attributes, etc |
If you eat a snake you will never grow old. | April 1980 | Human body, Folk Medicine | Folk Medicine, Health, Physical Attributes, etc |
If you eat a snake you will never grow old. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Folk Medicine, Health, Physical Attributes, etc |
Eating snitz pie was supposed to make you wise. | November 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Folk Medicine, Health, Physical Attributes,etc |
If you eat parsley it makes the level of intelligence rise. | December 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Folk Medicine, Health, Physcial Attributes, etc |
If a person is seriously ill in a family, the parents of that person would take the sick one to a fortune teller to predict recovery or death. | November 28 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Folk Medicine, Health, Physical Attributes, etc |
Dreams of muddy water. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Signs and Portents of Sickness |
Dreams of falling - danger of illness. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Folk Medicine, Health, Physical Attributes, etc |
Dream of muddy water - sickness. | June 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Dreams of muddy water - sickness. Funeral - wedding. | May 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Dream of teeth falling out - you will be ill. | January 7 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Dream of muddy water, sign of approaching illness or domestic difficulty. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Dropped knife - sickness. | December 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Signs and Portents of sickness |
Dropped spoon - someone will get sick. | January 27 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | signs and portents of sickness |
White spots on the fingernails mean illness. | July 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
If you rock an empty rocking chair, one of the older people might get sick. | April 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Signs and Portents of Sickness |
If a chair rocks with no one it it, dealth, or severe illness. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Signs and Portents of Sickness |
During new moon, sick people don't sleep. | October 1976 | Human Body and Folk Medicine | |
Maternal Grandmother (Lithuanian) believed a gift brought in a dream by her deceased husband to a sick person meant recovery. That's what she believed happened when I had typhoid as a child. | July 18 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Signs and Portents of Sickness |
If someone looks at you meanly, you can get sick. | February 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | |
Dream of water means sickness. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Signs and Portents of Sickness |
Dreams of water - signs of sickness. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Signs and Portents of Sickness |
Dream of muddy water- sickness in family. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Signs and Portents of Sickness |
Dream of muddy water - sickness. | April 6 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Signs and Portents of Sickness |
Dreams of muddy water- sign of sickness in future. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Signs and Portents of Sickness |
Dreams of muddy water - sickness. | April 5 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Signs and Portents of Sickness |
Dream of muddy water - sickness. | January 27 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Signs and Portents of Sickness |
Dreams of muddy water - sickness impending. | October 6 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Signs and Portents of Sickness |
To dream of muddy water is a sign of sickness. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Signs and Portents of Sickness |
Assafetida was used to keep diseases away. | March 1 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Assafetida was put into small homemade muslin sacks and were worn around the neck to keep communicable diseases away. They stunk and kept everyone away from the person wearing the assafetida bag. | April 24 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remeedies and Cure-Alls |
Put asafetida in a bag and worn around your neck to prevent disease and keep bad spirits away. | May 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Wear an asafetida bag to keep germs and colds away. | April 6 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure Alls |
Asafetida was made into small bags, tied around the neck to keep germs away (and everybody else). | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Asafetida was worn in a bag around the neck to protect against disease. | July 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Bags of camphor or asafetida bags were worn to protect against disease. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
For protection against desease, wear asafoetida in a bag around the neck. Sometimes garlic. | June 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Assafetida bags were worn on a string around the neck, to protect the wearer from "catching" diseases. My sister remembers when some of the kids wore them to school. The smell kept both the septic and the sterile at a safe distance. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
I wore an assafetida bag until I was old enough to say no. It's supposed to kill all kinds of germs. | April 27 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
A little bag of asaphedita was worn for protection against disease. | July 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
To protect against disease, wear walnuts or garlic cloves. Wear an asaphedity bag (with feathers, herbs, spices, etc.). | December 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
An asafetida bag was worn as protection against disease. | August 10 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
To protect against disease, wear a small bag containing asafetida around the neck. | May 15 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
A small bag of asafetida was worn around the neck to protect against disease. | July 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
A bag of "ssafettidy" was worn to protect against disease. | December 10 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
A bag of asafoetida was worn for protection against disease. | November 30 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Put asafetida in bag and wear around neck to protect from illness. | January 30 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
A bag of assafetida was hung around the neck to keep away disease. | April 1 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Astofetida (very smelly) in a bag was supposed to protect one from illness due to devil. | October 6 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Asafetida was placed in a little bag and worn as protection against disease. | September 17 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
A small cloth bag with asofetida was worn around the neck for protection against disease. | May 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
A bag of asafetida around neck protected against disease. | February 17 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Wear a bag of acidfidity [assafoetida] as protection against disease. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
An assafetida bag was worn around the neck. | March 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Asafetida was used to ward off contagious diseases. | October 12 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Asafetida in bags was worn around the neck as protection against disease. | January 10 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
An asafetida bag was worn around the neck for protection against disease. | November 15 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Wear a bag of asafetida around neck for protection against disease. | November 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Wear a phoeta bag around the neck to protect against disease. | September 1 1976 | | |
Bags of asafetida were worn to protect against disease | December 20 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Wear garlic and assapiony around the neck to protect against disease. | June 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Asafetida was worn around the neck to protect against disease. | April 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
When worn around one's neck, asafetida will protect the wearer from disease. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Hang assafetida around neck to ward off disease. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
A small bag of assafetida hung around the neck keeps germs away. | February 28 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
A bag of asafoetida was worn to protect against disease. | April 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
A bag of asafetida was worn to protect against disease. | January 27 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Wear an asafetida bag to protect against disease. | November 23 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
We made little bags and put asafinity in. We wore em around our necks. That was so you didn't get diseases. [Tape 33 R; Oral Traditions Program]. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remdies and Cure-Alls |
A camphor bag was worn to protect against disease. | November 30 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Strong smelling herbs, onions ore garlic were worn around the neck to protect against disease. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
A piece of (wool?) yard (yarn?) was worn around the neck to protect against disease. | March 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
The best thing you can get for sickness is to kill a squirrel and make a broth of it. It has all kinds of vitamins in it, that they (eat?). | October 22 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Chicken soup is a cure-all for all illnesses. | July 18 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | |
Ascension Day was a good day to gather herbs, etc, for medical purposes. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
A chestnut was worn around the neck for protection against disease. | October 11 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicne | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Wear a bag of garlic to ward off certain diseases. | July 19 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
A piece of garlic was worn around neck for protection against disease. | November 19 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Garlic in a little bag (or warm salt) was worn around the neck to protect against disease. | June 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Garlic was worn about the neck for protection against disease. | January 17 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
A leaf plucked from a shrub in the graveyard and carried on the person would have a preventative effect against illness. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
To prevent disease, a small bag of spices (clove, ginger, and chamomile) was worn. | December 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Garlic was worn around the neck as protection against disease. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Onions or garlic wrapped in cloth were worn about the neck as protection against disease. | October 19 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure -Alls |
Garlic was worn around the neck as protection against disease. | September 21 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Ginseng in the old days was a standard remedy for many ailments. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
To ward off germs, put pine tar in a can on the stove. I saw a woman last week in Newville with the tar can on the back of the stove. | January 16 1969 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Rue leaves between thin, buttered slices of bread makes a "tangy" sandwich. | November 1976 | | |
"Snakeroot in whiskey is good medicine." She had some in a bottle. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
On Ascension Day, go in the ocean. It washes away your pains and brings you good health. | | Human Body and Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Rainwater which falls on Ascension Day was formerly believed to have healing properties | April 2 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Hot cross buns were considered to have magical and medical properties. | April 2 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Black thread or religious medal was worn around neck to protect against disease. | July 1977 | Human Body and Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
A piece of red flannel was worn about the neck to protect against disease. | January 21 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
A dirty sock was worn around the neck for protection against disease. | November 30 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Powwow. [my grandmother], I don't know what she did it for, she would have a groundmole and she'd be praying, and she would be squeezing the breath out of that mole and why she did that, I don't know. She would squeeze it until it died and then that was buried, and then as that deteriorated, the person was supposed to get better. [Tape 150; Oral Traditions Program]. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Pow-wowing?- people gifted with some strange powers could cure disease, sickness, boils, sores, etc. Some used pine sticks lighted and waved around subject being treated - saying some magical (?) words; others passed loop of string over person's body; many variations. | July 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
When someone was very ill, they were given a new name after a "long-lived" ancestor. | July 19 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
We used that boneset tea. Take a swallow of that, pop used to say, take a swallow of that every night and we all kept pretty well. [ Tape 33 R; Oral Traditions Program]. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Boneset was another herb made into a tea. | June 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Catnip tea was also used mostly to make one sleepy. | June 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Marjoram and thyme was used for flavoring and tea. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Sassafras tea was one of the more pleasant remedies for illness. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
When you make sassafras tea, there's a red one and a white one and you got to get the right one because the red one will blind you. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Camomile for a tonic and poultices. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Then, we had a tonic to take. It was Karo syrup, onions, and sulphur. Thas was the Spring Tonic. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Sassafras tea was a spring tonic. [ Tape 33 R; Oral Traditions Program]. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
White Samaritan Salve. Well, that's an ointment. You can buy it in drugstore and it's made out of white lead, olive oil and beeswax, and it is an excellent ointment. I have the recipe for it but I've never made it. [ Tape 150; Oral Traditions Program]. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Poultices were made from ginger - onions etc, and mustard. | June 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Generall Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Spider webs could heal sores and aches. | March 28 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Another standard poultice was made of bread and milk. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Constipation: prunes, prune juice, figs, rhubarb. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Scullcap tea for stomach. Makes you vomit. | August 29 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
They used to make skullcap tea to make them vomit. It's so bitter that you have to take it with sugar, but once you get it down, whatever's in your stomach'll come up. It grows out in the woods and it looks like a little cap with a snout. | January 13 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
One tablespoon hog's lard melted is a good emetic, causes vomiting, so does soapy water. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
To stop the sting after hitting the "crazy bone", press it real hard with the fingers. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If a rat bites you, it's poisonous. | May 4 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Calamus is good for stopping smoking. We had an old colored woman tell us her grandmother used to smoke (?), chew snuff and she chewed some calamus and didn't want snuff anymore. | July 7 196 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Stop, start over and slower talking. | January 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Put pebbles in mouth. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
To get rid of tapeworms, don't feed victim for several days, then hold milk under nose, drawing milk into nose. As worm comes out to get milk, keep drawing the dish away until worm is completely out. | May 2 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Assafetida was used to stop a sickness called "take off" in children. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
I remember an old woman pow wowed for infants when they didn't develop or grow and gain weight. She used a small cloth sac, filled with asafoetida which had two strings attached and was tied around the babies' neck. It was put on at 9 A.M. and kept on nine days and taken off at 9 A.M. and buried under some stones in the creek which flowed near by. | November 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | General Remedies and Cure-Alls |
Babies usually used to get something they called "opnemida." That's a Pennsylvania Dutch name and it meant they wouldn't grow, but they would come and ask Granda to powwow for opnemida and it seemed the child had no appetite and the appetite would improve then and I think she powwowed for that more than anything else. [Tape 150; Oral Traditions Program]. | | | |
Abneme: If a child has flesh decay, tun a string over body 3 times and say a few words to put meat on the bones. | April 1979 | | |
For an Aitch or Bruse- Take 6 pound of butter, a bottell of black snails, 2 handfulls of saige, 2 handfulls of tops of rosemary, 2 handfulls of wormwood, (?) of lavender. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bloodroot bulb, when boiled, cured arthritis, bruises, insect bites and acne. It was simply rubbed on wherever it hurt. | April 1981 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
A spider was hung around the neck to cure ague. | April 1983 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Ague: quinine. | July 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Ague: quinine. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
[Amputee complained of pain in missing arm] "They must a buried it with a twist in it." | April 21 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Did you ever hear that if you take an amputated member and bury it, it won't hurt after that? They did that with Aunt Annie, I guess that would be Bading (?), when she had her leg taken off, they took it and buried it and it never bothered her. | February 23 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
They always used to put turpentine on cuts. I cut the end of my finger off one time, all that was holding it was a piece of skin, and my dad poured turpentine over it and my mother put a stick on top of it and on the bottom and they wrapped it up and it grew back. | March 2 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you lose a finger, you won't get to heaven because you can't go to heaven unless you're whole. | March 3 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you chew your fingernails, they'll get in your appendix and give you appendicitis. | 1945 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you chew your fingernails they'll get in your appendix. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Blackberries seeds cause appendicitis. | July 1964 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Arthritis and rheumatism: Take a glass of water with a teaspoon of vinegar and a teaspoon of honey stirred in. (practiced). | April 1981 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Arthritis or rheumatism pain can be lessened by wearing a copper bracelet. (practiced). | April 1981 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Arthritis: Drink a mixture of honey, vinegar and alcohol. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Arthritis: Drink powdered rhubarb dissolved in white whiskey. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Arthritis: Make a tea from either the seeds or leaves of alfalfa. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Arthritis: Take two teaspoons of liquid pectin a day. | September 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
One tablespoon peppermint, 7 oz. water. Take teaspoonful when needed. Shake well. | May 1985 | Human Body, Folk Medicien | diseases |
Asthma: Did you ever hear of life everlasting? It has a wonderful smell. If you have asthma you gather a bunch of it and put in a pillow and sleep on it. | January 13 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases asthma |
Asthma/ Congestion: Fry mullein in lard, lay on neck for congestion, take the tops of life everlasting plant and put in pillow for asthma. | September 26 1983 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Asthma: Gather leaves from ginseng, dry and powder them. Put the powder in a pan, place a hot coal on top of it, and inhale the smoke. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Asthma: Drink mixture of honey, lemon juice, and whiskey, using about a tablespoon of each. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Asthma: Swallow a handful of spider webs into a ball. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Asthma: Smoke or sniff rabbit tobacco. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Asthma: Suck salty water up your nose. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Yarrow and jimson weed for asthma. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Asthma: Heat up Vick's ointment and breathe the vapor. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Athlete's Foot: If you have cracks between your toes, take a little piece of wool and put in there, or tie a a wool string in it, and when you wake up the next morning it'll be gone. | January 13 1980 | | |
Axe wound - Lay cobweb over cut to stop bleeding. | May 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Axe wounds: Use turpentine, use bible verses. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Axe wounds: Burn wool cloth and let smoke go over wound for twenty minutes. | April 4 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Axe wounds: Wrap tight, release every few minutes. Get to doctor as soon as possible. | April 18 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Axe wounds, bleeding: Ham lard poultice. | March 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Axe wounds: Lily leaves and whiskey. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Axe wounds: Spit tobacco juice. | February 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Axe wounds: Beeswax. | February 17 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Axe wounds: Place powdered leaves on wound. | December 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Axe wounds, cut: Put moist leaves on an axe wound, and cover with cloth. | October 11 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Axe wounds: Treatment for axe wounds with bacon. | October 976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Axe wound: Dress with "powder post" to prevent proud flesh. | July 7 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Treatment for axe wounds was to place cobwebs over it. | June 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Axe wounds: Apply tobacco juice. | September 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Axe wounds: Turpentine; creoline solution. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Axe wound - put pine pitch on it. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Axe wounds: Grease blade of axe with lard and not use it until wound is healed. | November 15 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you walk under a ladder you will break your back. | April 1980 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
Step on a line, break your father's spine. | February 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
Step on a crack, break your mother's back. | February 1979 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
"Step on a crack and break Hitler's back." Children made an effort to step on every crack. | 1948 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
Step on a crack (in the sidewalk) you'll break your mother's back. | | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
Don't step on a crack on side walk or you will break you mother's back. | July 1 1976 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
If you step on a crack, you'll break your mother's back. | August 1964 | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
Step on a crack, break your mother's back. | | Birth, Infancy, Childhood | miscellaneous |
If you roll on the ground when you hear the whipporwill's first call, you will not be bothered with backache or rheumatism that year. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Used an old fashion red cross plaster. | January 27 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Horse chestnuts - salve made grating nut with lard. | October 6 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mustard plasters were used for aches on anatomy- mainly burned to distract one's attention! | October 6 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Doan's Kidney pills or DeWitts Kidney pills that cured just about everything. | May 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Porus plaster. | September 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: If you had backache, they used to put plaster on your back. | April 13 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Make a pitch plaster, put on back. | April 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Have someone walk on your back. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Sleep on a board or on the floor. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Turnip root. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Sleep on a bear skin. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Mustard pack or plaster. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Sleeping on a bear skin. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Hot mustard plaster. | February 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Plaster. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Doan's pills. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Outside skins of hams. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Rub an iron over a wet towel or mustard plaster of flax seed. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Mustard plaster, Sloan's linament. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Mule's linament. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Mustard plaster and horse linament. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Sleep on a very hard surface. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Some walk on it. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backaches - Sloan's liniment. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Sleep on the floor. | August 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Doan's liver pills. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Have someone walk on your back. | April 19 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Mustard and lard plaster. | April 6 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Flaxseed poultice. | April 6 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Mustard plaster - make a paste with dry mustard and flour and rub it on the back. | April 3 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Flannel squares laid on the back and then rub over with an iron. | April 3 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Old fashioned heating pad. | April 3 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Mustard plaster, Doan's pills. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Sleep in separate beds. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Hot mustard pack. | April 30 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Put you on back and make you walk. | March 28 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Drink pokeberry tea. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Use horse liniment | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Horse liniment. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache, fever: Niter. | April 1980 | | Human Body, Folk Medicine |
Backache: Rub pole cat fat on it. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Lay in bed with toes pointing south. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Mustard plaster. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Work up a sweat. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Mustard plaster poultice. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: A mustard plaster. | February 28 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Put a damp cloth on your back and run a hot iron over it. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Mustard plaster. | March 1 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: mustard - plaster. | February 29 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hearing first whip-poor-will, roll on ground to revent backache. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
[When you hear the first whippoorwill] Lay down and roll for backache or to avoid backache. | January 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
When you hear the first whippoorwill, roll on back for backache. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
In the Spring of the year, when you hear the first whippoorwill, lay down and roll and you won't have any pain in your back all year. | August 10 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Boneset tea. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Backache: Camphorated oil - cloth over same - warm iron. | March 1976 | | Human Body, Folk Medicine |
If the birds use loose hair after cutting to build a nest you will be bald. | June 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Baldness is inherited, but from the mother's side of the family. | 1965 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
For baldness, rub on garlic. | June 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you wear a hat in the house you'll go bald. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you wear your hat in the house you'll get bald. | July 1964 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cutting the hair prevents baldness. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
They used to say...years ago that that was good for a bald head- take peach leaves and squeeze the juice out of them and put it on. | May 9 1964 | Human Body, Folk Music | diseases |
To prevent bed sores, an axe was put under the bed. | April 1983 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
That aloe vera plant, that's a wonderful good thing. If you burn yourself or a bee stings you, you take a leaf off there, you squeeze the watery juice out. It's a thick heavy juice. Also it's good for your hair. [Term project]. | 1985 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
During dog days the poison in insects' stings is more powerful and after can lead to illness from bee stings and other bites. | April 1984 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bee sting: Put mud on it or vinegar. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Place either turpentine, chewed tobacco, tobacco juice, kerosene, or a mixture of sugar and dough on the sting. Any of these will relieve the pain and draw out the poison. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Music | diseases |
Bee sting: Crush a few Chrysanthemum leaves and rub the juice on the sting. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bee sting: Put moist snuff, mud, tobacco juice, or red clay on it. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bee sting: Chew or mash ragweed and put it on sting to deaden pain and reduce swelling. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bee, wasp sting: Apply an onion to the sting and it will relieve it immediately. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bee sting: Put chewing tobacco or coal oil on it | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bee sting: Cut a raw onion in two and place 1/2 flat against the skin where stung. | September 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
In case of bee or wasp sting plaster with mud. | October 6 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bee sting: Apply vinegar or apply a mixture of baking soda and water. | May 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bee sting: Dissolve soda in vinegar and rub on sting. | April 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Put mud on a wasp sting. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Wrap a plantain leaf around a bee sting. | July 24 1976 | Human Body, Fulk Medicine | diseases |
Put mud on bee stings to make them stop hurting. | | Human Body, Fulk Medicine | diseases |
Bee sting: Rub with alcohol. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bee sting: Mud packs; soda; ammonia; soak in hot water. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bee sting: Rub the sting with wet soda. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bee sting: Use moistened mud or moistened baking soda. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bee sting: Apply cider vinegar-mud paste. | January 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bee sting: Take ironweed leaves when the plant is in blossom, make a tea - good for bladder trouble. | September 26 1983 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bind on goose feathers to stop bleeding. | April 4 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
To stop blood - brown paper. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding: Bread on wound. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Put toilet paper around bleeding. | April 6 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding: Read a certain verse from the Bible, worked frequently: Ezekiel 16:6. And when I passed by you, and saw you weltering in your blood, I said to you in your blood, 'live'. | March 7 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding: People would try to stop bleeding with their minds (on other people). | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding: Get verse from the Bible. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding: Elevate the wound and apply pressure. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding: Quote verses from Bible. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Place ice down the back of person bleeding without their knowing it's coming. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding: Dust with puffball. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding/ fever: Cold compresses. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Reciting a verse from the Bible to stop bleeding. | October 12 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding: Little packet of herbs tied together and place on the cut. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding: Certain verse read in the Bible. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If we stubbed our toe she say to go to the chimney and get some soot and put that on the sore and that'll stop it from bleeding and heal it, too. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding: Use a mixture of soot from the chimney and lard. | February 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding: Use a mixture of soot from the chimney and lard. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding: Compress wounds. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding: Warm ashes from a stove. | April 4 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding: Spak in water and wood ashes. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding: Pressed cotton or cloth on wound, use Broxide [peroxide]. | April 18 979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding of small cut - put mud on it. | March 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
You can stop bleeding by reading a Bible verse. You can only learn that from a man to a woman or a woman to a man. | July 6 1977 | | |
Bleeding: Dust from puff balls. Cob webs placed on wound. Red string around body. Vinegar. Bible verse. | May 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cobwebs (spiders) was used to stop blood. Puffballs (natball) also used to stop blood. Coal oil used to take soreness out of a cut or wound. | April 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Some people had the gift of stopping blood by reciting a certain Biblical passage. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding: Use drying powders. The use of the contents of puff ball has been employed from time immemorial. | September 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding: Use ice. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Have the person bleeding count backwards from fifty, till they get to three. As soon as they arrive at three the bleeding will have stopped. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding: Use person's full name and a person of the opposite sex has to read a bible verse over the wound. | March 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
It's in the Bible, touch them where its bleeding and say the verse seven times and say and say their name in it. | February 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
My father was out in the mountain cutting logs for a sawmill and he cut his finger, and it bled very, very much and while he was trying to stop the bleeding with a handkerchief, another man working in themountain came up to him and took a hold of his finger and said something and my father didn't know what it was, but the bleeding stopped immediately, and I've found out since what the man said is found in the Bible, in Ezekiel, 16th chapter, 6th verse, and this is what he said: "When I pass by thee and saw thee polluted of thine own blood, I say unto thee, when thou wast in thy blood, live yet I say unto thee, when thou wast in thy blood, live." [Tape 150 R; Oral Traditions Program]. | July 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
A certain remedy to stop bleeding. It will stop the pain and the blood . It goes: Jesus Christ steereth the blood that stoppeth the pain then stoppeth the blood. Then rise the name. And say, and this help you. And call their name. Say it three times. The third time, Amen. [Term Project]. | 1985 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding: (Repeat three times) Holy womb, Holy night, Holy, Holy was the hour Christ was born. I stop (whole Christian name) blood. | April 24 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
To stop blood. Have leaches suck blood. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
To stop a wound from bleeding, cover it with cobwebs. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Use a cobweb to coagulate blood. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding: Spider web. | February 1979 | | |
Bleeding: Pack with spider webs. | March 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding: Cobwebs. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cobweb was used to stop bleeding. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding: A spider web. | April 4 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding: Put a cobweb on it. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding: Use cobwebs, if possible. Use of certain verses in the Bible. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding: Place a spider web across the wound. | February 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
BleedingPut a spider web on it. | April 26 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding: Place a spider web across the wound. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
To stop blood, spider web. | February 29 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
To stop the blood: Call first the name of the Wounded - the day he blessed, the hour he blessed, in which this wound has been inflicted, in the name of God, the father, the son and holy ghost, Amen. Call the name of the wounded first; if the wound is on the right side of the body, lay the left hand on it. If you know the name of the wounded, you can effect a cure 3 - 4 miles off. | 1850-1860 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding: Put spider webs on. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Spiderwebs used to stop bleeding. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
To stop blood, use spider webs. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding: Put cobwebs on the cut. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Spider webs were used to stop bleeding. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding: Put cobwebs on it. | March 2 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding/ cuts: He would put a spider web on his cut in order for the bleeding to stop. | April 30 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding: Cobwebs. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding: Spider webs. | April 30 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
To stop blood - spiderwebs. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding: Apply spiderwebs. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding: Use spiderwebs. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Spiderwebs were used for clotting blood. | April 30 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding: Use a clean spider web. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding: Cobwebs from barn. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
To stop blood- use dust webs from barn. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Take cobwebs taken from a barn and place them on the wound; this will stop the bleeding. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
To arrest the flow of blood wear (a) agate, (b) bloodstone, (c) carnelian, (d) red jasper. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding: Granulated sugar till Dr. arrives. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
To stop the blood you say something from Ezekiel (16:6). | July 14 1966 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
To stop bleeding recite over wound the Bible verse Ezekiel 16:6 (silently). | March 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Ezekiel 16:6 "I've used that many a times to stop bleeding on myself and other people. Say it 3 times. | October 31 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Well, there's a difference now between powwowing and healing, belief in healing, because there is a place in the Bible, a verse, that says "I passed by and saw thee in thy blood and I said, live." Now that my own parents experienced and it worked perfect. [ Tape 153 R; Oral Traditions Program]. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you walk into a spiderweb you'll go blind. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you eat black chicken three days in a row you'll go blind. | October 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you jack off, you'll go crazy; blind; have hair gowing on the palms of your hand. | 1945-50 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Look at naked women, go blind. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you go out in the sun during an eclipse, you're liable to go blind. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
"Don't let the kiddies go out in the sun when the eclipse is on." She expressed genuine fear that harm would result merely from being exposed to the eclipsed sun. | July 20 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you look at a naked woman you'll go blind. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mushrooms are not eaten extensively for fear of poisoning. The dry spores of the Lycoperdon, BLUT SCHWAMM, were supposed to cuase blindness if gotten into the eye. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Blindness: Masturbation. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Garlic poultices are thought to be cures for blisters, and infections from other wounds. | April 1984 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Burn a blister on another part of the body to take away pain. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bites, blisters, cuts: Could be healed by being soaked in warm salt water. | April 1981 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you get a pimple on your tongue, you've told a lie. | May 1 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you get a blister on your tongue, you've told a lie. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
They used to collect sassafrass roots, They'd peel the bark off. It was used to thin the blood. [Term Project]. | 1985 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Dandelion was a good spring tonic for blood. | April 30 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
He would find a birch bark and break off a limb which he would then chew in order to thin out his blood. | April 30 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Don't wear pearls when taking medicine for blood. | October 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
A blood purifier- 1 tablespoon of barley, pour over it 2 quarts of boiling water, cover and let stand until cool. Drain, add a little sugar, 1/2 teaspoonful of grated nutmeg and the juice of a lemon. Drink it whenever thirsty. | September 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
To draw blood from a person, use a leech. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Red beets are good for making blood. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
For bad blood, get the roots of burdock, cut them in round discs, put in water, and drink. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
A blood purifier- 1 tablespoon of barley, pour over it 2 quarts of boiling water, cover and let stand until cool. Drain, add a little sugar, 1/2 teaspoonful of grated nutmeg and the juice of a lemon. Drink it whenever thirsty. | April 27 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sassafrass and spicewood as a blood purifier. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Parsley purified the blood stream. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Parsley is good for the blood. Eat every day if you can, good body building. | February 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
I had to quit using horseradish. My God, that thins your blood. My nose bled. | November 25 1972 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rhubarb good to purify the blood. | May 23 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Flour of sulphur, cream of tartar- purifies the blood. | April 27 1963 | Human body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
"We used to have to take sulphur and cinnamon to clear the blood in the Spring." | May 31 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Spring was the time of the year for sulphur and molasses to thin your sluggish blood due to cold weather. | January 10 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
In the SpringÂ… molasses and sulphur will enrich the blood that got a little sluggish over the winter. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sulphur and molasses, rolled in powered sugar balls, is a good spring tonic because it thins (purifies) the blood. | 1950 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
For blood poison they used to take flax seed and mix it and put on a cloth and lay the lard in that and then take another one and put on the top and wrap them together. It would clear it right up. | August 27 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bats try to get in your hair. If they bite you, you get blood poison. They're about as poisonous as a snake. If you throw a stone up in the air, they follow it down, thinking it's another bat. (I've proved this on several occasions during the 1940s). | 1938-42 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakes don't have to be poisonous to give you blood poisoning, lockjaw. Snakes are filthy, germy. | February 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub Canada onion on to clear it up. | July 23 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Use blue vitriol, but best remedy is bind on fresh cow manure which is a sure cure. | September 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you step on a nail, put lard in the nail and put the nail on the mantle and you won't get blood poisoning. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cow manure polis (poultice?). | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Soak area in epsom salts water or scalded wood ashes. | January 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cucumber end - wart. Black salve (red lead, pine pitch, couple other kinds of oils) - blood poisoning. | March 27 1985 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Eating parsley controls blood pressure. | March 12 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Parsley was a remedy for high blood pressure. | April 24 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Your blood pressure should be 100 plus your age. | prior to 1950 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
White spots on the fingernails means high blood pressure. | September 21 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bleeding is good for high blood pressure. | May 23 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Catnip tea is very good for high blood pressure and colicy babies. | January 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Eating garlic daily is also said to be a good way to prevent high blood pressure. | April 1984 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Garlic was used for high blood pressure. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Low blood pressure: Garlic. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Garlic - used to lower blood pressure. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Garlic is good to reduce high blood pressure. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Garlic or onions was good for high blood pressure. | May 25 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Use garlic in all cooking to ward off high blood pressure. | June 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
One of them [onions or garlic] is good for high blood pressure, and the other for low, but I don't know which is which. | June 5 1974 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you step on a nail, grease the nail and the foot to prevent blood poison. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Take lead shot and boil it in milk, then take that. It'll clean up your blood and the boils will go away. | August 22 1985 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Make a poultice of ripe figs for boil. | May 1985 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Heat a bottle and hold it near the boil. | February 1985 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Get boils during dog days. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Manure for boil. | January 31 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Boils, pimples: Take white skin from an egg shell, place on boil. | July 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Boils: Use skin of boiled egg, applied wet. | April 2 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Boils: Spread mixture of bread and milk over it. | April 2 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Instant relief for a toothache or gum boil. Wrap ground cloves in a little sac, wet it and put it on the sore gum. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
You should make a poultice of cow dung and place it on the boil which would draw out the poison. | April 30 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
They thought that anybody that would eat doughnuts on Shrove Tuesday, they would suffer from the boils. [ Tape 98 R, Oral Traditions Program]. | April 13 1976 | Human Body | diseases |
Burns, boils, sores: They powwowed for them. [ Tape 98 R, Oral Traditions Program]. | April 13 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Spirits of turpentine applied to a boil in its earliest stages will almost always cause it to disappear. Or applied the common plantain leaves crushed. | | Human Body,Folk Medicine | diseases |
Fill a bottle with hot water to heat bottle, empy and place hot bottle neck opening on boil to draw it out. | May 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bad to go swimming during "dog days"; you will get boils. | July 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine, Superstitions | diseases |
Tie piece of bacon on boil to draw out inflammation. Apply velvet weed as a poultice. | June 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Boils: Chew bread and milk - put on as poultice. After it's lanced, sprinkle black pepper on a prune and put this on. | June 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Boils: Tea made from herbs and spices such as spicewood, sassafras root, burdock root, birch bark, tansy, etc. | May 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
For boils; put on a paste of yellow soap and sugar. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Don't squeeze a boil or it'll get worse and turn to blood poison. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
A piece of fatty (pork) meat on a boil will draw it. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Boils, cuts: To make salve. Equal Parts; Un-salted butter, beeswax, rosin. Boil together, wonderful for cuts or boils. | January 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Boils: Birch bark and black alder bark teas. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Boils: Plantain leaves. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Those who ate hard boiled eggs on Good Friday would have no broken bones that year. | Aril 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | bone |
Eat parsley for a clean breath. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | breath |
Parsley takes away bad breath. | March 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | breath |
If you eat parsley, it takes away your bad breath. | November 19 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | breath |
Parsley took bad breath away. | February 1979 | breath | |
Parsley gives you good breath. | August 1980 | breath | |
Spots on fingernails - your fingernails were bruised. | February 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Plantain leaves were usually applied to bruises among some ethnic groups. | January 20 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
His hand was stiff [from a bruise] an' Mary soaked it in catnip tea an' today he can move it, but it's swelled up. | April 29 1974 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bruises: Put vinegar and brown paper on it. | May 27 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bruises: Grated raw potato. | May 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cow manure is good for bruises. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Black eye, bruise: beefsteak; poultice of tea leaves. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | disease |
Burns: To take out fire. Do not swear when burned: Look at spot and recite following: Fire, Burn us/ Water quenches thirst/ God's free will pass by. (then blow spot.) Can be used for sun burn, too. But to repeat to another person, man tell woman (who has borne a child woman tell man, etc. (from a hobo) | January 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Pow-wow charm for burns: Brot humur net/ Brot brie net/ Gots liebsnet. Blow on burn 3 times Repeat chant and blow on burn 3 more times. Repeat once more. | April 24 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Burns: Yaests ist fire and westus zum." Blow three times. It'll take the burn right out and it won't blister. | October 31 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you burn yourself or if a kid falls down and scrapes his knee you can use this hex my grandmother taught me. You mustn't laugh but be perfectly serious. Pass your hand over the burn palm down three times without touching the burn saying "Hexefuss" each time you pass your hand over. Then blow across the burn 3 times. Pass your hand over three times again reciting "Hexefuss" three times. Blow across three times. Pass your hand across three times reciting "Hexefuss" three times. Blow across three times. The pain should be gone by now and it works!! It's Pennsylvania Dutch like my Grandmother she spoke it as a child but doesn't remember the meaning of "Hexefuss." | September 24 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
For the burning (if a man has been scalded or burnt.) The blessed virgin went over the land; what does she carry in her holy hand - a fire brand; eat not in thee, eat not farther around thee, in the name of God, th father, the son, and the holy ghost, amen X X X. So saying these words, stroke slowly three times with your right hand over it, bending the same downwards, for one, two or three times and blow three times, every time thrice. | 1850-60 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Burns: aloe vera plant. (Taped interview). | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Burns: put butter on. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you get a burn, break off a piece of the burn plant (aloe vera) and rub on it. | January 10 1981 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
There was a pow-wow charm for the sting of a burn, but forgotten it. | April 24 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
For a burn he used to boil cat o' nine tails in lard and let cool before placing it on the burn. This worked just like a salve. | April 30 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Burns, diarrhea: Castor oil is good for burn. It keeps the skin from cracking open. If you have diarrhea, take a little castor oil. It heals your insides. You might have it for a little while right afterwards, but it'll stop it. | January 13 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Put axle grease on the burned area. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Burns: The scrapings of a raw white potato will draw the fire out. Scrape the inside of a white potato. Put the scrapings on the burn and leave them there until they turn black and the sore turns white. Then add a salve made of talcum powder and Vaseline. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Burns: Bind castor oil and egg white around the wound with a clean cloth. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Dissolve table salt in warm water. Wrap the burn in gauze and keep it constantly warm and moist with applications of the salt water. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Boil chestnut leaves and place the resulting ooze on the burn. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Put hot coals on the burned place and pour water over them. The steam will draw the fire out. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
For burns, apply juice from aloe. | June 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you burn your finger, cover the burn with butter or grease. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Burns: Use butter or lard. Sap from leaf of aloe plant. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
White of an egg on a burn. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Burns: soda-water paste. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Burn plant [aloe], put leaves on burn; squeeze sap on burn. | February 22 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Burns: ice water. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Douse a burn quickly with cold water to keep a blister from developing. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Burns: rub on butter. | May 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
My mother [?] had pain in her shoulder so bad, bursitis, I guess it was. She was gonna go and have it cut, it hurt so bad, and some fellow told her, "Dip your fingers in coal oil, and rub it there [gesture] and it worked. | June 23 1984 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Bursitis |
Calluses: Put castor oil on them before you go to bed. | May 24 1964 | | |
Parsley cures cancer. | December 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Parsley's good for cancer. They say it cleans it up all through the body. | July 30 1984 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Pokeberry juice was used against cancer. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Eating food cooked in a radar range causes cancer because of the radiation. | November 1975 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bruises can turn to cancer. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine, Superstition | diseases |
If you pick at a mole it'll turn to cancer. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine, Superstitions | diseases |
We heard of a man down at New Kingston who had cancer on his hand, open cancer, and he made a paste out of clover blossoms and put on, and it cleared it up. Of course, it would come back, but it cleared it up then. | March 1966 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Carry elderberry leaves in your pocket. It will prevent you from getting under arm itch or soreness from sweating in hot weather. | October 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Stick your finger in your ear and get some wax and rub on the lips. Be sure the finger is clean. | January 16 1969 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
They always used to tell me to rub my finger behind my ear and put it on [chapped, or cold sore on lip]. | April 17 1975 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Use powered mustard and camphor ice to prevent cracked lips. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Lip cuts: Slit in your lip - lay garlic skin over cut. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you hands are broken [open] mix half and half: Vaseline + borax, you get at the drug store. | May 14 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Tie assafetida on chest for chest problems. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Kerosene mixed with turpentine and lard is thought to be a cure for chest congestion when used as an ointment rubbed on the chest. | April 1984 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Chicken pox: oatmeal baths. | April 5 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Chicken pox: soda or oatmeal water baths. | July 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Chicken pox: baking soda paste. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Chicken pox: baking soda water bath. | April 6 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Chicken pox: bathe the person in corn starch and water. | April 19 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Chicken pox: soda bath. | January 27 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Chicken pox: Bathe with soda water. | August 10 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Chicken pox: Soda bath when they itched. | September 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Chicken pox, measles: Hot tea or broth, keep warm and keep room dark! | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Eat portions of a fried mouse. | March 28 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Drink hot tea to force pox to come out. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Keep body warm to bring out pox. | Aril 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Chicken pox: Make a paste out of corn starch. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Chicken pox: Give hot tea. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Chicken pox: Eat chicken soup. | December 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Chicken pox: If they don't break out, give them nannyberry (sheep manure) tea. | February 17 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Chicken pox: Victim stands before open door of chicken house so that chicken coming out fly over him. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
He'll be immune from chicken pox if you place a child under a vine that is attached at both ends. | May 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine, Superstitions | diseases |
Chicken pox: Tea (saffron - bowel, pennyroyal - sweating, sage - tonic, or catnip). Keep bowel open (seidlitz powder). Appy talcum or baking soda on eruptions. | April 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Chicken pox: Hot teas. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Chicken pox: Hot teas and don't scratch them. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Chicken pox: Tie gloves on the child so they can't scratch themselves sore. | April 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Chicken pox: When they itch, put cocoa butter on them. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Chicken pox: Keep child quiet. Rub oil or lard on spots. | June 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Chicken pox: Put dabs of yellow soap on to stop the itching. | October 11 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Chicken pox: Sponge bath, followed by a hot foot bath and hot drinks until sweating follows. A dose of castor oil helps. | January 21 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cyst: A draining cist (cyst) under the arm was treated by an N.C. conjure woman with the shell of an egg white (skinlike liner) put on it to draw the core out. It worked. | October 9 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | cyst |
If there were colds on chests they used hog's lard and kerosene. | 1985 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
They had pennar oil tea for colds. It made you perspire. | 1985 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Use asafetida for colds. | May 10 1983 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
To guard against cold and grippe, a bag of assafoetida was kept in contact with the throat all winter. | April 1983 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Assafetida was worn around the neck to cure chest cold. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Asafetida was tied in a bag around neck to keep away colds. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Assafetida was used for warding off colds and other maladies. | February 1982 | Human Body Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Cold: Asafetida bags hung on string around the neck. No one would get near us. Camphor, onions, several kind of herbs including garlic. | April 1981 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Assafetida was used to cure colds. | April 3 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Assafetida was used to hang around your neck in a little bag to keep the cold away. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Assafetida was used to ward away colds and illness in winter. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Used to hang asafetida around your neck to keep colds away. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Assafetida was used to prevent colds. | February 29 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Assafidity might have been used to inhale for something wrong with them, for a cold or headache. I'm not sure about that. [Tape 98R, Oral Traditions Program]. | April 13 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Colds: 2 oz. whiskey, 2 oz. baking molasses, 1 teaspoon peppermint | May 1985 | | |
Colds: 1 pint water, boil (then cool), 2 tablespoons soda, 2 teaspoons aromatics, 1 teaspoon peppermint. | May 1985 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Colds: Hot homemade grape wine with butter and black pepper. Drink (4 oz.) before bedtime. Sweat it out. | February 1985 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you're stuffed up, put vinegar in a pan on the stove, it'll open you quicker than Vicks. | September 26 1986 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Things with honey are good for colds. Ginseng, special kinds of tea. [ Taped interview]. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Garlic is good for colds (do believe). [ Taped interview]. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cold: If you ignore it, it'll go away. [Taped interview]. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Drinking helps cold sometimes. [Taped interview]. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cold: Garlic. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Garlic was used to prevent colds. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Colds: Vicks Vapor rub on the chest. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Colds: Chicken soup. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Garlic cures a cold. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Garlic for colds | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you take medicine your cold will be better in seven days. If you don't, it'll be over in a week. | April 8 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Garlic prevents colds. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Colds, flu: Hang garlic around neck. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Feed cold, starve fever. | February 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Starve a cold, feed a fever. | November 25 1981 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
For a chest cold, goose fat rubbed on the chest and back was supposed to cure it within a week. | April 1981 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cold: Take one tablespoon of ginger brandy in the morning and one in the evening. | December 31 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cold: A teaspoon of kerosene taken internally, and apply externally to neck and throat. | April 2 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cold: Hot lemonade with ginger essence. | April 2 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cold: One quart whiskey with linseed oil taken as necessary. | April 2 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cold: Boil onions in molasses and drink. | April 2 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Starve a fever - feed a cold. | August 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Starve a fever, feed a cold. | April 19 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
To be cured of a chest cold my grandfather used to put a piece of garlic in a small bag and hang it around his neck. | April 30 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
A common cold remedy is one in which you heat comphorated oil and goose fat in a pan and put it on a flannel cloth and then lay the entire thing on your chest. | April 30 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Starve a fever and feed a cold. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
An old remedy for a chest cold is placing mustard plaster on your chest. Mustard plaster is dry mustard mixed with water to make a paste. It would take away the congestion lodged in chest. | April 1 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Feed cold and starve a fever. | February 28 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cold: Sugar and onion and heat on back of stove for cough syrup. | October 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cold: Beef kidney fat heated and put on chest. | October 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cold: Rub soles of feet with garlic. | October 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cold: Black pepper on bacon rind and put on chest. | October 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cold: goose grease on neck with flannel rag and feet in hot mustard water. | October 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Fry mullein in lard for colds. | January 13 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Onion poultice on the chest. | October 24 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Wear garlic around your neck to cure a cold. | April 26 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cold: Every evening when you pull off your shoes and stockings, run your finger in between all the toes and smell it. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cold: Eat onions roasted in ashes. (This is especially good for children) | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cold: Put goose-grease salve on chest. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cold: Parch red pepper in front of a fire. Powder it, cook it in a tea and add pure whiskey. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cold: Boil pine needles to make a strong tea. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cold: Make a tea from powdered ginger, or ground up ginger roots. Do not boil the tea, but add the powdered root to a cup of hot water and drink. Add honey and whiskey if desired. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cold: Make a tea from the leaves of boneset and drink it when it has cooled. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Colds: She used to have goose grease and mutton fallow(?). She would cook that together, then she kept it in a jar, and she'd massage our chest and back and we wore a little jacket - really a vest- that was called the grease jacket and you put it on in October and didn't take it off until the following April. It was so dirty you could practically stand it up, but... that kept the cold out of us. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sage and elderbloom tea was a remedy for colds. | November 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
For chest colds onion poultice was used, also melted lard and camphor was rubbed on the chest and covered with a red flannel cloth. | November 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Drink hot ginger tea to perspire cold from body. Drink "booze." | October 12 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cold: When you take off your shoes and stockings, run your fingers between your toes and hold it under your nose. | January 16 1969 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Colds and other diseases- onion prevents them. | January 16 1969 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
A cold will be seven days coming and seven days going. | March 14 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Colds: Cointreau 8oz in crushed ice while taking a hot bath, go to bed right away. | March 14 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Colds: Tea of inner bark of older branches wild cherry or brew of bark with sugar. | October 6 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Colds: Rubbing chest with mutton tallow. Mustard plaster on chest. | July 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
They used to take a cloth and put, they'd wet this cloth and put mustard on top and then they would lay that, if you had a bad cold, they would lay that on your chest and that would supposed to loosen that cold you had. [Tape 98 R, Oral Traditions Program]. | April 13 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Colds: Rub Vicks salve on head, throat and chest. | September 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Colds: Onion tea. Take an onion and boil it with several lumps of sugar. | March 13 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
The Williamstown housewives had hoarhound for coughs and colds. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
I remember that we gathered smartweed and dried it and for a fever or bad cold made a tea from it. | June 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
For chest colds, the chest was rubbed with various things--hens oil (chicken fat), skunk's oil, turpentine might be added to these, then cover throat and chest with flannel. | June 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Colds: Grease chest with mixture of lard and turpentine, put cloth over it for warmth. | June 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Drop a hot coal in half cup of water, add a little sugar, for your baby's cold. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Tie a dirty sock around your throat for a severe cold. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Colds: Honey. | April 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
A shot of honey and vinegar every morning will ward off colds. | February 1971 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cold: The standard remedy was boneset tea. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you got a chest cold, you made a plaster of white samaritan salve and put it on your chest. [ Tape 150, Oral Traditions Program]. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you had a cold in the throat, you always mixed lard and turpenine and greased your throat with that. [Tape 150, Oral Traditions Program]. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
A warm day in early spring is called "pet weather" because one can catch a cold easily on such days. | 1960 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you sneeze it's a sign you're catching a cold. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If a person sneezes three times in succession, it's a sign he's catching a cold. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
When someone has a cold he is accused jokenly of "having slept too close to the crack." | 1960 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
A friend of mine says he drinks a glass of water before breakfast every morning. The reason you get colds is there isn't enough liquid in the body. He hasn't had a cold since he started that. | December 1962 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
When you've got a cold you should eat, and when you've got a fever you should slow down. | December 25 1968 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Feed a cold and starve a fever. | May 5 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Starve a fever and feed a cold, they alway used to tell me. | January 2 1972 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Catnip tea is good for colds. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Eating raw onions is good for the cold. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Onion poultice is good for colds. | April 27 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Something else that's good for a cold and nerves too, is rhubarb wine. | May 5 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Give a spoonful of whiskey and brown sugar for a cold. | April 27 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Colds, sprains: White linament. Use a katsup bottle- Take an egg, pick a hole, large enough to use as a measure. Take fill with vinegar, add to egg, then fill some [same?] egg with turpentine, add and shake well. Can use right away. The longer it sits, thicker it gets. Wonderful for chest colds and sprains. Do not take inward. | January 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
The best things you can take for a cold is baking soda, just a little bit on the tip of of a knife, and take that an' drink water with it. | May 5 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Some wore cloths around their necks satured [saturated?] with the grease of skunks, to ward off colds. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
They used to put a little sulphur in with the tallow when they made candles. The smell is good for the cold. | January 16 1965 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Colic: Take one half of a shot of whiskey and a pipe full of tabacco. Put the whiskey in a bottle, then smoke the tobacco and blow the smoke into the bottle. Shake the bottle well and drink it. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Colic: Take the child around the table leg four times. | April 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Colic: Blackberry juice will help your baby's tummyache. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
She would gather catnip tea and dry it so that she would have it for the baby if it got colic. And I suppose hot water would have done the same thing, I don't know. [Tape 150, Oral Traditions Program]. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Catnip for colic. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Give the child catnip tea for colic. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Colic: fennel tea. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Colic: peppermint. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you eat bread crusts, you'll have rosy cheeks. | 1940 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Eating bread crusts makes your cheeks rosy. | 1948-1950, 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Concussion: If you get hit on the head don't go to sleep for a couple of hours because you won't wake up. | February 1979 | | |
Constipation: Gather the roots of mayapple, cut out the joints, and dry the middle of the root. Place in a cloth and beat it to a powder. Add a few drops of astor oil and roll into pills you can also put a pinch of powder in food, or put in some syrup. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Costipation: Drink prune juice and a bottle of porter before going to bed. | December 19 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cream a' tartar is given for constipation. | 1940s | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Convulsions: Burn shirt (turned inside out) and put face near the fire. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If someone would go into convulsions, a child go into convulsions, they'd go quick and get an onion and hold it at their nose, thought that helped. [ Tape 98R, Oral Traditions Program]. | April 13 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Balsam for consumption. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Convulsions: Take fresh cabbage leaves, hold on top of stove until they're warm, put them on baby's feet. | June 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cure for corns: Take the third evening of the new moon and say: Was ich say nemmt tsu. Was ich grife nemmt ob. Was ich say nemmt tsu. Was ich grife nemmt ob. Was ich say nemmt tsu. Was ich grife nemmt ob. In the name of our + + +. This is a sure cure. | 1886 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Put medication on your corns in the increase (first quarter) of the moon. | June 3 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
The new moon is a poor time to cut your corns, as they grow as fast as the moon grows. | November 15 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you cut your corns on Good Friday and then again on Ascension Day, they will leave and you won't be bothered with them in the future. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Place a dried raisin over the corn and bandage. Corn would soften - and pain go away. | May 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Corns: Soak in warm water and trim off hard skin. | September 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sheep's wool was good. The oil in wool softened corns. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Instead of pulling the wool over somebody's eyes, try putting a tuft between your toes where those miserable corns are. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Corns: Thick oil like you get near an oil well. Leave on 3 or 4 days. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Corns: Bind a piece of lemon to area at night and let to morning. 2 or 3 times is enough. | January 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Corns: Soak in hot soapy water, then peel or cut off. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Corns: Lemon poultice. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Corns: If they're between your toes take brown paper and dip it in vinegar and put down between. If they're on the outside, rub 'em with castor oil. | August 28 1961 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Coughs: A teaspoonful of brown sugar with a few drops of kerosene in it. | January 27 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Coughs: Drink tea with linden flowers and leaves. | April 2 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Coughs: Licorice boiled in water and taken as necessary. | April 2 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
The whippoorwill plant was used to make cough syrup. | April 13 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cough: The only thing that'll stop it is a teaspoon of dry soda. Wash it down with water. | December 30 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cough: Vinegar will stop it. Pickle juice or pickles. | December 30 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Make a cough syrup by boiling a handful each of wild cherry bark, black gum bark, and whole rat's vein plants in a half a gallon of water. Simmer for one to two hours; strain, add one pint of sugar, and boil again until it makes a thin syrup. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cough: Boil one cup of wild cherry bark in a pint of water. Add some syrup and cook until it until it gets thick. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cough: Dissolve four sticks of horehound candy in a pint of whiskey and take a couple of spoonfuls a day. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cough: Take some rock candy with tea. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cough: Take a tea cup of roots, and stems of red horsemint, boil in a pint of water for two or three minutes, strain and drink. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseaes |
Cough: Eat a mixture of honey and vinegar. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mix one teaspoon of whiskey with a pinch of sugar, heat over a fire and drink. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cough: Take a little piece of rock alum and suck on it and that'll clear that all out. | November 22 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cough: Bloodroot, Indians used fresh root. | October 6 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cough: Onion syrup made by slicing onion and placing in warm spot with layers of sugar between each slice. | October 6 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cough: Slippery Elm bark tea, drop of skunk grease or goose grease in spoon of sugar. | October 6 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
For a cough: mixture of lemon juice & honey or a drop or two of Sloan's liniment on a sugar cube melted in the mouth. | July 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cough: Boil chestnut leaves. Sip the tea. Brown sugar and vinegar. | May 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cough syrup: whiskey and honey (less whiskey, more honey). | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cough: boneset tea. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Lemon and sugar for a tickling cough, also honey. To stop a cough, ginger mixed into a spoonful of maple syrup. | June 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
They made cough syrup from white pine buds, not the cores, the pine body. Boil them, put sugar in and boil it off. That was about as good a cough syrup as you could get. | March 27 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache, rheumatism, cramps: Make a small amount of wine from pokeberries, and mix one part of the wine with eight parts of whiskey. Take a small spoonful just a couple of times a day. It is also good for rheumatism and muscle cramps. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rattles from the rattlesnake were a preventive of cramps and toothache. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Asafoetida to prevent croup and other diseases, including the bug (asian flu). | January 16 1969 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
For coupe, tie a bag of assafetida around your neck. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Assafetida was used for curing/preventing croup and diptheria. | February 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Spoonful of sugar and a few drops of kerosene for croup. | January 30 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Croup: Put some groundhog oil on some hot flannel rags and place the rags on the child's chest. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Croup: For a baby pour a mixture of turpentine and whiskey into a saucer and set it afire. Hold the baby over the smoke until he breathes it deeply. This loosens him up. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Croup: Add a little vinegar, lemon, or onion to honey and eat. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Croup: Squeeze the juice out of a roasted onion and drink. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Polecat fat and brown sugar was a remedy for croup also slippery elm tea or a tea made quince seeds. | November 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Croup: Wrap the victim's stocking (soiled) around his neck. | September 17 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Croup: Apply mustard plaster to the chest. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Croup: Put a boiling kettle of water in the room with a few drops of turpentine in. | October 11 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Croup: Hot water steaming on stove. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Croup: Put a warm cotton stocking of flannel cloth around neck for sore throat. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Croup: Skunk oil and sulphur mixture rubbed on throat. | July 7 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If they had the croup, the children got croup, they would powwow still for that too. [Tape 98 R, Oral Traditions Program]. | April 13 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Croup: Turpentine and lard, internally. | February 17 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Croup: Camphor on flannel cloth. Hot mustard bath. | January 21 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Croup: Onion syrup- not a superstition- a good remedy. | December 10 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Croup: Eat honey. Tie a string around you little finger and then wrap it around a table leg 3 times. | December 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Croup: Use butter and sugar. | June 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Croup: Rub throat with turpentine. | June 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Croup: Tie dirty left sock around your neck. | June 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Croup: Cut a whack of wool from under sheep's chin and place on throat of child. | November 15 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Croup: Put mustard plaster on chest. | November 15 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Croup: Kerosene and sugar. | September 21 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Croup: Give mixture of sugar and kerosene (t teaspoon and two drops). | July 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Croup: Gave tea made from plantain leaves. | June 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Croup: Give vaseline in a spoon, give something to induce vomiting. | September 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Croup: Goose grease. | November 30 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Croup: spice pouldus. (poultice). | January 27 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Croup: Tie a piece of silk string around your neck. | November 23 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Croup: Hot melted butter and sugar. | Novenber 23 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Croup: Take the white of an egg and stiffen with sugar. | April 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Croup: Live spider in a thimble, cover thimble and tie around neck until spider dies. Hang a penny (the year of birth) around neck. | April 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Croup: Roasted onion. Elder flower tea. | April 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Croup: Kerosene and sugar. | July 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medcine | diseases |
Croup: Drop kerosene on teaspoon of sugar. Tie a string soaked in kerosene around neck. | May 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Croup: Tie fried onions around the throat. | December 20 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Croup: Turpentine and lard or Kerosene on sugar. | November 30 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Croup: Button weed tea. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Croup: Fried onions. | April 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Polecat fat was one of the best things you could get for the croup. You took a spoonful of it. | June 1 1964 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
A spoonful of Kerosene with brown sugar is good for croup or laryngitis. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Croup: A tablespoon of kerosene to drink. | May 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
They say polecat fat is good for the croup. That's one of the old remedies. | August 12 1975 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Tobacco leaves were soaked in hot water then placed on the cuts. The poison in the tobacco was supposed to draw the poison out. | April 1981 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Camomile tea, when placed on cuts, helped scabs form within a day. | April 1981 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
The old miners always had tobacco or snuff in their mouth and if they got cut, they would just take the chew from their mouth and put it on the cut to draw the poison out. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you have a cut on your foot or between your toes, take a piece of wool yarn and lay in there, when you go to bed, and the next morning, it'll be gone (the cut). You'll wonder how that could happen so quick. Something else is to take, you've seen sheep wool, like it gets caught on the fence, a little bunch like that and put on. | July 6 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Put cobwebs on cut to stop bleeding. | July 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Pitch from the bark of pine tree will heal a large cut on an animal or man. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cuts: Put turpentine on them. | November 23 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cuts: Cloverine salve. | May 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cuts: Cobwebs put on cut. | July 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cuts: Pour rubbing alcohol on there. It'll burn at first but it'll cure it. | May 23 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cuts, wounds: If a dog licks a wound it will get better more quickly. | December 18 1975 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you cut your finger, let the dog lick it and it won't get sore. | 1952-54 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
For a cut or prick, a small pinch of bread on wound. | January 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Axe wounds: Tar and pine pitch mixed. Mud pack. Tobacco juice. | April 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you cut your finger, they used to say pee on it. | 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cuts: Turpentine. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Back in the 1950s, my Dad was helping to cut some trees when he was cut pretty badly on a power saw. He borrowed a wad of chewin' tobacco that the saw operator, Bruce Miller, was chewing and bound it onto the open wound. | 1950s | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Decay: (When a person would wither from not eating) Let the person eat from the same plate as a cat, and as the cat would get the decay, the person would get better. | February 1982 | | |
Diabetes: Tea of Queen Anne's lace or horse tails. | October 6 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Take some blackberries and drain the juice off. It's one fo the best things you can get for diarrhea. Something else is castor oil. It heals your stomach. Doc ___ used to tell you to take castor oil. | July 30 1984 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Squeeze the juice out of blackberries. That's one of the best things you can take for diarrhea. | July 30 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Diarrhea: Blackberry wine. | July 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Diarrhea: Make a tea from the root of the mandrake (may apple) plant. | July 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Diarrhea: Drink some blackberry juice. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Diarrhea: Take a tea of red oak bark. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Diarrhea/ Vomiting: Take smashed cloves and eat them together with bread soaked in red wine. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Diarrhea: Nutmeg tea. | April 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Diarrhea: Nutmeg in milk. | January 27 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you eat green apples, you'll get diarrhea. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Blackberry juice is good for diarrhea. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Diarrhea: Blackberry wine, cheese. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Diarrhea: Blackberry juice. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Blackberry root tea for diarrhea. | April 1986 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Diarrhea: Blackberry brandy and bitters. | May 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Diarrhea: Paragoric, blackberry juice. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Diarrhea: 1 and 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon, 3/4 teaspoon corn starch, mix together dry, mix with warm water, and drink. | September 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Diarrhea: Nutmeg for calves - maybe it works fro humans, too. | July 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Diarrhea: Boiled milk and black pepper. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Put assafetida in a small bag, put around child's neck. It will keep you from getting diptheria. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Dropsy: Your ankles and legs swell and bust open with water. It runs out and kills you. Old lady Werbly (80 yrs old) Ickesburg tried drying powder, had to put it in self. Take wild carrot in blossom, get a bunch of it and cook like tea. Take 2 tablespoons a day for 4 days. | March 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Drunkenness: Before going out, eat about a half a pound of butter, and that coats your stomach so that alcohol goes straight through you rather than into your system. | December 31 1982 | | |
Onions were used in folk medicine to prevent insomnia, and to cure the after effects of drunkenness. | April 2 1980 | | |
Foreign body in ear. Take a horse hair and loop it over several times, then insert it into the ear and very carefully turning it, withdraw it. | January 16 1969 | | |
Earache: Rattlesnake oil. | July 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Earache: Roast cabbage stalks and squeeze the juice into the ear. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Earache: Pour castor oil into the ear. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Earache: Save the liquid that boils out of the ends of hickory and persimmons wood when burned, and pour this liquid into ear. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Earache: Put either wet ashes wrapped in a cloth, or hot ashed in a sack on ear and hold there. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Earache: Pour drops of juice from the buddie blooms (a sweet shrub) into the ear. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
For earache an application of goose manure was considered effective. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Heat was a good remedy for the earache. I used to lie under the cooking stove. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Earache: Blow smoke in ear. Drop in mother's milk. Drop in blessed water. Drop in urine or olive oil. | June 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Earache: Drop in warm sweet oil. | June 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Earache: Pee on a piece of cotton, quickly put into ear. | January 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Earache: Warm a spoonful of urine and put a few drops of it in the ear. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Earache: Put pee in your ear. | April 19 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Earache: Apply your own urine to ear. | July 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Earache: Take urine from opposite sex and drop in ear. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Earache: She would put a few drops of rabbit urine in the sore ear. | April 30 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Earache: Bear fat oil, rattlesnake oil, bag of hot hops, blow tobacco smoke in ear. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Earache: Blow pipe or cigar smoke in ear. Or, use sweet oil. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Earache: Sweet oil. Tobacco smoke blown in ear. | May 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Use sweet oil to cure earache. Still prescribed by doctors. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Blow smoke in your ear and put a piece of cotton in on top to hold the smoke in. | April 27 963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
A cure for earache was to smoke a pipe or cigar and blow the smoke into the ear. | November 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
When he had a earache his mother used to blow cigar smoke in his ear. | April 30 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Earache: Blow smoke in your ear. | April 19 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Earache: Blow in ear with smoke. | July 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Blow smoke in ear to relieve ache. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Earache: Blow smoke in ear. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Earache: Blow tobacco smoke into ear (practiced). | April 1981 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Blow smoke into ear for earache. | November 1965 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Boil the roots of poke weed and put on eczema. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Eczema: Sulphur and tar. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicien | diseases |
Cure for the falling fits (epilepsy) here of sow this seed in the name of God. Falling gfits must leave, until of cut this seed, the x x x take a new broom, sweep three corners of a room and throw sweepings over the man, who labours under the fits, saying at the same time the above words, so you have to do for three times. | 1850-60 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
People with epilepsy are worse at the new moon. | February 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Erysipelas: Cure for the wild fire: wild fire give way, the tame fire is superior than you. Take a live coal or a fire brand, pass with it three times around the wild fire, in the morning, evening and morning, every time thrice, until you have said the above words, and it will be better. | 1850-60 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Blood from a black cat would cure erysipelas. | April 1983 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Powwowers try for erysipelas with a fire shovel of coals in a circle around the person. | February 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Erysipelas: Pow wow doctor prays over piece of sick person's clothes. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | disease |
Erysipelas: White of an egg, bacon. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Erysipelas: Use peach leaves. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Erysipelas: Red silk thread over hands and said some words. It got better and she had it for weeks. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Erysipelas could become epileptic if it was let go. | February 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | disesases |
Erysipelas: Wash with brown soap. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Erysipelas: Try for it. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Erysipelas: Powwow with the use of coal and ashes. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Erysipelas: Wash your face with dew. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Erysipelas: Smoke of hickory stick. | February 29 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Erysipelas: Use a poultice of peach tree leaves and corn meal. | February 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Erysipelas: Also called "St Anthony's Fire." You need a certain kind of wood. Burn it and rub ashes over the affected area til it is healed. | March 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Erysipelas: A tea made from Prince's pine. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
I knew an old man who used a red cord or string to powwow for my sister who had erysipelas. | November 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Erysipelas: Erysipelas fly, fly, fly. The red string chases you away, away, away. | March 28 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
For an eye blister: Eye blister I stroke thee with the right thumb; that thou mayst give way and cease to be in the name of God, the father, the son, and the holy ghost, Amen. To stroke with the tumb three times from the nose outward saying the above words, then blow three times; say so three times in the morning and eening always thrice; or in the evening and morning and evening. | 1850-60 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
To cure a tunicle (tunica) or film of the eye. Eye of know not what is matter with you, of know not where it does come from; there of it shall give way in the name of God, the father, the son and holy ghost, Amen. Pass over the eye three times with the right hand, do so three times and the cure will be effected. | 1850-60 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Carrots are commonly said to improve the eyesight, and to enable those who eat them constantly to see in the dark. | April 2 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Earrings worn in pierced ears are commonly believed to be good for the sight. | April 2 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
My father had a piece of glass in his left eye, and the [conjurer} woman wouldn't do anything. She said that fluid draining out was the evil draining out and they should let it drain. He's blind in that eye now. | October 9 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Spots on fingernails- the person had weak eyes. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
The sap of grape wines cut in March is good for sore eyes. | March | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
To prevent pink eye in children place boiled cauliflower over the eyelids of the child before the age of four. | November 28 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Eyes: Sliced raw potato, on welder bun, draws the brown stuff right out. | June 23 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
When you get something in your eye, take a wooden match and light it. Then take a piece of paper and clean off the burnt part. Touch the point to the dirt and it'll draw it right up like a magnet. | August 2 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Eating carrots is good for the eyes. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
When I was welding, I used to take two slices of raw potato and tie over my eyes when I'd go to bed. | March 4 1970 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Plate held in front of face to draw wheal from eye. | March 24 1984 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
To remove dirt from his eye he would put one or two flax seeds in his eye to draw out the dirt. | April 30 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Foreign body in eye- put several flax seeds in the corner of the eye and it will be gone. | January 16 1969 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Something in your eye, at right put a flax seed, if its under the upper lid, put it under up there or the lower, and next morning it'll have drawed it right out. | August 2 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Use flax seed ointment for washing eyes and sore spots. | May 23 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Never rub your eye with anything but your elbow. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Felon: Bread and milk poultice my mother used. | October 6 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
The little bag of asafoetida worn around the neck would keep off fevers and small pox. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Drinking large amounts of cold tea was thought to be one cure for bringing down a fever. | April 1984 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Starve a fever. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Fever: Drink nitre and sugar. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Fever: Raspberry tea, elderberry flower tea. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Fever: Eat watermelon. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Fever: Chew a turnip root. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Fever: Swallow a spider with syrup. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Fever: Nitre. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sweat out a fever by putting on lots of clothes and covers. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Fever: Hot toddy. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Fever: Drug called nitre or niter. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Fever: Alcohol rub. Nitre. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Fever: Niter. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Fever: Alcohol rub. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Fever: Bathe the person with cold water. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Fever: Spirits of nitre. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Fever: Four aspirins and a triple shot of Rock and Rye. | November 25 1981 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Fever: Boneset and tansy. They are wild plants that are used to treat fever. Make a tea from the leaves. | July 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Fever: White willow bark and wintergreen teas. | October 6 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Tie two bars of soap to the feet which will draw out the fever. | March 28 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Tie two bars of soap to the feet which will draw out the fever. | April 2 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Fever: Tie onions around wrist and ankles. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Fever - niter. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Fever: sage tea. | April 24 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Fever: Starve and cold bath. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Fever: Put cold wash rags on the person. | April 19 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Fever: Sweet spirits of nitre. | April 6 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Fever: Pat with cold water. | April 3 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Fever: Tie onion on soles of feet. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Fever: Many blankets. | April 30 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Fever: Catnip tea. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Fever: Promote sweating. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Fever: Mustard plaster. | March 198? | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Fever: Give patient several drops of niter in spoonful of water. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Boneset tea was said to be good for something- perhaps it was fever. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Fever: Sweet niter. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Starve a fever. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Starve a fever. | April 5 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Fever: Spirits of nitre. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Fever: Watermelon will reduce it or cold shower. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Fever: Whisky, cool water. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Starve a fever. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If a person has a fever put salt in his socks to make his fever come down. | February 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Feed a fever. | March 1 1980 | Human Body,Folk Medicine | diseases |
Fever: Spirits of nitre. | February 29 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Maiden hair fern tea- for all fevers called the Fever Fern. | October 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If a child had a fever she'd say, get me some tipid water and she would bathe the child and that would break the fever. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | remedies |
If you had a temperature or something, you drank bittersweet tea, and boneset tea, and and then they made wine of of boneset too, boneset wine. [Tape 150, Oral Traditions Project]. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
She made blackberry wine and that was so if you got sick with a temperature or the grip, you'd drink blackberry wine. [Tape 150, Oral Traditions Project]. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Fever: Administer a cathartic. A weak, alkaline tea, made from white ashes of hickory or maple wood, taken weak, three or four times daily. | September 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Fever: Nitre added to water with a little sugar. | January 27 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Fever: Cream of tartar. | May 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Feed a cold and starve a fever. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you hold a cake of lifebuoy soap under your arm you can make people think you're running a fever. | 1952 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Saffron tea is good for fever. | April 27 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
To break fevers, give thyme made into tea. | April 27 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Spirits of nitre for fever. | February 2 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | remedies |
Use ice packs to bring down a fever. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you jam your finger playing ball, make a finger stall with tobacco in your other hand and put your finger in there. It'll take the sting right out. | January 31 1981 | | |
White spots on fingernails mean you need more calcium. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
To get rid of freckle, get up real early in the morning and don't talk to anyone. Then get the dew off the grass and rub it all over your face. Wipe the dew off your face and slap the wet dew on a cow's behind. In doing this, you will get rid of the freckles and the cow will get them. | March 1985 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles/ Warts: Put morning dew on them. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
When you first rise in the morning speak to no one, and go outside and wash your face in the dew, it will rid you of freckles; slap your hands on your back, there is where your freckles will appear. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rain on baby's face makes freckles. | January 30 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles: Caused by rain drops when sun is shining. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles: Wet before a year old. | May 8 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles will disappear if you wash your skin over the freckles with dew. | October 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles: To remove, use lemon juice. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles: Caused by sunshine, or eating something that you shouldn't. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles: Caused by too much sun. | September 21 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles: Use lemon juice to remove them. | November 30 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles: An angel kissed them. | July 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub early morning dew on freckles. | July 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles: In the sun too much. | January 21 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles were where the angels kissed them. | June 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles: Caused by the sun. | December 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles: Got wet in the rain and rusted. | March 1977 | | |
Freckles: To remove, lemon juice and sun. | December 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles: God put them there to show happiness. | December 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
I often heard them say about the rain would fall on your face. That causes freckles. [ Tape 98 R, Oral Traditions Program]. | April 13 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
To remove freckles they put mud on their faces. | September 21 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles: Caused by getting baby's face wet in downpour before a year old. | November 15 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles: To remove them, rub them with dew. | November 15 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles: Wash with rain water. | November 19 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If it rains on a baby's face before they are a year old, they will have freckles. | November 19 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
March winds cause freckles. | November 15 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles: Used buttermilk to wash in. | December 20 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles: Came from being out in the sun too long. | October 19 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles were caused by sunshine. To prevent them, wear big hats and gloves, long sleeves. | October 6 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles: Removed by rubbing with lemon juice. | October 6 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles were caused by the sun and a fair complexion. | September 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles: Wash in water that has collected in the hollow top of a stump. | September 17 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles: To remove, rub lemon juice over them. | October 11 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
The sun caused freckles. | October 11 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
To remove freckles, milk from dandelions. Wash face in buttermilk. | July 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles: Wash face in morning dew on May 1. | July 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Too much sun causes freckles. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles: Caused by too much sun. | January 27 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles: Get up early in morning and before talking to anyone go out and wah your face with dew. | April 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
The sun caused freckles. | February 17 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles: To remove them, use lemon juice. | February 17 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Use mud to remove freckles. | November 30 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles: Caused by too much sun. | November 30 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles: Rub them with the morning dew. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles: Caused by sunshine, rub with lemon juice. | June 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles: On the first day May wipe them with dew and say, "In name of Fater, Son and Holy Ghost." | July 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles were caused from being in the sun. To remove them, use cucumber juice. | May 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Two old time ideas for remvoing freckles: One, walking barefeet in the dewy grass early in the morning. Bathing the face with buttermilk every morning. | June 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles: Wash face in buttermilk. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Taking a child in the rain before he was one year old was thought to cause freckles. | July 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles are caused by taking the child out in the rain before they were a year old. | April 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If it rains on a baby's face before he's a year old, he'll get freckles. | May 8 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Wipe your face with a wet baby diaper to get rid of freckles. | before 1955 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles: Vinegar and soda. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Use lemon juice to wash away freckles. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles: Get up in the morning early and rub the dew from the grass on the face. | April 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles: Bathe in dew the first day of May. | August 10 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles: In May- get up, do not speak to anyone, wash your face in the dew. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles: The old folks use to say get up the first day of May, don't say anything to anybody, go wash with the dew off of wheat. | April 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rubbing your face with dew on the first day of May will remove freckles. | January 20 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
On the first day of May- wet your hand with first morning dew- wash freckles away with dew and put them somewhere else, like your shoulders. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles: Wash in the dew on a May morning. | September 17 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Arise on May first and wash face with dew and wipe hands on part of body you wanted freckles to go to. | January 10 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles: Rise early, wash your face with dew on the first day of May and did not talk with anyone until completed. | November 15 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles: On the first day of May, before the sun is up, get the dew off the grass and rub it on | November 23 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
The first of May, go into a wheatfield, rub your hands over the dew on the grass, on the freckles of the face, and transfer to the shoulders. Freckles will be gone from the face and reappear on the shoulders in several months. (Practiced). | April 1981 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
You wash your face in the morning dew on May first, and you won't gave any freckles. | February 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
To rid one self of freckles- before sunrise on May first, wash one's face in stump water. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
On May 1, take dew from grass and rub your freckles to get rid of them. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles: It's May. Go out and wash in the dew and they'll go away. | May 20 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Put dew from grass on May first on freckles and they will go away. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles: Get up on May 1, go down before breakfast and wash in the dew. | February 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Washing your face in the dew on May 1 takes away freckles. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Tomorrow's the day (May 1) to get rid of freckles. Go out without talkin' to anybody, and take dew, clap your hands in the dew and rub it on your face, three times, then take and put [your hands] where you want the freckles to go [ e.g., on shoulders]. | April 30 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Go out on the first of May and wash in the dew. Wash your freckles in the dew, with your hands, and then put where you want the freckles to go (Ch. Miller). | December 22 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Freckles: Wash in dew first three days of May before speaking to anyone. | March 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you walk out of the house backward on the first of May, without talking to anyone, and wash your face in the dew, you can get rid of freckles. | June 12 1965 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
To remove freckles, wash in stump water on the first of May. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
The hot sun causes freckles, especially on light complected people. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Frostbite: Hold the fingers in cold water to take the sting out. | 1945 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Gallbladder: yarrow tea. | October 6 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Don't put the stones in your mouth, they might form in your gall. (humorously) | May 25 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Assafetida was used for gas in the stomach. | April 1980 | | |
My mother powwowed for a goiter with the new moon. As she rubbed the growth she said, "Vas ich seh nemmt zu; vas ich reib nemmt opp." This means, "What I am looking at, will increase; what I am rubbing, will decrease." And strangely, she never developed a full goiter, just the slight lump which she had rubbed. | October 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
One cure for goiter would be to drink warm water with vinegar added. | April 1984 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Wear a silk thread around your neck and the goiter won't grow. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Goiter: Use iodized salt. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Goiter: Rub penny on it; throw over left shoulder. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Goiter: Iodine. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Goiter: Take thumbs over abdomen and pray the Lord's Prayer. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Goiter: Use iodine in the diet. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Goiter: Powwow. | February 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Goiter: Iodine Salt. | July 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Goiter- iodine. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Goiter: Paint your neck with colorless iodine. | April 6 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Goiter: You take a dead woman's hand and rub it across your neck. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Goiter: Take a dead man's hand and place on goiter. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Goiter: Apply turpentine. | April 5 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Goiter: Add iodine to food. | April 1 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Goiter: eat fish. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Powwow for goiter. salt. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Goiter: Poultice around throat. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Goiter: Rub it with an egg and hide the egg until it rots. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Goite: Runs in the family. | October 12 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Goiter: Take dead person's hand and rub over it. | March 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub raw egg in shell across goiter several times and bury egg under water spout. When egg rots, goiter will go away. | March 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Go to a graveyard and find the grave of a child. Rub your neck and say a prayer and goiter will go away. | March 7 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Goiter: Tie clove around neck. | February 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Goiter: Tea from red clover blossoms; wear amber beads. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Goiter: Piss aunt poultice. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Goiter: Take iodine diluted in water. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Goiter: Drink water with a drop of iodine added. | May 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
To help stop the growth of a goiter, use all iodized salt in baking and cooking. | January 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hair cut in light of moon grows fast, in dark of moon grows slow. | July 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cut your hair going toward full moon. Never after full moon. You'll get bald. | October 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you pull out one gray hair, ten more will grow in its place. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Gray hair- you have seen a ghost. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Gray hair- pull out 1, you get 25 in its place! | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Never cut hair on a full moon. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Eat the bread crust- your hair will curl. | February 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cut your hair when the sign is up, it will curl. | February 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Never put the hair from your head, like when you cleaned your comb, outside where the birds could get it to build a nest, for if they do, you'll always have a headache. | October 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rinse hair with vinegar to remove soap. Use egg to make it shine. | 1945 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Burn loose hair after cutting to keep the birds from using it in their nest so your hair doesn't fall out. | November 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Falling hair was to be put in a cigar box- this would cure the fault. | November 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cut hair in decrease of the moon so it won't grow fast. | January 10 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Friday is a good day to get hair cut. You will never go bald if your hair is cut on Good Friday. | January 20 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cut hair only on the increase of the moon in order to increase lenth. | April 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cut hair in increase of the moon or new moon. | December 20 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Cut hair in new moon and hair will grow faster. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cut hair on a new moon. | November 23 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
The old folks used to say, get your hair cut the first Friday in New Moon and it'll get nice an' thick an' long. I guess that's when the hippies gits theirs cut. | June 3 1969 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Cut hair on increase of moon to make it grow. | February 28 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cut hair in the increase of the moon. | September 17 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cut hair when moon waxes. | May 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you cut your hair when the moon is getting big, the hair will grow fast; if you cut it when the moon is getting smaller, the hair will grow slow. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
There's a fella comes in here, always gets his hair cut on the full a' the moon. | June 12 1970 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cut hair when moon is growing and hair will grow fast; when moon is small hair grows slow. | September 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cut hair the first Friday of a new moon. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cut hair when the moon prongs are up. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cut hair- first day of a full moon. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cut hair at time of full moon. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cut hair when there's a full moon so it will grow long. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cut hair when there's a full moon so it will grow long. Cut hair the first Friday of a new moon. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cut hair when full moon, just cut the ends to make them grow. | October 11 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cut hair in full moon. | November 15 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cut your hair and the grass in the decrease of the moon and it won't grow back as fast. | June 5 1965 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Do not cut hair during dark of the moon, will not grow well. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cut hair in down sign of moon. | March 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you cut hair in old or dark moon, it won't grow. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Never cut hair on your birthday, it will cause hair to fall out. | March 28 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cut hair on the last Friday of the month. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cut hair in the sign of Leo and it won't grow so fast. | June 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Always cut hair on Good Friday. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you cut hair on Good Friday, it'll grow longer. | April 6 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Good Friday- special day for cutting hair. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
For women, don't get hair cut if you have menstrual period. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Gray hair- troubled. | March 198? | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you have some great sudden sorrow or touble your hair turns white over night. | October 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hair turns gray from fright. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Gray hair comes from worrying. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Some times jewelry was made form loose hair after cutting. | October 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
After cutting, loose hair was burnt so the smoke would go up the chimney and you wouldn't lose your hair. | September 21 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you pull out a gray hair, two will grow in its place. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you pull out a gray hair, you'll get two in its place. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Pull out one gray hair, ten more will grow. | February 28 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Dog bite: Get a tetnus shot if wound is severe. If a small bite there is nothing to fear. | September 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
To soften rough hands use a little borax or ammonia in the water in which you wash. | May 1985 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
To keep your hands nice and soft, pee on them. | May 1974 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Put adhesive tape on hangnail. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Human Body |
Hangover: Eat chocolate or syrup on pancakes, anthing sweet. | December 31 1982 | | |
August 15th- Beginning of hay fever. | March 1982 | | |
Evil eye- if you admire someone and don't say God Bless you to them, they will get a headache. Only one person who learns the healing procedure on Christmas Eve can cure the person's headache. The procedure is dropping oil into water and saying prayers. If the oil will spread out, your headache will go away shortly afterwards. | February 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Eating garlic bulbs is also said to be a cure for headaches, sinus problems, and whooping coughs. | April 1984 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
There's a point in your thumb, if you massage it, it takes away your headache, also the back of the neck. (Taped interview). | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Headache: Heat salt in bag, place on head. | July 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Headache: Cold wash cloth to forehead. | July 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Headache: Place salt on tongue for 1/2 minute, and wash down with warm water. | April 2 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
In order to get rid of a bad headache, he tied a rag soaked with vinegar around his head. | April 30 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Headache: Rub camphor and whiskey on head. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Headache: Use poultice of horseradish leaves. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Headache: Smear brow with crushed onions. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Headache: Put hot water over mustard leaves to rouse their odor and strength. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Headache: Put several ginseng roots in a piece of brown paper and tie on your head. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Headache: Bind wilted beet leaves on the forehead. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Headache was relieved by soaking a bread crust in vinegar and putting it on the forehead, keeping it in place with a white cloth tied around the head. | November 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | dieseases |
If one threw outdoors loose hair after combing, a bad headache could be expected. | September 17 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
For headaches, they used to use camphor around thier forehead and tie the cloth around and hold it real tight. That seemed to help the headache and then the mother would have camphor and my dad never drank whiskey in his life, but he had a little up in the attic and he'd put camphor in his whiskey and then she'd inhale that through her nostrils. That seemed to help the headache. It was good for headache, made your head open up and feel good. [Tape 98 R, Oral Traditions Program]. | April 13 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Headache: Rub head with vinegar. Slice potatoes, put in cloth, rub on head. | June 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you tapped your head with the first thunder of the year you would be free of headaches for the year. | January 20 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Spinning a hat with your forefinger was a sure sign of a headache. | January 20 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Suffering from occasional headache? Put your feet in nice warm water. It works just like the old days. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Headache: Catnip tea. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
When you get your hair cut, burn the hair. If a bird builds a nest out of it, you'll get a headache. | May 24 1964 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Onions are good for the heart. | July 30 1984 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Beans, beans, good for the heart.. The more you eat the more you fart. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Wear something red next to the heart. | February 1971 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Foxglove for the heart. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccups: Another less common cure is said to be eating a spoonful of white granulated sugar. | April 1984 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Some people believe that you can scare a person's hiccups away. | April 1984 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccups: Another cure would be breathing into a brown paper bag. | April 1984 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Some common cures for hiccups include holding your breath and holding your breath and swallowing ten times. | April 1984 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccough: Hold my breath, teaspoon of sugar, teaspoon of peanut butter, holding a spoon in your mouth. (Taped interview). | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Blow into a plastic bag and don't pop it until you hear your next hiccup. (Taped interview). | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccups: Spoonful of sugar. (Taped interview). | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Hold your breath, sugar on tongue. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: head in bag, scare. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Hold your breath and drink water. A scare. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Scare them. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Have someone hold your ears shut while you swallow water. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Put a paper bag over your head. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Slap the person the the back. | February 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Bag placed over the person's head. | February 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Scare the person. | February 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Scare. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Put a bag over your head. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Drink nine swallows of water without taking a breath. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Jump up and down on one leg and hold nose and ears. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Teaspoon of sugar, paper bag over head, hold breath. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
I tried sugar one time and it just made me hiccup more. (Taped interview). | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Drink large glass of water without stopping. | February 1985 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs- hold your breath. (Taped interview). | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Hold your breath for one minute. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Hold your breath and count to ten. Standing on your head. Scaring. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Scaring someone, breathe in bag. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Sugar for a baby. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Scare person, drink water and hold nose. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Scare person. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Put paper bag over head and hiccough into it. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Have someone come up behind you unexpectedly and scare you. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Get a scare. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Breathe in a paper bag. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Swallow a spoonful of sugar. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccough: Hold breath. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Scare person. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Breathe into brown bag. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Hold your breath. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Swallow 3 times. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Hold the breath and count to ten.. Drink a glass of water from the wrong side. Scare the person. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Spoon of sugar with water given to a baby for relief. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Hold your breath. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Blow in a bag. | February 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Scare person. | February 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Take a little sugar. | November 27 1981 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Hold breath and count to ten. | November 25 1981 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Scare a person. | November 25 1981 | Human Body, Fol Medicine | diseases |
An elderly women powwowed for hiccoughs. | November 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Scare the person. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Drink glass of water without stopping | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Breathe in bag ten times. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Put a paper bag over your head and hold your breath in. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Drink a swallows water without stopping. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Use a paper bag to hiccough into, hold breath. | April 24 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Breathe into a paper bag. | May 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicien | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Think "green." | May 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccough: Drink sugar water. | May 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: What pew do you sit in church. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Swallow a teaspoon of sugar. | April 19 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Have someone scare. | April 19 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: You can blow in a bag. | April 19 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Scare them out. | April 6 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Make the person drink water. | April 3 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Scare the person. | April 3 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Hold your breath and count to 10. | April 3 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Sit down, bend over and drink a glass of water slowly. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Breathe into a paper bag. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Put sugar on tongue. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Drink of water. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Blow into a paper bag. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Hold your breath. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Scare the person. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Blow into bag. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Drink water. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Eat brown sugar. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Peanut butter. | April 30 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Hold breath and count to 50. | April 30 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Swallow water from opposite side of cup. | April 30 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Swallow water with head back. | April 30 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: tsp. sugar. | April 30 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Hold your breath and put a sock over your head. | March 28 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Blow in paper bag; scare. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Hold breath- ten sips of water while holding breath. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Drink two glasses of water while holding your nostrils. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Blow air in paper bag. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Hold your breath as long as possible. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Scare them. Hold your breath. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Drink water with sugar. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Drink a glass of water while blinking your eyes three times. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Hold your breath for a minute. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Concentrated lemon: Drink liquid while holding hands over ears. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Scare the person. | April 5 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: 10 swallows of water. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Drink sauerkraut juice. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Hold your breath and count to ten. | April 1 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Put a paper bag on your head and have someone scare you. | April 1 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Drink out of a glass backwards. | April 1 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Hold breath and count to ten. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Sudden scare, hold breath or drink sugar with water. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Hold breath and put your head between your knees. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Drink lots of water and hold breath. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Seven swallow of water. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Eat jelly. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Scare someone. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Swallow seven successive times. Eat a tablespoon of sugar. Put elbows together in back. | February 28 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Frighten. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Hold your breath. | March 1 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Hold breath and count to ten. | February 29 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
You get rid of hiccoughs if you see a white horse. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Blow into a paper bag. | July 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Hold breath [!]and count to 10. | July 18 1878 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Bend over, drink from wrong side of glass. | July 18 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hold breath and count to ten to oneself, or ty to frighten the one with hiccoughs. | July 18 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Drink a glass of water quickly. | July 18 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Hat over head. | July 19 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Drink a glass of water without breathing. | October 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: When they're not aware of it, put a cold object down their back on the bare skin; a big house key was often used. The shock stops the hiccoughs. | October 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Hold breath and count to 10 silently. | July 18 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Frighten on the person. | July 18 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Breath into paper bag or have someone try to scare the patient. | July 18 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Breath into a paper bag. | July 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Hold your breath and take seven swallows of water. | January 16 1969 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Hold your index fingers together and count to ten. | January 16 1969 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sudden fright will stop hiccoughs. | July 18 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Hold your breath. | July 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Burn loose hair. If a bird used it for nest, you will get a headache. | November 30 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: 1. Hold your breath and count as high as you can. 2. Eat a teaspoonful of sugar. 3. Look up at ceiling and slowly drink glass of water. | May 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Scare. | July 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: 1/2 teaspoonful of sugar, 1/2 teaspoonful vinegar. Take until relieved. Or eat canned cherries. | September 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Let someone scare you. | May 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Pretend that youre fishing, close your eyes real right and cast, reel in, catch the fish and take it off. | December 18 1975 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Bring little finger tips together but not touch. Raise one hand above the head. Scare the person. | May 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Put a knife in a glass and drink the water from the glass. [Probatum est] translation: it has been tried/established. | December 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Drink water from the opposite side of the glass. | December 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Hold your breath and take 12 swallows of water. | January 27 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Blow into a paper bag and inhale. | July 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Frighten the individual. | July 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Frighten someone. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
A long kiss is supposed to stop hiccoughs. | July 30 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccups: Take nine swallows of water. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccups: Put cold door key on back of neck. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hicccoughs: Drink so much water before taking a breath. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Take nine swallows of water. | April 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccups: Hold the breath and count to ten. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseaes |
Hiccoughs: Dill seed crushed in half pint boiling water- sip each hour until relieved. | October 6 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Scare the person hiccuping. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: A bit of sugar on the tongue. | October 6 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Sip of water and hold breath to count of seven. | October 6 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Eat a teaspoon of sugar. | December 18 1975 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Overheard on a plane (New York to Madrid). Take a spoonful of sugar. (Tried in Zaragoza and it worked). | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
To cure hiccups, take drink of water. | 1936- ? | Human Body, Folk Medicie | diseases |
To cure hiccups, drink water, taking 7 (12, 13) swallows withough taking a breath. | 1948 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Inhale into a paper bag. | December 18 1975 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Drink ten sips of water quickly and hold nose shut. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | dieseases |
Hiccoughs: Hold Breath. Breathe in a paper bag. Scare the person. Throw a lighted match in water & drink the water. | December 12 1975 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Ginger Ale's one of the best things you can get for hiccups. | March 25 1964 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Take a shot of whiskey for persistent hiccoughs. | March 20 1967 | Human Body, Folk Medicien | diseases |
Hiccoughs: Breath in paper bag; severe scare. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicien | diseases |
Hold your breath to stop hiccups. | | Human Body, Folk Medicien | diseases |
To stop hiccoughs, breathe into a paper bag. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hives: Make a catnip tea using ten leaves of catnip. Boil it in one and a half or two cups of water. Take a teaspoon three or four times a day. Especially good for babies. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hives: Take any of a variety of teas to break them out. These teas include catnip, ground ivy, a tea made from the mashed up berries of the tread-save, red alder leaves, raw alder bark scraped uphill or a tea from cockle burrs. Wrap the latter in a rag and make the tea by straining. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hives: Boil chestnut oak leaves and apply the resulting dark juice to the affected areas. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sage for indigestion. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Don't swim during dog days- you will get sores and infections. | February 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Infection: Wrap it in egg-skin (from inside of the egg shell) or fatty meat of any kind. | November 22 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Infection: Put two tablespoons of epsom salt in warm water, as warm as you can stand it, in the the sink, and soak your finger in it. | November 22 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Assafetedi- use it to clean up the flu, for colds. | May 10 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Influenza: Stay in bed, drink hot lemonade. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Influenza: Boneset tea. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakeroot with whiskey in tea for flu. | April 27 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If bitten by a black widow spider, drink liquor heavily from 3 PM to 7 PM. You won't get drunk, you'll be healed. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Insomnia: If you eat pickles before you go to bed, you won't have any trouble falling asleep. | June 6 1982 | | |
Itch: Rub salt peter on skin. | July 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Itch: Brown soap (use immediately- only once). | July 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Itch: Soda or oatmeal baths. | July 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Itch: Butter and eggs, rub with fresh crushed leaves. | October 6 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Itch: Cornstarch and soda in cool water compresses. | October 6 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Jewel weed leaves crushed and rubbed on skin allowed to dry. | October 6 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Didn't your mother give you sulphur and molasses tonic for the seven year itch? | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Itch: Sulphur and tar. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Jaundice: Use yarrow tea. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Jaundice: Sheep saffron- the juice off of sheep shit. "I forget what it was used for." | May 23 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Carry a horse chestnut to ward away pains in joints. | April 1980 | | |
10 cent worth of mustard oil, two oz. of spirits of turpentine, two oz of camphorated oil. Shake well and rub into sore joints or parts. | September 1 1976 | | |
They had horse tail tea, used for kidney ailments. | 1985 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Parsley is supposed to be a very good kidney remedy. | November 15 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Parsley juice is good for kidneys. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Parsley tea is good for the kidneys. | October 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Parsley tea was used for urinary trouble, also parsely root. | November 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Wild carrots for the kidneys. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Parsley is good for the kidneys. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Parsley was boiled in water, the water would cure kidney ailment by drinking the water. | October 11 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Watermelon seed tea is good for kidney trouble. | June 1 1964 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Kerosene was also used to kill head lice. | April 1984 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Lice: Dip a fine tooth comb in coal oil and thoroughly comb through the hair. | April 30 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Livergrown: Crawl around table leg four times. | November 19 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Livergrown: Take the baby around the kitchen table leg three times. | November 15 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Spots on the fingernails- abnormal liver condition. | October 12 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Liver: Yarrow tea. | October 6 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Livergrown: Say certain prayers placing one hand over the liver site. | October 11 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Livergrown: Pass the child through the hoop made by a raspberry vine rooting its self at the loose end. | September 17 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Livergrown: Pow wow. | January 27 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Livergrown: Grease babies with lard. | November 23 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Livergrown: May-apple for the liver. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Livergrown: Camphorated oil over ribs; three trips backward around table. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
When a baby has livergown you say a prayer while passing the baby under the table 3 times. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
"Anything bitter is good for the stomach and liver." "The insides of peach seeds are good for the liver." | May 23 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Wormwood is good for the liver. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Livergrown: Grease and rub a certain way. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Livergrown: Caused by bouncing the baby too much. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Lumbago: Sloan's linament, absorbine Jr, mustard plaster. | July 1980 | | |
Lumbago: Use of heat in some form (water bottle, etc.) | March 1976 | | |
White spots on fingernails- Some thought you had a lung disease. | October 11 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Pennyroyal tea will cure measles. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Pennyroyal tea is a cure. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Tea from dried elderberry bloosoms. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Keep person warm and indoors. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: When they appear, apply cocoa butter and keep in a darkened room. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Bed rest and warm. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Saffron tea. | April 24 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Catnip tea. | March 28 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Eat ice cream to force measles. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Saffron tea will bring out the spots- Don't catch measles just for the remedy. It tastes awful. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Paste out of corn. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Sassafras tea. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Hot tea. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Saffron blossom tea. | October 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | disease |
Measles: Make a tea of sheep dung to break them out. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Boil red alder branches and drink the tea. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Any herb tea will break them out. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Set them near the stove to heat up to bring out the measles [!]. | October 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Keep fever down, if bowels become too loose, check but don't stop. | January 21 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Make tea of nettle root and have them drink it constantly. | November 15 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Brandy in milk to bring the measles out. | December 20 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | disease |
Measles: Bath in soda water. | January 27 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Camomile. | June 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Give hot drinks to bring measles out. | May 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Ground Ivy (weed) tea. Poultice (mustard, hops & lobelia) weak lye water - itching. | April 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Saffron tea. | April 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
The first thing was to give the patient some kind of tea that would "bring the measles out." | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Drink hot tea (sometimes "boneset" tea) to bring out measles. | July 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Drink hot liquid and cover well to "bring out" measles. Cover with warm cow manure to "bring out" measles. | July 7 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bring out measles by drinking hot sassafras tea. | May 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Drink plenty of cold water. | April 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Pull all the shades down and remain in darkness, otherwise, scars will remain. | July 18 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Darken room. | July 19 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Darken room completely, otherwise scars will form and remain. | July 18 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: No lights on in room. | July 18 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: A dark rom. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Stay in dark room. | April 5 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Stay warm. No bright lights. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Keep person in dark room and warm. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Stay in dark room, wear mittens and keep warm. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Put to bed for 3 days in a dark room and rive plenty of liquids. Keep real warm. | January 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Kept in a dark room to protect the eyes. | October 11 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Hot teas and keep in dark room. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Keep the youngster in a darkened bedroom, Serve plenty of hot drinks. | June 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Keep warm and away from light. Quarantine. | June 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Wear dark sunglasses and bathe in the bathtub of tea. | December 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Keep them in the dark. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Stay in dark room. | September 21 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Pull down shade; keep room dark. | November 30 1976 | Human Body, folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Keep warm and in a dark room, place warm hops on lungs. | September 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Keep in dark room. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: No light- draw curtains. | April 6 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: You can't go out in the sun unless you wear sun glasses. It's better to stay in a dark room. | April 19 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Stay in dark room. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Dark room, keep warm. | July 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Sleep in a dark room. | February 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Person stay in dark room. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Dark room. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Stay in bed in a dark room to protect the eyes. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Keep in dark room so not to go blind. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Keep the house dark. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Keep in a dark room. | February 1985 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Keep them in dark room. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: They used to give sheep saffron [sheep manure mixed with water to produce a yellow liquid] for measles. | June 1 1964 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Hot liquids. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Hot teas. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Most any hot tea will help the measles break out. | June 1 1964 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Used catnip tea and fennel tea and thyme tea and skullcap (boneset). | April 27 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
They used to give elderberry wine for the measles. | June 1 1964 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Saffron tea. | May 24 1964 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Measles: Virginia snakeroot made into tea, gargle or drink. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Pennyroyal tea for menstrual cramps. | January 30 1980 | | |
For a child's sore mouth, known as thrush, one who could practice pow-wowing went to a stable and got three short straws. Passing these straws in turn through the child's mouth, the pow-wower would recite in German, inaudibly. She could not transfer this to another female, only to a male. To do otherwise, the power was lost. | September 17 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mouth: My mother kept gold thread that she dug out of the ground, let it boil in water a few minutes, cool and swab the baby's outh for sore throat. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
To stop a mosquito bite from itching, put a cross on it with your fingernail. | September 8 1973 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: Go out and rub your neck on the hog trough. | September 26 1983 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: Tie chin up in a flannel or wool rag. | July 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: Camphorated oil. | July 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: Goose grease. | July 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: Eat a pickle. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Used to rub necks against a hog trough to precent mumps. | April 24 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: Eat a sour pickle to see if you have them. | April 6 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If the mumps go down to your privates you'll be sterile. | April 19 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
To tell if you have mumps- eat a sour picle and if your throat is sore, you've got it. | April 3 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: Hog manure poultices. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: Apply goose fat or oil. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: Tie slice of raw bacon onto jaw. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: Rub neck on the pig trough. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: Tie a flannel rag around the chin and head. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: Tied a rag around head. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: Tie face up. | April 5 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: Something tied around neck with garlic on it. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: Iodex salve. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If eating pickle hurts, you have mumps. | February 28 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: Rub with camphor. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: Tie a rag under chin and over top of head. | October 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: Put chip of wood from hog trough in a bag around neck to keep mumps from "going down." | October 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: Put a stocking filled whit warm salt around the throat. | October 11 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: Camphorated oil on them. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: Fill the stocking from your left foot with salt and tie around the afflicted person's neck. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: Rub your neck on the hogtrough. | November 23 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Tie a cloth under the chin so as to keep pouches of mumps up. | January 27 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: Tie salt pork around neck. | November 30 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: Old sock around head. | November 30 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: Do not take cold. | September 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: To tell if you have mumps, drink pickle juice. If you can't, you have them. | December 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Draw a big circle on your face with ink, with a cross in the middle. Then say a prayer and the mumps won't go any farther. | December 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: Put salt pork around neck. | November 19 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: Saffron tea. | May 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: Rest, perhaps occasional dose of salts. Keep jaws warm. | January 21 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: Anoint neck with hot camphorated oil. | January | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: Tie woolen sock around throat. | June 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: Rub your "jowls" over or on a hog trough. | May 15 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: Hot lard, apply as hot as can be stood. Balm- one oz of alcohol with one oz each of gum camphor, oil of sassafrass, harshorn spirits, castile soap and spirit of turpentine. | April 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Stay away from horses or mumps will go down on testicle. | April 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: Poultice of hops, and stramonium leaves (equel parts) hot water. Tea (catnip, spearmint, balm or pennyroyal). | April 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: Eat a pickle (sour) to be sure you have them. | November 15 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: Warm hog's lard, start at windpipe and grease neck up toward back of ear. Always grease up. Greasing down affects a man's privates or lady's breasts. | January 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
To cure the mumps, rub your neck on a hog trough. | April 12 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: Go to the nearest hog trough and rub jaws on the trough. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: Keep warm, rub throat and neck with warm Vicks ointment. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: greased wool cloth. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Tie a string around the neck to keep mumps from "going down" (to the scrotum) on the patient. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: Wrap a pair of dirty stockings around the throat. | April 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you move around when you have the mumps, they'll go down on you. | December 1967 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mumps: Boiled horse radish root, sugar added, drink cup every 2-3 hours. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Nail wound: Rubbing with hot potatoes. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Nail wound: Bacon on the wound "really was a good cure." | February 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Nail wound: Sap from pine tree. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Nail wound: Dog lard. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Nail wound: Soak foot in hot water, then cover wound with bacon. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Nail wound: Peroxide; iodine. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Nail wound: Pour liquid. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Nail wound: Tie bacon fat around the wound. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Nail wound: Tie on old lard or bacon. | February 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Nail wound: Charcoal. | February 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Nail wound: Pour turpentine over a rusty nail wound or maybe you stepped on a beer opener. The soreness soon disappears. Don't bandage anything with turpentine over it. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Grated red beet poultice for rusty nail wounds. | October 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Turpentine on nail wounds. Try turpentine and lard and grease the nail and the wound. | January 13 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
A fellow in Carlisle told me this, that if you step on a rusty mail, in a board, you leave it in until you get home and then pull it out and grease the nail all over with lard and bury it, before you do anything to the foot. | January 16 1969 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
I always used to put pine pitch on them. | March 27 1966 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Nearly all the old folks when they stepped on a nail would mix hog's lard and turpentine and put it in the wound, and also on the nail, so it wouldn't get sore. | May 31 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Assafetida was used to calm the nerves. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Nerves: (Had just been given a bottle of 28 year old rubarb wine). Take a tablespoon full of that for the nerves. | July 30 1984 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Nerves: Tea brewed from wild cherry tree bark relieved tension and sold as a sedative. | April 1981 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Neuritis, Rheumatism: One quart of water, juice from one lemon, one tablespoon of tartar, one tablespoon flour of sulphur, I tbs epsom salts. Set in refrigerator, take one tablespoon a day. | January 30 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
You know what's one, the best things for rheumatism, or neuritis? White gasoline. Just rub that on. | July 12 1978 | Human Body,Folk Medicine | diseases |
Neuritis: Eat cherries before breakfast and dinner. | July 19 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Nosebleed: Place a cold butter knife or key behind the neck and stretch the head back. | February 1985 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
NosebleeD: Put a wet cloth on the back of the neck, or the forehead. | November 14 1984 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
My mother used to hang a key down the back of my neck for nosebleed. | April 21 1983 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Nosebleed: Put a silver knife under your nose. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Nosebleed: Pack with ice. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Nosebleed: Put keys down one's back. | February 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicie | diseases |
Nosebleed: Poultice on back of neck. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicie | diseases |
Nosebleed: Tie a knot in a hankerchief and press on a pulse on wrist or neck. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Nosebleed: Ice pack on nose. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Nosebleed: Put snow or ice on back of neck. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Nosebleed: Put a cold key down your back. | July 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Another old man pow wowed for nose bleed. | November 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Nosebleed: Put key on back of neck. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Place a penny between upper lip and upper teeth to stop nose bleed. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Nosebleed: Put door key down back. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Nosebleed: Put an ice cube down your back. Tie a key around your neck. | February 28 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Nosebleed: Run cold water. Hold cold knife to back of neck. | October 12 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Nosebleed: Hold finger across upper lip. | January 27 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Nosebleed: Hold cold cloth on back of neck. Hold head back while chewing a crust of bread. | May 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Nosebleed: Cold water compresses on back of neck, cotton or paper wad inside of upper lip. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Nosebleed: Wet brown paper bag (piece) roll and place between upper lip and gums. | April 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
To stop nosebleed, put cold water on top of the head. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Nosebleed: Put your head back and put cold cloths on forehead. | December 18 1975 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Nosebleed: Wet rag around neck or cold object. | July 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Nosebleed: Hold a bunch of keys on back of neck. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Ezekiel-16:6 | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
To stop nosebleed, chew up a piece of paper and stuff it under the upper lip. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
For nosebleed, apply cold water to the back of the neck. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
You can write on a dinner plate that you eat off of. You can write it on in indelible pencil on both sides, back and front and put that in the fire. SATOR/AREPO/TENET/OPERA/ROTAS That was a charm that could be used to stop the pain. | 1985 | | |
It is absurb to believe that a buckwheat cake placed on the head will remove pain. | | | |
Pain: Lydia Pinkham Remedies | April 1980 | | |
Pain: Make a salve out of Vaseline [petroleum jelly] and 20 mule Borax and put on. (half and half). | July 19 1978 | | |
If you had pain in the shoulder, something like that, you would put mustard plaster on it. [Tape 150, Oral Traditions Program]. | | | |
When I was a child, infantile paralysis, there was quite an epidemic of it and my mother made bags and put asafoetida in them and hung them around our neck, you weren't supposed to get it if you had this asafoetida hanging around your neck. [Tape 150, Oral Traditions Program]. | | | |
My mother used to grind up horse chestnuts and lard, for piles. | October 7 1981 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
It's bad luck to tell a lie because you will get pimples. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you wash your face with the first snow, you wont have pimples. | August 1964 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
When you see a shooting star, scratch a pimple and it won't come back. | April 12 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Pleurisy: Mustard plaster. | March 1982 | | |
Pneumonia: 10 cent worth of aconite and iodine. Heat, put on with a camel hair brush, down middle of breast bone, not near heart. | July 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Pneumonia: Make a tea of butterfly weed, add a little whiskey and drink it. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Pneumonia: Make an onion poultice to make the fever break. The give the person whiskey and hot water. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Pneumonia: Give the person two teaspoonsful of oil rendered from a skunk. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Pneumonia: To bring down the fever, put some quinine and hog lard on a cloth and put it on your chest. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Pneumonia: Put mustard plaster on your chest. | January 1 1969 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
For lobar pneumonia, a poultice of pine tar was applied by an old physician- and it cured the patient. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
It takes poison to kill poison. You have to have a certian amount of poison in your body. | May 22 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
"a hair of the dog that bit you." "Takes poison to kill poison." Eat poison ivy to prevent poison ivy infections. Snake venom is used in preparation of anti-venom inoculations. Iodine, a poison, is an effective germicide. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Home made soap (lye). Boy, that's good for poison ivy. | April 5 1986 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Poison ivy: Make a poultice of bread moistened with water and powdered with common baking soda. | May 1985 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Poison ivy: Salentine, crush it and put on, it looks just like mercurochrome. | April 30 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you eat the leaves of poison ivy, you won't get it. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Homemade [lye] soap! Hey, this is good for poison ivy. | August 27 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Pneumonia: Onion poultice on lungs. | September 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Poison ivy: Salentine juice on hands. My brother George used to eat part of the plant to protect against getting it. | July 6 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Poison ivy: Rub on juice from water weed, or butter-cup weed. | June 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Poison ivy: Put Chlorox bleach on it to dry it up. | June 1968 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Poison ivy: Wash with homemade soap. | January 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Poison ivy: My mother used to take slaked lime and put all over me. I looked like a clown but it dried it up. | March 17 1966 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Poison ivy: You know the best this for that! An old bum told be one time. Piss on it. [A lot of people eat it (poison ivy). Cited two cases, to prevent getting it.] | May 3 1970 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you have poison ivy make a mixture of turpentine, kerosene and whiskey and apply generously. From James Sickler, 45 year old male cement pourer from Center Moreland (Wyoming) PA, Told to him by his grandfather who was from Thurstin Hollow. | December 18 1975 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Poison ivy: Chew a couple leaves of poison ivy and you won't get it. (I saw him eat some with no ill effects). | 1943 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Chew the leaves up real well from the plant and swallow it. This will cure your exising poison ivy and prevent later cases. From Albert Hardsky, 60 year old male (Polish) farmer from Center Moreland (Wyoming Co.), PA. | December 18 1975 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you have a goat that eats poison ivy and you drink the milk, you'll be immune. Cited an example in which a tombstone (molder?) had poison ivy in his pile of stones. He got a goat that ate the ivy, then he and one of his helpers drank the milk. The ones who drank the milk didn't get poison, the others did. | August 25 1965 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Poison ivy: The fellow was a dentist and he noticed this rash on his fingers, so someone told him to take jewelweed (it grows along the water and has a water stem) and he rubbed that over it and it cleared it up right away. | March 17 1966 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Poison ivy: Jewl weed juice, ammonia, soda, borax. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Poison ivy: Take salentine and rub on there. It looks just like merchurachrome when you rub it on, but it clears it up. | May 7 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Poison ivy: My mother used to take leaves [salentine] and (?) them and make a paste and put it on. | March 17 1966 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Poison ivy: A powwower took a piece of string and measured her. She measured her heighth and her width everyway that she could, she would measure her, and then she took this string and folded it up as much as she could till it would fit into the latch of the door. She took the door off its hinges. And then she put this string in that hinge an dshe said, "Now as this hinge wears out this string, cuts it, you know, wears it from opening and closing the door or rusts whatever it is, Myrtle will get well and she'll thrive and be a healthy baby and she was. She got well and she was a very healthy baby, healthy child. [ Tape 153 R, Oral Traditions Program]. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | disease |
If stabbed by fork tine, slap a chew of tabacco on it. (farmers). | December 10 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bruises or thorn in foot: Take a piece of cloth and make a sock and put a coffe-can full of bran in it and tie it around the foot, then you pour warm water on it and let it work and leave it on for a while. When you take it off the foot'll be all white, but the infection'll be gone or the thorn will be right there that you can pull out. | November 22 1978 | | |
Quinsy: Eat ice. | July 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | disease |
Quinsy: Fry onions- tie in bag around throat. | July 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Quinsy: A relative of mine took a cold sponge bath each morning and never had a repeat after suffering quinsy nearly every winter. | October 6 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Quincy: Tansy, salt, vinegar and rain water used for gargle, molasses to flavor! | October 6 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Quincy: A poultice of fat meat. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Don't wade in water (small streams and ponds) in dog days or you'll get a rash on legs. | March 1982 | | |
I knew a man who powwowed for skin rashed. He applied linseed oil on the affected skin or scalp. | November 1978 | | |
Rheumatism: Camphor sauce (salve?) or eat a teaspoon of petroleum jelly every day. | February 1985 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rheumatism: Wintergreen tea. Eating leaves sometimes helped. | October 6 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Made tea out of parsley for rheumatism. | April 4 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
My dad used to skin rattlesnakes and get the oil, rattlesnake oil; it was good for rheumatism, but you have to be careful they don't bite themselves or it'll poison you. | June 18 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
A new potato carried about in a pocket until it has turned quite black and as hard as wood is said to be a sure cure for rheumatism. | April 2 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bee stings are a cure for rheumatism. | July 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rheumatism: Poke wine. | January 20 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Wintergreen for rheumatism. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
The horse chestnut and leaves of herbs worn around the neck or carried in the pocket would be a preventative of rheumatism. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Yellow dock and burdock for rheumatism. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rheumatism: Tea made from Indian turnip and whiskey. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rheumatism: Take large doeses of Epson salts. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rheumatism: Strong apple cider. | November 2 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseass |
pipsisewa, rheumatism. | April 3 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rheumatism: alfalfa tea. | January 27 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rheumatis: 1/2 glass of water, 1/2 lemon, 1/2 teaspoonful soda. Take 3 times a day after meals. | September 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicien | diseases |
A liniment for rheumatism or strains, mix thoroughly 1 oz each (or equal parts) of olive oil, turpentine and best ammonia. | September 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rheumatism: Horse chestnut in pocket. | July 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rheumatism: Put eel skin around wrist. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rheumatism: Boneset tea, blood root and poke root tea, tansy. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rheumatism: Lard, camphor and turpentine, heated together, applies as a salve. | June 1970 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rheumatism: Boiled horse radish root, sugar added, drink cup every 2-3 hours. Snakeroot tea. Camphor oil. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rheumatism: Tea from roots of Golden Rod weed. | May 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Copper bracelets are commonly worn to protect against rheumatism. | 1970s | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
For "taken off" or rickets, say "Three false tongues have found thee, thee holy tongues will call thee back." Say it three times, then, "Amen." | 1985 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
I could cure them by just using their name. For taken off [rickets], if you know the person's name you can try for it. | 1985 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Don't count your ribs or you'll get swollen ribs. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rickets: "Take-off" in children could be cured by a person able to pow-wow. | September 17 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Make a tea from tobacco and place on ringworm. | July 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Ringworm: Make a curd by mixing alum with white of an egg in a vessel over the fire. Apply 1 or 2 times. | January 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Ringworm: Use sulphur & lard as salve. | March 1976 | | |
Ringworm: Sulphur & tar. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Scarlet fever: dark room. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Scarlet fever: Strawberry on the tongue means you have it. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Scarlet fever: Cut all hair off. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Scarlet fever: Burn everything they touch. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Scarlet fever: Bathe patient to bring down fever and put a flannel cloth soaked in vinegar around the throat covered with a dry cloth. | January 21 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Scarlet fever: Cover with warm blankets to induce sweating. | September 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Scarlet water: Cook the water- and no heavy food. | April 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Scarlet fever: Bacon- sulfur- cold water. Hot tea- pennyroyal, catnip, saffron, sage.Vomiting (water with little soda). | April 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Scarlet fever: Fry onions in lard and put them in bags around neck. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Scarlet fever: Warm air from opened window. Turpentine rubbed on stomach. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
For shingles remove the powder from a bullet, mix gun powder with clean lard and paste on shingles. They will clear up. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If shingles go the whole way around you, they'll kill you. To cure shingles, repeat the three highest words. | July 6 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicne | diseases |
You have nothing on pain-in-the-side resulting from running (turn up a stone and spit under it). | March 5 1965 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Stuffy or achy sinuses were treated by laying patches soaked in warm salt water around them. | April 1981 | | |
Sinus congestion: Breathe salt water. | July 28 1978 | | |
My brother had some kind of skin disease, where the skin turns darker, and they took him to a woman who gave him mule urin which she had blessed, but he got worse. | October 9 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: leeches. | April 6 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Use a soft homemade ash lye soap to draw off the poison. | April 24 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Chewing tobacco or warm liver from a freshly killed animal. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Apply lily leaves and whiskey. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: If bit, cut wound so blood flows to wash out poison. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Suck blood out of wound and put a small piece of stone or bone to charm away poison. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Put leaves on bite. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Onion poultice. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Suck the blood out with the poison and put mud. | February 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Tobacco curd- turns green with poison. | March 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Cut fresh onion, suction pulls out poison, onion turns green. | March 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | disease |
Snakebite: Use tree moss or the warm liver of a fresh killed animal. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Use an onion poultice. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Carry onions in your pocket. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Tobacco Juice. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Kerosene and onions. | February 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Mud, tobacco packs will draw out poison. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Stump water is good for it. | February 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Go to a doctor, cut out damaged part and suck out poison. | September 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Bind on a slice of onion. | September 17 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Tighten a string or cloth close to the area bitten to stop the flow of blood. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Cut onion will draw out the poison. | Octoboer 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
We would call it just a weed but it comes up and it has a little leaf shaped.. Like that.. And if you open it up at the right place you can blow in there and it'll be like a little pillow, see? It's called "live for ever" in one book and in another book it's called "life everlasting." That is the plant that my mother and neighbor used by the bushels to get on my brother when he was bitten by a rattlesnake. (The weed was pounded with wood on wood so there'd be no acid, a poultice was made and wrapped on the arm). [Tape 153 R, Oral Traditions Program]. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Place a tobacco curd over the bite. | November 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Make an X in the skin with a knife and suck out the venom. Apply solution of salt water and iodine to bite. | December 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Cut the area around the bite and suck the poison out with the mouth as soon as possible. | February 17 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Cut yourself, suck wound and expel substance immediately. | November 15 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Cut and suck out the poison. | July 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Cut the wound and suck the poison out if you have good teeth and no cuts in the mouth. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Suck out the venom, but don't do it if you have bad teeth. [Tape 153 R, Oral Traditions Program]. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Cut "X" on wound and suck bad blood out. | November 19 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cut the wound of a snake bite, and suck the wound making it bleed. | October 11 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Cut the bite in form of an X and suck poison out. | November 15 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Suck bad blood out. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: A tourniquet and someone to suck the poison from the wound. | November 15 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Suck out venom and wash in soapy water. | April 18 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Cut into the wound and suck out all liquid. | October 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Bite and suck out poison. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Cut where snake bit and suck out venom. | March 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Cut and suck out, pour on whiskey. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Make a cut and suck out poison. | March 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Cut X over bite. Suck blood from bite if you have no cavities. Expectorate. | October 12 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Cut bite and suck out poison. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Cut it and suck out the poison. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Cut skin, suck the blood but do not swallow, spit out onto the ground. | April 5 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Suck out poison after cutting with knife. | April 30 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Use a tourniquet and suck out poison. | May 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Tie a band or a rope to stop the blood and cut an X on the bite and suck out the poison. | April 19 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Suck out venom, apply tourniquet. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Put X across bite and suck venom, spit it out. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Suck venom out and apply tourniquet. | July 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Slit wound with knife and suck out the venom. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Drink milk for snake-bite. | January 26 1968 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | dieseases |
Snakebite: Did you ever hear to kill a chicken, put the chicken on it? Yeah. | January 26 1968 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Cut into a chicken's throat and put on the bite. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Rub chickenbreast on it. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
For snake bites, a poultice of fresh meat would draw the poison out. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Put an onion on snakebite to draw out the poison. | December 23 1975 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Use a chew of tobacco on the bite. | April 27 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Used tobacco on snake bite. | May 16 1967 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: I scraped it good and put a chew a' tobacco on it. | January 26 1968 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Whiskey. They called it snake bite. | December 20 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Whiskey. | November 30 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Drink whiskey. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: They gave him a lot of whiskey to drink which carried the poison through his system quickly. [Tape 153 R, Oral Traditions Program]. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Whiskey. | August 10 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Many people used whiskey, which was the wrong thing to do. | October 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Large quantities of whiskey. | February 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Shot of whiskey. | February 29 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: A flask of "mountain dew" probably it was taken internally. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Corn whiskey. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snakebite: Kill the snake, crush body and put on bite. | 1940 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
f you're gonna sneeze you sneeze three times. | April 1982 | | |
Sneezing: Hold your finger under your nose. | April 1982 | | |
Sneezing: Hold finger under nose or upper lip. | April 1982 | | |
Was afraid of dying while sneezing when young. | February 1982 | | |
Sneezing: Put finger under nose. | April 1982 | | |
Sneezing: Hold your breath for one minute. | April 1982 | | |
Sneeze: Squeeze the bridge of the nose. | March 1982 | | |
Sneezing: Put you finger under your nose. | March 1982 | | |
Sneezing: Hold finger under nose. | April 1982 | | |
Sneezing: Finger under nose. | March 1982 | | |
Sneezing: Squeeze upper lip. | April 1982 | | |
Sneezing: Hold or press finger under nose. | March 1982 | | |
Sneezing: Something about drinking water. | March 1982 | | |
Sneezing: Hold bag over head. | February 1982 | | |
Sneezing: To cure sneezing, look at the tip of you nose with both eyes. | April 1979 | | |
Sores are hard to heal during dog days. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you swam during the dog days you will get sores. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Scabs on the arms, like sugar (ie diabetes). My mother used to have a salve, it was made of beeswax, tallow, and rosun (?rosin?) and some other stuff, I don't know what. She sent that down to the school and asked the teacher if it would be all right to use it, and she said, "oh yes, go ahead." And it cleared it right up. | January 13 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
For a healing, mix yellow soap with sugar, spread on sore until it heals. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
For certain sores, poultice made of fresh cow manure were good. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
White lily leaves in whiskey as a poultice to kill poison in open sores. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
They would take a slice of bacon and put it over the sore and that would draw. [ Tape 150, Oral Traditions Program]. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you had a sore, they would get cow manure, take two pieces of cloth, and then put this fresh cow manure between the cloths and lay that on the sore. [Tape 150, Oral Traditions Project]. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Poultice of flaxseed, witch hazel wash. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Use flaxseed ointment for sore spots. | May 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
You put pine pitch on sore spots to cure them. I had blood poison cured with pine pitch. I took it to the doctor and showed him and he said whatever I put on had cleared it up. Then he died of blood poison. Old Doc Nealy. | May 23 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sore throat: Gargle or swab throat with kerosene. | February 1985 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Witch hazel bark is good for sore throat. | November 25 1984 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Kids used to get sore throat when they were goin to school. They'ld take a spoonful of coal oil and brown sugar and give them. | June 23 1984 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sore throat: Gargle with warm salt water. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sore throat: Gargle with lemon juice and water, or salt water. | April 2 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sore throat: Cabbage leaf tied around throat. | April 2 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sore throat: Honey mixed with alum. | April 2 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
For a scratchy or ticklish throat mix butter and sugar and eat it. | November 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sore throat: Take your stocking off your left foot and wrap it around your neck before going to bed. | April 30 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sore throat: Eat a bowl of oyster stew. | April 30 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sore Throat: Put a few drops of either coal oil or iodine on a teaspoon of sugar and swallow that. | April 30 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sore throat: Melt lard and swallow it. | April 30 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sore throat: Maple sugar crystals in whiskey and a little glycerine for cough medicine. | October 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sore throat: Take a little piece of sassafras bark and held in your mouth. | January 30 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sore throat: Suck old fashioned hard licorice. | January 30 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sore throat: Scrape the outside bark off a witch hazel, down to that yellow underneath. Then scrape that off down to the wood and boil it. You gargle with that but don't dwallow it. | January 30 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sore throat: They used to take hornets nests and take them apart and take a piece of that and fry it in lard, they used mullein too, and make a poultice. They wrapped that around the neck for sore throat. | November 14 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sore throat: Gargle with warm salt water. Gargle with alum. | October 12 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sore throat: Take a sock you have worn inside a boot and worked infor almost a week so that it has a bad odor. Tie it around your neck. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sore throat: Gargle with a half cup water, two tablespoons vinegar, and a half teaspoon of salt. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sore throat: Put a drop of kerosene on a lump of sugar and eat it. | May 1979 | | Human Body, Folk Medicine |
Sore throat: Gargle with salty water. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sore throat: Rub pine oil on your throat. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sore throat: Gargle with honey and vinegar. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sore throat: Bake onions in our open fireplace; then tie them around your throat. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
For sore throat you sewed thin slices of smoked pork fat on a red flannel cloth and fastened it around the neck or rubbed the neck with kerosene. | November 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Scrape off the outer bark of witch hazel, make a tea of the green inner bark. Good for sore throat. | April 9 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sore throat: Sassafras is one of the best things you can chew for your throat. | June 14 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicien | diseases |
Sore throat: They used to tell us kids when we got sore throat that we needed cat-shit tea. | November 22 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sore throat: Camphor and lard put in flannel and applied to the throat. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hot ashes put around the neck for sore throat. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sore throat: Red flannel wrapped around salt pork on neck, might be soaked in kerosene. | October 6 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sore throat: Take vinegar and mix with water and gargle. | October 5 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Take the bark off witch hazel and make a tea out of it, and gargle with it. It's real good for sore throat. | June 6 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Take inside bark (witch hazel) to make tea for sore throat. Take a stick of kinnikinick (?) and put under to make it sour for vinegar. | March 27 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sore throat: Have some sulphur blown into the throat. | January 27 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mullein leaves fried in lard and wrapped in a cloth where laid around the neck for sore throat. | April 3 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sore throat: Gargle with salt water. | September 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cut up onions in a dish, cover with sugar, let set until syrup forms, for sore throat. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sore throat: Combine lard and black pepper on flannel and pin on throat. | January 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sore throat: Chew lovage, burn tonsils out. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sore throat: Turpentine and hog lard, rub it on. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Tie a piece of red flannel around your neck for sore throat. | May 25 1964 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sore throat: Take off a dirty stocking and tie it around your neck. | May 25 1964 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sore throat: Turn your stockings inside out and put foot print on sore spot and pin around throat. | January 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Whenever his mother removed a splinter from his finger, she would tell him to rub it in his hair. | July 1964 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Wrap bacon is the best poultice to remove a splinter. Wrap bacon on it and wait a few hours and out comes the splinter. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bacon poultice is good for drawing splinters, Pine pitch is good for drawing spinters. | April 27 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
An eel skin was wrapped around a sprain. | April 1983 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Soak the ankle in warm water with epson salts it it. Make a paste of baking soda and vinegar and put on it. It'll take the pain right out. | October 3 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
To relieve the discomfort of a sprained wrist, bind an eel skin around it. | September 17 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sprains/ swellings: Make a "tea" from button weed. Don't drink- soak affected part in it. | June 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mullin (mullein) leaves for sprains. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Put a hot catnip poultice on sprains and bruises. | June 1966 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Insect bites: Goose fat. | February 1985 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Take the juice of jewelweed and rub on insect bites. It's a good antiseptic. | August 4 1984 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Insect bites: Chewin' Tobacco. | January 31 1981 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Stomach fever: When I had my kitchen stove here, people would measure themselves, they'd take a cord string, put it around your bare skin. Where the ends come together at navel, cut it off. Then if you measure yourself three times, then you'r esupposed to keep everything separate on a piece of paper. Take hen's egg and I had people that I tried for at my kitchen stove with my coal fire. I'd wrap that string around that egg. Set it in on top of a red hot coal fire and if they have it hard, that string won't even scorch. And I had them in there, that they were laying there every bit of five minutes. But buy, when they cracked, it sounded like somebody was shot at. | 1985 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Snake root put in a bottle of whiskey was used for stomach ailments. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Stomach: Upset- pennyroile tea. (pennyroyal). | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Tansey for the stomach. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Put patches soaked in hot water on the stomach. | April 1981 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Stomach ache: Drink as much whiskey as you can. | April 1981 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Camomile tea helped to cure stomach ache, liberally laced with whiskey. | April 1981 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If we had a pain in the stomach, she'd say go and bring the nutmeg box. And she'd say go and bring the nutmeg box. And she'd take the nutmeg, put in on the spoon and put a little water on it to make it soupy and we had to take that. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Boneset tea was used for stomach trouble. | November 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Spicewood is good for stomach ache. | April 8 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Catnip tea is good for upset stomach. | April 27 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Stomach: Spicewood bark. | March 11 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sour pickles is good for upset stomach. | October 5 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Boneset tea for bowels and stomach trouble. Strip it down it goes down, strip it up it comes up, break it up it doesn't go either. | April 27 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you're sick in your stomach, spice wood bark. | May 23 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
The old people used to give wooly mint for upset stomach. | April 27 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Dandelion root or anything bitter is good for stomach . | April 27 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Peach pit centers (or anything bitter) are good for stomach trouble. | April 27 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Strokes - you go back and heart attack, you go forward. | July 10 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Stuttering: Lean against a wall when talking. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Stuttering: Take three short breaths. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sty: Teabag on eye. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sty: Wash with baking soda or boric acid water. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
A gold ring is said to cure a sty. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub sty with wedding ring three times. | February 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sty: Use penny to get rid of it. | February 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sty: Caused by "pissing on the road." | February 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sty: Put tea bag on eye. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sty: Bacon. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sty: Borax eye wash. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sty: egg whites. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sty: witch hazel. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sty: Rub with mother's wedding ring. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sty: Rub with a tea bag. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sty: Rub wedding ring three times toward your nose. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sty: Pluck wild hairs from eye. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sty: Rub a wedding ring over it three times. | February 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sty: Boratic acid. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Stys were caused by urinating on the road. | April 24 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sty: Put some boric acid on it. | April 19 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sty: Comes from pissing along the road. | April 19 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sty: Teabag remedy. | April 6 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you get a sty, you "peed" around the corner. | April 6 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub gold wedding ring nine times on sty. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sty: Wash the eye with milk . | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sty cause = urination in path | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sty: Put bread and milk over it. | March 28 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Go out early in morning and get dew off grass and put on sty. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sty: Puncture the boil with a gooseberry thorn- so my father used to say. But I never heard that he used the remedy. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sty: Get your mother's wedding ring and rub it three times. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sty: Rub a gold wedding band on sty. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sty: Tea bag. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sty: Hot wet compress. | April 5 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Take seepage off of back of ear and rub on sty. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sty: Tea, hot compress. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sty: Scrape a potato, put between two peices of muslin and put on sty. | February 28 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sty: Put a hot poltus (poultice) on the eye. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you have a sty, you peed in the middle of the road. My dad used to say you shit alongside the road. | February 10 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
To cure a sty, wet on hot coals. | September 17 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sty: Open with a thorn - grated potato. | May 1976 | | Human Body, Folk Medicne |
Sty: Do not pee on the road. | January 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
A sty in the eye was caused by wetting along a path or road. | September 17 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sty is caused by wetting in road. | July 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you piss in the middle of the road, you'll get a sty. | October 31 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
You pissed in the middle of the road...got a sty. | June 20 1974 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sty: Use a warm, damp poultice. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sty: Poultice of tea leaves. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sty: Rub a god wedding ring over the eye. | January 27 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | disease |
Cold tea is the best poultice for a sun burn. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sunburn: To take out fire. Do not swear when burned. Look at spot and recite following: Fire Burn us. Water quenches thirst. God's free will Pass B. (then blow spot). (From a hobo in the neighborhood). | January 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sunburn: Vinegar takes the sting out of it. | May 23 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | disease |
Place a pail of cold water under bed when retiring to prevent night sweats. | September 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Swelling: I told her to put a hot catnip poultice on it... She told me, thanked me and told me it worked wonderful. | February 13 1966 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | disease |
Swelling: Epsom salt. | May 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Never have your tonsils out during dog days. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Tonsillitis: Witch hazel. | May 25 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Put some damp ashes on a cloth , and hold against the sore tooth. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hold whiskey or turpentine on the tooth. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Put some homemade tobacco in a corncob pipe. Light it, and draw the smoke over the tooth. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Put drops of vanilla straight from the bottle on the tooth. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Cloves. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Chew on thistle root. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Use cloves. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Black pepper bag. | February 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub the tooth with a splinter from the north side of a pine tree that has been struck by lightning to remove the ache. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Oil of Cloves. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Put an aspirin on your tooth. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Cloves. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hold tobacco on tooth. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Rub gums with paregoric. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Spices (cloves). | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cloves on tooth. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Use heated salt bags on cheek. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Chew cloves. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Wad of chewing tobacco on tooth. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Oil of cloves. | February 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Chew cloves. | February 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: whiskey. | November 25 1981 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
A string was tied to the offending tooth and an open door, then closing the door was actually practiced. | April 1981 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Rub gum with whiskey. | July 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Rub oil of cloves on gum. | July 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Heat salt in bag, hold on tooth. | July 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | disease |
Mother would remind me, "Don't eat in the toilet or your teeth will rot." | November 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Niter; wintergreen. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Put ice on it. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Rub whiskey on your gums. | May 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Carbolic acid on cotton placed on the affected area. | April 24 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Put cloves on it. | April 19 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Bang your head. | April 19 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Put vanilla on it. | April 19 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Place a tea bag on the tooth. Also, you can place aspirin on the tooth. | April 3 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | disease |
Toothache: Hold whiskey in side of mouth. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: whiskey. | April 6 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Aspirin. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Hold cloves in tooth. Ice. Aspirin. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Ice, cotton with vanilla extract on it. | April 30 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If he had a toothache, he would place a salt bag on the side of his face and just hold it there until the pain started to go away. | April 30 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Apply hot pancakes to sore area. | March 28 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Hold bag of corn meal and salt (heated in oven) to jaw. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Place clove in tooth. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cotton soaked in laudanum, applied to gum. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Heat a salt bag and place it on your cheek. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Hold hot salt bag on cheek. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Put cloves on tooth. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Pound a nail into an oak. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Shot of whiskey. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Tie up your face. | April 5 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Sumac as gum. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Rub whiskey on gum. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Hot salt bags held on cheek. | April 1 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Hold a raisin on it. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Painting the gum with iodine. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseaes |
Toothach: Hot water bottle. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseaes |
Toothache: Poultice (black pepper). | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Scotch as a mouthwash. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Put vanilla on. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseaes |
Chew tar to make your teeth white. | 1943 | | |
If you have a hole in the tooth, get some black iodine, and put a little on a piece of cotton, on a toothpick or something, and put it there. It'll hurt for a little while, but it'll never hurt again because it just kills the nerve. | December 5 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Hold your wrists under the spicket (spigot) and run cold water over them. | December 5 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache was relieved by applying fresh warm cow dung as a poultice on the cheek. | November 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Burn paper- rub ash on toothache. | March 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Use oil of cloves. | January 27 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | disease |
Toothache: Hold a tea bag between the teeth. | January 27 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
His father had a painful toothache one time and a pow wow doctor told him to go home and sleep on a small stone. His toothache went away and he was never bothered again by this tooth. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you have a tooth that's decayed, take a piece of cotton and soak it in black iodine and put in there. You'll think the top a your head's coming off but it won't hurt after that. It kills the nerve. | October 5 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Whole cloves. | July 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Clove stuck in cavity. Oil of cloves rubbed on gum. | October 6 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Camphor. | May 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Camphor or place a whole clove in cavity. | September 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Oil of cloves applied to aching tooth. | May 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Wrap cloves in a little sac, wet it and put on tooth. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Mom used baking soda or salt. Chewing tar was thought to be good for whitening the teeth. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
They used to take a piece of cotton and soak it with liniment and stick in the hole or against the tooth. | May 23 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toothache: Use krumrine red drops on tooth. | January 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
They used to heat an iron (wrapped in cloth) for me and hold against the jaw (that's one of the worst things you can do). | May 23 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
The best thing to do for toothache is to take a mouthful of water and set on the stove til it boils. | May 23 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Tuberculosis: Assafetida was used for a cure for T.B. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Pink [pine?] bark is good for ulcers. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | disease |
Salt's good for ulcers in the mouth. | before 1946 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Ulcers: Yarrow tea. Tea of red clover blossoms. | October 6 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Elsie took spirits of ammonia for vomiting and upset stomach, "but it came up too." | October 12 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub wart with a penny, never spend the penny. | February 28 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
They'd cut a potato in half and rub it over the warts while they said the pow-wow. (Lee Karns). | 1985 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
To get rid of a wart take a slice of potato peel, rub this over the wart and then bury the peel at the end of the rainspout. If you do this, your wart will disappear. | March 1985 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub a piece of raw potato on the wart. | February 1985 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Go out in early morning wash with the fresh dew. | February 1985 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Juice from a milkweed plant rubbed on the warts will make them disappear. | April 1984 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
The wart must be picked open until it bleeds and then a drop of blood should be placed on the coin and then it should be tossed away. Whoever finds the coil will then get the warts. | April 1984 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Some say that the wart must be rubbed with a penny and then the penny should be buried under the rain spout to make them disappear. | April 1984 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Rub a potato on it, then bury the potato. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Rub with penny and throw penny away. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cut a potato and rub it on the wart and then bury it in the ground. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub a penny on the wart, throw it over your shoulder, then bury it. | February 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Potatoes, horsehair. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bury an onion; as onion rots so will the wart. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Wart: Rub a penny on it and throw away the penny. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Wart: Raw potato thrown over head. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cut a potato in half and rub it on the wart, then throw potato over left shoulder. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Dandelion milk. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Castor oil. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Rubby castor oil. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Rub with penny and throw penny away. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Spit on the wart first thing in the morning. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Rub with raw potato and bury potato so that water drips on potato. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Spit on a penny and rub your wart, then lay it on the sidewalk; whoever picks it up, gets your wart. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Cut an onion in half and rub over. Bury under rainspout. | March 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Wrap with string, put out string at full moon. | February 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Take a raw potato, cut it in half and rub it over the potato saying at the same time that this wart shall disappear. Take the potato out and bury it underneath the spouting and as the rain disintegrates the potato, the warts will disappear. | April 1982 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: When the moon is full, place wet dishrag under a stone and chant "now [name], your wart will go away." | April 1981 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
For a long wart- tie a hair around it, wrap it around, tie in a simple knot- leave on 'til wart falls off. | July 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Wart: You can use a teabag- keep it moist- leave on for one week. | July 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
For a seed wart: Tie a slice of lemon on wart and keep it moist for one week. | July 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Slide pin through top of wart, then throw pin away and the wart will leave. | April 2 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Draw blood from a wart and place on grain of corn and feed to a black chicken. | April 2 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Wart- potato without an eye and planted where it would rot away. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub toad on warts. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
If you bury a dishrag at new moon, it will cure warts. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub salt on warts to go away. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rubbing "grass-hopper spit" on the warts. | April 19 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Spit on warts to eventually disintergrate them. | May 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub with soup bean during rain and throw out in rain. When it sprouts, warts will be gone. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub the warts with a penny and throw the penny away. | April 24 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Wart: Rub 1/2 a lima bean on it. Potato. | April 6 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub the wart with a penny. | April 3 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Secretly get a green bean, put juice on wart and bury the bean in the ground under the water spout. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Cut a potato in two and rub over it. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Blood from freshly killed chicken head. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Rub with a penny and throw over left shoulder. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cut potato in half and rub it on wart. Plant in backyard and when it rots your wart will be gone. | March 28 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseaes |
Under full moonlight rub hands and wash warts away. | March 28 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub a raw potato over wart. Throw potato away (or bury it?). | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
"Powwower" rubs chalk on wart (saying something quietly), throws it away (outdoors); however, "powwowwee" should ot see where. Next rain will wash away chalk and wart will drop off. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub a penny over the wart, throw the penny over your shoulder, and walk away. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sell the wart to a friend for a penny. I never heard whether the friend got the wart. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Wrap with silk thread. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Rub with cut potato- burry the potato- potatoes rot and warts disappear. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub potato on wart and bury under running water. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Put pennies on wart. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Put raw meat on wart, bury meat. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub milk weed on wart. | Apri l1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub a potato over a wart and then plant the potato and the wart will go away. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Throw an ear of corn to the pigs. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Take a potato and bury it. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub with dishcloth, then bury cloth- when it rots, your wart will go. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Penny on wart, then put on rainspot (under rainspout?). | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub bacon or 1/2 of potato on wart and then plant it under the eaves [!] of the house. When the bacon or potato rot the wart will come off. | April 1 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: You get it from handling a frog. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Removed by grain or barley. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Cure for it is to rub a peeled apple on it. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Get warts from touch of frogs. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cut raw potato, rub on warts, then bury under a rain spout and the wart should be gone when the potato has rotted. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub a wart with a potato, put it under the house drips, when the potato decays, your wart will leave. | February 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Took a coin, rubbed it on the wart, and threw it away. | February 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseaes |
Buy with a penny. Spend penny and warts will go away. | March 1 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Cut potato in half, rub on, throw away. | March 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Tie string or threat on wart every day for a week. | February 29 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Touch each wart with a pebble, put in bag and lose on way to church. | 1940 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Tie knot in string and touch each wart with knot, bury knot. | 1940 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Touch warts with a new pin; place pin in bottle and bury in ground at crossroad. As pin rusts, warts disappear. | 1940 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cut a notch in a thin piece of wood. Touch each notch with a matching wart. Bury. | October 12 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Use nail and scratch wart, then pound nail into tree and wart will disappear. | April 26 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub a candle on a corpse and rub candle on wart. | April 26 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Wrap a horsehair around it and when it falls off, wart will leave. | April 26 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub onion or garlic on wart. | April 26 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sell one for 2 cents, then 5 or 6 days later, look and wart was gone. "Newt Reisinger took a devil of a mess of those warts." | March 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub potato on the wart and plant it- when the potato grows, the wart will leave you. | February 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub a penny on the wart and throw it over your shoulder- the person who picks it up will get the warts. | February 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Rub with a potato. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseaes |
Go to a cross road, as you enter, rub hand on wart with a clean cloth. Walk through, throw away cloth and don't look back. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseasese |
Warts: Bury a dish cloth under the rain spout. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Rub a penny over them in the dark of the moon and throw it away. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Wart- rub a penny on it and throw it in the ocean. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Wart: Rub a penny on it and thow it over your shoulder. Don't pick it up. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub a potato on it, put potato under spouting and when it rots, your wart will be gone. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Soak penny in vinegar and rub over warts. Carry penny on your person until warts fall off. | April 4 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub a wart with a cut onion. Take the onion out and put it under the rain spout and wart will disappear. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: comes from toads. | February 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
By rubbing a potato on a wart it will go away if you hide the potato so no one will know where it is. | February 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub a potato on a wart and throw it across a crossroad and forget it. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Wart: Put a penny in your shoe. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub lima bean on warts. | March 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Take a lima bean, split it, rub three times on a wart, bury under drop of roof. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub a chicken head over the wart and bury where the water drops off a roof. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Rub a potato on it and then bury it beneath the drain pipe. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: When you pick up a frog. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub a penny on the wart and throw it away. Wart will go away. | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Rub them with a penn. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseaes |
Warts: Caused by playing with frogs. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
The "witch doctor" would rub a chicken head over the wart and bury it where the water drips off the roof. (term paper). | May 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cut a potato in two pieces: rub the potato when cut over the wart. Go backwards to a hog trough, drop the potato parts into the trough and don't look which hog eats them. | March 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Wart: Rub snake oil on it. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub a potato or grass on wart, or wrap a grograin [grosgrain] ribbon around it. Bury item used. | April 19 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
A household worker believed that placing raw meat on a wart would remove it. It worked for my son. | July 18 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Bury mother's stolen dish cloth that has been rubbed on the wart. | July 18 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts come from frogs. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Sap of milkweed. | July 18 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Milkwood pods are applied. (milkweed). | July 19 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Rub with a potato. | July 18 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Lard and salt. | July 18 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub a copper penny over a wart and throw the penny away. It will go away. We tried this on our youngest son. | November 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub the wart with a piece of fat meat. Bury the meat and when it rots the wart will go away. | March 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub the wart with a potato and bury it under the eaves. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sell the wart for a penny. | April 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Put pure gold ring over wart, fill it with baking soda and vinegar, when this hardens, the wart should fall off. | March 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub a piece of fat meat or potato over wart, throw is away and wart disappears. | March 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Sell it to someone for a penny and throw the penny away and wart will go away. | March 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub a wart with a penny and whoever picks up the penny will get the wart. | March 7 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub pin on wart. Throw outside. When pin rusts wart will leave. | March 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicien | diseases |
Warts: Penny on it. | March 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub a piece of raw meat on the wart and bury it. The wart will disappear (I did it and it worked). | July 18 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Steal a bean, bite it in two, rub it around and "bury" till it decay. | February 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Take a white onion, cut it in half and rub the wart and then put it together and bury it towards the morning sun where rainwater drops off the roof. If it rots, then warts will heal. | March 7 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Tie knots in a string, then pow wow the string. One knot for each wart. | February 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub warts with urine. | July 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub it with a penny and bury the penny under the rain spout. | November 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
The cure for warts was to cut an onion in two, rub the wart and bury the onion close to the house under the eaves. | November 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Rub it with a penny and carry the penny in your pocket. | November 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Come from playing with toads. Remove them with castor oil. Rub raw potato on wart and bury under stone. | July 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub it with a penny, then throw the penny away. The wart goes with the penny. | October 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Wart: Rub it with an onion cut in half, then run the pumpwater on it and wash it away. | October 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Wart: Get up early and rub the morning dew on it. | October 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toads caused warts. | July 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts are caused by playing with toads. To remove them, tie a piece of lemon on them. | July 1 1976 | Human Body,Folk Medicine | diseases |
When the moon is going back, cut an onion or potato in half, put salt on it and rub over the wart, then trhow it over the left shoulder and don't look where it fell. When onion or potato rots, the wart will disappear. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Caused by consuming too much sugar. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts come from handling toads. | September 17 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cut a potato in half, rub wart three times and bury potato. | November 15 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts were caused by playing with toads. | November 15 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub them with a potato then bury the potato under drain spout. | November 15 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Come from touching toads. | November 15 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
A dried bean was cut in half, rubbed over the wart, and buried under the drip of the of the roof. | September 17 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub a grain of potato over it and put that under a rain spout. When it rots your wart will be gone. | November 23 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Sell them. | November 23 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub a coin over them. | November 23 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts come from handling toads. | November 23 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Take a thin piece of paper-spit on it, fold it, bury it- when it has rotted, wart is gone. (true). | January 17 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseaes |
Warts: Caused by touching a frog. | January 17 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Caused by toads. | Janaury 27 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Dip them in stump water, or perhaps pow wow. | January 27 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Tie silk thread around them and they'll drop off. | November 19 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Caused by toad's urine. | November 19 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts are caused by playing with toads. Pow Wow to remove them. | May 15 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts were caused by playing with toad; urinating in the middle of the road. | April 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Milkweed- bruise and apply. | April 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Dip infected area in cooked mud with vinegar. | December 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Come from touching frogs. | December 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toad urine caused warts. | July 7 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Caused by touching a frog. | July 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub a potato on the wart and bury it and the wart will disappear. | July 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts were caused by toads. It was believed that certain people could talk them off, or rub a penny on wart and throw away the penny. | September 1 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub the wart with a raw potato, dishrag or bean leaf and bury in the ground. When it rots the wart is gone. | June 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toads caused warts. | June 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Cut the wart until it bleeds, take half a bean and rub on teh warts, bury the other half at a crossroads. | December 3 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
You get warts from toads. Rub a penny on them and throw it away. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Say "Heile, Heile Hinklereck, Bis Moryia free iss allis weck" [Its something and then the hinkeldreck is checken dirt. Then by tomorrow it will be all gone]. (Tape 33 R, Oral Traditions Program). | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Grandpa pow wowed for warts. He'd just spit on his fingers and rubbed it over the warts and say something but he didn't tell what. I believe he did it three times and then the warts would go away. (Tape 33 R, Oral Traditions Program). | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Place a dirty dish rag under the doorstep. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Caused by frogs. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub with silver money or meat fryings, bury the dish cloth under a stone after rubbing warts. | July 7 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Raw potato sliced and rubbed over it. Then buried potato or bean, green bean under rainspout. | April 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Rub with penny and throw penny away. Rub with slice of potato, then bury potato. | May 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Steal a dish rag- rub wart, wish it off- throw it away, forget it. | January 17 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts were caused by handling toads. | June 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: To remove them, steal your mother's dishcloth and hide it. | June 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: To remove, say a prayer when full moon, repeating it three times, on three nights of full moon. | October 11 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Caused by playing with a frog. | October 11 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Rub an old dishrag over it and bury it under your front porch. | December 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Removed by rubbing a penny over them. | December 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Come from handling toads or touching anything unholy. | December 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
They used to pow wow for warts. [Tape 150, Oral Traditions Program]. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
They told me as a child, we would do it in school and say, "Gay whak, gay whak," and in English that's "go away, go away." The wart was just supposed, if you did that several times, the wart would just supposed to fall off. [Tape 150, Oral Traditions Program]. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Toads cause warts. | October 6 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Tie a string around them. | June 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Bought by another for a penny. | December 10 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Rubbed with a raw potato. | December 10 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Take a bacon rind and cut notches in it and bury it under the edge of the roof where water falls off; as it rots the warts leave. | January 21 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Come from playing with toads. | January 21 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Powwowing. | July 1978 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Rub a potato on it. | January 20 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Rub warts with raw potato and throw it away over your left shoulder. | April 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Playing with toads caused warts. | April 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | diseases |
Warts: Removed b powwowing. | January 10 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Warts: Playing with hop toads. | January 10 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Warts: Caused by handling a toad. | December 10 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Toads cause warts. | October 19 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Warts were removed by burning them with acid. | October 19 1976 | Human Body, Folk Mdicine | Diseases |
Another thing, is to go out in the woods, where there's a hole in a tree, and wash it in the water there, and then walk away without lookin' back. | December 22 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Warts: Take an ordinary chicken bone, a leg bone, and rub on it, and then bury it under the edge of the roof, where the water comes down. | December 22 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Warts: Came from handling toads! | October 6 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Warts: Bury the dishrag in a corner without letting your mother know! | October 6 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Warts: Rubbing milk weed juice on it. | February 17 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Warts: Removed by hiding your mother's dish cloth under a stone. | February 17 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Warts: Playing with toads. | March 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Rub and onion or penny on wart. Bury onion or penny beneath spouting of house. | March 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Warts: Caused by touching a toad. | February 17 1977 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Warts: Try for them or buy them; rub with a prickly pear. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Touching toads caused warts. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Hop toads cause warts | November 30 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Cut Potato - rubbed wart, then buried it to rot. | November 30 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Warts are caused by toads or frogs. | November 30 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Put a chalk mark on the oven door and chalk mark on the wart. When the chalk wears off the oven door, the wart is gone. | November 30 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Warts: Sell them to someone. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Take a piece of twine, slip a knot over the wart, then bury the string under the eave of the house. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Warts: They claimed run a chicken head while warm three times around them, bury in dreaps (eaves, drops) of the house. | April 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Take an onion and cut it in half. Rub each part over the wart three times and plant the onion in the garden. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
A potato was cut in three sections and each section was rubbed over the wart three times. Then the potato was planted in a damp spot. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
On the night of a full moon, you face the moon and say " what I see I an to have, what, what I rub take away." In German. When you rub the wart it will go away because you have given the wart to some dying plant. When the plant dies the wart will leave your hand. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Warts: By reading a certain verse of scripture, it would leave. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Heat a needle and stick in the center of the wart. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Her mother-in-law could cure the warts by knotting a cord of string; and the cord, after being knotted would be buried secretly by her mother-in-law near an oak tree down by the stream. | 1964 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Warts were causes by peeing {XXX started to write pissing, then corrected} in the alley. | September 21 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Warts: Rub garlic on them. | September 21 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Rub the wart with a grain of corn, then bury the corn --and the wart will leave. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Warts were caused by handling frogs (warty). | November 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
a man would silently say a few words and run a straight pin over the wart then give it to the person to throw away where they would never see it again. | December 20 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Warts: Toads wet on them. | December 20 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Warts: Caused by frogs. Caused by toads. | June 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Tie silk string around. Cut potatoe in half, rub wart, then bury potato. | June 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Rub a carrot on wart, then put behind stove to dry: wart would dry, too. | June 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Scape wart with wheat stemp cut at joint, bury at side of barn where rain dripped. | 27912 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Warts: Tie each one with fine thread, tier [one tying] saying secret Bible phrase-- passed on only to son from Mother, or daughter from Father. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Warts: Rub a penny, then discard penny. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Troubled with warts, rub the wart with a driend bean, throw the bean away and the wart will leave. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Rub the wart with a stone and throw it away and don't look where you throw. | March 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
If you play with toads you get warts. | February 1979 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
You get warts if a frog spits on you. | April 1980 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Warts are caused by touching a toad. | October 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Warts are caused by a toad. To remove them, dip an old fashion wooden match in water and rub the sulphur on the wart 2 or 3 times a day until wart is gone. | April 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
If you play with a toad, you'll get warts. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
If you play with frogs, you will have warts on your hands. | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Warts are caused by toad tinkle. | April 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Warts are caused by touching toads. | May 1976 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
They say that if a toad pees on you, it'll make you get warts. | May 22 1963 | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
If you touch the toadstools that grow on trees, you'll get warts | | Human Body, Folk Medicine | Diseases |
Warts: 1.Tie a black string of thread around them. 2. Rub a copper penny on them and give it to someone else. 3.Rub it with a raw potato, put under roof drops till it dries up. | April 1976 | Superstition | Body |
Wart tie off. Use a silk thread and then draw it as tight as you can draw it. "I had one taken off my back that way." | 1924 | Superstition | Body |
Warts: massage with castor oil. | August 10 1976 | Superstition | Body |
Warts: Rub with castor oil. | March 1976 | Superstition | Body |
Take a potato, cut it in half, rub the wart in the dark of the moon, bury the potato. | October 1976 | Superstition | Body |
Carol Ann rubbed a potato on a wart on Cal's fingers and buried half of it under the rain spout, and it came up, so he's still got the wart. | August 26 1964 | Superstition | Body |
Rub a raw potato over the wart while looking at new moon say; "What I am looking at, increase; what I am rubbing at, decrease," then throw it back over your shoulder. When the potato shrivels up or rots up, the wart is gone. If the potato ges covered up and grows, the wart keeps growing. "Dad took a wart the size of a pigeon egg off a horse this way." | May 10 1963 | Superstition | Body |
Warts: Wash hands often with castle (castile?) soap, dry well, and apply iodine. Will dry up and drop off. | January 1976 | Superstition | Body |
"They used to use stump water for warts" | May 10 1963 | Superstition | Body |
My mother used to take away warts (She licked her finger three times each time rubbing it on her arm).And they'd go away. She said something while she was doing it, but she never told me what it was. She couldn't tell a woman. I guess she'd have told a man, but none ever asked her. | April 1 1969 | Superstition | Body |
Spit finger and rub on wart while looking at moon, what I rub decrease, what I look at increase. | June 6 1969 | Superstition | Body |
Clarence F. Serbert of Elizabethtown, PA, removed a wart by spitting on it and | | Superstition | Body |
Another method of a similar character is as follows: Rub the warts with the fingers of | | Superstition | Body |
To remove warts or scars the person so affected must look at the moon and repeat | | Superstition | Body |
They drew snake by head and tail nine times across the wen, And as they drew it back | | Superstition | Body |
Another was the dead-stroke cure. the surest cure of all. To stroke the wen across the | | Superstition | Body |
Although a wen was troublesome, it never caused much harm. For speedily they cured | | Superstitions | Body |
To remove a wen a person must strike it a severe blow with a small Bible. It is | | Superstition | Body |
One should not go where pigs are when you have a whitlow | | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough is prevented by putting an asafetide bag around your neck | | Superstition | Body |
Skunk fat- fry it for whooping cough and give a spoonful | 30585 | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: Goose grease on chest and red flannel wrapped around throat. | April 1982 | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: Putting a wooly worm in a rack and wear it around the neck. | April 1982 | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: Vicks vapor rub. | April 1982 | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: Horseradish; Brown sugar mixture. | March 1982 | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: Epicac. | | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: Cooked onion poultice on chest. | March 1982 | Superstition | body |
Whooping cough: Plaster on chest. | March 1982 | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: Tie a stocking around the neck. | February 1982 | Superstition | Body |
Cut hair off the child you don't want to get whooping cough - put it on bread and feed to a dog. | July 1980 | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough - coal oil and sugar. | April 1980 | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: Place the affected person under a stalk from a live briar bush. | April 24 1980 | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: Burned creosote. | April 6 1980 | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: Hot lard and medicated turpentine rubbed on chest, cover with piece of red flannel. | April 1980 | Superstitions | Body |
Whooping cough: Garlic in shoes. | March 28 1980 | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: Licorice boiled in water and drunk. | March 28 1980 | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: Drink mare's milk. | April 1980 | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: Take a person that has it into the mines. | April 1980 | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: Drinking tea made from ivy leaves from a cup made of ivy wood. | April 1980 | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: Hot milk with butter. | April 5 1980 | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: Tie a piece of herb in a cloth around your neck. | April 1980 | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: Sew a live fuzzy caterpillar into a cloth sack and wear it around your neck. | April 1980 | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: Brown sugar and vinegar cooked. | March 1980 | superstition | Body |
Pull child through a briar growing at each end in the ground, to keep from getting whooping cough. | February 1979 | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: They used to put cat shit in a bag and hang it around your neck. | January 13 1980 | Superstition | Body |
Skunk oil - whooping cough. | January 13 1980 | Superstition | Body |
Boil chestnut leaves in water, drain, add honey and drink. | 28976 | Superstition | Body |
Take a half cup of brown sugar, the juice of three lemons, two egg whites, and one | 28976 | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: Make a poultice of fried onions in lard and put on chest warm. | April 1979 | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: Pole cat fat. | November 22 1979 | Supertition | Body |
Whooping cough: Mare's milk. | February 3 1979 | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: Uncle Josie always used to tell us kids you take chicken shit and make tea, just to see what we'd say. | February 3 1979 | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: Skunk fat (Horny's boy Edgar) render white fat out of skunk, give tablespoon full. | February 3 1979 | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: Kerosene and sugar. | September 21 1976 | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: Syrup made of chestnut leaves and sugar. | August 10 1976 | Superstitions | Body |
Whooping cough: Glycerine. | September 1 1976 | Superstitions | Body |
Whooping cough: Clover Blossom tea (red). | April 1976 | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: Drink root beer. | May 1976 | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: Swallow a hair from a dog. | July 1977 | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: Skunk oil. | November 9 1977 | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: Castor oil and molasses. | January 21 1977 | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: Take patient inside a mine or cave. | March 1977 | Superstition | Body |
You won't give a hoop if you take a mixture of flax seed and honey. That's for the whooping cough. | March 1976 | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: Put a boiling kettle of water in the room with a ffew drops of turpentine in. | October 11 1976 | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: Lard, kerosene and brown sugar internally, peroxide swabbing in throat. | October 1976 | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: Peach brandy. | December 1976 | Superstition | Body |
A woman who has not changed her name in marriage can cure whooping cough by | | Superstition | Body |
For whooping cough, bore a hole in a door opening east, put a lock of the afflicted | | Superstition | Body |
Cut three bunches of hair from the crown of the head of a child who has never seen its | | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: Drink out of a blue bottle three times a day. | October 1976 | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: If a woman who neveer saw her father gave the child something to eat the cough. | September 17 1976 | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: Stood person against door, drilled hole in doors. Cut lock of hair and put in hole & plugged shut. | March 1976 | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: Make a tea from chestnut leaves. | March 1976 | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: Mixture of flax seed & honey - put raw egg in cup, put cider vinegar on for 24 hrs, put brown sugar in it. | March 1976 | Superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: They claimed wear a string of Job tears around there neck they would not have to cough so bad. | 27851 | superstition | Body |
Whooping cough: Sit child on floor, while coughing so they do not rupture themselves. | January 1976 | Superstition | Body |
To cure a child of worms, one must place a few cloves of garlic in his shoe, and he must wear it all day. | April 1984 | Superstition | Birth |
Worms: Another remedy is to crush egg shells into a powder and add a mixture of milk and butter. It is thought that the sharp particles of the egg shells will cut the worm into pieces. | April 1984 | Superstition | Birth |
One cure for worms is to hold a glass of warm milk under the victim's nose so they smell the vapors. It is said that the worms will follow the smell of food, and move out of the victim's nostrils. | April 1984 | Superstition | Birth |
Worms: Take a shot of brandy on an empty stomach | March 1976 | Superstition | Body |
Dried vegetables were believed to give people worms and these caused people to vomit. A mixture of sulphur and molasses was used to cure this. | April 1981 | Superstition | Birth |
Worms: Make tea of pumpkin seeds. | April 1976 | Superstition | Body |
A few drops of turpentine in a spoonful of sugar for worms, in children. | March 1976 | Superstition | Birth |
If you eat sugar, you will get worms. | August 1964 | Superstition | Birth |
Worms: Tea from crushed roots of worm grass. | March 1976 | Superstition | Body |
Put spiderwebs on a wound for healing (yuk!) | April 1980 | Superstition | Body |
Never use forefinger on wounds, its poisonous. | October 9 1979 | Superstition | Body |
Treatment for wound: pour turpentine on and bandage. | March 1976 | Superstition | Body |
People usually go haywire at the new moon. | March 1982 | Superstition | Body |
Mood changer with new moon. | arch 1982 | Superstitions | Body |
At full moon, people go insane and turn into werewolfs. | April 1980 | Superstition | Body |
New moon - more crazy than normal. | April 1980 | Superstition | Body ailments |
Changes in personality depend on the moon. | April 1980 | Superstition | Body |
A person's mind seems to be affected by the change in the moon. | November 15 1978 | Superstition | Body |
You know what they say about a person that asks questions and answer them. [crazy]. | September 29 1979 | Superstition | Body |
People go nuts on the night of new moon. | December 1976 | Superstition | Body |
At full moon, criminals become more active, quarrels break out, more accidents occur, emotional people and even animals become restless, change in the personality of people. | May 1979 | Superstition | Body |
New moon makes people crazy. | | superstition | body |
People go crazy, hallucinating at the new moon. | February 1979 | Superstition | Body |
If you sleep with the moon shining in your face, they say you will go crazy. | | Superstition | Body |
It is bad luck to have the moon shine on you while you are in bed. | April 1982 | superstition | Body |
People go crazy at new moon. | April 5 1980 | Supestition | Body |
Lunatics become more active at new moon. | April 1980 | Superstition | Body |
If the new moon shines through a window on you at night, you will go crazy. | April 26 1979 | Superstition | Body |
People go wacky at full moon. | April 1979 | Superstition | Body |
If you piss inside a girl during intercourse, she will go crazy. | 1954 | Superstition | Body |
During the new moon the mental stability is upset. | October 1976 | Superstition | Body |
Two people meeting another. They walk on opposite sides when passing the oncoming person. It means a split personality, for the single person. | October 12 1979 | superstition | body |
If you had to have something sewed while you are wearing the garment you had to bite something to assure the fact that your brains were not sewn. | July 18 1978 | superstition | body |
Wear a hat or your brains will evaporate. | July 18 1978 | superstition | body |
Bite on a piece of thread when someone sewed an item on you, to keep brain functioning. | July 19 1978 | superstition | body |
When you sew something you are wearing - put thread in your mouth so you do not sew or damage your brains. | July 18 1978 | superstition | body |
If you sew any garments while you are wearing it, you'll be very forgetful. | October 1978 | superstitions | body |
To prevent homesickness - look up the fire-place chimney - it probably looked just like the one in the old home. | April 1980 | superstition | body |
Tie salt in petticoat to prevent homesickness. | March 1982 | | |
To prevent homesickness take an object from home with you. | April 1982 | superstition | body |
To cure homesickness, open a hem on a garment and put in bread crumb and sew it in. | March 1982 | superstition | body |
To cure homesickness - go back to visit old house. | April 1982 | superstitions | body |
To prevent homesickness, keep the person busy doing all the work. | | superstition | body |
Homesickness - go back home and return again. | April 1980 | superstition | Body |
If someone is going away rom home, sew salt in the hem of one of her or his garments to prevent homesickness. | September 17 1976 | Superstition | Body |
Keep the person busy so they don't get homesick. | | Superstition | Body |
To prevent homesickness, take stone from yard along. | March 1980 | Superstition | Body |
When you move, if someone puts the dirt from you old home in a box of your things which you don't know about until you unpack, you won't get homesick. | February 1979 | superstition | body |
Put near a warm place to raise as it was too cold. | January 1976 | superstition | folk-beliefs |
When the bread won't rise, put it in a warm spot. | April 1976 | superstition | folk-beliefs |
When the bread won't rise, put it close to heat. | April 1976 | superstition | folk-beliefs |
They would never bake on Good Friday either; they would sorta keep Good Friday sacred. [Tape 98 R, Oral Traditions Program]. | April 13 1976 | superstition | folk-beliefs |
You shouldn't bake bread on a Wednesday. | March 1980 | superstition | folk-belief |
If a woman baked bread on Good Friday, things would be no good for that year. | April 1979 | superstition | folk-beliefs |
Good Friday: Don't dig in ground, bake, sweep. don't do anything between 12-3. | March 12 1979 | superstition | folk-beliefs |
If bread wont's rise, put it in a warmer place. | January 27 1977 | Superstition | folk-beliefs |
Whatever baked while pregnant won't come out well. | January 20 1984 | superstition | folk-beliefs |
If bread won't rise, wrap it in a warmed blanket. | May 1976 | Superstition | folk-beliefs |
Bread won't rise if someone has let cold air hit the dough. | June 1976 | superstition | beliefs |
When the bread won't rise, put it where it's warmer. | March 1976 | Superstition | folk-beliefs |
When bread won't rise, it's bewitched: go to local pow wower. | March 1976 | superstition | folk-beliefs |
When the bread wo't rise, keep in a warm place out of drafts. | May 1976 | Superstition | folk-beliefs |
When bread won't rise, use new yeast. Old was worn out. | March 1976 | superstition | folk-beliefs |
Putting a loaf of bread upside down on the table was a sign of bad luck. | January 20 1977 | superstition | folk-belief |
My mother's blind cousin who lived with us, told us children never turn a loaf of bread upside down, it makes the angels cry. | October 1978 | Superstition | folk-beliefs |
Don't lay bread on the rounded part, it will make the angels weep. | October 1976 | superstition | folk-beliefs |
If your yeast dies you can make new with potatoes, or buy some for, like two cents. If you don't pay for it, it won't grow. | March 16 1983 | superstition | folk-beliefs |
Don't bake on Good Friday. | May 1979 | superstition | folk-beliefs |
It is bad luck to stir something in one direction and suddenly change it. | April 1982 | superstition | folk-beliefs |
Don't slam the door, your cake will fall. | April 1980 | superstition | folk-beliefs |
When you count thirteen broken bubble, in a pancake, it's ready to turn. | September 1967 | superstition | folk-beliefs |
I used to renew my yeast with hops. But its never as good the first time as the second. | May 26 1963 | superstition | folk-beliefs |
Always make you apple butter in a copper kittle so it won't stick. | | superstition | folk-beliefs |
Pennies are put in apple butter to keep it from sticking. | April 1983 | superstition | folk-beliefs |
Apple butter paddlers should be made of cherry, so the wood doesn't impart a taste to apple butter. | April 1983 | superstition | folk-beliefs |
Marbles in jelly keep if from sticking, while cooking. | April 27 1963 | superstition | folk-beliefs |
To keep applebutter from boiling over, throw some lard in it. | June 1964 | superstition | folk-beliefs |
Daddy had Sauerkraut one place where it had been warmed up 15 times. The more times you warm it up, the better it is. The place was John Beatties home before he was married. | May 12 1963 | superstitions | folk-beliefs |
Make your sauerkraut when the sign is up to keep the broth up over the cabbage. | February 1979 | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
The first day of July wet or dry, is the time for pickling cukes (cucumbers). | February 17 1977 | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
Residents of a trailer park near Shippensburg. One woman wouldn't can tomatoes during her period; she thought chemicals came out of the hands at that time to cause the tomatoes to spoil. So farious tralers had baskets of tomatoes setting outside waiting. | October 10 1975 | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
Eat parsley after eating food prepared with garlic. | September 21 1976 | Superstitions | domestic pursuits |
Girls would pick poke berries to make ink. Had to keep her head bowed while picking and squeezing berries or it would be bad luck. | March 1982 | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
You can make ink out of the outside hills of walnuts. She said the Indians used to do it. | before 1962 | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
They used to make ink out of pokeberries. The Indians usd to make ink out of walnut hulls. | April 27 1963 | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
The last one out of bed on fastnacht day got to eat the first donut. | April 1983 | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
To keep beer/foam from running over the edge, stick your finger down the inside edge of the glass. | July 1978 | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
They used to make coffee out of wheat and chicory. | April 27 1963 | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
Horseradich root only in oysters are good only in months with R. | April 13 1980 | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
A snapping turtle has 7 different kinds of meat in it. | October 1979 | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
In the old days out West the first serving from a bottle of whiskey was spilled on the floor for good luck. | January 20 1977 | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
If you swallow watermelon seeds, you will have watermelon growing out your hiney. | | superstition | domestic pursuit |
On New Year's day, wish people good luck; eat a traditional, special meal. | Feburary 1979 | superstition | |
Be sure to have bread in the house on New Year's Day. | January 17 1977 | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
House clean on New Year's Day. | March 1979 | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
You have to have everything out if your refrigerator on New Year's Eve if you want good luck. | December 29 1968 | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
On New Year's Day: Eat pork and sauerkraut - Black Eyed peas. | March 1979 | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
Do not eat chicken on New Year's day, you will not be lucky that year. | May 1979 | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
For good luck, on New Year's Day, they ate hoppin-John. | October 1976 | superstition | domestic pursuit |
On New Year's day I eat black eye peas and pigs feet just out of tradition. [Taped interview]. | April 1982 | superstition | domestic pursuit |
On New Year's Day, never eat anything that scratches the dirt backwards (poultry). It's bad luck. Pigs root ahead- good luck. | April 1982 | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
Eat blackeye peas and greens on New Year's day for money throughout the year. | October 12 1979 | superstition | domestic pursuits |
On New Year's day, eat sauerkraut and pork, black eyed peas. | April 1979 | superstition | domestic pursuit |
Cook saurkraut on New Year's day for good luck. | March 1976 | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
Eat pork and sauerkraut on New Year's Day to bring good luck. | March 1976 | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
Black-eyed peas are eaten on New Years for good luck. | July 1964 | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
Always ate pork and sauerkraut on New Year's Day for good luck. | March 1976 | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
Germans or PA Dutch eat sauerkraut and pork on New Year's Day for good luck. | March 1976 | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
Eat corn bread on New Year's Day for good luck. | August 10 1976 | superstition | domestic pursuits |
Eat pork and sauerkraut or cabbage on New Year's Day. | February 1979 | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
People eat pork and sauerkraut for luck on New Year's Day. | April 1980 | Superstition | domestic pursuits |
Eat herring on New Year's Day for luck. | December 1976 | superstition | domestic pursuit |
On New Year's Day, eat pickled eggs and black-eyed peas. | March 1979 | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
Eat pork and sauerkraut on New Year's day for good luck. | June 1977 | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
Pork is the traditional meal for New Year's day, rather than poultry. Poultry scratches the ground backward. Pork push it forward | January 1 1982 | superstition | domestic pursuits |
Eat pork and sauerkraut on New Year's day for good luck. | April 1977 | superstition | domestic pursuits |
Don't eat fowl on New Years or things will go backwards like the animal is always scratching in that direction. Eat pork for progress during the year. | April 1979 | superstition | domestic pursuits |
You were to eat sauerkraut at midnight on Dec 31 to insure good luck and wealth all year. | March 1979 | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
On New Year's day, you should roll a cabbage into the house for good luck. | April 26 1979 | superstition | domestic pursuits |
They had sauerkraut for dinner on New Year's day for good luck. | November 15 1978 | superstition | domestic pursuits |
Eat pork and sauerkraut on New Year's day for good luck. Take something to someone. | May 1976 | superstition | domestic pursuits |
They ate sauerkraut and pork on New Year's day for good luck. | January 10 1977 | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
Eat sauerkraut and pork on New Year's day. | April 30 1980 | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
People in Cumberland county eat sauerkraut on New Year's day and ham on Easter. | | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
Eat sauerkraut and pork on New York's day for good luck/don't eat chicken. Hope that first person to call on New Year's Day was a blonde. | June 1976 | superstition | domestic pursuits |
They ate pork and sauerkraut for good luck on New Year's day. | March 1976 | superstition | domestic pursuits |
Have pork and sauerkraut on New Year's day to bring good luck. | April 1976 | superstition | domestic pursuits |
Eat sauerkraut on New Year's Day for good luck. | June 1976 | superstition | domestic pursuits |
Sauerkraut was always had on New Years day to bring good luck for the coming year. | March 1976 | superstition | domestic pursuits |
Ate pork and sauerkraut on New Year's day. | April 4 1979 | superstition | domestic pursuits |
Eat pork and sauerkraut on New Year's day. | May 1979 | superstition | domestic pursuits |
Eat sauerkraut on New Year's day for good luck. | October 19 1976 | superstition | domestic pursuit |
We always had pork and sauerkraut on New Year's day, but I never knew it had anything to do with luck. [Taped interview]. | April 1982 | superstition | domestic pursuit |
Have sauerkraut on New Year's day for luck all year. | April 1982 | superstition, | domestic pursuit |
Eat sauerkraut on Jan 1. | April 1982 | | |
New Year's Day, good luck with sauerkraut | March 1982 | superstition | domestic pursuit |
Eat sauerkraut for good luck on New Year's Day. | February 1982 | superstition | domestic pursuits |
Pork and sauerkraut for good luck. [ Taped interview]. | April 1982 | superstition | domestic pursuit |
It's bad luck to go out a different door. | November 27 1981 | superstition | domestic pursuits |
Having sauerkraut on New Year's Day for dinner, is good luck through the year. | November 27 1981 | superstition | domestic pursuits |
You eat pork and sauerkraut at New Years for good luck or a good year. | April 1982 | Superstitions | domestic pursuits |
New Year's Day, sauerkraut for good luck. | March 1982 | superstition | sauerkraut |
Eat sauerkraut on New Year's Day for good luck. | April 1982 | superstition | domestic pursuits |
Have pork and sauerkraut on New Year's Day for good luck. | March 1980 | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
Eating sauerkraut on New Year's Day for good luck. | April 3 1980 | superstition | domestic pursuits |
We eat sauerkraut on the first day of January for health and good luck. | April 1980 | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
Eat sauerkraut on New Year's Day for luck. | April 1980 | superstition | domestic pursuits |
Eat sauerkraut on New Year's day for good luck. | January 30 1980 | superstition | sauerkraut |
39. If you eat sauerkraut and pork for new years for good luck in the year. | February 1979 | superstition | sauerkraut |
You eat pork and sauerkraut on New Year's Day for good luck throughout the year. | February 1979 | superstition | sauerkraut |
Eat sauerkraut on New Year's Day for good luck. | March 1977 | superstitions | sauerkraut |
Eat sauerkraut on New Year's Day for good luck. | December 10 1976 | superstitions | sauerkraut |
Eat sauerkraut on New Year's Day to bring good luck. | May 15 1976 | supersitions | domestic pursuits |
Eat sauerkraut on New Year's Day for good luck. | November 15 1976 | superstition | domestic pursuits |
They ate pork and sauerkraut on New Year's Day for good luck. | November 23 1976 | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
Eat sauerkraut on New Year's Day for good luck. | January 1 1977 | superstition | domestic pursuits |
Eat pork and sauerkraut on New Year's Day for good luck. | December 1976 | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
They made pork and sauerkraut on New Year's Day. | December 1976 | Superstitions | domestic pursuits |
Eat pork and sauerkraut on New Year's Day for good luck. | July 1 1976 | superstition | domestic pursuits |
Eat sauerkraut on New Year's Day for good luck. | April 1979 | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
Dinner of pork and sauerkraut on New Year's Day. | April 1979 | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
Eat pork on New Year's Day. Never eat anything that scratches backwards with their hoofs. | | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
New Year's Day was the day for eating sauerkraut and making a wish. | April 1980 | superstition | domestic pursuits |
On New Year's Day, make sure house is clean and have pork and sauerkraut brings you good luck. | April 1979 | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
Eat pork and sauerkraut for good luck on New Year's Day. | February 1979 | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
Eat pork and sauerkraut on New Year's Day. | March 1979 | superstitions | domestic pursuits |
If you plant on Ascension Day lightning will strike you. | 28915 | Superstitions | Plants |
Ascension Day is a good day to work in the ground. | 23153 | Superstitions | Plants |
Dust in March is worth its weight in gold. | March | Superstitions | Plants |
Spider webs on the grass mean good crops. | 28915 | Superstitions | Plants |
If corn sprouts out of the ground within a week after being planted, one can expect | | Superstitions | Plants |
Carrying a shovel into the house meant a bad crop year would hit your farm. | 29308 | Superstitions | Plants |
Don't ever say "thank you" for living things or they won't continue to live. | 27851 | Superstitions | Plants |
Never thank a person for a gift of a plant or it will die. | 29250 | Superstitions | Plants |
I'm not gonna thank you for it. They say if you thank somebody for a flower it won't | 28067 | Superstitions | Plants |
Seeds will grow better in ground different from where they grow. | 28946 | Superstitions | Plants |
You're supposed to stop cutting asparagus when the peas are ready to pick. | 26465 | Superstitions | Plants |
Since beans grow above ground, plant in the light of the moon. | 29403 | Superstitions | Plants |
Beans - planted every other year, rotated. | 28095 | Superstitions | Plants |
When apple is in bloom, frosty days are over. Plant corn, beans, etc. | 28145 | Superstitions | Plants |
Plant beans in the up sign and they'll go up the poles. | 23143 | Superstitions | Plants |
Beans, corn, cucumbers - plant in new moon. | 28004 | Superstitions | Plants |
Beans - plant in the light of the moon. | 27912 | Superstitions | Plants |
Beans - plant when moon is on increase. | 28135 | Superstitions | Plants |
When you want to put up a fence or plant beans, there are up signs and down signs. | | Superstitions | Plants |
When the horns of the moon were upward they (beans) will climb the poles easily. | 28034 | Superstitions | Plants |
Plant pole beans in the up sign so they will climb the poles. Plant in the down signs | 28020 | Superstitions | Plants |
Pole beans should be planted in increase of moon, so the vines will climb up the p | 29312 | Superstitions | Plants |
Beans - up sign of the moon, probably new moon. | 28185 | Superstitions | Plants |
Pole beans in the up sign of the moon. | 27820 | Superstitions | Plants |
Plant pole beans in the up sign and on or before June 17th to avoid beetles. | 27760 | Superstitions | Plants |
Beans - decrease of moon, October, June. | 28034 | Superstitions | Plants |
Plant pole beans in the moon sign (last quarter) and the beans will climb. | November 1976 | Superstitions | Plants |
Sow peas and beans in the wane of the moon, who soweth them sooner, he soweth t | 27982 | Superstitions | Plants |
Plant beans and corn in May. | 28809 | Superstitions | Plants |
If you want a lot of beans, plant them in the sign of the twins. | | Superstitions | Plants |
Beans - sign of the twins. | 28079 | Superstitions | Plants |
Tomorrow (sign of the crab) is a good day to start beans, so that almanac says. | 23866 | Superstitions | Plants |
Don't plant your beans in the posey woman or you will get a lot of blooms and few | Feb-79 | Superstitions | Plants |
Beets, in the dark of the moon. | 27912 | Superstitions | Plants |
When the signs in the head (Aries, the Ram) it's a good time to plant cabbage. | 23861 | Superstitions | Plants |
Sign of the ram is a good sign for planting things with heads - cabbage, etc. The sig | 23151 | Superstitions | Plants |
Was setting cabbage plants today, in the sign of the ram, i.e. head. | 25364 | Superstitions | Plants |
Plant cabbage seed on St. Patrick's Day. | 26739 | Superstitions | Plants |
St. Patrick's Day (17th March) was cabbage planting day in the Dutch country. | March | Superstitions | Plants |
We used to dig a hole and put straw in it and put a layer of cabbage in it. Then we' | 23162 | Superstitions | Plants |
Cabbage - plant during full moon. | 27820 | Superstitions | Plants |
Carrots - in the dark of the moon. | 27912 | Superstitions | Plants |
If the farmer walks into his corn field and the corn is knee high by the Fourth of Jul | 30042 | Superstitions | Plants |
Corn - plant in the light of the moon. | 29403 | Superstitions | Plants |
When the oak leaves are as big as a squirrel's, it's time to plant corn. | 28609 | Superstitions | Plants |
Hickory buds big as squirrel ears time to plant corn. | 28613 | Superstitions | Plants |
Plant 5 grains of corn in a hill: one for blackbird, one for the crow, two for the cut | 28672 | Superstitions | Plants |
Corn - up sign of the moon, probably new moon. | 28185 | Superstitions | Plants |
Corn - in the light of the moon. | 27912 | Superstitions | Plants |
Corn - plant during the waxing of the moon. | 28034 | Superstitions | Plants |
Plant corn and potatoes when the horns of the moon pointed up. | 27895 | Superstitions | Plants |
Plant corn when the half moon is turned up in the almanac. | 27851 | Superstitions | Plants |
Plant corn in the increase of the moon. | 27820 | Superstitions | Plants |
Corn - decrease of moon, dark of moon. | 28034 | Superstitions | Plants |
Corn - in Cancer sign | 27912 | Superstitions | Plants |
The scorpion is a good sign to plant corn. | 23166 | Superstitions | Plants |
Always plant corn on the 8th of May. | 28764 | Superstitions | Plants |
Plant corn on May 10. | 20-Dec-76 | Superstitions | Plants |
Don't plant corn after the longest day. | 23150 | Superstitions | Plants |
Plant corn when the first bumble bees come. | 28173 | Superstitions | Plants |
Plant corn when white oak leaves are size of squirrel's ear. | 27982 | Superstitions | Plants |
Plant corn when oak leaves are big as a squirrel's ears. | 27912 | Superstitions | Plants |
Buckeye carried in right-hand pants pocket will cure pains in the legs | (date collected) 11/12/1964 | Supersitions (BROWN) | Body Folk Medicine |
Eat pork and sauerkraut on New Year's. | April 1979 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Abundance and Scarcity of Food |
You eat sauerkraut every New Year's Day. | March 1979 | HOME, DOMESTIC PURSUITS | Abundance and Scarcity of Food |
Always had roast pork and sauerkraut on New Year's Day for good luck. | November 1976 | HOME, DOMESTIC PURSUITS | Abundance and Scarcity of Food |
Eat sauerkraut before noon on New Year's Day for good luck. | November 15 1976 | HOME, DOMESTIC PURSUITS | Abundance and Scarcity of Food |
Ate pork and sour-kraut on New Year's Day for good luck. | October 1976 | HOME, DOMESTIC PURSUITS | Abundance and Scarcity of Food |
The old folks made sour kraut for dinner on New Year's Day for good luck. | November 1978 | HOME, DOMESTIC PURSUITS | Abundance and Scarcity of Food |
Eat pork and sauerkraut on New Year's for good luck. | April 1979 | HOME, DOMESTIC PURSUITS | Abundance and Scarcity of Food |
Eat pork and sour krout on New Year's for good luck. | February 1979 | HOME, DOMESTIC PURSUITS | Abundance and Scarcity of Food |
On New Year's Day, eat sauer kraut and pork. | October 1978 | HOME, DOMESTIC PURSUITS | Abundance and Scarcity of Food. |
Most people cook kraut on New Year's Day for good luck. They don't know any better. | January 20 1977 | HOME, DOMESTIC PURSUITS | Abundance and Scarcity of Food. |
They ate pork and sauerkraut on New Year's Day for good luck. | October 1976 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Abundance and Scarcity of Food |
Have pork and sauer kraut for dinner on New Year's Day for good luck. | October 1976 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Abundance and Scarcity of Food. |
They ate sauer kraut and pork on New Year's Day for good luck. | September 17 1976 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Abundance and Scarcity of Food. |
Cook sour kraut (Dutch) for good luck on New Year's Day. | October 11 1976 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Abundance and Scarcity of Food |
Eat pork & sauerkraut on New Year's Day for good luck. | September 21 1976 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Abundance and Scarcity of Food. |
New Year's Day- Dinner of sauerkraut and pork. | November 30 1976 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Abundance and Scarcity of Food |
Some would just as soon have a black cat cross their path, also walk under a ladder | September 27, 1979 (1934) | Home, Domestic Pursuits; Travel Communication | Abundance and Scarcity of Food; Lamps, Lights, Candles, Matches; |
Eat pork on New Year's Day. | March 1 1979 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Abundance and Scarcity of Food |
It's good luck to eat hot crossed buns or bread baked on Good Friday. | April 26 1979 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Abundance and Scarcity of Food. |
Eat sauerkraut on New Year's Day for good luck. | January 27 1977 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Abundance and Scarcity of Food |
Have good luck all year if you eat pork and sauerkraut on N. Y. Day. | November 30 1976 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Abundance and Scarcity of Food |
Eat sour kraut and pork on New Year's Day for good luck. | March 1976 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Abundance and Scarcity of Food |
Always bake doughnuts (fastnachts) on fastnacht day (Shrove Tuesday). | | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Abundance and Scarcity of Food |
Serve sauerkraut and pork on New Year's Day for good luck. | March 1976 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Abundance and Scarcity of Food |
Eat sauerkraut and fresh pork on New Year's Day for good luck. | January 1976 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Abundance and Scarcity of Food |
Eat pork & saurkraut on New Year's Day to bring good luck. | July 1 1976 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Abundance and Scarcity of Food |
Eat sauerkraut on New Year's Day for good luck. | July 1980 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Abundance and Scarcity of Food |
Eat sauerkraut on New Year's for good luck. | March 12 1979 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Abundance and scarcity of Food |
Eat pork and sour kraut on New Year's Day for good luck. | November 1978 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Abundance and Scarcity of Food |
Eat pork and sauerkraut on New Year's Day. | April 1979 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Abundance and Scarcity of Food |
Eat pork and sauerkraut on New Year's. | May 1979 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Abundance and Scarcity of Food |
On new Year's Day the Chinese spread honey on lips of their picture of the household god. | October 6 1976 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Abundance and Scarcity of Food |
Ascension Day was a day of bread and wine. | September 1 1976 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Abundance and Scarcity of Food |
On New Year's Day sprinkle sugar on kitchen window sill. | October 6 1976 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | see archivist note |
Don't eat meat on Good Friday. Not supposed to be out between hours of 1 and 3. | | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Abundance and Scarcity of Food |
Eat pork and sauer kraut and smoked herring on New Year's Day for good luck. | September 1 1976 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Abundance and Scarcity of Food |
On New Year's Day, they ate smoked herring. | November 30 1976 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Abundance and Scarcity of Food. |
The old folks ate ham on New Year's Day to bring good luck. | March 1976 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Abundance and Scarcity of Food |
On Ascension Day, eat Blessed Apples. | September 21 1976 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Abundance and Scarcity of Food |
Eat herring fish on New Year's Day for good luck. | October 19 1976 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Abundance and Scarcity of Food |
The fat used in frying fasnachts is thought to have magic power. | April 1980 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Abundance and Scarcity of Food. |
The last one out of bed on Fasnacht Day is called either a "lazy fasnacht" or "old cluck" and gets only one fasnacht for breakfast. | April 1980 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Abundance and Scarcity of Food |
Eat donuts on donut day to bring good luck. | February 1979 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Abundance and Scarcity of Food. |
On Easter we eat a spinach pie (torta). It's the only time we ever eat it. I don't know why. (Spinach, bread, and wine). | April 1982 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Abundance and Scarcity of Food. |
Eat ham at Easter; it's a tradition. | April 1982 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Abundance and Scarcity of Food. |
Last Friday of a month-- fish day. | March 1982 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Abundance and Scarcity of Food |
On New Year's day-- eat a pudding with a coin in it. Whoever gets the coin will have good luck. | April 26 1979 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Abundance and Scarcity of Food |
Goose Day- Eat goose on Sept. 29-30 for luck rest of year. This is customary now in Mifflin Co., and some surrounding counties. | July 1 1976 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Abundance and Scarcity of Food |
Stirring coffee with a knife or fork- bad luck. | April 1982 | home, Domestic Pursuits | Abundance and Scarcity of Food |
Bad luck to whistle (or sing) at the table. | March 7 1979 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Eating |
If you sing at the table, you're gonna be disappointed. | May 10 1963 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Eating |
Don't sing at the table. | January 1976 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Eating |
Singing at the table brings bad luck. | July 1 1976 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Eating |
Singing at table- plain man praying. | March 1982 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Eating |
Singing at the table- disappointment. | March 1982 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Eating |
Singing at the table- sign of disappointment. | March 1982 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Eating |
If you whistle at the table, you're gonna be disappointed. | | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Eating |
You should not whistle or sing while at the table or you are not grateful to God for the food and may get bad luck. | March 1979 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Eating |
Whistling at the table- bad things would happen. | April 18 1979 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Eating |
You weren't supposed to whistle at the table; reason why unknown. | March 1979 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Eating |
Bad luck to whistle at the table. | February 1979 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Eating |
You shouldn't sing before breakfast. | | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Eating |
We were told when children by my father that singing before breakfast was bad luck. | July 18 1978 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Eating |
Singing before breakfast is a sure sign of sorrow before nightfall. | April 2 1980 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Eating |
Sing before breakfast, cry before night. | June 1964 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Eating |
Sing before you eat, cry before you sleep. | April 1980 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Eating |
Sing before you eat, you'll cry before you sleep. | April 1982 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Eating |
If you sing before you eat, you'll cry before you sleep. | April 1982 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Eating |
Don't sing at the table - or you will cry before the day is over. | February 1979 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Eating |
Sing before you eat, cry before you sleep. | July 1 1976 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Eating |
When singing at the table; singing comes to crying. | April 1982 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Eating |
Whistling at the table - bad luck. | April 26 1979 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Eating |
Whistling at the table is disrespectful. | October 12 1979 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Eating |
Don't sing before breakfast or you'll shed tears before night. | April 1980 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Eating |
Sing before breakfast you'll cry before supper. | April 1979 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | Eating |
A cure for baldness Â… is said to be made from a solution of peach seeds boiled in vinegar. This is to be applied to the scalp. | April 1984 | | |
Lice: Did your mother use kerosene for head lice or green oil? | March 1976 | | |
Pick nine pebbles from stream without disturbing water. Heat red hot and put in 1 | 1940 notebook- at historic museum | Superstition | Body |
Sing before breakfast, you'll cry before supper. | May 10 1963 | | |
Whistle before breakfast, cry before night. | December 10 1976 | | |
If you whistle at the table, you'll cry before dark. | October 1979 | | |
Don't whistle before breakfast- bad luck. | March 1979 | | |
If you whistle in the morning, you cry at night. | March 1979 | | |
If you whistle in the morning, you'll cry at night. | October 19 1976 | | |
It's bad luck to sneeze at the table. | April 1982 | | |
It's bad luck to have something fall out of the refrigerator when you open it. | April 1982 | | |
You will have good luck if you drop silverware on the floor. | April 1982 | | |
When they dropped an object, it meant bad luck. | October 6 1976 | | |
Bad luck to put silverware upside down at the table. | March 1979 | | |
If a teaspoon is dropped it signifies there will be a disappointment. | April 1979 | | |
A dropped spoon meant disappointment. | November 19 1976 | | |
If you drop a spoon, you'll have a disappointment. | July 1964 | | |
Dropped spoon- disappointment. | March 1976 | | |
A dropped spoon means a disappointment unless someone else picks it up for you. | April 1976 | | |
Signs of bad luck: spilling salt; breaking a mirror (7 yr.); walking under a ladder. | April 1976 | | |
Bad luck: raising an umbrella in the house; walking under a ladder; spilling salt. | July 7 1976 | | |
Spilling salt was bad luck (hard to get so expensive, but not 10 cents a spoon as in Africa today). | October 6 1976 | | |
It's bad luck to spill salt. | April 1982 | | |
Bad luck if you spill salt. | March 1979 | | |
Spilled salt means you'll: have a fight with someone or bad luck. Threw some (pinch) over left shoulder to eliminate trouble. | April 1976 | | |
Bad luck to spill salt. | | | |
Spilled salt- bad luck. | March 1976 | | |
If you spill salt, throw it over your shoulder. | February 1979 | | |
If you spill salt, throw it over your shoulder. | April 1980 | | |
Throw pinch of spilled salt over one shoulder. | April 1980 | | |
I've heard of throwing salt over your shoulder for luck. | April 19 1980 | | |
Spilling salt is bad luck. Toss a pinch over your shoulder. | July 7 1976 | | |
Spill salt - pour some over your left shoulder to keep from getting bad luck. | February 1979 | | |
Throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. | April 1980 | | |
Throw spilled salt over left shoulder for good luck. | April 1 1980 | | |
If you spill salt, throw some over your left shoulder. | April 1980 | | |
Throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. | April 1980 | | |
Throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. | April 1980 | | |
If you spill salt, toss it over left shoulder. | April 1980 | | |
Throw some of the spilled salt over your left shoulder. | April 24 1980 | | |
If you spill salt, throw it over your left shoulder. | April 1980 | | |
If you spill salt, throw some over left shoulder. | March 1 1980 | | |
If you spill salt always throw some over your left shoulder to prevent bad luck. | | | |
If you spill salt, throw over your left shoulder. | April 1980 | | |
Throw spilled salt over left shoulder. | March 1980 | | |
Throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. | May 1980 | | |
If you spill salt it's bad luck unless you can pick some of it up and toss it over your left shoulder. | October 1978 | | |
Spill salt- take some, toss over left shoulder to ward away bad luck. | January 17 1977 | | |
It's bad luck to spill salt, burn some salt. Throw some over left shoulder. | May 1976 | | |
It's bad luck to spill salt. Drop a pinch of salt over the left shoulder. | June 1976 | | |
When you spill salt throw it over your shoulder to make it good; don't believe. | April 1982 | | |
Throw a pinch of the spilled salt over your left shoulder to prevent bad luck. | March 1982 | | |
If you spill salt, throw it over your shoulder. | April 1982 | | |
If you spill salt, toss it over your shoulder to prevent bad luck. | April 1982 | | |
If you spill salt, throw some over your left shoulder. | April 1982 | | |
Throw salt over your shoulder. | March 1982 | | |
Throw [spilled] salt over right shoulder to prevent bad luck. | March 1982 | | |
If salt is spilled, throw some over your left shoulder. | March 1982 | | |
If you spill salt, throw some over left shoulder. | November 27 1981 | | |
Throw spilled salt over left shoulder. | April 1982 | | |
Spill salt- throw over left shoulder. | April 1982 | | |
If you spilled salt- bad luck. Throw over left shoulder. | March 1982 | | |
If you spill salt, throw it over your shoulder to prevent bad luck. | April 1982 | | |
To spill salt is very ill-omened. It must not be scraped up, but a little should be thrown 3 times over the left shoulder to prevent misfortune. | April 2 1980 | | |
If you spilled salt, throw some over your shoulder. | March 1982 | | |
Throw salt over left shoulder to prevent ill happening. | July 19 1978 | | |
Spilled salt means bad luck or going to have a fight. Throw salt over your left shoulder. | June 1976 | | |
Spilling salt is bad luck. Take another bit of salt and throw over shoulder to counter bad luck. | March 1976 | | |
It's bad luck to spill salt. Throw some over your shoulder. | March 1976 | | |
Bad luck to spill salt. Pick up a pinch of what was spilled and toss it over the left shoulder. | June 1976 | | |
Don't spill the salt. If you do, throw some over your left shoulder. | April 1983 | | |
It's bad luck to spill salt. Throw salt over your left shoulder. | March 1976 | | |
[Spilled Salt] Pick up what you spilt and throw over your left shoulder for luck. | January 1976 | | |
If you spill salt, throw some over left shoulder. | February 29 1980 | | |
If you spill salt, thow some over your left shoulder to prevent bad luck. | February 28 1980 | | |
If you spill salt it's bad luck unless you can pick some of it up and toss it over your left shoulder. | October 1978 | | |
Spill salt- take some, toss over left shoulder to ward away bad luck. | January 17 1977 | | |
It's bad luck to spill salt, burn some salt. Throw some over left shoulder. | May 1976 | | |
It's bad luck to spill salt. Drop a pinch of salt over the left shoulder. | June 1976 | | |
When you spill salt throw it over your shoulder to make it good; don't believe. | April 1982 | | |
Throw a pinch of the spilled salt over your left shoulder to prevent bad luck. | March 1982 | | |
If you spill salt, throw it over your shoulder. | April 1982 | | |
If you spill salt, toss it over your shoulder to prevent bad luck. | April 1982 | | |
If you spill salt, throw some over your left shoulder. | April 1982 | | |
Throw salt over your shoulder. | March 1982 | | |
Throw [spilled] salt over right shoulder to prevent bad luck. | March 1982 | | |
If salt is spilled, throw some over your left shoulder. | March 1982 | | |
If you spill salt, throw some over left shoulder. | November 27 1981 | | |
Throw spilled salt over left shoulder. | April 1982 | | |
Spill salt- throw over left shoulder. | April 1982 | | |
If you spilled salt- bad luck. Throw over left shoulder. | March 1982 | | |
If you spill salt, throw it over your shoulder to prevent bad luck. | April 1982 | | |
If you spilled salt, throw some over your shoulder. | March 1982 | | |
IF you spilled salt, take some and throw it over your shoulder. | March 1982 | | |
Bad luck to spill salt - throw salt over shoulder to take it away. | April 1982 | | |
If you spill salt, throw a pinch over your left shoulder. | September 1976 | | |
If you spill salt, toss it over your right shoulder. | April 3 1980 | | |
If you spill salt, throw it over left shoulder and make a wish. | April 6 1980 | | |
It's bad luck ot spill salt. Throw some over your shoulder. | July 1 1976 | | |
If you spill salt, throw some salt over your left shoulder for good luck. | April 1982 | | |
If you spill salt, throw it over your left shoulder. | 1981 | | |
If you spilled salt, throw over left shoulder. | March 1982 | | |
If you spill salt, thow a a pinch over your left shoulder. | March 1982 | | |
Throw salt over left shoulder when spilled to keep bad luck away | April 1982 | | |
Throw spilled salt over your shoulder. | April 1982 | | |
To change luck, throw salt, under ladder, break a mirror. | April 1982 | | |
It's bad luck to spill salt; throw some over your left shoulder. | July 1 1976 | | |
If you spill salt, throw it over your left shoulder. | March 1980 | | |
Throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. | April 1980 | | |
Throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. | April 1980 | | |
Throw spilled salt over left shoulder to ward off bad luck. | April 1980 | | |
Take a pinc of spille salt and toss it over your left shoulder. | March 28 1980 | | |
Throw small portion of spilled salt over left shoulder. | April 1980 | | |
Throw some spilled salt over your left shoulder. | April 1980 | | |
Throw spilled salt over left shoulder. | March 1980 | | |
If spilling salt, throw some over your left shoulder. | November 1976 | | |
If you spill salt, it's bad luck. Throw some over your shoulder. | March 1976 | | |
To spill salt is very ill-omened. It must not be scraped up, but a little should be thrown 3 times over the left shoulder to prevent misfortune. | April 2 1980 | | |
Throw spilled salt over your left shoulder for good luck. | | | |
When you spill salt, always throw some over left shoulder for good luck. | Jan 10 1977 | | |
If you knock over the salt shaker it means bad luck, so to counter balance the curse you shake some salt in your hand and throw it over your right shoulder. | October 27 1976 | | |
Spill salt, throw some over your shoulder. | May 1976 | | |
When you spill salt , it means a licking, or a fight. Throw some over your left shoulder or on the cook stove. | April 1976 | | |
Throw spilled salt over right shoulder. | April 5 1980 | | |
Throw spilled salt over your left shoulder to confuse the bad fairy. | July 1 1976 | | |
If salt is spilled, toss it over your left shoulder for good luck. | October 19 1976 | | |
If you spill salt, throw some over your right shoulder. | April 1980 | | |
If you spill salt, toass some over right shoulder. | April 30 1980 | | |
If you spill the salt throw some over your shoulder or you will hav a fight. | February 1979 | | |
If you spill salt, throw it over your right shoulder. | March 1976 | | |
Spilt salt means bad luck unless you throw some salt over your shoulder. | February 1979 | | |
Spilled salt, bad luck. Shake some over one's shoulder to break spell. | October 6 1976 | | |
Spilling salt was bad luck and you must pick some up and throw it over your right shoulder. | July 1 1976 | | |
It's bad luck to spill salt. Put new salt on stove, to dispell bad luck. (Irish?) | March 1976 | | |
If you spill salt, burn it. | March 1980 | | |
Don't lend salt - they can bewitch you with it. | October 1976 | | |
If you borrow salt, never return it (Slovak). | June 1976 | | |
If you have a cracked plate, boil the first milk from a fresh cow on it. That's an old remedy. | March 19 1966 | | |
Never sweep after sunset. | Jan 10 1977 | | |
Sweep with a broom in the evening and you sweep away your good luck. | April 1979 | | |
Never sweep with a broom over the threshold after dark. | May 1979 | | |
You never swept any dirt out of the door after sundown | April 1979 | | |
Never sweep on Sunday, or you'll sweep away your luck. | April 1979 | | |
Never sweep the house after six o'clock at night and sweep the dust out the doors; you sweep out your luck | Nov 30 1976 | | |
Never sweep dirt out the dooor or you'll sweep your luck out the door. | October 1976 | | |
Never use a broom on Ascension Day. | Jan 10 1977 | | |
At midnight on New Year's, open up the front door and sweep toward the back door -- all the bad luck leaves, good luck for the new year. | Jan 17 1977 | | |
Had a negro classmate in high school manual training class. Teacher told he and I to sweep up the floor shavings. I swatted the negro with a broom and he yelled "bloody murder" and spit on the broom, then over right and left shoulders to break spell. | March 1976 | | |
Don't hit a person with the broom or the witches will ride you. | February 1979 | | |
Never sweep or make beds on Ascension Day. | November 15 1976 | | |
Never walk across a broom when laying in door. | February 1979 | | |
Don't walk under a broom handle | February 1979 | | |
If you hang a broom by the bristles up -- luck is kept in. If you hang a broom by the handle -- luck will run out. | April 3 1983 | | |
If a girl steps over a broom handle instead of picking it up, will be a dirty housekeeper. | April 1980 | | |
Broom upside down brings bad luck. | April 1979 | | |
Stepping over a broom is cause for scandal. | Jan 20 1977 | | |
Dropping a broom was a sign that the house needed cleaning. | March 1976 | | |
Don't sweep a floor on Ascension Day. | May 1979 | | |
Sweep the house with a new broom on New Year's Day. | March 1979 | | |
As soon as you throw something away, that's when you need it. | April 9 1983 | | |
On old Christmas, which is January 6, no wash watsoever could be hanging on the line, and I pretty well keep that, too. | April 1979 | | |
If you wash on Good Friday, the following year you willl wash one of your family away. | July 1964 | | |
Clothes should never be washed on New Year's Day. The worst day of all for such work is Good Friday. | April 2 1980 | | |
You shouldn't wash clothes on a Wednesday | Chambersuburg | | |
Bad luck to wash on Wednesday | January 10 1977 | | |
Hid medal in house and you will get a house or sell one | March 1980 | | |
When moving, leave house clean. | April 1980 | | |
When moving, back out the door. | April 1980 | | |
If you left anything at the old house when moving, you are bound to return. | March 1982 | | |
Leave a chair behind at the old house when moving. | September 21 1976 | | |
If you left anything behind when moving, leave it there. | April 1982 | | |
If you left something behind in the old house when moving, you would return some day. | April 1 1982 | | |
When moving, leave behind only the dust and a penny, tails up in the corner of the kitchen. | December 1976 | | |
Leave any kind of useful gift behind at the old house when moving. | February 17 1977 | | |
Never leave dirt or trash behind when moving. | April 1979 | | |
The first thing to be taken into a new house when moving was salt. The broom should be left behind at the old house. | August 10 1976 | | |
A fork should be left behind at the old house. | October 11 1976 | | |
Sing before breakfast, cry before dinner. | April 1980 | | |
Never move downstairs in the same building. | April 1982 | | |
Before moving into a house, have it blessed by a priest. | April 5 1980 | | |
When I was a child living in an apartment hosue, no one movied to a lower floor because that was considered bad luck. | July 18 1978 | | |
When moving into a new house, step over the threshold with the right foot. | July 19 1978 | | |
Always move in the incresase of the moon. | December 20 1976 | | |
When moving, leave behind your broom and a box of salt. (Slovak) | June 1976 | | |
A bible should be first thing taken into a new home. | April 1 1980 | | |
The wife should be first thing taken into a new house if newly-weds. | October 12 1979 | | |
First thing taken into a new house? Bible. | July 1977 | | |
[When moving] Sprinkle threshold of a new house with salt, so no withc or evil will enter. (Slovak) | October 1976 | | |
When anything new was brought into the house, and someone visits you, and admires it, you sprinkle salt in the four corners of the room, to ward off evil spirits. | October 11 1976 | | |
Brought salt, bread and sugar into house first when moving. | July 1978 | | |
A broom and salt were the first things taken into a new house. | October 1976 | | |
In a new house put salt and a broom behind the door for good luck. | November 25 1981 | | |
Salt was taken into a new house first for good luck. | February 1979 | | |
Bread and salt must be brought in first as signs of food and money. (We always did this in our home). | July 7 1978 | | |
Box of salt should be first thing moved into new house. | March 1979 | | |
Salt should be taken into a new house first. | May 1979 | | |
Before moving into a new house, have salt and sugar and a new broom there. | July 1978 | | |
First things to go into the new house were bread, honey, and salt, in order to insure a house full of food, good health, etc. | July 18 1978 | | |
Bread and salt - first things taken into a new house. | April 1980 | | |
Salt should be first thing taken into new house. | March 1977 | | |
First thing taken into a new house should be a broom. | January 17 1977 | | |
Stove -- first thing moved into a new house. | March 12 1979 | | |
First things taken into a new house should be a broom or frest crust of bread. | June 1977 | | |
A new broom or salt should be first thing taken into a new house. | | | |
First things taken into a new house -- a loaf of bread, salt, and crucifix. | April 1980 | | |
When moving into a new house, hang a red pepper near the door to ward off evil spirits. | November 25 1981 | | |
When moving, move bread in first -- has something to do with friendships. | April 1979 | | |
When moving into a new house, bring bread and honey to sweeten house and always have food there. | July 18 1978 | | |
A broom , salt, and a loaf of bread should be taken into a new house first. | February 1979 | | |
When moving into a new house, bring bread, salt and sugar (or something sweet) to denote house of prosperity, plenty, etc. | July 18 1978 | | |
A holy picture or a cross was hung first in a new house when moving. | April 18 1979 | | |
If you take salt, a loaf of bread and a broom first into the new house when moving, that way your house would always be clean and you'd never go hungry. | March 1979 | | |
Bring salt, sugan and bread into a house promptly. | July 19 1978 | | |
Salt, bread and a bible should be first things moved into a new house. | April 1979 | | |
A broom and salt should be first taken into a new house. A broom is to sweep away dirt and anything dead. The salt is to take away the odor. | April 3 1980 | | |
A new broom or salt -- first things moved into a new house. | | | |
Bread and salt should be first things taken into a new home. | March 1980 | | |
First things taken into a new house -- a loaf of bread and a bit of salt to cross the threshold. | April 1980 | | |
Salt, bread and water -- first things taken into a new house. | April 1980 | | |
A broom and a loaf of bread should be the first things taken into a new house, bible and bread in top of closet, broom on bottom. | July 1980 | | |
Cleaning tools should be the first thing taken into a new house. | April 1980 | | |
First thing taken into a new house should be food, so you will always have enough to eat. | March 1980 | | |
A new broom and salt should be taken first into new house to sweep out evil spirits and any enemy away. | May 1979 | | |
A loaf of bread -- first thing taken into new house. | May 1979 | | |
Bread and salt should be first things taken into new home for good luck. | April 1979 | | |
Your treasure china was the first thing taken into a new house when moving. | February 1979 | | |
Bread and wine should be first thing taken into a new house. | August 10 1978 | | |
A loaf of bread and a jug of wine should be first things carried into a new house. | February 17 1977 | | |
The clock should be the first thing taken into a new house. | December 1976 | | |
The Infant of Prague should be the first thing taken into a new house. | December 1976 | | |
Always move something from the old house into the new house first. | January 10 1977 | | |
The first thing taken into a new house should be a loaf of bread and a box of salt. | November 30 1976 | | |
Holy water should be the first thing moved into a new house. | September 21 1976 | | |
A bible should be the first thing taken into a new house. | October 1976 | | |
A bible and a new broom should be the first things taken into a new house. | September 17 1976 | | |
The first things moved into a new house should be a broom. | September 1 1976 | | |
The first thing you move into a house should be a box of salt, the bible and a loaf of bread. | September 1964 | | |
When you have definitely made arrangements to move into a house, the next time you go to the house bring bread and holy water with you. | 1964 | | |
Take a broom into your new house before Saturday to keep your luck. | April 6 1980 | | |
Broom should be first thing taken into new house. | April 6 1980 | | |
A chair should be first thing taken into a new hosue. | May 1980 | | |
If you move on a certain day, it meansthe length of time you'll be staying there. | April 1980 | | |
Bride should be first thing taken into a new house. | April 1980 | | |
Movingon certain days was taboo | February 29 1980 | | |
Good days to move -- Any day but Friday or Saturday. If you move on these two days you will not stay long or will not be happy there. | June 1977 | | |
Bed should be first thing taken into a new house. | April 1980 | | |
A rolling pin should be first thing taken into a new house when moving. | April 1979 | | |
Cook stove -- first thing taken into new house when moving. | April 1979 | | |
The bed is the first thing taken into a new house when moving. | February 1979 | | |
Monday is a good day to move. | January 17 1977 | | |
April 1 is flitting day. | January 10 1977 | | |
Monday is not a good moving day; you will be moving always. | January 20 1977 | | |
Tuesday is a good day to move. | January 20 1977 | | |
Good day to move -- Saturday. Bad day to move - a Monday. | October 11 1976 | | |
Friday Flit. Short sit. Saturday flit. Shorter yit. | September 17 1976 | | |
Your wife should b first thing taken into a new house. | April 1980 | | |
Never move on Wednesday or Saturday. | November 15 1976 | | |
Good days to move -- Sunday through Thursday. | October 1976 | | |
The bed should be the first thing moved into a new house. | March 28 1980 | | |
Stove should be first thing taken into a new house. | March 1980 | | |
Friday and Saturday were bad days to move, because it would mean you would be moving again. | October 1976 | | |
You should not move on a Wednesday. | March 1982 | | |
Don't move on Friday or Full Moon. | April 1980 | | |
Moving - Monday for health, Tuesday for wealth, Wednesday best day of all, Thursday for crosses, Friday for losses, and Saturday no luck at all. | | | |
Never move on a Monday. | July 18 1978 | | |
Moving: Moday for health, Tuesday for wealth, Wednesday best day of all, Thursday for crosses, Friday for losses, and Saturday no luck at all. | | | |
Never move on a Wednesday. It's bad luck. | October 1978 | | |
If you move during the new moon things will go back [!] for you. | April 1979 | | |
Friday was a bad day to move. | December 10 1976 | | |
Don't move on Friday. | March 1982 | | |
Don't move on Friday | November 25 1981 | | |
Friday flit, short sits. | February 1982 | | |
Bad days to move - Friday and Saturday. | July 1977 | | |
Don't move on Friday. "Friday flittin', short sittin'." | October 1979 | | |
Friday was a bad day to move. | February 17 1977 | | |
Friday was a bad day to move. | November 1976 | | |
Best day for moving - Friday. | October 6 1976 | | |
Friday flit, short sit. Saturday flit, shorter yet. | March 1980 | | |
Friday flitting, short sitting. | April 1980 | | |
To move on Friday, too short sit. (You will move again soon if you move on a Friday). | April 24 1980 | | |
Never move on Friday, you won't stay long. | April 1980 | | |
A Friday moving is a short stay. | March 1980 | | |
Move on Friday, short sit. Move on Saturday, shorter yet. | April 1982 | | |
Move on Friday, short sit, move on Saturday, shorter yet. | April 1982 | | |
Friday "flit" - short sit. Saturday flit - shorter yit! | April 1980 | | |
Don't move on a Friday or you will move soon again. | April 1 1980 | | |
Friday 13th or Saturday, bad days to move. | March 1977 | | |
Friday, short sit; Saturday, shorter yet. | December 1976 | | |
Never move on Friday. | January 17 1977 | | |
Saturday flit, short sit; Sunday flit, shorter yet. | August 10 1976 | | |
If you believe in old wives fables, don't move on Friday? or Saturday. Friday flit's a short sit; Saturday flit is shorter yit. | December 19 1964 | | |
Never move on Friday because Friday's flitten is short sittin'. | January 21 1977 | | |
Friday flit, short sit. Saturday flit, shorter yet. | July 1977 | | |
Saturday flit, short sit. Sunday flit, shorter yit! | April 1980 | | |
Saturday flit, short sit. | January 10 1977 | | |
Saturday flit, a short sit. | May 12 1963 | | |
Those who moved on Saturday, Saturday's flitting not long sitting. | October 1978 | | |
If you move on a Saturday, Saturday's flittin', not long sittin'. | November 1978 | | |
A Saturday move is a short stay. | April 3 1980 | | |
If you move on a Saturday, it'll be a short "flit." | April 6 1980 | | |
Saturday's flit, short sit. | April 1980 | | |
Saturday flit short sit. Sunday flit shorter yet. | April 1980 | | |
Never move on Sunday or Monday. | April 1979 | | |
A Saturday flit, a short sit. | November 23 1976 | | |
It's bad luck to move on Saturday. | 1964 | | |
Any day except Saturday or Sunday was a good day to move. | March 1977 | | |
A Saturday flit is a short sit. It was bad luck to get married or to move into a house on Saturday. If you move on a Saturday, you will soon have a death in your family. | July 1964 | | |
Never move on Sunday. | December 1976 | | |
Sunday flit, short sit. | November 30 1976 | | |
Good day to move - 1st of the month | August 10 1978 | | |
Sunday flit, never long sit. | July 1980 | | |
Move on Sunday, you wont stay long. | April 1980 | | |
Don't move while it's raining. | May 1980 | | |
Bad luck to move into a house after someone died in it. | March 28 1980 | | |
Was March 1 or April 1 the "flitting day"? | October 1978 | | |
Don't take a cat along when moving. | April 1980 | | |
Put cat in bag when moving, take it out after dark in the new home. | November 1976 | | |
Always move cats before you move. | November 15 1976 | | |
It's good luck to move a cat. | January 17 1977 | | |
A pair of shoes should be left behind when moving. | June 1977 | | |
Never move a cat across the river. | November 30 1976 | | |
Moving: Old mirrors and old rocking chairs hold on to the past. | December 1976 | | |
A broom or rolling pin was taken into new house first when moving. | March 1979 | | |
When you move leave your broom at the old house. | April 1979 | | |
Bad luck to take an old broom into a new house. | April 26 1979 | | |
Never move a broom from one house to another. | April 1982 | | |
It is bad luck to take an old broom into a new house. | April 1982 | | |
An old broom was left behind when moving. | November 11 1976 | | |
There's a lot of people always let the old broom at home when they moved. | May 12 1963 | | |
Don't take your old broom with you when moving. | March 1979 | | |
When moving, leave behind a plat on the windowsill and your broom. | December 1976 | | |
Never move the broom. | September 17 1976 | | |
A new broom should be taken into a house first when moving. | April 26 1979 | | |
When you move, don't take the broom with you because you are sweeping your trouble with you. | March 1979 | | |
When moving, leave behind an old shirt, skirt or pair of pants. | November 1976 | | |
A broom should be left behind at the old house. | October 1976 | | |
A new broom should be the first thing taken into a new house. | October 11 1976 | | |
On New Year's Day it is bad to remove anything from a house. | April 1980 | | |
Find a horseshoe and hang it - good luck. | December 10 1976 | | |
A horseshoe should be the first thing taken into a new house. | October 19 1976 | | |
Horse-shoe over door-way -- good luck. | February 29 1980 | | |
I used to hear hang a horseshoe above the door for good luck. | February 1976 | | |
Enter a house with your right foot first. | October 27 1976 | | |
When visiting you left by the same door you entered for good luck. | November 1978 | | |
It's bad luck to leave by a different door - you leave your good luck behavior. | May 1979 | | |
If you left by a different door than the one you entered, it meant bad luck and you would not return. | April 18 1979 | | |
If you leave by a different door, you'll have bad luck. | November 1978 | | |
Bad luck to leave by different door. | March 12 1979 | | |
Bad luck to go out by different door. | | | |
Bad luck to leave by different door. | April 1979 | | |
It was bad luck to leave by a different door than the one you entered. | February 1979 | | |
Bad luck to leave by a different door. | April 1980 | | |
Bad luck to leave by a different door. | April 1 1980 | | |
If you leave a house by a different door than the one you entered it indicates bad luck. | March 1979 | | |
If you left by a different door, you left luck there. | April 1979 | | |
Bad luck to leave by a different door than one entered. | February 1979 | | |
If you left by a different door than the one you entered, you would leave your luck behind. | March 1979 | | |
Always go out the same door you entered -- bad luck. | February 1979 | | |
Leave by a different door -- bad luck. | March 1979 | | |
Leave by a different door. Bad luck. | March 7 1979 | | |
If you left by a different door, "bad luck" before day is over. | October 12 1979 | | |
Bad luck to leave by a different door. | April 1979 | | |
If you go out by the same door you come in, you'll leave all your luck behind. | | | |
If you don't come out the same door you went in, you'll leave all your luck behind. | May 14 1972 | | |
Let's go out the way we come in. Don't wanta leave our luck here. | January 23 1972 | | |
Aren't you gonna go out the same door you come in? You'll leave your luck here. | December 28 1975 | | |
Always go out the sme door you came in. | April 1982 | | |
Always leave by door you entered. | April 1982 | | |
Go in also leave by the same entrance. Whatever door you go in you should leave by the same door. | March 1982 | | |
You will have good luck if you enter and leave from the same door. | April 1982 | | |
If you leave by a different door, it brings bad luck. | April 1980 | | |
Bad luck to leave by a different door. | April 1980 | | |
If you leave by a different door, let your luck behind. | March 1980 | | |
Bad luck to leave by a different door. | April 1980 | | |
Brings bad luck to leave by a different door. | April 1980 | | |
Bad luck to leave by a different door than the one you entered. | March 1980 | | |
You would have bad luck if you left by a different door than the one you entered. | February 28 1980 | | |
Leaving by a different door bring bad luck. | April 1980 | | |
Leave by a different door - you hav bad luck. | April 1980 | | |
You should leave by the same door entered. | April 1982 | | |
Always enter and exit from same door or your luck will go out with you. | April 1 1982 | | |
Come back in the same door you leave by. | April 1982 | | |
Leave by the same door you entered (Bad luck if you don't). | March 1982 | | |
If you enter by the front door, always leave by the front door. | March 1982 | | |
Always go out the same door you came in. | March 1982 | | |
Leave the same door that you came in. | March 1982 | | |
Leave house by the same door you enter. | April 1982 | | |
Go out the same door you come in or you will leave your luck behind. | April 1982 | | |
It's bad luck to leave by a different door. | November 25 1981 | | |
Always leave by the same door you enter, or you will take all the luck from the home. | March 1982 | | |
If you left by a different door than the one you entered, bad luck. | January 17 1977 | | |
It's bad luck to leave by a different door than that entered. | January 20 1977 | | |
To leave by a diffent door - bad luck. | January 21 1977 | | |
You would have bad luck if you left by a different door than one entered. | December 1976 | | |
Bad luck to leave by a different door from one entered. | December 10 1976 | | |
Bad luck to go out a different door. | November 23 1976 | | |
If you left by a different door, bad luck would catch up with you. | July 1 1976 | | |
If you left by a different door, you took the home owner's good luck away. | April 4 1979 | | |
Go out the same door you come in or bad luck. | February 1979 | | |
If you left by a different door, you left your luck behind. | October 1976 | | |
It's bad luck to leave by a different door. | October 1976 | | |
Bad luck to leave by different door. | April 1980 | | |
If you left by a different door, you left your luck behind. | September 17 1976 | | |
It's bad luck if you don not go out the same door you went in. | October 11 1976 | | |
If you left by a different door than the one you entered, you'd have bad luck. | October 19 1976 | | |
If you leave by a different door from the one you entered, it's bad luck. | September 21 1976 | | |
If you left by a different door than the one you entered you would have bad luck. | November 15 1976 | | |
To leave by different door - bad luck to occupants of house. | March 1977 | | |
You would be dissappointed if you left by a different door. | | | |
If you leave by another door you will leave your luck behind. | April 24 1980 | | |
Leave by a different door - leave your luck behind. | April 1979 | | |
If you left by a different door, you left your luck there. | April 1978 | | |
If you go out by a different door than the one you entered you leave your luck behind. | November 15 1976 | | |
If you leave by a different door, it brings bad luck on the house. | November 30 1976 | | |
If you left behind a different door, you left your luck behind. | October 1978 | | |
Bad luck to leave by different door; you leave your luck behind. | April 1979 | | |
If you left by a different door, you left your luck there. | March 1980 | | |
Leave by a different door, leave your luck behind. | June 30 1979 | | |
If you leave by a different door, you leave your luck inside the building. | April 1980 | | |
If you left by a different door, left luck behind. | April 1980 | | |
If you left by a different door, you left your luck. | March 1980 | | |
If you left by a different door you left your luck behind. | April 1980 | | |
You leave your luck if you left by a different door. | April 1980 | | |
If you left by a different door, you left your luck in the house. | April 1980 | | |
Bad luck for the owner of the house if you leave by a different door than the one you entered. | April 26 1979 | | |
If you left by a different door, you left bad luck with these folks. | April 1977 | | |
Bad luck if you don't use same door for entering and leaving. | December 1978 | | |
Bad luck to leave by a different door than the one entered. | March 1979 | | |
Leave by a different door -- you left your luck inside -- you would now have had luck. | February 1979 | | |
If you leave by a different door you leave your luck to that family. | April 1979 | | |
If you leave by a different door you leave fortune behind. | May 1979 | | |
Your spirit would possibly be left behind if you went out a different door from the one you entered. | December 1976 | | |
Some said backdoor -- exit might mean bad luck for you. | October 6 1976 | | |
If you leave by a different door -- bad luck in the house. | May 1979 | | |
Leave by a different door -- indicates dishonest acts either have been or will be committed against the host. | March 1979 | | |
To carry a shovel into the house brings bad luck. | Jaunary 21 1977 | | |
Bad luck to carry a shovel into the house. | Jaunary 17 1977 | | |
Carrying a shovel into the house bring bad luck. | November 15 1976 | | |
Carrying a shovel into the house brings bad luck. | November 15 4976 | | |
Take a shovel out the same door it was taken in. | June 1977 | | |
Carrying a shovel into the house brought bad luck. | September 17 1976 | | |
Carrying a shovel into the house was bad luck. | October 11 1976 | | |
Never carry a shovel or hoe into the house. Never open an umbrella in the house. Never rock a rocking chair when there's nobody on it. | April 27 1963 | Home, Domestic Pursuits | |
If you carry a shovel into the house, you'll have bad luck. | May 25 1964 | | |
Very bad luck to carry a shovel into the house. | | | |
Woman reluctant to carry a hoe she had bought into the house. | October 18 1980 | | |
Bad luck to carry a shovel into the house. | February 28 1980 | | |
Bad luck to carry a shovel into the house. | March 1980 | | |
Carrying a shovel into the house brings bad luck to the house. | April 1980 | | |
Bad luck carrying a shovel into the house. | March 1980 | | |
Very bad luck to carry a shovel into the house. | | | |
Carrying a shovel into the house -- hard work good pay. | April 1980 | | |
If you carry a shovel into the house your work will never end. | August 10 1978 | | |
It's bad luck to bring an open umbrella into the house. | December 18 1975 | | |
It is bad luck to bring a brick into the house on New Year's Day. | April 24 1976 | | |
Sweep on Ascension Day and you will have ants all year. | March 1979 | | |
IF you sweep on sweep on Ascension Day, you will have ants all year. | April 1979 | | |
If you make beds on Ascension Day, you will get bed bugs. | March 1979 | | |
Sweep on Ascension Day you'll get ants. Don't sew or anything on Ascension Day. If there's a thunder shower on Ascension Day, you're not to do anything. | May 10 1963 | | |
Do not sweep with a broom on Ascension Day or you will get ants. | April 1979 | | |
If you sweep on Ascension Day, you'll get ants in the house. | May 23 1963 | | |
If you sweep your house on Ascension Day you'll get bugs. | April 1978 | | |
They used to say if you sweep on Ascension Day you'll get ants in the house. Elsie'd never sweep on that day, but your mother didn't care. She'd sweep whatever day it was. | December 31 1975 | | |
"Today's Ascension Day. Don't sweep your house or you'll get piss ants." | May 23 1963 | | |
If a woman swept on Good Friday, you would be bothered by ants and flies all summer. | April 1979 | | |
No work on Ascension Day. Don't sweep on that day or you'll get ants. | April 1 1979 | | |
Hang cotton on your screen door to keep flies away. | | | |
Wash all quilts or blankets in April and you'll never get moths in them. | March 1979 | | |
Cedar chets or a piece of cedar wood in a chest keep moths away. | before 1955 | | |
To get rid of bedbugs, burn sulphur. | March 1976 | | |
To get rid of mice, soap chips around buildings. Encourage skunks to eradicate mie. Cats, cats, cats. | March 1976 | | |
A black beetle running across the floor of a room, or found working anywhere in the house, is a sign of bad luck. | April 2 1980 | | |
The shrill creak of the cricket on the hearth was a good owner. | | | |
A cricket in the house means good luck. | October 1976 | | |
Spare the cricket on the hearth. | May 10 1963 | | |
They claim mosquitos won't bite in the winter time. | February 24 1979 | | |
Ladybug in house -- good luck. | February 29 190 | | |
Look back going up the stairs and you will have bad luck. | September 17 1976 | | |
If two people cross on the stairs, bad luck will follow. | April 2 1980 | | |
Never pass anyone on the stairs -- bad luck. | October 1979 | | |
If you fall upstairs, it's good luck. | April 1979 | | |
If you fall upstairs -- bad luck. | April 1979 | | |
If you fall upstairs -- bad luck. | May 1979 | | |
If you fall upstairs -- bad luck. | March 12 1979 | | |
If you fall upstairs you're smart and if you fall downstairs you're dumb. | April 1979 | | |
Falling upstairs -- bad luck for seven years. | December 20 1976 | | |
If you fall upstairs, bad luck for the day. | | | |
If you fall upstairs, bad luck for 7 years. | April 1979 | | |
Humming fire in fire place -- good luck. | January 17 1977 | | |
You will hav good luck if you always have a candle lit. | April 1982 | | |
It is unlucky to light three cigarettes from a single match, the consequent misfortune falling chiefly upon the person whose cigarette | April 2 1980 | | |
Don't light 3 smokes on a match - bad luck. | July 1 1976 | | |
3 on a match -- bad luck. | December 10 1976 | | |
3 on a match -- bad luck. | January 17 1977 | | |
Don't take a third light from a match. | April 1983 | | |
Three on a match is bad luck. | January 28 1976 | | |
If a chair rocked by itself, something bad would happen. | March 1982 | | |
If you rocked an empty chair, would bring bad luck. | May 1976 | | |
It was bad luck if you rocked an empty rocking chair. | November 23 1976 | | |
Rock an empty chair, bad luck. | March 1976 | | |
Bad luck to rock an empty chair. | April 6 1980 | | |
Rocking an empty rocking chair -- bad luck. | April 1977 | | |
If a chair rocks with no one in it, bad luck. | March 7 1979 | | |
It's bad luck to rock a chair with no one in it. | February 1979 | | |
If you rock a chair without any one in it is bad luck. | February 1979 | | |
It's bad luck to rock an empty rocking chair. | March 1976 | | |
It's bad luck to rock a chair when there's no one in it. | April 27 1963 | | |
If a chair rocked with one one in it, also a bad omen -- death or calamity in the famliy. | February 29 1980 | | |
If a chair rocked with no one in it -- bad luck. | April 1980 | | |
If a chair rocked by itself, get out of the room. | February 1982 | | |
If you rocked an empty rocking chair, you rocked the devil. | June 1977 | | |
It is bad luck to rock a empty seat. | April 1980 | | |
If a chair rocked with no one in it, leave! | April 1980 | | |
If you rock an empty rocking chair, you are giving the devil free ride. | January 20 1977 | | |
Don't twirl a chair on one leg while dusting -- bad luck. | January 30 1980 | | |
3 chairs in a row -- bad luck. | January 17 1977 | | |
Bad luck to put elbows on the table. | April 1982 | | |
It was considered unlucky to turn beds or mattresses on certain days of the week. The days to avoid are Sunday and Friday. | April 2 1980 | | |
If a picture faces a wall, it's bad luck. | April 1982 | | |
It is bad luck to have a picture fall off the wall. | April 1982 | | |
If a picture falls off wall, it's bad luck. | April 1982 | | |
If a picture falls --trouble. | March 1982 | | |
A picture or mirror falling and breaking meant bad luck. | October 1978 | | |
A picture falling is bad luck for the family. | May 18 1963 | | |
If you turn a picture upside down while looking at it, will bring bad luck. | April 1982 | | |
An upside down picture means bad luck. | April 1982 | | |
It was bad luck to hang pictures crooked. | March 1982 | | |
The hoot of an owl. The stopping of a clock, the passing of a black cat before one was a bad omen. | | | |
It's bad luck to look over your shoulder in the mirror. | April 25 1964 | | |
Bad luck: Black cat crossing your path. Breaking a mirror. Walking under a ladder. | July 1 1976 | | |
It means bad luck if a mirror is broken. | August 10 1976 | | |
It is bad luck to break a mirror. | April 1982 | | |
I believe broken mirrors are bad luck -- a little bit. | April 1982 | | |
Disbelief in broken mirrors, black cats (we have one) ladders. | April 1982 | | |
Bad luck if mirror is broken. | July 1977 | | |
Mirror broken -- bad luck. | March 1977 | | |
Broken mirror -- bad luck. | August 10 1978 | | |
Bad luck if mirror is broken. | April 1979 | | |
If a mirror is broken -- bad luck. | January 20 1977 | | |
Broken mirror. Bad luck for the person responsible. | September 17 1976 | | |
Broken mirror -- seven years bad luck. | October 1976 | | |
A broken mirror means seven years of bad luck. | October 19 1976 | | |
If you broke a mirror 7 years bad luck. | March 1982 | | |
If you broke a mirror, seven years bad luck. | April 11 1982 | | |
Broke mirror -- 7 years bad luck. | March 1982 | | |
If you broke a mirror, it meant seven years bad luck. No way to fix it. | March 1982 | | |
If you broke a mirror 7 years bad luck. | March 1982 | | |
Breaking a mirror 7 years bad luck. | April 1982 | | |
If you broke a mirror -- 7 years bad luck. | March 1982 | | |
If you broke a mirror -- 7 years bad luck. | March 1982 | | |
If you broke a mirror, seven years bad luck. | April 1982 | | |
If you broke a mirror -- 7 years bad luck. | February 1982 | | |
If you break a mirror -- 7 years bad luck. | April 1982 | | |
If you broke a mirror, 7 years of bad luck. | March 1982 | | |
If you broke a mirror -- 7 years bad luck. | March 1982 | | |
Broken mirror, seven years of bad luck. | April 1977 | | |
Broken mirror -- seven years bad luck. | June 1977 | | |
If you break a mirror it will bring 7 years bad luck. | October 1978 | | |
Broken mirror -- seven years bad luck. | November 15 1978 | | |
If a mirror is broken, seven years bad luck. | October 1976 | | |
A broken mirror means seven years bad luck. | November 23 1976 | | |
Broken mirror -- 7 years bad luck. | November 19 1976 | | |
Break a mirror brings 7 years of bad luck. | February 1979 | | |
Broken mirror -- seven years of bad luck. | October 1978 | | |
A broken mirror means 7 years of bad luck. | September 1 1976 | | |
Break mirror, Bad luck, seven years. | February 1979 | | |
7 years bad luck if you break a mirror. | June 1976 | | |
Breaking a mirror would bring a death in the family or bad luck for seven years. | January 27 1977 | | |
Broken mirror -- seven years bad luck. | February 29 1980 | | |
Broken mirror brings you seven years bad luck. | April 1980 | | |
If you break a mirror you receive 7 years bad luck. | March 1980 | | |
Broken mirror indicated 7 years of bad luck. | April 1980 | | |
If you broke a mirror, a looking glass, they said you would have 7 years of bad luck. | April 13 1976 | | |
A broken mirror -- bad luck for 7 years. | December 1976 | | |
A broken mirror -- 7 years bad luck. | November 30 1976 | | |
A broken mirror, seven years of bad luck. | December 1976 | | |
Broken mirror -- 7 years bad luck. | November 30 1976 | | |
A broken mirror means you will have 7 years bad luck. | October 1976 | | |
Break a mirror have 7 years of bad luck! | July 1 1976 | | |
7 years bad luck if mirror broke. | May 1976 | | |
Broken mirror -- seven years of bad luck. | January 21 1977 | | |
If a mirror is broken -- 7 years bad luck. | January 17 1977 | | |
Dream of muddy water -- bad omen. | January 17 1977 | | |
Broken mirror -- seven years bad luck. | December 20 1976 | | |
Broken mirror -- seven years bad luck. | October 1976 | | |
A broken mirror -- seven years bad luck. | November 13 1976 | | |
If you break a mirror, it means bad luck for 7 years. | July 1 1976 | | |
Broken mirror -- 7 years bad luck. | July 1 1980 | | |
If a mirror is broken, seven years bad luck. | November 15 1976 | | |
If you broke a mirror you had seven years of bad luck. | April 19 1980 | | |
A broken mirror -- 7 years bad luck. | February 17 1977 | | |
Breaking a mirror means 7 years of bad luck. | April 1983 | | |
Break a mirror brings seven years of bad luck. | February 1979 | | |
If a mirror is broken, bad luck for seven years. | January 10 1977 | | |
If a mirror is broken, it means bad luck for seven years. | September 21 1976 | | |
If you break a mirror you have seven years bad luck. | May 1976 | | |
If you break a mirror, it means seven years bad luck. | | | |
If you break a mirror, do not clean up. | April 1982 | | |
If you break a mirror, you can change your luck if you find a $5 bill. | April 1982 | | |
If you break a mirror to prevent bad luck, pound the pieces so fine that you can't see yourself. | March 1982 | | |
If you break a mirror you'll have 13 years bad luck. | 1963 | | |
If you break a mirror, throw it into a stream. | March 1980 | | |
A broken mirror means bad luck for 20 years. | December 10 1976 | | |
Broken mirror. 10 years bad luck. | November 1978 | | |
Don't rais an umbrella in the house. | April 1981 | | |
Bad luck to put umbrella up in house. | April 1982 | | |
Never raise an umbrella in the house. Will bring bad luck. | April 1982 | | |
Opening an umbrella in the house is bad luck. | March 1982 | | |
Never open an umbreall in the house -- bad luck. | April 1982 | | |
Bad luck to raise umbrealla in the house. | July 1 1976 | | |
Never open umbrella inside house. Bad luck. | November 30 1976 | | |
Don't put umbrella up in house -- bad luck. | March 12 1979 | | |
Don't raise umbreall in the house. | June 1977 | | |
Umbrella opened in house -- bad luck. | January 17 1977 | | |
Don't put umbrella up in house -- bad luck. | February 1979 | | |
Opening an umbrella in a room also means bad luck. | September 21 1976 | | |
Bad luck to open an umbrella in the house. | October 1976 | | |
Don't put an umbrella up in the house. | April 1980 | | |
Not to open umbrella in house bad luck. | February 1979 | | |
Putting up an umbrella in the house was considered bad luck. | April 1980 | | |
Never open an umbrella in a house. You'll have bad luck. | October 1976 | | |
Bad luck to open an umbrella inside house. | March 1976 | | |
Opening an umbrella in the house is bad luck. | March 7 1979 | | |
Opening an umbrella in a house brings bad luck. | February 1979 | | |
Don't put umbrella up in a house. | April 1979 | | |
Bad luck to open an umbrella in the house. | June 1976 | | |
Bad luck to put an umbrella on the bed. | April 1980 | | |
Bad luck to put an umbrella on the bed. | February 29 1980 | | |
Bad luck to put umbrella on the bed. | April 3 1980 | | |
It was bad luck to put an opened umbrella on the bed. | October 19 1976 | | |
Never walk under a ladder. | April 1983 | | |
Don't walk under a ladder. | April 1981 | | |
Don't walk under ladder. | March 1982 | | |
Don't walk under a ladder. | April 1982 | | |
Never walk under a ladder. | November 27 1981 | | |
Don't walk under a ladder. | April 1979 | | |
Walking under a ladder is bad luck. | March 7 1979 | | |
Walking under a ladder is bad luck. | February 1979 | | |
I'll walk under a ladder. | December 29 1975 | | |
Waling under a ladder brings bad luck. | | | |
Bad luck to walk under a ladder. | May 15 1976 | | |
Walk under a ladder have bad luck. | July 1 1976 | | |
Never walk under a ladder. Walk around it to avoid bad luck. | October 1978 | | |
Don't walk under a ladder, you have bad luck. | February 1979 | | |
Don't walk under a ladder -- bad luck. | July 1 1976 | | |
Walking under a ladder is bad luck. | April 1982 | | |
Walking under a ladder bad luck. | April 1982 | | |
Bad luck to walk under a ladder. | March 1982 | | |
Walk under a ladder -- bad luck. | April 1982 | | |
Never walk under a ladder -- bad luck. | March 1982 | | |
It is bad luck to walk under a ladder. | April 1982 | | |
Walking under a ladder brings bad luck. | | | |
Don't walk under a ladder -- bad luck. | April 1979 | | |
Don't walk under a ladder it will bring bad luck. | February 1979 | | |
Walk under a ladder and you will have bad luck. | November 1976 | | |
Walking under a ladder means bad luck. | September 21 1976 | | |
Don't walk under a ladder -- it brings bad luck. | October 1976 | | |
To pass under a ladder -- bad luck. | December 10 1976 | | |
Bad luck to walk under a ladder. | January 10 1977 | | |
Don't walk under a ladder. Bad luck. | August 27 1976 | | |
It is supposed to be unlucky to walk under a ladder. To have a black cat cross your path. | June 1976 | | |
Would you walk under a ladder? No. No reason to. I'm superstious in some areas but probably wouldn't go under a ladder. | December 18 1975 | | |
Bad luck to walk under a ladder. "Why test my superstition?" | December 12 1975 | | |
Bad luck to walk under a ladder. | September 1 1976 | | |
Don't walk under a ladder. | March 1976 | | |
Walking under a ladder -- walking back and forth under it will give you bad luck. | April 1980 | | |
Walking under a ladder on Friday 13th. Black cat crossing path. | August 13 1976 | | |
It's bad luck to put any sharp object on the bed; you will not be able to sleep soundly. | May 1979 | | |
The foot of the bed should be facing you when you enter the room. | | | |
You will have good luck if you have your bed in the North/South position. | April 1982 | | |
I've heard that sleeping with your head to the north is best. They also say that sleeping with your head to the east is bad. | April 25 1966 | | |
One hour's sleep before midnight is worth two afterward. | 1950 | | |
You shouldn't whistle in the dark. | September 21 1976 | | |
Getting up on the wrong side of the bed. | Parch 1976 | | |
It is bad luck to get out of bed on the left side. | April 1982 | | |
You're supposed to get into and out of bed on the right side. (practiced) | April 1981 | | |
Get up on the wrong side of the bed, you'll have a bad day. | April 1982 | | |
If somebody is grouchy, they say he got up on the wrong side of the bed. | | | |
Get out of the other side of the bed in the morning to change your luck. | July 7 1976 | | |
You will have a bad day if you get up on your left foot first, always put the right foot on the floor first. | April 1979 | | |
It is bad luck to wait unt the evening to make the bed. | April 1982 | | |
Change all bed clothes on New Years Day. | October 1978 | | |
You dream about what you would like to happen in real life. | July 1977 | | |
Old folks said that what you dream would come true. | October 1976 | | |
Dreams fortell the future. [A feeling of d‚j… vu] when the event reappears. | April 1982 | | |
Whatever dreamed it would happen. | March 1982 | | |
Dreams are of impending events. | April 1980 | | |
Sometimes dreams can tell the future. | April 19 1980 | | |
The older folks had dream books and abided by it. | May 1976 | | |
Dreams of falling -- bad luck -- afraid of climbing. | May 1976 | | |
If you eat too much before going to bed, you'll have dreams. | April 1980 | | |
Dreams come true eventually. | June 1976 | | |
If you talk about something during the day, you dream about it at night. | April 1980 | | |
Dreams are always contrary | March 1980 | | |
Some dreams come true, others have special meanings. | April 30 1980 | | |
When you eat too much before you go to bed you dream a lot. | April 1980 | | |
Dreams represented suppressed desires. | October 1978 | | |
Dreams come true. | November 19 1976 | | |
Dreams of water was a good omen. | April 1982 | | |
Dreams of water -- trouble ahead. | March 1982 | | |
Dreams of muddy water, a bad happening. Clear water a very good happening. | April 1982 | | |
Dreams of cloudy water -- bad luck. Clear water -- good luck. | February 1982 | | |
When you dream about water you'll have good luck. | March 7 1979 | | |
Dream of clear water -- good luck. | March 1982 | | |
You will have good luck if you dream of clear water. | April 1982 | | |
Dreams of clear water -- good luck. | February 28 1980 | | |
Dreams of still water means good luck. | April 1980 | | |
Dreams of muddy water clearing up means good luck. | October 1976 | | |
Dreams of muddy water -- it brings bad luck. | April 1980 | | |
It is bad luck to dream of muddy water. | April 1982 | | |
Dream of cloudy water -- trouble. | March 1982 | | |
Dream of muddy water -- a sign of bad luck. | April 1977 | | |
Dream of muddy water -- bad luck or a portent of tradgey [!] | April 24 1980 | | |
Dreams of muddy water -- bad news. | October 11 1976 | | |
Dreams of muddy water bad luck. | March 1980 | | |
Dream of muddy water -- bad luck. Dream of a death and you will receive a letter. | September 1 1976 | | |
Dreams of muddy water -- death in family -- bad luck. | May 1976 | | |
Dreams of muddy water -- bad fortune. | March 1976 | | |
Dreams of muddy water -- bad luck. | March 1976 | | |
Dreams of muddy water warned of trouble or an impending death. | April 1980 | | |
Dreams of muddy water -- trouble coming | July 1 1976 | | |
Dreams of muddy water means trouble. | July 1977 | | |
Dreams of muddy water -- trouble coming. | March 1980 | | |
Dreams of muddy water -- trouble. | February 28 1980 | | |
Dreams of muddy water means trouble. | April 1980 | | |
Dreams of muddy water trouble is ahead. | April 3 1980 | | |
Dreams of muddy water -- trouble ahead. | | | |
Dreams of muddy water -- sign of trouble. | March 1977 | | |
Dream of muddy water -- trouble. | November 15 1976 | | |
Dream of muddy water -- sadness or trouble. | January 21 1977 | | |
Dream of muddy water and it's a sign of trouble. | April 1979 | | |
Dreams of muddy water -- trouble. | July 1 1976 | | |
Dreams of muddy water meant an accident was about to occur. Tracks in mud mean same thing. | June 1976 | | |
Dreams of muddy water are of sign of guilty feelings surfacing. | December 1976 | | |
Dream of muddy water -- trouble. | December 20 1976 | | |
Dreams of muddy water means death or trouble in the family. | April 1980 | | |
Dream of muddy water, an omen of something bad to happen. | February 17 1977 | | |
Dream of muddy water -- trouble. | January 20 1977 | | |
Dream of muddy water, trouble. | November 30 1976 | | |
Dreams of muddy water -- bad luck. | March 1976 | | |
Dream of muddy water, there is trouble ahead. | September 17 1976 | | |
Dreams of a wedding mean death. Dreams of muddy water mean trouble. | July 10 1976 | | |
Dreams of muddy water -- trouble. | May 1976 | | |
Dream of muddy water, something of confusion. | December 1976 | | |
Dream of muddy water -- a sign of trouble. | April 1976 | | |
Dream of blood -- hear of a scandal. | November 30 1976 | | |
Dreams of a funeral meant good tidings. | July 19 1978 | | |
You will have good luck if you dream of drinking milk. | April 1982 | | |
Dream of human waste means good luck. | November 25 1981 | | |
To dream of loss of teeth, you will have good luck. | October 11 1976 | | |
Dream of having a baby: bad luck. | July 1980 | | |
Dream of blood, bad luck. Some one will die or you will get very bad news. | May 1979 | | |
Dream of stone wall -- a complex of some sort. | December 1976 | | |
When you dream of raw steak, it means bad luck. | October 1976 | | |
What you dream the first night in a strange house will come true. | July 1964 | | |
"They say what you dream the first night you sleep in a room will come true." | May 12 1963 | | |
One never remembers dreams that will come true. | April 1979 | | |
If you dream under a new blanket it will come true. | April 1982 | | |
Usually they said dreams were the reverse of the facts. | June 1976 | | |
Dreams always come out the opposite of what you dream. | | | |
One dreams in opposites. | April 1979 | | |
Dreams go in opposites usually. | September 17 1976 | | |
Dreams go by contraries -- everything happens in pairs. | March 1982 | | |
Spiritually things are given to you by dreams in a slightly different way. | February 1979 | | |
Dreams are often opposites, although sometimes they come true. Cousin dreamed of drowning and he did. | August 27 1976 | | |
People would dream if they ate too much before going to bed. | April 1980 | | |
Bubbles on coffee mean you are going to dream. | September 21 1976 | | |
Dreams of falling meant you shouldn't eat before you retire. | June 1976 | | |
If you dream the same thing twice, it's come true. | before 1955 | | |
If you dream the same dream three times it becomes a reality. | April 1980 | | |
If you have the same dream 3 times it will come true. | April 1982 | | |
If you have the same dream 3 times in a row, it will come true. | April 1980 | | |
If you dream the same dream 3 times in succession, the dream will come true. | March 1979 | | |
If you dream something 3 times it will come true. | November 15 1976 | | |
If you get up and remember your dreams, it will happen. | March 28 1980 | | |
Same dream for several nights means a sign of important news or impending danger. | October 1976 | | |
To make dreams come true, tell someone about it before breakfast. | April 1979 | | |
Don't tell your dreams before breakfast unless you want them to come true. | February 1979 | | |
If you tell a dream before breakfast it will come true. | February 1979 | | |
Tell dreams before breakfast and they'll come true. | April 1979 | | |
If you tell a dream before having breakfast, it will come true. | October 19 1976 | | |
Tell a dream before breakfast it will come true. | July 1 1976 | | |
If you remember the dream, tell it before breakfast. | February 1982 | | |
Don't tell of your dream before breakfast if you want it to come true. | April 1980 | | |
Don't tell dreams to anyone, for if they do come true and involve others' affairs one may feel guilty if the dream vision is bad and predicts harm to someone. | March 1979 | | |
If you tell your dream before breakfast it won't come true. | April 1982 | | |
If you don't tell your dream before breakfast it will come true. | February 1979 | | |
Unlucky to tell dreams before breakfast. | April 16 1979 | | |
A dream on Friday night will come true. | July 1978 | | |
Friday night dreams always come true. | | | |
What you dream on a Friday night was supposed to become a fact of Saturday. | March 1982 | | |
If you dream something and want it to come true you must not tell anyone about it. | April 1980 | | |
Dream on Friday will come true on Saturday. | April 1979 | | |
Whatever you dream on Friday will come true if you don't tell anybody about it. | before 1942 | | |
What you dream on Friday night, tell on Saturday, would come true. | April 1982 | | |
Friday night dreams and Saturday told, will surely come true no matter how hold. | February 1982 | | |
Friday's dreams, Saturday told, will come true, same of old. | February 1979 | | |
It is bad luck to whistle in the house. | February 1979 | | |
Whistle after dark for courage. | May 1979 | | |
Orientals, Slavs, and Semities do not whistle -- bad luck. | January 20 1977 | | |
Whistling causes angels to cry. | April 1980 | | |
If you whistle, the Blessed Mother would cry. | March 1980 | | |
Whistling in a house brings bad luck. | April 1980 | | |
Bad luck to whistle in house. | April 5 1980 | | |
If you whistle in the dark, you won't be afraid. | April 1980 | | |
If you eat bread crust you can learn to whistle. | April 1980 | | |
Girls shouldn't whistle. | March 1980 | | |
Ladies are never to whistle. | April 1980 | | |
It's bad luck whistling in the house. | October 1976 | | |
Never whistle at night for it calls attention to evil spirits. | December 1976 | | |
A whistling woman never gotes to heaven. | March 1982 | | |
Whistling in your house meant bad luck. | November 25 1981 | | |
Whisting in a house brings bad luck. | April 1980 | | |
Whistling woman and a crowing hen always comes to a bad end. | April 1982 | | |
It's unladylike to whistle. | April 1982 | | |
Bad luck for a woman to whistle. | March 1982 | | |
A woman wistling and a crowing hen is neither good for God or men. | March 1982 | | |
A whistling gal and a crowing hen always come to a bad end. | March 1982 | | |
A whistlin' girls and cackling hens always comes to some bad ends. | October 18 1980 | | |
If a female whistles, it makes the saints cry. | April 1982 | | |
"A whistling girl and a crowing hen will always come to some bad end." | February 1982 | | |
Whistling girls and crowing hens always come to some bad end. | March 1982 | | |
If a girl whistles, she'll never be a lady. | March 1982 | | |
Whistling girls come to a bad end. | April 1982 | | |
Whistle before seven, cry before eleven. | February 29 1980 | | |
IF a girl was caught whistling it would make the Blessed Mother cry. | March 28 1980 | | |
IF you whistle in the house, the Blessed Mother will cry. | February 1979 | | |
If you put your clothing on wrong, you'll get new clothes. | April 1979 | | |
If you happen to put your blouse on inside out, you will be getting a new one. | March 1982 | | |
There's a measurin' (?) worm on me -- I must be ggonna git a new shirt. | June 6 1976 | | |
If a spider is seen on one's clothing this means you're getting new clothes. | April 1980 | | |
If a worm falls on you from a tree you will get new clothes. | April 1980 | | |
Dropped scissors -- new clothes needed. | March 1976 | | |
Never put new shoe on table -- bad luck. | January 30 1980 | | |
A shoe placed on a table means bad luck. | September 1 1976 | | |
Never put shoes on bed. | July 1978 | | |
Never put new shoes on top of a table or chair. It brings bad luck. | October 1978 | | |
If you find a measuring worm on your clothes, he's measuring you for new clothes. | | | |
If you drop scissors, some one is going to make you a new piece of clothing. | April 1976 | | |
If your skirt is turned up on the end, it means you will get a new one. | October 27 1976 | | |
If your skirt hem turns up, kiss it and wish for a new dress. | June 1977 | | |
If the hem of your skirt is turned up, you'll get a new dress. Alternately, you had to kiss it first. | October 1979 | | |
Find ladybug on your windows, you will get a new dress. | March 1980 | | |
It is bad luck to put on any clothing left first. | April 1982 | | |
Chamge clothes to change luck. | March 1980 | | |
Backward clothing brings bad luck. | | | |
It is bad luck to put clothing on inside out. | April 1982 | | |
If you put your clothing on wrong, you'll have good luck. | April 1979 | | |
If you put something on wrongside out either keep it or take everything off and start again or you'll have bad luck. | April 26 1979 | | |
If you put on clothes inside out or backwards, don't change -- bad luck. | January 30 1980 | | |
If you put clothing on wrong, bad luck to take it off and put it on right. | October 1979 | | |
If you put your pants or shirt on backward -- bad luck. Nothing will go right that day. | March 1979 | | |
Put clothing on inside out is bad luck. | February 1979 | | |
When you put clothing on wrong, take it off right away and put it on right or it will be bad luck. | April 1979 | | |
When you put clothing on wrong, if you change it, make a wish. | March 1979 | | |
Putting clothes on wrong side out -- bad luck all day. | April 1979 | | |
If you put clothes on wrong, it's bad luck to take them off and change. | April 1979 | | |
If you put clothing on wrong, leave them on. If you don't, you will have a bad day. | May 1979 | | |
If you put clothing on wrong, it's bad luck to change it. | April 1979 | | |
IF you put clothing on backwards, leave them on or you will have bad luck. | February 1979 | | |
"One night when I was about to retire for the night, I got my nightgown on inside out and my husband said, 'Oh don't change it.' And I couldn't understand why, but he said, 'Well it'll bring you bad luck.'" | August 13 1976 | | |
If you put clothing on wrong, if removed and reversed, you have bad luck all day. | March 1979 | | |
If you put your clothes on wrong side out -- don't change them or you will have a fight. | February 1979 | | |
Put clothing on wrong -- bad luck, spit onver your left shoulder. | May 1979 | | |
IF you put on a dress inside out, you spit on it three times so you don't have bad luck. | February 1979 | | |
If you put clothing on wrong, you'll be doing things backwards all day. | October 12 1979 | | |
To wear clothing inside out, means a gift. | April 1980 | | |
Bad luck for a week if clothes are buttoned wrong. | April 4 1979 | | |
It's snowing down south. | before 1950 | | |
If you put underwear on inside out, you must leave them that way or you will hav bad luck. But if you did take them off and turn them right side out you had to spit on them first. | April 1982 | | |
We took our long underear off on May 1. | March 1982 | | |
People never took off long underwear until May 1st. | March 1982 | | |
Be sure everyone had on clean underwear on New Year's Day. | October 1978 | | |
If you wear your underwear inside out, you will have bad luck. | December 4 1976 | | |
Gloves should never be picked up by the person who drops them, or bad luck will follow. IF somebody else picks them up and returns them to the owner, the latter may expect a pleasant surprise. | April 2 1980 | | |
If you have your slip on inside out it meant you would receive a present. | March 12 1979 | | |
If your pants wears through on the seat it means you're lazy. | October 1978 | | |
Don't put on the left stocking first. | July 18 1978 | | |
Always put right sock on first then left. Same with shoes or bad luck. | April 26 1979 | | |
Put on the right stocking first for good luck. | July 1978 | | |
If you put stockings on inside out, surprise coming! | July 18 1978 | | |
If you accidentally put a sock on wrong side out it means a present. | May 1979 | | |
If you put on stockings inside out, leave it that way or you will have bad luck. | July 1978 | | |
Bad luck if shoe-lace breaks. | July 1977 | | |
If stockings were put on, on wrong side, you'd be surprised. | July 18 1978 | | |
If stockings are put on inside out, you will have a surprise. | July 18 1978 | | |
If stocking is put on inside out, leave it. | July 18 1978 | | |
Never put on the left shoe first. | July 18 1978 | | |
Bad luck to put a sock and a shoe on instead of sock and sock, shoe and shoe. | April 1982 | | |
Always put right stocking on before left. | July 18 1978 | | |
Lace the right shoe first. | March 1976 | | |
When you get up always put your right shoe and sock on first for good luck. | February 1979 | | |
Always put right shoe on first. | July 1964 | | |
When dressing your feet put both stockings on and then your shoes. Always the left foot first. | November 1978 | | |
IF your shoe lace comes open bad luck. | April 1982 | | |
Don't wear dead person's shoes. | July 18 1978 | | |
If a shoe-lace breaks, you will come into misfortune. | December 1976 | | |
If shoe-lace breaks -- bad luck for day. | April 30 1980 | | |
If a shoe lace breaks it's bad luck. | January 17 1977 | | |
If a shoe-lace breaks, it's bad luck. | November 30 1976 | | |
If your shoelace breaks, it means bad luck the rest of the day. | December 1976 | | |
If a shoelace breaks -- wear or tare and your feet will soon be bare. | April 1980 | | |
If a shoelace breaks -- bad luck. | April 1980 | | |
If a shoe-lace breaks, it means bad luck especially if it is the left one. | April 1980 | | |
Wearing three new things on Easter assures good luck throughout the year. | April 1979 | | |
Never hang anything on bed posts -- bad luck. | November 30 1976 | | |
Wear new clothing from head to toe all day New Year's Day for good luck. | May 1979 | | |
Hem of dress turned up make a wish and it ill come true as you turn it down. | November 1976 | | |
If the hem of your skirt is turned up, make a wish while turning it down. | January 30 1980 | | |
Bad luck to put things on the bed. | March 1982 | | |
Never wear hat in the house. | March 1982 | | |
Never wear a hat in the house (man). | June 1964 | | |
Don't put a hat on backwards (Don't know why). | July 18 1978 | | |
Bad luck to put your shoes or other clothes on the bed. | February 1979 | | |
Bad luck to put hats and shoes on the bed. | February 1979 | | |
Bad luck to put coat or hat on the bed. | February 1982 | | |
Bad luck to put hat on bed. | April 1982 | | |
Bad luck to put hat on the bed. | March 1982 | | |
Bad luck to put shoes and hats on the bed. | April 1982 | | |
Bad luck to put a hat on the bed. | December 1976 | | |
Never put a hat on the bed; it is bad luck. | June 1977 | | |
Bad luck to put hat on bed. | May 1979 | | |
Bad luck to put a hat on the bed. | November 15 1978 | | |
It's bad luck to put hats on the bed. | August 10 1976 | | |
It was bad luck to put a hat on the bed. | November 30 1976 | | |
Never put a hat on the bed. Bad luck. | July 18 1978 | | |
It was bad luck to put hats or shoes on the bed. | January 10 1977 | | |
It's bad luck to put a hat or scissors on the bed. | December 1976 | | |
It was bad luck to put hats on the bed. | November 30 1976 | | |
Bad luck to put a hat on the bed. | February 28 1980 | | |
Bad luck to put a hat on the bed. | April 1980 | | |
Bad luck to throw a hat on the bed. | July 18 1978 | | |
Bad luck to put hat and shoes on the bed. | April 1980 | | |
Bad luck to put a hat on the bed. | April 1980 | | |
Hat on bed -- bad luck. | October 12 1979 | | |
Never put shoes or a man's hat on the bed. | | | |
Bad luck to put a hat on the bed. | May 1979 | | |
Bad luck to put a hat on the bed. | April 1 1979 | | |
Bad luck to put a man's hat on the bed. | March 7 1979 | | |
Hat on the bed -- bad luck. | April 26 1979 | | |
Bad luck to put your hat on the bed. | March 1979 | | |
It's bad luck to put hats on the bed. | October 1976 | | |
Nobody can put a hat on your bed because it makes the house poor. | April 1979 | | |
It was bad luck to put a hat or a coat on the bed. | October 11 1976 | | |
Throwing hat on the bed brings bad luck. | April 1980 | | |
It is bad luck to put things on the bed, such as a hat. | April 1980 | | |
Bad luck to put hats on the bed. | October 1979 | | |
Bad luck to put hats and shoes on the bed. | July 1980 | | |
Never put a hat on the bed -- it's bad luck. | October 1976 | | |
Don't put people's hats and coats on the bed. | April 6 1980 | | |
It was bad luck to put novelty wearing apparel on the bed. | February 1977 | | |
Bad luck to put hats or shoes on the bed. | April 5 1980 | | |
It was bad luck to put anything on the bed. | July 1977 | | |
It's bad luck to put a hairbrush on the bed. | November 15 1976 | | |
Bad luck to put shoes on the bed. | January 17 1977 | | |
Bad luck to put shoes, tools, unfeminine objects on the bed. | March 1979 | | |
It is unlucky to put shoes on a table, especially if they are new. | April 2 1980 | | |
Bad luck to put shoes on the bed. | March 28 1980 | | |
Bad luck to put shoes on table. | April 1978 | | |
Bad luck to put shoes on the table. | February 1979 | | |
Bad luck to put shoes on the table. | February 1979 | | |
Bad luck to put shoes on the bed. | April 1982 | | |
Never put shoes on a table. | November 27 1981 | | |
Bad luck to put shoes on the bed. | March 1982 | | |
Bad luck to put shoes on the bed. | April 1982 | | |
Bad luck to put shoes on the bed. | April 1982 | | |
Bad luck to put shoes on the bed. | April 1980 | | |
Put new shoes on a dining room table -- Bad luck. | February 1979 | | |
Bad luck to put shoes on the table, epecially new ones. | March 1979 | | |
Bad luck to put shoes on the table. | March 1979 | | |
Bad luck to put shoes on the table. | April 26 1979 | | |
It was bad luck tp put your shoes on the table. | February 1979 | | |
Don't put shoes on a table. | January 17 1977 | | |
Bad luck to put shoes on the bed. | March 1980 | | |
Bad luck to put shoe under the bed. | April 1980 | | |
Bad luck to put shoes on the table. | April 1979 | | |
If you wear on opal and it's not your birthstone, it's bad luck. | October 27 1976 | | |
Pearls must be worn or they'll die. | October 1979 | | |
If pearls broke while wearing them,meant bad luck. | April 18 1979 | | |
Boil the oyster with the pearl, shuck it first. | February 1979 | | |
Pearls were always bad luck. | April 4 1979 | | |
Young girls shouldn't wear pearls because they're too "seductive." | April 26 1979 | | |
If the clasp of your necklace touches the pendant, make a wish. | February 1979 | | |
Pearls = Tease | May 1979 | | |
You will have good luck if your necklace turns upside down. | April 1982 | | |
Each pearl a tear will fall. | March 1979 | | |
To get pearls means tears. | October 1978 | | |
Pearls bring tears. | May 1979 | | |
Pearls should be worn or lose their luster. | May 1979 | | |
Pearls accepted from a male is bad luck. | December 1978 | | |
Never sew on Sunday, you will have to rip all the stitchers out with your nose. | March 1982 | | |
You never sewed on Sunday. | April 1979 | | |
Don't sew on Sunday -- bad luck. | February 1979 | | |
If you sew on a Sunday, you will have to take all of the stitches out with your nose when you get to heaven. | April 1982 | | |
If you sew on Sunday, you'll pull the stitches out with your nose. | April 13 1980 | | |
What you stitch on Sunday you'll rip apart with your tongue when you die. | April 1980 | | |
In cutting out the pattern for a man's shirt, it would help to keep the shirt tail from coming above a man's belt if cut out when the moon pointed up. | May 15 1976 | | |
Bad luck to ever sew anything on a Sunday. | October 1978 | | |
Do not sew anything on Sundays, Ascension Day or other Holy days. | April 1979 | | |
Never sew on Ascension Day. | November 27 1981 | | |
Never sew anything on Ascension Day. | May 10 1963 | | |
Neither sew nor work in the ground on Ascension Day. | March 1976 | | |
Never sew on Ascension Day. | October 1976 | | |
Do not sew on Ascension Day. | April 1979 | | |
It is bad luck to do any sewing on Ascension Day. | October 1976 | | |
On Ascension Day Fish. Don't do any sewing or work any in the ground. | April 1976 | | |
If you sew on Ascension Day lightning will strike it. | May 1979 | | |
Don't sew on Ascension Day or lightning will strike what you made. | April 1979 | | |
Now, you're not supposed to sew on Ascension Day. My mother made clothing for other people, and they didn't wear anything made on Ascension Day. She made mine and her sisters clothing for school on Ascension Day and nothing ever happened. | April 1980 | | |
My grandmother said never never sew anything on Ascension Day, the lightning will strike it. | October 1978 | | |
Don't sew anything on Ascension Day or the lightning will strike you. | June 1976 | | |
On Ascension day go fishing -- do not sew. | April 1976 | | |
Another thing they were very careful about not sewing on Ascension Day. They though that was bad luck, the lightning would strike close by if they would sew on Sunday and I know another thing mother always said. She would never let us go fishing on Ascension Day, thought it was, you know, was bad luck. | April 13 1976 | | |
"If you sew on Ascension Day during a thunderstorm, lightning will strike." | May 8 1963 | | |
Women didn't sew on Ascension Day. | March 1976 | | |
Do not thread the needle on Ascension Day. | November 15 1976 | | |
Ascension Day -- Do not sew, dig in the ground, go fishing. | March 12 1976 | | |
If you sew on Ascension Day, house will be struck by lightning. | July 1 1976 | | |
Women were not allowed to sew on Ascension Day. | October 1978 | | |
Sew on Ascension Day and you will be struck by lightning. | March 1979 | | |
If you sew on Ascension Day, lightning strikes you. | March 1979 | | |
Don't sew on Ascension Day. | January 30 1980 | | |
On Ascension Day -- Not to sew or use a needle, or work in the ground. | January 27 1977 | | |
Never sew on Ascension Day. Never touch anything sharp, or you'll get struck by lightning. | April 4 1979 | | |
If a woman did sewing on Ascension Day, she would be struck by lightning. | April 1979 | | |
Sewing on Ascension Day -- thunderstorm (lightning) will strike. | May 8 1963 | | |
Can't sew on Ascension Day or lightning will strike. | March 7 1979 | | |
If one works in the ground or sews on Ascension Day, the person will be struck with lightning. | May 1979 | | |
Never do any sewing, hammering or nailing on Ascension Day. | April 1979 | | |
If you sew something on a person while he's wearing it, you're sewin' trouble on him. [To his wife as she sewed a decoration on his shirt]. | February 11 1973 | | |
Never use anything sharp [on Ascension Day] on accunt of lightening striking. | January 1976 | | |
It is bad luck to sew clothing while you are wearing it. | April 1982 | | |
You should never sew anything while a person is wearing it. | April 1979 | | |
If you sew a button on something you're wearing, you're sewing on trouble. | April 23 1964 | | |
If you sew a button on while that particular garment is being worn, the wearer must hold a spoon in his mouth. | June 1976 | | |
If you are mending a garment while wearing it, chew on something to prevent the sewing up of the brains. (Common custom in my home while growing up.) | July 18 1978 | | |
When you are sewing on a garment which a person is wearing (while you are doing the mending), have him chew on a piece of thread or you will sew his senses together. | August 1964 | | |
The old time quilters always made mistakes in their quilts because anything perfect ws thought to be an affront to God. | March 1982 | | |
No Dutch seamstress would hand a needle to another seamstress point-first; it would bring bad luck. | March 1982 | | |
A dull scissors is like a silent mouth. | April 1980 | | |
Crossed scissors means a fight. | | | |
Drop scissors -- bad luck. | March 1976 | | |
Never pick up scissors dropped to the floor. It is bad luck. | April 1980 | | |
If you drop scissors, leave them lay. | March 1976 | | |
Never pick up a pair of scissors that you have dropped. | April 1980 | | |
Scissors are a sign of good fortune. | April 1980 | | |
To drop a pair of scissors by accident is unlucky, especially if they are picked up by the one who dropped them. | April 2 1980 | | |
If you drop scissors someone else must pick them up or you will have bad luck. | April 1980 | | |
Bad luck to put scissors on the bed. | December 1976 | | |
Hand scissors with the pointed end toward you. | April 30 1980 | | |
Crossed scissors mean a fight. | | | |
Step on dropped scissors before picking up or you'll have bad luck. | April 1980 | | |
Find straight pins and pick them up -- good luck. | April 1982 | | |
Find a pin on the floor -- food luck. | April 1980 | | |
Picking up pins meant good luck. | July 19 1978 | | |
See a pin, pick it up, all the day you'll have good luck. | April 26 1979 | | |
See a pin or penny, pick it up and you will have good luck. | March 1979 | | |
See a pin and pick it up, all the day you'll have good luck. | April 4 1979 | | |
Good luck. Seeing new moon over left shoulder. Finding a four-leaf clover. See a pin and pick it up. | July 7 1976 | | |
See a pin, pick it up, and the rest of the day good luck. | March 1979 | | |
See a pin, pick it up. Let it lay, bad luck you will have all the day. | September 17 1976 | | |
See a pin, pick it up, All day long you'll have good luck. See a pin, let it lay, you'll hav bad luck, all day. | October 12 1979 | | |
If you see a pin and leave it lay you will wish you never pass that way. | April 1976 | | |
Never take a needle from anyone -- bad luck. | February 1979 | | |
If your initials spell a word, you'll be rich. | | | |
Anybody that talks to themselves has money in the bak. That's older than me and you put together. | August 5 1978 | | |
Eat sauerkraut on New Year's Day if you want to be rich. | December 29 1968 | | |
If you eat pork and sauerkraut on New Year's Day you'll have money all year. | December 31 1981 | | |
That's what they say, Eat sauerkraut and you'll have money all year. It never works but it's nice to try. | December 31 1981 | | |
Good luck to eat Sauerkraut and Pork on New Year's Day -- you'll be rich. | December 12 1975 | | |
Down there [Florida] they eat hog jowls and black eye peas for good luck [on New Year's Day]. Up here we eat sauerkraut for good luck. | January 21 1973 | | |
Eat pork and Sauerkraut on New Year's Day and you'll never go broke. | October 27 1976 | | |
On New Year's Day, they eat sauerkraut and pork so they would "root" for a living instead of having to scratch. | April 1976 | | |
Eat pork for a good new year financially. | February 29 1980 | | |
On New Year's day, wash hands with a silver dollar -- everybody in house was to do it. | March 1979 | | |
Bubbles on coffee mean you are going to get money. | December 1976 | | |
Bubbles on coffee mean money. | August 10 1976 | | |
Bubbles on coffee mean money, if you could get them before they burst. | December 20 1976 | | |
Bubbles on coffee mean money if coming toward you. Away from you, you would lose some. | January 10 1977 | | |
If you accidentally put your clothes on inside out, you'll get money. | October 1978 | | |
When seeing the first robin in the springtime, you always shake your coin purse while looking at the robin -- the purse will never be empty again (practiced). | April 1981 | | |
When you hear the first whipporwill, roll in the grass and shake your pocket book. | April 1976 | | |
If change was had in the pocket, on hearing the first wip-poor-will, and you shook it, and brought good luck. | March 1976 | | |
Shake your pocketbook when you hear the first wippoorwill, then you will have money all year. | June 1976 | | |
When you hear the first wippoorwill, shake your pocketbook and you won't be without money. | September 17 1976 | | |
If a wagon full of hay comes towards you wish for money. | June 1977 | | |
When you hear the first whippoorwill, shake the pocket book for it to be filled. | March 1976 | | |
If you shake your pocketbook when you hear a whippoorwill, you'll always have money in it. | August 10 1963 | | |
When you hear the first whippoorwill, shake coins in purse for more money to accumulate. | March 1976 | | |
If you find where a falling star hits, you'll get rich. | March 1979 | | |
If a loaf of bread falls on the floor, if you pick it up and eat it, you'll always stay poor. If you give it to the birds, you'll get an increase. | | | |
Money put on the table would bring poverty. | March 1979 | | |
If you spend money on Monday, you'll spend money all week. | | | |
Elsie doesn't like to spend money on Monday. She says you spend money on Monday, you spend money all week. | May 20 1963 | | |
Don't sweep after night, you won't have any riches. | March 1979 | | |
Sweep dirt over the door step means you'll always be poor -- swept your wealth away. | May 1976 | | |
Long fingers are said to be a sign that their owner is improvident and will never be able to save money. | April 2 1980 | | |
Whne whippoorwill first hollers shake change in your pockets and you'll never be broke that year. | March 1979 | | |
To kill a spider is to bring rain or poverty. | April 1980 | | |
Mole on the neck, Money by the peck | April 25 1964 | | |
White spots on the fingernails mean money, prosperity. | October 19 1976 | | |
If your nose itched, it meant you would get money. | May 15 1976 | | |
The more white spots you had on your fingernails, meant you would be a wealthy person. | October 1976 | | |
When your nose itches you will get money. | August 10 1978 | | |
Hand itches -- going to receive money or shake hands with someone. | March 1977 | | |
If your hand itches you'll get money. | March 1979 | | |
Good luck for your hand to itch -- you will get money. | December 12 1975 | | |
If your hand itches you'll receive money. | April 1980 | | |
Itchy palm meant you were coming into money. | April 1 1980 | | |
When your hand itches, you will receive money or shake hands. | June 1977 | | |
If your hand itches, you're going to get money. | April 26 1979 | | |
When your hand itches, you will be receiving money. | April 1977 | | |
Hand itch -- will become the recipient of money. | December 1978 | | |
If your hand itches, it means money. | March 1976 | | |
When your hand itches you'll get money. | December 10 1976 | | |
If your hand itches, you will receive money. | March 1976 | | |
When your hand itches, you will receive money. | January 20 1977 | | |
If your hand itches, you're going to get money. | December 20 1976 | | |
When your hand itches, you will soon come into money. | December 1976 | | |
If your hand itches, you will receive money. | November 15 1976 | | |
When your hand itches, you will receive money. | August 10 1976 | | |
If your left hand itches, you'll receive money or a letter. Right hand -- meet a friend. | May 1976 | | |
If your left hand itches, you will receive money; right hand you will shake hands with someone. Or right hand you will give money away. | May 1976 | | |
Itchy palm means money. | April 1982 | | |
If your palm itches, it's a sign that you'll be getting money. | November 25 1981 | | |
If your hand itches, you are going to get some money. | June 1976 | | |
When your hand itches, you're going to get money. | June 1976 | | |
When your hand itches -- sign of money coming to you. | November 15 1978 | | |
If your hand itches, you're going to get money. | June 1976 | | |
If your hand itches, it means shake hands with some body or get money. | April 1976 | | |
If your hand itches, you are coming into money. Going to be introduced to a stranger. | July 7 1976 | | |
Hand itches -- you are going to com in for some money. | January 27 1977 | | |
When your hand itches it means prosperity, money. | October 19 1976 | | |
If your hand itches, you will receive money. | October 11 1976 | | |
When your hand itches, you'll receive money. | October 1976 | | |
When your hand itches, one is to receive some money. | October 6 1976 | | |
When your hand itches, you're going to get money. | July 1 1976 | | |
When your hand itches, you'll come into money. | November 19 1976 | | |
Either hand itches, you'll get money. | June 1976 | | |
When your hand itches you will get some money. | June 1976 | | |
When your hand itches, you'll come into a sum of money. | April 1976 | | |
If your hand itches, you will receive money. | July 1 1976 | | |
When your hand itches, you are going to get money. | September 21 1976 | | |
When your hand itches, you are going to get money. | October 1976 | | |
When your hand itches, you'll get money. | April 1976 | | |
When your hand itches, it means getting money. | July 1 1976 | | |
If your hand itches, you'll receive money. | March 1976 | | |
If your hand itches, you'll get money. | March 1976 | | |
If your hand itches you're going to be rich. | November 30 1979 | | |
If your left hand itches -- money. | November 15 1976 | | |
If your left hand itches, you're going to get money. | April 3 1980 | | |
Left hand itches -- money. | January 30 1980 | | |
If your right hand itchesm you will shake hands with a stranger on way to visit. Left hand, you'd receive unexpected money. | March 1976 | | |
Right hand itches -- someone's gossipping about you. Left hand -- you'll get money. | June 1976 | | |
Left hand itches, money; right hand, meet a stranger. | March 1976 | | |
If your left hand itches, you will receive money. | October 1978 | | |
If your left palm itches, you will receive money. | May 1979 | | |
If felt hand itches you will get money. | February 1979 | | |
When your left hand itches, money. | February 17 1977 | | |
Left hand itches, money coming. | January 21 1977 | | |
Left hand itches, going to receive money. | November 23 1976 | | |
If right hand itches, you would soon shake hands; if left hand you would receive money. | March 1976 | | |
Left palm itching -- expect money. | February 29 1980 | | |
Left hand itches -- unexpected money. | November 30 1976 | | |
If your left hand itches, you're going to come into a lot of money. | February 1979 | | |
Left hand itches -- receive money. | November 30 1976 | | |
When your left hand itches, it means you are getting money. | November 27 1981 | | |
Left hand itches, you will get money. | February 1982 | | |
When your left hand itches, you will receive money. | September 17 1976 | | |
If your left hand itches, you're gonna get some money. | | | |
When your right hand itches, company is coming; when your left hand itches, you're going to get money. | March 1976 | | |
If your right hand itches, you'll shake hands with someone. Also some one will give you money. | October 1978 | | |
If your right hand itches, you're going to receive money. | January 1976 | | |
Right hand itching means money. | January 10 1977 | | |
If your right hand itches, you'll receive money. | January 17 1977 | | |
If your right hand itches, you are going to give away money, and if your left hand itches, you are going to receive money. | October 1976 | | |
Left hand itches -- receive money. | July 1980 | | |
If your hand itches, Right hand -- hand shake. Left Hand -- money from somewhere. | April 1976 | | |
When your left hand itches -- you are going to receive money. | May 1976 | | |
If your right hand itches, it means you will shake hands with someone; left hand means money coming. | Spetember 1 1976 | | |
White spots on fingernails -- going to get money. | March 1980 | | |
Cut your fingernails on Monday -- you will always have money. | April 1980 | | |
White spots on the fingernails of the right hand mean you would be successful in business. | November 1976 | | |
Spots on fingernails, you get money when they grow out. | April 1979 | | |
Spots on the fingernails determine whether or not you'll be rich. | March 7 1979 | | |
If your foot itches, you're going to run into money. | February 1979 | | |
White spots on the fingernails means money. | January 10 1977 | | |
Any one who wears a hole in the sole of their shoe before the rest of the shoe is worn out will some day be rich. | October 1978 | | |
My grandfather used to believe that the first person who came into your house on New Year's Day had to be a man, or you'd have bad luck. He wouldn't let us in. | December 3 1974 | | |
Eat pork, chicken turkey on New Year's Day you will have to scratch all year. | July 1977 | | |
On New Year's Day, don't eat chicken or anything that scratches for its food. | April 1980 | | |
On New Year's Day -- eat pork and sauer kraut, never chicken -- pork roots ahead, chicken scratches back. | October 1979 | | |
Dark haired people on New Year's Day bring wealth. | March 1980 | | |
Eat sauerkraut and pork on New Year's Day so they would "root" for a living instead of having to scratch. | April 1976 | | |
Have money in your pocket on New Year's Day. | April 1980 | | |
My grandmother would place a silver coin outside on the windowledge a few hours before January 1st of the New Year (December 31st). At the stroke of 12:00 on January 1st, she would bring it inside her home. Doing this each yearwas suppose to bring good luck into the home for that year. | April 1 1980 | | |
Used to say shake money on New Year's Day have it all year round. | February 1979 | | |
If you wear coins in your shoes on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day you will have money all year. | February 1971 | | |
Hold a quarter in your hand over the old to New Year span. | November 30 1976 | | |
Place coin outside on the New Year's Eve -- bring in on New Year's Day to increase wealth. | April 1980 | | |
We put any silver piece on the edge of the window sill on New Year's Day for good luck during the coming year. | April 1982 | | |
Put your money out on the porch on New Year's Day. | November 19 1976 | | |
On New Year's Eve, put a coin on the windowsill; if moon shines on it, finances will be favorable all year. | April 1980 | | |
On New Year's Day, use a coin of each domination, wet them, place on face, so you will never be broke. | October 11 1976 | | |
On New Year's Day, place silver on window sill. | October 6 1976 | | |
It's bad luck to start the New Year owing any body money. | December 31 1965 | | |
Put a dime under the door mat on New Year's Day and have money all year. | July 1980 | | |
It is bad luck to pay out money in the beginning of the week because it means that you will be in debt in the future. | April 1982 | | |
You will have good luck if you receive money early in the week. It is said that you will be rich in the future. | April 1982 | | |
Eat goose on September 29th you will be one thousand dollars richer in 12 months. | | | |
If you eat goose on Michaelmas [Sept. 29] you'll not want money for a year. | | | |
Silver $ in washing water on Easter. | March 1979 | | |
On New Year's Day, take something into the house before you take something out. | March 1979 | | |
On New Year's Day, hang coal, pennies, dimes in a bag outside the door, bring in the next day. | June 1976 | | |
Dreams of horses -- signifies prosperity and abundance of wealth. | April 1980 | | |
Dream of white houses means you will become rich. | April 1982 | | |
Dream of a white horse is a sign you'll become rich. | April 1982 | | |
Ladybugs will bring money. | April 1980 | | |
If a spider comes down from a web in front of you it meant money. | September 1 1976 | | |
Dream of catching a fish in clear water is a sign that the dreamer will receive a large amount of money. | October 1976 | | |
Bubbles on coffee mean you will receive money. | June 1977 | | |
Bubble in coffee cup money? | March 1979 | | |
Bubbles on coffee = money. | December 1978 | | |
Bubbles in coffee mean money. | January 17 1977 | | |
Bubbles on your coffee mean you'll get money. | January 21 1977 | | |
Bubbles on coffee mean you will come into money. | November 15 1976 | | |
Bubbles on coffee mean money. | November 23 1976 | | |
Bubbles on coffee mean money, a large amount if they are big. | November 30 1976 | | |
Bubbles on coffee mean money if you drink them. | July 1977 | | |
When you see bubbles on the surface of coffee it means money for you. | April 1980 | | |
The bubbles (or solified cream) on a cup of coffee are money. Watch which side of the cup they go to, and that's the way your money will go. | | | |
Catch bubbles on coffee before they break and you will receive money. | September 1 1976 | | |
Bubbles on coffee mean money, prosperity. | October 19 1976 | | |
Bubbles on coffee mean you're going to get money and swallow bubbles before they break. | July 1980 | | |
Bubbles on coffee mean money. | November 15 1978 | | |
Drink the coffee bubbles from a spoon and you will receive money. | September 17 1976 | | |
Bubbles on coffee mean money -- collect with spoon and drink. | February 17 1977 | | |
Dropped spoon -- you'll come into money. | December 1976 | | |
Show open palm to the new moon and you'll have money all that month. | October 12 1979 | | |
Full moon -- empty purse -- under light of moon shake purse 3 times -- say "Fill it up" before next full moon you'll receive money. | March 1979 | | |
The new moon is a sign of good luck if you have money in your pocket. | March 1980 | | |
The new moon is a good time to make a deal or do something new. | April 1980 | | |
If you see a new moon for the first time over your left shoulder and you have a silver coin in your pocket, thrun the coin over and make a wish and it will come true. | April 1980 | | |
If you see a falling Star and say money three times before the week's out, before it disappears, you'll come into money. | November 1984 | | |
Run under a new moon with an empty wallet and it will get filled. | March 28 1980 | | |
Empty out your purse or wallet and run out at the full moon saying, "Fill her up!" and within a week you'll come into money. | December 1976 | | |
Finding objects in the street -- very good luck. | April 1979 | | |
My grandmother always said it was good luck if you picked it up. [penny] superstitions! | November 1 1982 | | |
Finding a coin in street -- good or bad luck depends on face of the coin. | May 1979 | | |
Finding a coin heads up is good luck; tails, bad luck. | April 26 1979 | | |
If you find a penny face up, good luck; face down, bad luck. | February 1979 | | |
Bad luck to pick up pennies tails up. | April 1982 | | |
Picking up pennies head first -- good luck. | April 1982 | | |
Find a penny with head up it's good luck. | | | |
If you find a penny put it in your shoe. | April 1982 | | |
Find a penny to change your luck. | March 1980 | | |
Finding a penny means good luck. | March 7 1979 | | |
Signs of good luck: 4 leaf clover, find a penny. | July 1 1976 | | |
Find a penny, good luck. | February 1979 | | |
See a penny, pick it up, All the day you'll have good luck. | April 1972 | | |
Find a penny, pick it up, the rest of the day you'll have good luck. | April 1979 | | |
If you find a penny, put it in your shoe, and you'll have good luck. | 1944 | | |
Two-dollar bills are unluck "You used to need them to get into bad houses and people still don't like them." | 1959 | | |
Two dollar bills are unlucky get rid of them | April 28 1978 | | |
A 2 dollar bill -- bad luck. | December 10 1976 | | |
Do not accept an umbrella as a gift unless you give the giver money for it -- it's bad to do | 1964 | | |
Put a penny [in a new pocketbook] to keep the devil away, like they say. | August 21 1979 | | |
Wife shovels out more than husband can bring in | July 1977 | | |
Put penny in gift purses for good luck. | January 30 1980 | | |
If you give a person a new purse, put a penny in it and that person will never go broke. | October 1976 | | |
Always refer a electrical current to a snake | April 1980 | | |
If I dreamed of disciplining a pupil, was especially careful to tell pupil next day and have a meutual understanding we both to take it easy. | December 10 1976 | | |
Whistling in a city room is bad luck. | June 1976 | | |
Count a girl's buttons to see who she'll marry, or a boy to see his occupation: Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief, doctor, lawyer, merchant, chief. | July 1964 | | |
When going on a journey or looking for a job, you left the house stepping out with the right foot, not the left. | January 20 1977 | | |
I always used to go into [Jewish dealor's] store on a Monday, because he'd do almost anything to get you to buy something. | 1972 | | |
Never start a job on Wednesday "That comes down from way back. My father would never start anything on Wednesday." | May 27 1977 | | |
The first customer of the week in a store must make a purchase, no matter how small or large, or business will be bad all week. | March 1982 | | |
Friday is a bad day to start a new job. | January 20 1977 | | |
Never start a new job on Friday. | June 1976 | | |
Start a new job on Friday, have bad luck. | July 1 1976 | | |
Many wouldn't work on Friday 13th -- fear of accidents. | March 1982 | | |
Never start a new project (or a trip) on a Friday, or it will not end well. | April 1980 | | |
Don't start a job on Friday -- if you do - short lived. | January 17 1977 | | |
Friday the 13th -- I don't like that day. I don't do too much on Friday the 13th. I very seldom drive a car on Friday the 13th. Made two containers of [Kool aid?] this mornin' dropped on, it broke all over the floor. | August 13 1976 | | |
Don't cut fingernails on Friday because you would not be paid or could lose your job. | June 1977 | | |
It was the custom not to work anything on Good Friday or Ascension Day. | April 1980 | | |
Do not use a hammer or nails on Good Friday | May 1979 | | |
Sinful to work on Good Friday. | April 1979 | | |
The better the day, the better the deed. Come back to people who say don't work on Sunday. | August 1964 | | |
What you make on Sunday, you lose on Monday. | August 13 1973 | | |
No Sunday working. | February 1979 | | |
If you work on Sunday the devil will get you before breakfast | April 1980 | | |
He should make money on it. He did it all on Sunday. | January 3 1975 | | |
It is bad luck to work on a holy day. | April 1982 | | |
It is bad luck to turn wheels backwards. | April 1982 | | |
You should not work on Ascension Day. | May 1979 | | |
Don't use hammer and nails on Good Friday. | May 1979 | | |
To knit concrete [ set new to join old], clean all the dirt and loose stones off the old concrete, then mix vinegar and water and spread over it before you put the new on. | March 11 1979 | | |
It's bad luck to dig in the dirt on Ascension Day. | July 1980 | | |
Don't do anything on Easter. | March 1979 | | |
If St. Smithin's Day is on a weekday, bad luck to work. | March 1979 | | |
Don't do any work on Ascension Day. Once a house caved in on George when he was tearing it down. | March 1979 | | |
On Ascension Day -- it's wrong to work in the house, barn, or field. | April 1979 | | |
Don't work on Ascension Day or lightening will strike whatever you worked on or are working on. | April 1979 | | |
German ship captains wouldn't take their boats out on a Monday. | November 10 1976 | | |
It is a good sign if a black cat comes into a house or on board a ship, especially if it does so uninvented. | April 2 1980 | | |
Sailors believe that if all the rats suddenly desert a ship, just before the sails, that ship is doomed. | | | |
Seamen believe that sharks know when death is coming to anyone on board a ship and that they will follow such a ship for miles waiting for the dead body to be thrown to sea. | April 2 1980 | | |
For a sailor on ship, whistling is bad luck. | April 24 1980 | | |
If you whistle on a boat, you're whistling for the ghost of Davy Jones or the Devil. | April 25 1980 | | |
If you whistle aboard a ship you will whistle up a storm. | April 1980 | | |
Rainbow at morns is a sailor's warning. | | | |
Lumbering lore: Never leave axe in stump. | November 15 1976 | | |
Rain the first day while lumbering is a good sign. | April 1979 | | |
Never start out lumbering on Friday. | March 28 1980 | | |
Never allow women on [lumber] rafts. Bad luck | March 28 1980 | | |
Never start a new job on Friday. | November 30 1976 | | |
Use local lumber for long lasting houses. | August 27 1976 | | |
When we were taking a stone walk, the man from the quarry told us we laid the stones out and I was going to dig them in later -- he told me that if we laid them when the moon was down, they would go down and we wouldn't have to dig. | March 25 1966 | | |
Concrete walks should be put down in the down sign(?) | | | |
When making cement for a fireplace, use ashes and salt because that won't burn. | August 26 | | |
Blacksmiths were credited with magical powers for many centuries because of their association with fire, iron and horses. | April 2 1980 | | |
Watch out for left handed man. | August 27 1976 | | |
Don't work with acetylene torch more than five years or you'll get black lung. | August 27 1976 | | |
Don't run scrap. You'll catch hell. Always check a new grinding wheel for cracks. Check the work for taper. Keep the wheel dressed properly to hold the size and finish better. | August 27 1976 | | |
It's bad luck to say, "Macbeth" on stage. Never wish an actor, "Good luck." Tell them to "Break a leg." | October 17 1984 | | |
Whistling at performers brings bad luck. | April 1979 | | |
Don't whistle in a theatre dressing room. | November 30 1976 | | |
Tell an actor to break a lege before he/she goes on for luck. | October 27 1976 | | |
It's "Break a leg!" not "Good luck!" | August 11 1978 | | |
Professional actors consider it a bad sign if a rehearsal is quite perfect. | April 2 1980 | | |
Actors will spit on another actor before going on stage to wish each other luck. | August 16 1967 | | |
It's against the law to sell a flag. Always sell some small or worthless item and give the flag along. | before 1950 | | |
Computer: Don't put any machine changes on Friday, because the computer will go down on Frdiay and won't be back up until Sunday night. | October 1976 | | |
It's bad luck to say, "I'll be seeing you" to an undertaker. | June 9 1972 | | |
It's bad luck to say, "I'll be seeing you," to and undertaker. | June 1972 | | |
Negroes in Carlisle thought it was a bad omen if the hands of the corpse were soft. They thought it was bad luck. Of course, now, with embarrassing, that doesn't happen. | June 1 1976 | | |
We used to say that to rub the head of a dead Negro was good luck. | June 1 1976 | | |
A black cat crossing the road means a death, not in his family, but a funeral coming to him. | June 1 1976 | | |
Im mines, when the rats run you run -- danger. | March 1982 | | |
Women were bad luck in the mine. | April 11 1982 | | |
Always have a canary along in the mine. | April 11 1982 | | |
When the rats run out of the mine When the canary stops singing, you leave. | April 1982 | | |
Rats leaving a mine means cave in. | April 1982 | | |
Never kill a rat in a mine, it's a good warning sign. | April 1982 | | |
Women in a mine (bad luck?) | April 1982 | | |
Mining -- If safety light goes out -- get out, danger of gas. | March 1982 | | |
Rats will warn of danger in mine. | March 1982 | | |
Never whistle in a mine. | April 1982 | | |
Never kill rats in a mine, as they fortell danger. | March 1982 | | |
Coal miners carry a bucket of water to work, so if there was an accident at least you'd have water. | March 28 1980 | | |
Miners regarded spilling the water as something serious. | April 1980 | | |
When a miner dumps his water, it means a strike, because a miner couldn't go into the mine without it. | April 1980 | | |
If a miner (in anger) would throw water, coffee or tea out of his lunch bucket, it was a bad omen and all would go home. | June 1976 | | |
Miners need full dinner bucket of water. Anyone thorws out the water, everyone goes home. | March 1979 | | |
Mining belief: If your lantern burns low your wife is with another man. | June 1977 | | |
If the light on a miner's hat goes out, someone is messing around with his wife. | April 1980 | | |
Canaries were used in the mines believing they would detect gas or lack of oxygen. | January 20 1977 | | |
Old miners always carried canarys down in a mine when the canary died or the rats ran, it was a sign these was black gas. The on(?) was bad. The miner left. | May 1979 | | |
Canary birds in cages were brought into the mines. If the birds died, it meant gas was around. | April 1980 | | |
A new job would never be started on Friday. | April 1980 | | |
When a miner was hired, he'd never start work on a Friday. | June 1976 | | |
Miners go crazy at an early age. | December 1976 | | |
Miners -- Eat your pie or cake first. In case of disaster you had your dessert. | March 1977 | | |
Men always prayed before entering mine. | April 6 1980 | | |
Miners are very supersticious. If anything peculiar happens to them before they go to work, they won't go. They believed that they were not meant to go to work that day. | April 1980 | | |
It's an ill omen if a pigeon flies out of the mine. | October 11 1976 | | |
Ghostly women in white appears in mines before disasters. | April 26 1979 | | |
If a miner got killed, all others would quit for the day. | June 1976 | | |
Whistling in the mine is bad luck. | October 1979 | | |
Whistling in mine is bad luck. | May 1980 | | |
One a miner put away his tools and started for home he would not turn back to go into the mines, even if he forgot something. | April 1980 | | |
If a miner forgot something at home, he would turn back and not go to work that day. | April 1980 | | |
If the man was going to work [in a mine] and met a woman, he went home. | April 1980 | | |
A miner will never go to work if he sees a red haired person. | | | |
If a cat crossed the miner's road he wouldn't go to work. | April 1980 | | |
If the top was falling in, you'd be able to hear some rocks fall or water trickling. | April 1980 | | |
The bolts in the roof will ping when the roof is about to collapse. | April 1980 | | |
An x on the wall of a mine will mark the spot of a future disaster. | April 1980 | | |
It's bad luck to work on Good Friday. Mines were closed on holy days among Catholics. | January 20 1977 | | |
Miners never worked on Labor Day. | April 6 1980 | | |
When rats leave, mine is unsafe. | March 1976 | | |
When rats leave the mine, it indicated a cave-in or slate fall. | June 1976 | | |
Run for the exit when rats begin to leave the mines as they sense a tremor long before a human eye or ear. | October 6 1976 | | |
Rats and mice leave the mine when there is danger. | September 17 1976 | | |
Never kill rats, cause if you see rats in a mine it tells you there is water and no gas. | October 1976 | | |
A miner never kills a rat in the mines for if a rat can live they know there are no poisonous fumes. | September 1 1976 | | |
If rats are in the mine, the mine is safe, a popular belief. | January 20 1977 | | |
If the mind [mine] is going to cave in the rats will leave. | February 1979 | | |
When the rats leave the mines, that means there's going to be an explosion. | March 1979 | | |
If rats are around then mining is safe. Once rats leave, you should too. | March 1979 | | |
A rat is the miner's best friend. They sense trouble ahead of time when they start to run, you better start to run. | October 1978 | | |
Rats are very common in the mines. They are not distroyed by miners -- in fact -- they are fed and not disturbed. Rats have sensitive hearn and when timbre in the mines begins to give away, rats are the first to know it and they scream and run away to a protected area. | December 1978 | | |
Bad luck when rats leave mine. | April 26 1979 | | |
Miners would not work in a mine if they saw rats leave it, because it was a sign that gases or a cave-in was present. | February 1979 | | |
Rats in a mine give miners warning of gas. | April 1980 | | |
Mines are not infested and if there are not rats it meant danger is near. | April 1980 | | |
If rats leave a mine, there is danger of cave in. | May 1976 | | |
No women were allowed in the mine. | June 1976 | | |
Women not to be in mines. | March 1979 | | |
It is bad luck for women to go into a mine. | March 1979 | | |
No women allowed in mines. | August 10 1978 | | |
They believe in a woman goes down a mine, it will be either bad luck or good luck -- usually bad. | March 1979 | | |
No women were allowed below ground. | April 4 1979 | | |
Bad luck for a woman in mines. | April 26 1979 | | |
Women in mine is bad luck. | October 1979 | | |
Don't let a female into the mine. Females in mines bad luck. | March 28 1980 | | |
Women meant bad luck and were not permitted in the mines. | April 1980 | | |
Women are not allowed in mines. | May 1980 | | |
Women are taboo in the mines. | April 1980 | | |
Women in a mine bring bad luck. | April 1980 | | |
It is bad luck for a woman to go into a mine, or even tunnels when they're being dug. | December 1975 | | |
Bad luck to have a woman along in the mine. | October 1976 | | |
It is a bad omen for a woman to walk in a coal mine. | March 1976 | | |
Women in the mine are bad luck. Laws prohibit them to be employed in mines. | January 20 1977 | | |
If a female enters a mine it is a sign of death in the mine for someone. | July 1 1976 | | |
It's bad luck for a woman to enter a mine. | November 15 1976 | | |
Women can jinx mines. | November 23 1976 | | |
Firemen wear St. Floridan medals to protect them. Maltese Cross with picture putting fire on rouses(?) | March 22 1982 | | |
It's bad luck to sell family pictures [at a public sale]; always take them out of the frame. | July 5 1977 | | |
If a woman enters a mine there will be an accident. | February 28 1980 | | |
Nothing should ever be put on top of a Bible. | 1973 | | |
When we take communion, to always take your bread and your cup in your left hand because it's nearest to your heart. Hold your bible in your left hand and turn the pages with the right and things like that. | | | |
I was raised without superstition. But -- was always frightened of nuns or anythinhg associated with the Catholic Church. | July 18 1978 | | |
If you say someone's name by accident, that person must be thinking about you. | December 4 1982 | | |
If you mistake a stranger for somoene you know, it's a sign you're going to meet someone. | April 1982 | | |
If you drop a comb, step on it to prevent bad luck. | June 1977 | | |
My ears are burning. [Someone's talking about me] | December 31 1977 | | |
If your ear burns, someone is talking about you. | November 15 1976 | | |
When your ear burns, somoene is talking about you. | October 1976 | | |
When your ear burns, somoene is talking about you. | October 11 1976 | | |
When your ear burns, someone is talking or thinking about you. | September 17 1976 | | |
Ear burns -- someone talking about you. | April 1979 | | |
Ear burns -- you are being talked about. | December 1978 | | |
When your ear burns, someone is talking about you. | October 1976 | | |
If your ears burns someone's talking about you. | April 1982 | | |
When your ear burns -- someone talking about you. | November 15 1978 | | |
When your ear burns, someone is talking about you. | October 1976 | | |
When your ear burns, someone is talking about you. | September 21 1976 | | |
When your ear burns, people are talking about you. | October 1976 | | |
If your ears itch, someone is talking about you. | 1959 | | |
When your ear burns, someone is talking about you. | November 1976 | | |
Ear burns -- someone is talking about you. | January 21 1977 | | |
Ear burns -- someone's talking about you. | November 30 1976 | | |
When your ear burns -- someone's talking about you. | December 10 1976 | | |
When your ear burns, someone is talking about you. | January 20 1977 | | |
I'll bet his ears are burnin' [we're talking about him] | January 8 1978 | | |
When your ear burns, someone speaks of you. | August 10 1978 | | |
Ears burns -- someone is talking about you. | March 1977 | | |
When your ear burns, someone is talking about you. | November 1978 | | |
When your ear burns, some one is talking about you. | July 1977 | | |
When your ear burns someone is talking about you. | April 1977 | | |
When your ear burns, someon is talking about your. Left for love. Right for spite. | July 1977 | | |
If your ears burn, someone is talking about you. | April 26 1979 | | |
If you hear ringing in your ear someone is talking about you. | February 1979 | | |
Ear burns -- somone is talking about you. | February 17 1977 | | |
If your ear burns, someone's talking about you. | November 11 1976 | | |
When your ear burns, somoene is talking about you. | November 23 1976 | | |
When your ear burns someone's talking about you. | November 19 1976 | | |
If your ears are itching, somebody's talking about you. | October 16 1968 | | |
Whistling sound in ear means someone's talking about you. | April 30 1980 | | |
When your ear burns, somoene is talking about your (usually bad or evil things) | December 1976 | | |
When your ear burns, someone is talking about you. Right ear good, left ear bad. | September 1 1976 | | |
If your right ear itches in the daytime, somone is talking about you. | November 27 1981 | | |
When your ear rings, someone's talking about you. | October 19 1976 | | |
When your ears burn someone is thinking about you. | February 1979 | | |
If your ears ring, somone's talking about you. | June 1976 | | |
When your ear burns, you're not supposed to hear what was just heard. | December 1976 | | |
If your ears ring -- somebody's talking about you. | February 1976 | | |
Right ear burns -- someone's talking good about you. | July 1980 | | |
Right ear burns, someone's speaking well of you. Left ear, someone's speaking evil of you. | October 1978 | | |
When your left ear burns, you know what someone is saying something bad about you. I the right ear burns they are saying something good about you. | April 1979 | | |
Right ear burns -- someone is saying something good about you. Left ear -- someone is saying something bad about you. | October 1978 | | |
When your ear burns, somebody talking about you. If right ear, good; if left ear, bad. | August 10 1976 | | |
If your left ear itches, at night, someone is talking good about you. | November 27 1981 | | |
If you have ringing in your left ear -- someone is saying something good about you. | April 3 1980 | | |
Left ear burns -- someone's talking bad about you. | July 1980 | | |
Ringing in the right ear means someone is saying something bad about you. | April 3 1980 | | |
When your nose itches, someone is talking about you. | December 1976 | | |
When your nose itches, someone's talking about your. Thinking about you. | October 19 1976 | | |
When your nose itches, you will kiss a fool or receive a letter. | June 1977 | | |
When your nose itches, someone is talking about you. | December 1976 | | |
When your nose itches, somebody is talking about you. | January 10 1977 | | |
When your nose itches, someone is talking about you. | June 1976 | | |
Nose itches -- somone talking about you. | January 30 1980 | | |
If your nose itches, someone is talking about you. | January 17 1977 | | |
When your nose itches, someone is talking about you. | March 1976 | | |
When your nose itches, someone is talking about you. | July 1 1976 | | |
When your nose itches, you'll get mad. | January 20 1977 | | |
When your nose itches, an argument will occur. | October 11 1976 | | |
If your nose itches, stop interfering in outside family matters. | March 1976 | | |
If your nose itches you would get in a fight. | April 11 1982 | | |
Nose itches -- fight. | November 25 1981 | | |
When your nose itches, you are going to have a fight or kiss a fool. | September 21 1976 | | |
When your nose itches, you are going to get in a fight. | October 1976 | | |
When your nose itches, you will have a fight or kiss a fool. | November 30 1976 | | |
IF you have an itching nose, you are going to get in a fight. | June 1964 | | |
Nose itch -- will become involved in argument or fight. | December 1978 | | |
If your nose itches, you've been sticking it in other's business. | December 20 1976 | | |
When your nose itches, it means you've had it in other people's business. | July 1 1976 | | |
If your nose itches, you're going to be in a fight. | February 1979 | | |
I must be gonna get in a fight with somebody [itchy nose]. | October 31 1974 | | |
If your nose itches, you have it in someone's business. | June 1976 | | |
When your nose itches, you have it in someone's business. | June 1976 | | |
If your nose itches, it means company is coming. You are meddling in some one's affairs. | May 1976 | | |
When your nose itches, you have had it in someone else's business. | July 1975 | | |
Itchy lips may mean that someone is speaking ill of one. | April 1980 | | |
If the back of your neck burns, someone is staring at you. | April 26 1979 | | |
Dream of losing a tooth -- lose a friend. | November 30 1976 | | |
White spots on fingernails -- beginning with the thumb, a friend, a foe, a gift, a beam, a journey to go. | February 28 1980 | | |
White spots on the fingernails mean friends. | September 1 1976 | | |
White spots on fingernails mean how many companions you have. | April 1980 | | |
White spots on the fingernails indicate (beginning with thumb): gift, friend, foe, beant(?), journey to go. | June 9 1964 | | |
White spots on the fingernails mean the number of enemies you had. | April 1982 | | |
White spots on fingernails mean your enemies. | February 17 1977 | | |
If your shoelace comes open someone is thinking about you. | March 1979 | | |
If your shoelace comes open some one thinking about [you]. | February 1979 | | |
If your shoelace comes open some person is thinking about you. | March 12 1979 | | |
If your shoelace comes open, someone is thinking about you. | March 7 1979 | | |
If your shoelace comes open, somebody's thinking of you. | April 1979 | | |
If your shoelace comes open, someone is thinking about you. | April 1979 | | |
If your shoe-lace comes open, somebody's thinking about you; left foot, bad; right foot, good. | | | |
If shoelace comes open -- Right foot - people would think good of you all day. Left foot - people would thinking bad of you all day. | March 1979 | | |
If your shoe-lace breaks, you're going to meet somebody. | September 21 1976 | | |
Shoes on the table means there'll be a fight. | November 25 1981 | | |
If a shoe-lace breaks, you lose a friend. | April 6 1980 | | |
Bad luck if shoe-lace breaks. | May 1980 | | |
No work to be done on Good Friday. | May 1979 | | |
If you spill salt, watch out -- it causes a fight. | April 1980 | | |
If you spill salkt you're gonna have a fight. | August 10 1963 | | |
If you spill salt, throw it over left shoulder or you'll get in a fight. | May 10 1963 | | |
Spilled salt. There would be a quarrel, unless they took some of the spilled salt and threw it over their left shoulder. | January 27 1977 | | |
Spilled Salt -- to avoid a fight, toss some over your left shoulder. | November 30 1976 | | |
Spilled salt meant you would have a fight. They would throw some over left shoulder to avert it. | May 1976 | | |
If you spill salt, toss some over your shoulder, or you will get into a fight. | February 1982 | | |
If you spilled salt, you would have a fallout with some one. Toss some salt over your left shoulder. | March 1982 | | |
If you spill salt, you'll have a fight. But you won't have any fights if you throw it over your shoulder. | February 1982 | | |
If you spill salt, throw some over your left shoulder so you won't quarrel. | March 1980 | | |
When you spill salt throw some over your shoulder so you won't have a fight. | September 1 1976 | | |
Spilled salt was a sign you would have a quarrel. The thing to do was to throw some over the left shoulder. | March 1976 | | |
If you spill salt throw some over your left shoulder so you don't have a fight. | October 1976 | | |
Spilled salt means a fight with somebody, put a pinch in stove to break spell. | March 1976 | | |
If you spilled salt, throw some in the fire and you won't fight. | September 16 1964 | | |
If you spill salt, you'll have a fight unless you throw it in the fire. | | | |
If you spill salt, there'll be a fight. Throw it over your shoulder. | April 1976 | | |
If two people wash in the same basin, they'll have a fight. | | | |
If you wash in the same basin, they'll fight. Unless you trust the towel when you go today. Unless you put an x in it after the first one washes. | June 1969 | | |
If two people wash in the same basin, they'll have a fight uless they go this way in it (making a cross). | | | |
Two should never dry their hands on the same towel. | April 1980 | | |
If two people dry their hands on the same towel (at the same time) they'll have a fight. | | | |
When 2 people wipe on the same towel, twist it between them | May 16 1979 | | |
When two people dry hands on the same towel, you should twist the towel between them so they won't fight. | May 16 1979 | | |
If two people dry hands on the same towl, twist the towel between you to keep from having a fight. | January 11 1978 | | |
Never take a sharp instrument from a friend as a gift unless paying a penny for it. Knife, scissors, axe, etc. | March 1976 | | |
Always give a coin when giving knives or scissors for a gift so the friendship won't be "cut." | April 26 1979 | | |
Give penny along with knife or sharp object. | January 30 1980 | | |
If you give scissors or knife as gift, give also some money to ward off breaking the friendship. | June 1976 | | |
When giving a sharp object to another person, have that person pay you a penny, or it will cut your friendship. | April 1976 | | |
Never give a friend any kind of sharp object. It will cut your friendship in two. | October 1978 | | |
Never give anything sharp like a kife or even a pin as a gift; you'll break the friendship. | | | |
Never give anybody a knife with the point toward him. | December 9 1972 | | |
Always give a penny when giving sharp knives to take away the bad luck. | | | |
Don't give a knife as a gift unless you give money with it. Bad luck. | April 1 1980 | | |
You will lose friendship if you hand someone a pointy object and they take it. Lay it down first. | April 1982 | | |
If you give a friend a sharp object with a sharp edge or point you are endangering your friendship. Counter this by your friend giving you a coin in return. | April 1980 | | |
If you give scissors or knives as a gift, you break friendship. | April 1980 | | |
If you give scissors as a gift you get a penny from receiver or your thereby cut your friendship. | April 1980 | | |
If you give a pair of scissors or a knife to anyone as a present, they must give you a penny or other coinage -- or else you'll get bad luck. | May 1980 | | |
Don't give a knife as a gift -- cuts a friendship. | March 1980 | | |
Never give scissors or a knife away withouth taking a penny or you'll cut a friendship. | April 6 1980 | | |
Always give a peny when giving sharp knives to take away the bad luck. | | | |
If you hand a pointed objects to another person with the point toward him, it severs the friendship. | | | |
A pin never should be handed to a person. Always stick in material and let them pick. (a fight brewing) | April 1976 | | |
If you give a knife as a gift you will cut your friendship. | March 1980 | | |
Friendship will be cut if somone gives you a knife. | February 28 1980 | | |
Never give a knife for a gift, will cut your friendship. | April 1982 | | |
Cross knives, means a fight. | April 1980 | | |
Never hand anyone anything pointy or you'll have a fight with that person. | October 1976 | | |
Never hand a knife to someone. Always lay it down and let them pick it up themselves. | April 24 1980 | | |
Hold scissors and knives at the point so the handlers face outwardn (when giving them to someone) | April 3 1980 | | |
It is bad luck to put something sharp edged on the bed. | May 1980 | | |
Dropped scissors or knives forecast severed friendship. | February 29 1980 | | |
If you dropped a knife, someone is talking behind the back. | December 1976 | | |
If you drop a fork a fight is inevitable. | October 27 1976 | | |
If you see a pin on the floor and don't pick it up, you'll lose a friend. | July 1964 | | |
If you give somone a pin not attached to fabric, you'll break your friendship. | | | |
Never give another a scissors or knife point first. Lay object down so that friend picks it up by handle end. Bad luck to hand object. Good luck if laid down. | March 1976 | | |
If you rocked an empty cradle, you were lonely. | | | |
Set a broom across the door way to keep evil spirits or enemies from corssing the door sill. | May 1979 | | |
Bad luck if a man throws his hat on a bed. | March 1976 | | |
It's bad luck to shake hands over a fence. | | | |
Never put a hat on a bed. | April 4 1979 | | |
If you pass someone on the steps, you will have a fight with that person. | May 1979 | | |
It's bad luck to go on opposite side of a pole when walking with someone. | October 27 1976 | | |
When two people walk together, never let anyone come between you. (Bad luck). | April 1980 | | |
When walking with another person, don't let a pole or tree come between you, or you'll fight. | 1959 | | |
Never walk on opposite side of a pole or fire plug -- as you would disagree with your partner. | April 1979 | | |
If two people are out walking they should both pass a tree, bush, post, or any other object on the same side. If they go on separate sides, they will have a quarrel. | July 1978 | | |
It is bad luck to pass your enemy on the street without speaking. | March 1979 | | |
When two people split to go around an obstacle, they should say, "Bread and butter," and spit three times. | August 1964 | | |
If you and a friend are walking and are separated by a post or other obstacle, you will have a disagreement unless you say, "wheelbarrow." | April 1980 | | |
If you dream about a black horse you will have a quarrel. | July 1964 | | |
"You step on a friend when you step on an ant." | May 1963 | | |
If you dream of snakes, you have enemies. Dream of killing snakes, getting rid of enemies. | November 30 1979 | | |
Dream of snakes -- lots of enemies. | March 1980 | | |
If you dream about snakes it means you have enemies. | October 1978 | | |
When dreaming about snakes, it means you have enemies. | October 1976 | | |
Dream of snake, you have an ememy. If snake is killed, your enemy can be conquered. | October 12 1979 | | |
If you dream of snakes or see snakes, you have enemies. | April 1979 | | |
Dream of a snake, is an emeny should kill it. | May 1979 | | |
If you dream of snakes you take a pinch of salt and throw it in the fire -- that is to conquer your enemies. | April 1979 | | |
If you kill the first snake you see in the spring, you kill your enemies. | March 1979 | | |
Kill the first snake you see in the spring -- you kill all your enemies. | April 1976 | | |
Dream about snakes and kill them, you kill your enemy. | January 10 1977 | | |
If you see a spider spinning a web it means someone is talking about you. | April 1980 | | |
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. | March 1982 | | |
They'd never dance on Sunday. | December 1979 | | |
Athletes don't shave during an athletic contest. | April 1982 | | |
It's bad luck to shae on the day of a game or track meet. The thinking behind this is that sweating irritates a freshly-shaved face and causes annoyance. | | | |
It's bad luck to whistle before a game. | October 1976 | | |
When I play darts, I touch my dart to the point I want to go. I need the extra edge. | April 1982 | | |
Don't go swimming in anything but running water durring dog days. | February 1982 | | |
My luck numbers 8 and 22, numbers on uniforms I've worn. | April 1982 | | |
You will hae good luck if you wear clothing that brought you luck before. | April 1982 | | |
Wearing the same article of clothes brings good luck in sports. | April 1982 | | |
Use same glove, same clothing, for good luck in playing baseball. | April 1982 | | |
I wouldn't use anybody else's glove in baseball. | April 1982 | | |
Good luck to touch second base. | April 1982 | | |
A "South Paw" pitcher is good luck. | April 1982 | | |
Baseball: Don't step on chalk line. | April 1982 | | |
Baseball: Always go behind umpire. | April 1982 | | |
If a baseball player breaks a bat, he will have a batting slump. | March 1982 | | |
Standing on the plate with the large end of the bat down brings bad luck. | March 1982 | | |
Never cross baseball bats when laying them down. | March 1982 | | |
I believe it's a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going no one reminds him of it. | September 7 1960 | | |
When a pitcher has a no-hitter going, it's bad luck to talk about it until the game is over. | June 1964 | | |
Rushing to get ready for a football game is bad luck. | April 1982 | | |
If everything goes bad it's gonna be a bad day (football). | April 1982 | | |
Midshipmen at Annapolis are said neve to go to a football game without first giving a left hand salute to the wooden figure of Tecumseh. | April 1979 | | |
Shoelaces hae to be the same length on each side (football). | April 1982 | | |
The [football] team that sheds blood first will lose. | April 1979 | | |
Stick a pin in a friend's coat to bring good luck. [at cards?] | April 1982 | | |
Pulling a pocket inside out will change luck. | March 1982 | | |
It is unlucky to lend or borrow money during a game. | April 1982 | | |
To change your luck, find a four leaf clover or run a rabbit's foot. | April 1982 | | |
To change your luck, whishbone of chicken. | April 1982 | | |
Turn a hat around from front to back to change your luck. | March 1982 | | |
To change your luck -- dish pan with salt. | April 1980 | | |
Make love to a black woman to change your luck. | November 25 1981 | | |
Some says that sleeping with a black will change your luck. | April 1980 | | |
To change your luck get yourself a nigger. | | | |
To change your luck find a four leaf clover. | April 1980 | | |
Rub a bald head to change your luck. | April 3 1980 | | |
If you are luck at cards, you will be unlucky in love. | April 1980 | | |
It's unlucky to play cards on a bare table. | April 1982 | | |
Change your luck by doing thing clockwise; east or west according to the sun's movement. | April 1980 | | |
Some people like to sit on one side of a table for luck when gambling. | February 1982 | | |
To change your luck, change your routine. | April 1980 | | |
Moving to another chair changes luck when playing cards. | February 1982 | | |
Walk around your chair to change your luck. | April 1982 | | |
To change your luck, walk around your chair. | April 1980 | | |
If having bad luck while playing cards, get up and walk around your chair once | April 1 1980 | | |
To change your luck, walk around the chair you're sitting on. | April 1980 | | |
To change your luck, put handkerchief on head. | April 1980 | | |
Change your socks to change your luck. | April 3 1980 | | |
To change your luckm pull all your pockets out, turn in a clockwise circle three times. | April 1980 | | |
The luck at a bridge table runs the same way as the bathtub in the house in which you are playing. It is usually expressed as "it's the luck of the bathtub." It simply means that the pair sitting at the long end of the tub will do better than the pair sitting along the sides. | July 1964 | | |
The first pot in a card game is the poison pot. | April 1982 | | |
In cards look at your hand until all cards are dealt. | April 1982 | | |
Finding a four-leaf clover changes your luck. | April 1980 | | |
It's bad luck to sing durring a card game. | April 1982 | | |
Don't sing durring a card game or drop a card. | April 1982 | | |
Aces and eights are a dead man's hand. | April 1982 | | |
Aces and eights are bad luck. | April 1982 | | |
When you play solitare, they say you're playing with the devil. | Before 1950 | | |
Carry a rabbit's foot when gambling. | March 1982 | | |
It is unluck to gamble in a room where there is a woman unless she is gambling too, no matter what game it is. | March 1982 | | |
In gambling, never use money you already won. | April 1982 | | |
People play their house in the lottery | April 1982 | | |
Dream number for gambling. | April 1979 | | |
Drink champagne-smash glass to seal your row. | March 1980 | | |
To cross your fingers when telling a "fib" removed stigma of a lie. | December 10 1976 | | |
When telling a lie, keep the fingers crossed. If you say something while you have your fingers crossed, it doesn't have to be true. | | | |
When a man sneezes it's a sign he is telling the truth and also that he's not telling the truth. | June 2 1935 | | |
A pimple on the tongue means you've told a lie. | July 1 1976 | | |
If a person tells a lie, he will have trouble swallowing. | December 4 1976 | | |
If you forget what you were about to say, that's a sign it was a lie. | April 22 1964 | | |
If two people say the same thing at the same time, one is lying. | October 12 1979 | | |
White spots on fingernails -- told a lie[!] | April 1982 | | |
White spots on fingernails told lies. | March 1980 | | |
White spots on fingernails -- telling little white lies. | March 1980 | | |
Spots on fingernails -- you'd told a lie. | October 1979 | | |
Spots on fingernails -- how many lies you told. | February 1979 | | |
White spots on fingernails -- person prone to telling lies. | December 1978 | | |
White spotson your fingernails mean that you lie a lot. | December 1976 | | |
Spots on fingernails -- you tell lies. | January 30 1980 | | |
White spots on the fingernails mean the number of lies you told. | November 23 1976 | | |
White spots on fingernails: I was told when I was small, that you had told a lie. | January 21 1977 | | |
White spots on fingernails mean you tell lies. | January 17 1977 | | |
White spots on fingernails -- you told a lie. | April 3 1980 | | |
White spots on fingernails -- you told lies. | April 6 1980 | | |
White spots on fingernails -- shows how many lies. | May 1980 | | |
Spots on the fingernails mean you told a lie. | February 1979 | | |
Spots on the fingernails -- the number of lies you've told. | April 26 1979 | | |
You get white spots on your fingernail -- you told a lie for every white spot. | February 1979 | | |
White spots on fingernails -- lies you have told. | February 17 1977 | | |
White spots on the fingernails mean you've told a lie. | November 19 1976 | | |
The number of spots on your fingernails corresponds to the number of lies you've told. | April 1979 | | |
White spots on the fingernails mean the person has been telling lies. | September 17 1976 | | |
Spots on fingernails -- told lies, cannot be trusted. | May 1979 | | |
White spots on fingernails for each lie. | December 10 1976 | | |
White spots on fingernails -- lies to be told. | November 30 1976 | | |
If somebody steals something from you you can meke them bring it back by turning a wagon wheel backwards. | January 29 1966 | | |
Dream of violets, law suits. | January 20 1977 | | |
Dream of water -- take a trip. | April 1982 | | |
If your foot itches, you're going on a trip. | March 1976 | | |
Leave house with right foot first for good luck when starting new activity. | July 18 1978 | | |
If the bottom of your foot itches you are going to walk on strange ground. | February 1979 | | |
If the hem of your dress stands up, you'll go for a ride. | October 1978 | | |
My husband [Earl] used a trick better than superstition, long before 1931. He was going up a long hill with a Model T Ford (his father's) when he ran out of gas. So he put many small stones in his gas tank to raise the gas high enough to get to the carborator and run the car up the hill. | November 1978 | | |
Bad luck to start a trip on Friday. | June 1976 | | |
Don't begin a journey on the last Friday of a month. | April 1982 | | |
You should not start on a long journey on Good Friday. | March 1979 | | |
Never leave the house on Friday 13th. | March 1982 | | |
When leaving the house, make a hand sign of the cross, so you'll return home safely. | April 1982 | | |
Not buying insurance before an airline flight. | July 18 1978 | | |
If you're lost in the woods, you can find directions by looking for moss on the north side of trees. | | | |
Never go back after you went out the door. | March 1982 | | |
Don't go back if you left the house and forgot something or you will have bad luck. | July 1978 | | |
We were told as children it was bad luck to leave the house and forget something. | July 18 1978 | | |
If you left the house and forgot something, don't turn back; it's bad luck. | July 18 1978 | | |
It is bad luck to return to the house if you forgot something. | April 1982 | | |
If you left the house and forgot something, it's bad luck to go back. | July 18 1978 | | |
If you forgot something, don't go back and get it, this is unlucky. | April 1982 | | |
Don't go back for anything you forgot. | March 1982 | | |
Don't return into the house for something you forgot you will have a disappointment. | June 1977 | | |
It was bad luck to return if you left the house and forgot something. | July 18 1978 | | |
If you leave the house and forget something, don't go back for it or things would go wrong all day. | July 19 1978 | | |
If one leaves a house and must return for some reason, he should sit down before leaving a second time to prevent bad luck. | September 17 1976 | | |
If you forget something, go back for it but sit down before leaving house again. | October 1979 | | |
If you forget something (package, purse, etc.) when you leave a friend's home and must go back for it, you should sit in a chair before picking up the forgotten item. This will prevent bad luck. Picking up the item without sitting in a chair first will result in bad luck. First heard about 40 years ago. | November 15 1976 | | |
If you come back in after leaving the house, sit down for a while. | February 1982 | | |
When you go back for something you forgot, sit down and count to ten. | April 1982 | | |
When you go away and forget something and go back for it, sit down and count to ten. There was a couple that always used to do that, and one day they forgot and went away right away again. They were in an accident and the husband was killed. Ever since that, my family does that now. We joke about it, but we still do it. | March 1980 | | |
If you forget something leaving a house, go back to the house, sit down and count to ten. | January 30 1980 | | |
If you're leaving on a journey and you have to return to the house after once leaving it, you must sit down and count ten. | July 1964 | | |
If a visitor forgets his gloves when leaving a house, he must, on returning for them, sit down before picking them up, and then put them on while standing. If this rite is omitted, he will never return again to that house. | April 2 1980 | | |
When a man leaves his house to go on a journey, he must never look back, nor must he retrace his steps, for any reason whatsoever. To do either of tehse things implies his journey at its beginning, and will certainly bring him bad luck or danger during its course. | April 2 1980 | | |
Be very careful about meeting someone on the street. | February 1979 | | |
Elsie bumped into me today and she said, "Well, I guess that means we'll be together next year." | August 27 1966 | | |
If the first person you meet has red hair -- bad luck in the future! | April 3 1980 | | |
It's lucky to see a red-haired girl on a white horse. | April 1980 | | |
If you see a girl with red hair, the next thing you will see is a white horse. | June 1977 | | |
Dream of horses -- you were going to go on a trip. | April 1982 | | |
Dream of horses -- take a trip. | April 1982 | | |
To meet a flock of sheep on a journey is good luck. | April 2 1980 | | |
If a white cat passes in front of you, it means you will have good luck. | October 1976 | | |
A black cat crossing in front of you is bad luck. | January 10 1977 | | |
Black cat runs across your path -- bad luck. | July 1980 | | |
Black cats crossing one's path could bring anything from bad luck to death. | April 1981 | | |
A black cat walking by you bad luck. | April 1982 | | |
Black cat crossing your path -- bad luck. | April 1982 | | |
If black cat runs across road in front of you it means bad luck. | September 1 1976 | | |
A black cat is supposed to bring bad luck if it crosses the highway in front of you. | November 15 1978 | | |
When a black cat crosses the street in front of you, you'll have bad luck. | November 1978 | | |
Black cat sotries were superstion. If you meet a black cat it's sure to be bad luck. | April 27 1980 | | |
Black cat crossing path is a sign of Bad Luck. | June 1977 | | |
Black cat crossing your path is bad luck. | March 7 1979 | | |
Black cat crossing your path means bad luck. | December 1978 | | |
Bad luck for black cats to cross your path. | February 17 1977 | | |
Black cat run across the road -- bad luck. | February 1979 | | |
If a black cat crosses in front of you, you will have bad luck. | November 15 1976 | | |
Bad luck for a black cat to cross the road in front of you. | November 15 1976 | | |
If a black cat passes in front of you it means you will have bad luck. | October 1976 | | |
A black cat runs in front of you is bad luck. | September 21 1976 | | |
Black cat crossing in front of one was a sign of bad luck. | October 6 1976 | | |
If a black cat crossed your path it meant you would have bad luck. | October 1976 | | |
A black cat crossing path means bad luck. | October 1976 | | |
If a black cat walks in front of you it's bad luck. | October 19 1976 | | |
If a blackcat crosses the road in front of you, it means bad luck of some sort, possibly death. | March 1976 | | |
Black cat crossing your path -- bad luck. | November 30 1976 | | |
It's bad luck to have a black cat cross your path. | November 23 1976 | | |
A black cat crosses your path, bad luck. | November 1976 | | |
Black cat crossing in front of you -- bad luck. | February 1979 | | |
Bad luck, if a black cat crosses your path. | May 15 1976 | | |
Signs of bad luck Black cat crossing your path. Killing a cat | April 1976 | | |
If a black cat crosses your path, you'll have bad luck. | | | |
If a black cat runs a cross the road in front of me, he's lucky if he gets a cross. | December 29 1975 | | |
Black cat crosses your path -- bad luck. | January 17 1977 | | |
A black cat crosses in front of you, it's bad luck. | January 21 1977 | | |
A black cat crosses path brings bad luck. | December 10 1976 | | |
Bad luck if a black cat crosses path ahead of you. | March 1976 | | |
It is bad luck to walk in the path of a black cat. | April 1982 | | |
Cats are bad luck, especially if a black one crosses your path. To break spell say, Damn that cat!! | March 1977 | | |
[A yellow cat ran across the road.] You're gonna have good luck tomorrow. Didn't you ever hear? Yellow cats bring good luck. | September 15 1972 | | |
If a black cat crosses your path, stops and let another person be first. | April 1982 | | |
Don't cross a black cat's path. | April 1982 | | |
If a black cat crosses your path, thrun around and go the other way. | April 1982 | | |
If a black cat crossed your path, reverse your path. | March 1982 | | |
If a black cat crossed your path, turn around and go the other way. | February 1982 | | |
If a black cat crossed your path, turn and walk back the way you came. | March 1982 | | |
If a black cat crossed your path, turn back. | April 1980 | | |
If a black cat crossed your path, turn around. | April 1980 | | |
If a black cat crossed your path, retrace your steps. | April 1980 | | |
If a black cat crossed your path, turn around the other way. | April 1980 | | |
If a black cat crosses your path turn and go back. | March 1980 | | |
If a black cat crossed your path, turn around and go back -- don't cross the path. | April 1980 | | |
If a black cat crosses your path, turn around. | March 1980 | | |
If a black cat crossed your path, turn around and go back. | March 1 1980 | | |
If a black cat crosses your path, turn around and go back. | April 24 1980 | | |
If a black cat crosses your path, turn around and go back the way you came | April 6 1980 | | |
If a black cat crossed your path, turn around and go back. | April 3 1980 | | |
If a black cat crossed your path, turn around and go the other way. | March 1980 | | |
If a black cat crosses your path, turn around and go back home and start over. | April 1982 | | |
If a black cat crosses your path, go back to place of departure and start again. | April 1982 | | |
A black cat walking if your way brings bad luck. | February 1979 | | |
A black cat crosses the road in front of your vehicle would bring bad luck. | January 27 1977 | | |
If a black cat crossed your path, walk the other way. | April 1 1980 | | |
If a black cat crossed your path, you change your path (direction). | April 1980 | | |
If a black cat crosses your path start over again. | March 1980 | | |
A black cat crossing the road in front of you means bad luck. Turn around and go home and start all over again. | October 1978 | | |
If a black cat crossed your path, turn around in a circle. | April 1982 | | |
If a black cat crossed your path, turn around twice and keep going. | April 1980 | | |
If a black cat crosses your path, take 10 steps backwards. | April 1982 | | |
If a black cat crosses your path, cross your finger and say bread before butter, or turn around 3 times. | April 1980 | | |
If a black cat crosses your path, cross to the other side of the street. | | | |
If a black cat crossed your path, avoid returning by same route. | February 29 1980 | | |
If a black at crosses your path, kick the cat, but I'm not really sure about that, especially if it's someone else's cat. | April 1980 | | |
Spit when a black cat crosses your path, to prevent bad luck. | November 25 1981 | | |
If a black cat crossed your path, cross yourself. | April 30 1980 | | |
If a black cat crossed your path, bless yourself 3 times and turn around. | March 1980 | | |
If a black cat crosses your path, cross your arms and fingers, or take nine steps backward. | April 1980 | | |
Mark x's at dorway if a black cat crosses your path. | March 1982 | | |
If a black cat crossed your path, put white chalk at path of cat. | April 1980 | | |
If a black cat crosses the path in front of you, make a cross to conteract the bad luck. | October 20 1976 | | |
Black cat crosses the road in front of you brings bad luck. Go back home if you can't make an X on your windshield. | February 1979 | | |
If a black cat crossed your path, shoot it or go down the road and watch for another. | April 1980 | | |
To prevent bad luck if black cat crossed your path, turn your hat around. | March 1982 | | |
If a black cat crosses the road. Roll up your one pant let and put your hat on backwards. | April 27 1980 | | |
It is a sign of good luck if a rabbit crosses one's path in front and of bad luck if it passes behind. | April 2 1980 | | |
On New Years Day, for good luck. Visit friends and at each home eat a piece of cake and drink a glass of water. | June 1976 | | |
First visitor in the New Year brings luck. | April 1 1980 | | |
Man has to walk in house first on New Years. | February 1979 | | |
On New Year's day, let a male visitor enter the house first. | March 7 1979 | | |
The first person coming through door on New Year's day should be a man for good luck. | April 1980 | | |
It was a sign of good luck to have a man cross the threshold first. | April 1980 | | |
A man should be first to enter your house at New Years for good luck. | April 1977 | | |
If the first visitor to your home on New Year's Day is made, luck will provail all year. | December 1978 | | |
A male entering the house first on New Year's day meant a good year. | April 18 1979 | | |
You'd have poor/bad luck the rest of the year if a man was not the first to appear at your door in the New Year. | July 1964 | | |
Dark man should be first to go into a house on New Year's Day. | March 1979 | | |
Look for a dark hair person on New Year's Day. | March 1982 | | |
The first person to enter home on New Year's Day should be a dark haired male, for good luck all year. | March 1982 | | |
Always look for a dark person to cross the threshold first on New Year's Day. | | | |
On New Year's Day, for good luck, Fish and have a dark haired man be the first to enter the house. | June 1977 | | |
The first person to enter the house on New Year's Day should have black hair for good luck. | April 1982 | | |
If your first visitor New Year's Day has dark hair, you will have a good happy year ahead. | May 1979 | | |
It's bad luck if the first person to cross your threshold on New Year's Day has dark hair. | April 1982 | | |
A dark stranger should be first to enter into a house carrying coal or a bottle of whiskey (on New Year's Day) | March 1982 | | |
On New Year's Day, your first visitor, depending on whether they have lgiht or dark hair, will bring good or bad luck. | April 6 1980 | | |
A tall dark man should enter the house first on New Year's Day for luck. | April 26 1979 | | |
It was the custom in Ireland in the late 1890s to have one man (light-haired) visit the neighboring houses. [for good luck?] | 1964 | | |
On New Year's Day, hope that your first visitor is a bonny fair person. | November 30 1976 | | |
Man must enter house first on New Year's Day before a woman. | July 1980 | | |
New Year's Day you never let a woman come in your house first. And I do keep that one. Before I let a woman in my house on New Year's Day I'd send my son out to meet her and bring her in. The man is supposed to be the first to enter the house on New Year's Day. | April 1979 | | |
New Year's Day you never let a woman come in your house first. And I do keep that one. Before I let a woman in my house on New Year's Day I'd send my son out to meet her and bring her in. The man is supposed to be the first to enter the house on New Year's Day. | April 1979 | | |
On New Year's Day, put 3 wisemens name on top of door with white chalk and date. | February 1979 | | |
For good luck, on New Year's Day, take a gift to other's home. | November 11 1976 | | |
Bad luck to trip anywhere. | April 26 1979 | | |
When your eye itches, it means you'll see some body you like. | April 1976 | | |
When your eye itches, you'll see someone you like. | April 1976 | | |
If your eye itches, you are going to see someone you like. | January 1976 | | |
Eyes itchy see somebody (right) you like (left) you hate. | June 9 1964 | | |
When your eye itches, you'll see someone you like. | March 1976 | | |
If your eye itches, you will see something you want to see. | March 1976 | | |
Ears itching a sign company was coming. | February 1982 | | |
When your nose itches, a visitor is coming. | September 17 1976 | | |
When your nose itches, someone is coming. | October 1976 | | |
Nose itches -- company coming. | March 1977 | | |
When your nose itches, company. | May 1976 | | |
When your nose itches, you are going to have company. | October 1976 | | |
Nose itches -- company coming. | April 1980 | | |
Itchy nose -- company coming. | April 1980 | | |
Nose itching -- company was coming. | March 1980 | | |
Nose itchy -- company coming. | April 1980 | | |
Itchy nose -- company coming. | April 1980 | | |
If your nose itches -- get company. | February 1979 | | |
When your nose itches, company is coming. | March 1976 | | |
Nose itches -- someone is coming. | January 21 1977 | | |
Nose itches -- company is coming. | January 27 1977 | | |
When your nose itches, company is coming. | November 23 1976 | | |
When your nose itches, your going to get company. | November 19 1976 | | |
When your nose itches, company (strangers) were coming. | April 1976 | | |
If your nose itches, it's a sign that you would meet a stranger or kiss a fool. | May 1976 | | |
When your nose itches, you will meet a stranger. | November 1976 | | |
If you sneeze before breakfast -- company coming. | April 1980 | | |
Good luck for yoru nose to itch -- a kiss, a letter, or something better. | December 12 1975 | | |
If your nose itches, you'll kiss a fool. | April 26 1979 | | |
When your nose itches, you are going to kiss a fool. | April 1976 | | |
When your nose itches, kiss a fool. | February 17 1977 | | |
If your nose itches, you are about to kiss a fool. | July 1 1976 | | |
When your nose itches you are going to get a letter or kiss a fool. | July 1980 | | |
Nose itches -- kiss a fool. | November 30 1976 | | |
When your nose itches, you're going to kiss a fool. | November 23 1976 | | |
When your nose itches, one is about to kiss a fool. | October 6 1976 | | |
When your nose itches, you will kiss a fool. | November 1976 | | |
If your nose itches: A kiss, a letter, or something better. | April 1976 | | |
If your nose itches, you'll kiss a fool or meet a stranger. | March 1976 | | |
When your noes itches, you will receive "A kiss, a letter, or something better." | October 1978 | | |
If your nose itches, you will get a kiss, a letter, or something better. | October 1976 | | |
If your right hand itches you'll shake hands with a friend. | April 3 1980 | | |
If your hand itches, you're going to see a loved one. | December 20 1976 | | |
If your right hand itches, you will shake hands with someone. | October 1978 | | |
Itching palm -- shake hand with a stranger. | March 1982 | | |
Right hand itches -- shake hands with someone. | January 21 1977 | | |
When your hand itches, you're going to meet someone. | December 1976 | | |
When your hand itches, your going to shake hands with a fool. | July 1977 | | |
If your right hand itches , you're gonna shake hands with somebody. | July 31 1963 | | |
Right hand itches, going to shake hands. | November 23 1963 | | |
IF your right hand itches you will meet someone. | March 1982 | | |
If rt. Hand itches you will get company, or shake hands with a stranger. | February 1979 | | |
Right hand itches -- meet a stranger. | July 1980 | | |
If your right hand itches, you'll meet a stranger. | November 30 1976 | | |
If your right hand itches, you'll meet a friend. | November 30 1976 | | |
When your right hand itches, it means shaking hands with a stranger. | November 27 1981 | | |
Right palm itches, you will shake hands soon. | February 1982 | | |
When your right hand itches, you will shake hands with someone. | September 17 1976 | | |
When your right hand itches -- shake hands. | May 1976 | | |
Itching right palm, meet old friends. | February 29 1980 | | |
If your right hand itches -- company. | November 15 1976 | | |
If your right palm itches you will shake hands with a friend that day. | May 1979 | | |
Right hand itches -- shake hands with a friend. | January 30 1980 | | |
If your foot itches you would meet someone new. | April 1982 | | |
White spots on the fingernails mean you're getting company. | October 1976 | | |
A cat was a sign that company was coming. | February 1982 | | |
A cat washing its paw and passing it over the left ear means you'll meet a stranger. | March 1982 | | |
A cat washing its face was a sign that company was coming. | March 1980 | | |
If a cat washes itself with paws, somebody's coming. | March 17 1966 | | |
When a cat washes itself over the ears it means company is coming. | October 1978 | | |
Dogs rolling on the floor will bring visitors. | July 18 1978 | | |
If a rooster comes to porch and crows it means company. | September 1976 | | |
If the rooster crows right outside the door, you're getting company. | May 4 1963 | | |
When the rooster crows loud and long, prepare for company. | October 1978 | | |
If a bee comes into the house, it is a sign of good luck, or of a stranger coming shortly. | April 2 1980 | | |
If a praying mantis lands on your hand, sign of meeting someone. | April 1982 | | |
Rock on empty rockingchair -- someone will soon visit. | December 1976 | | |
When you drop silverware -- company coming. | April 3 1980 | | |
Dropping knives, forks or spoons -- company coming. | April 1980 | | |
If silverware was dropped off the table, company was coming. | March 28 1980 | | |
Dropping cutlery to the floor while handling, company was coming. A knife meant a man. A fork meant a woman. | April 1980 | | |
If you drop an object, it means someone is coming. | March 1976 | | |
When they dropped an object, it meant company was coming. A knife -- a male visitor, a fork -- a female visitor, a spoon -- a child. | July 7 1976 | | |
Drop of a knife, fork or spoon -- company. | April 1980 | | |
Dropping silverware -- company coming. | April 5 1980 | | |
If you drop silverware -- company was coming. | March 1980 | | |
Dropping silverware -- company coming. | April 1980 | | |
Drop silverware -- company coming. | March 1979 | | |
Drop a fork, company coming from direction it pointed. | January 21 1977 | | |
Drop silverware -- company coming. | April 1982 | | |
Dropping a fork on the floor meant company was coming. | March 1982 | | |
Dropping a fork -- company was coming. | November 27 1981 | | |
A dropped knife, fork or spoon, was a sign company was coming. | March 1982 | | |
Dropping silverware means company. | November 25 1981 | | |
Drop silverware, company coming. | March 1982 | | |
Drop silverware -- sign that company was coming. | March 1982 | | |
Dropping a utensil on the floor, company was coming. | April 1982 | | |
Dropping silverware sign of meeting someone. | April 1982 | | |
Dropping table silver -- sign of company coming. | April 1982 | | |
If you dropped a fork and whatever the prongs point to is where the people are coming from. | April 19 1980 | | |
Dropping silverware signifies a visitor. | April 1979 | | |
Dropped cutlery meant visitors would arrive -- different utensils standing for man, woman, child. | July 19 1978 | | |
When you drop silverware, it means company is coming. If you dropped a fork, it meant a woman; a knife meant a man. | August 6 1964 | | |
Dropped knife -- Going to get company. Dropped fork -- company's coming. | June 1976 | | |
Dropping a knife means company is coming. | April 1980 | | |
When a knife is dropped, company is coming. | April 1980 | | |
If you drop a knife, company is coming. | April 1980 | | |
Dropped knife get company. | January 27 1977 | | |
Dropped knife -- some unexpected guest was to arrive. | December 10 1976 | | |
A dropped knife meant company was coming. | March 1976 | | |
Drop knife -- going to meet someone. | March 1982 | | |
Dropped knife -- company coming. | January 17 1977 | | |
If you dropped a fork, company was coming and the direction it landed determined the direction they were coming. | April 1980 | | |
If a knife or fork was dropped -- company. | April 1980 | | |
Dropped fork -- get company. | January 27 1977 | | |
Dropped knife, someone would come to dinner. | November 1976 | | |
Drop a knife -- someone is coming home hungry. | December 1976 | | |
Dropped fork -- someone's coming for dinner. | December 1976 | | |
Butcher knife dropped preacher's coming. | | | |
Dropped a knife -- company coming. Fork -- company coming. Spoon -- company coming. | July 1 1976 | | |
Drop a : Knife -- you are going to get a man visitor, fork you are going to get a woman visitor, spoon you are going to get get a child visitor. From the direction it is pointing. | April 1976 | | |
Dropped knife, a man would come to visit. | September 17 1976 | | |
Dropped a knife -- man is coming to visit. Fork woman is coming to visit. Spoon child is coming to visit. | July 1 1976 | | |
Dropped knife -- company coming -- man. | March 1977 | | |
If you drop silverware on the floor -- company is coming from the direction it is pointing. Spoon -- child, fork -- woman, knife -- man. | February 1979 | | |
Dropped knife -- a man coming. | February 17 1977 | | |
Dropped knife -- a man is coming. | November 1978 | | |
Dropped knife means a man is coming to the house. | April 1980 | | |
Drop a knife -- a male visitor, fork -- female visitor, spoon -- child visitor. | March 1982 | | |
Drop a knife -- a male visitor, fork -- female visitor, spoon -- child visitor. | March 1982 | | |
Drop a knife, a man is coming. | April 11 1982 | | |
If you drop a fork on the floor a lady is coming; if a knife a man is coming. | March 1982 | | |
Dropped spoon -- children coming. Fork -- womans. Knife -- mans. | April 1982 | | |
Signs that company was coming: accidental dropping of silverware onto floor: knife -- a male visitor. Spoon -- a child. | April 1980 | | |
If you drop a knife a man is coming to visit you. | April 1980 | | |
Dropped knife -- man coming. | February 29 1980 | | |
If you drop silverware, company coming. Knife -- man. Fork -- lady. | April 1980 | | |
If you drop a fork baby, Spoon lady, Knife man will come. | April 1980 | | |
Drop a knife -- man. | March 1980 | | |
If you drop a fork a lady is coming to call. If you drop a knife, a man is coming to call. | | | |
Drop a knife, a man was coming. | April 1980 | | |
If you drop knife -- man. | April 1980 | | |
IF a knife fell on the floor, a man was supposed to visit you. | April 1980 | | |
If you drop a knife, a man is coming to visit, if a spoon, a woman. | May 1980 | | |
Dropped knife -- a man is coming to visit. | June 1977 | | |
Knife -- man. Fork -- woman. Spoon -- child. | March 1979 | | |
Dropped knife -- you were getting company and it wold be a man. Dropped fork -- you were getting company and it would be a woman. | October 1976 | | |
Dropped knife -- man coming. | January 21 1977 | | |
Dropped knife -- a man was coming. | November 15 1978 | | |
If a knife falls to the floor a man will come from the direction the utensil is pointing. | October 1978 | | |
Dropped knife, a male visitor. | October 11 1976 | | |
Dropped knife -- a man's coming. | October 1976 | | |
Dropped knife -- man was coming. | November 15 1976 | | |
Dropped knife -- a man's coming. Fork -- a woman's coming. Spoon -- a child is coming. | June 1976 | | |
Drop a knife, a man is coming. | March 1976 | | |
Dropped knife -- a man would come to your house. | January 10 1977 | | |
Dropped a knife, a man. Fork, a boy. | September 21 1976 | | |
A knife dropped -- a man coming. | March 1976 | | |
Dropped knife -- adult male visitor. | November 30 1976 | | |
Dropped knife -- male visitors coming. | March 1976 | | |
Dropped knife -- a man visitor. Fork -- a woman visitor. Spoon -- a child visitor. (Direction in which the article pointed, indicated the direction from which the visitor would come.) | May 15 1976 | | |
Drop butcher knife -- preacher wil come. Dishrag -- slop will come. | March 12 1979 | | |
Dropped knife -- hungry man coming. Dropped fork -- hungry woman coming. Dropped spoon -- hungry child coming. | July 1 1976 | | |
Dropped butcher knife means preacher is coming to call. | April 1980 | | |
If you dropped a knife, the minister would come calling. | March 1 1980 | | |
Dropped knife -- a man was coming from the direction in which the knife pointed. | October 1978 | | |
If the butcher knife falls to the floor the minister will come. They will come from the direction the utensil is pointing. | October 1978 | | |
Dropped knife -- strange man arriving from direction in which knife fell. | March 1976 | | |
Dropped knife - preacher coming. | January 1976 | | |
If you drop a fork, you'll have company coming that will be hungry. | February 1979 | | |
Drop a fork on the floor -- a man would come to visit. | April 1979 | | |
Dropped fork -- man coming. | January 1976 | | |
Dropped fork -- a gentleman would soon visit. | April 1977 | | |
Dropped fork -- a man will come. Spoon -- a lady will come. | July 1977 | | |
Dropped fork: man coming. | July 1980 | | |
If you drop a fork, a man is coming to visit you. | February 1979 | | |
Dropped fork -- male visitor will come. | December 1978 | | |
A man will be visiting if you drop a fork. | April 1979 | | |
Dropped fork -- man caller. | November 30 1976 | | |
Dropped knire -- a woman was coming. Fork -- a man was coming. Spoon -- a child was coming. Dish rag -- company was coming. | September 1 1976 | | |
If you dropped a knife a woman would visit. If a fork was dropped a man would visit. | November 1978 | | |
Dropped fork -- a man coming. | December 20 1976 | | |
If you drop a fork, a hungry person is coming. | April 1976 | | |
Dropped fork -- male company coming. | October 6 1976 | | |
Dropped fork -- a man's coming to visit. | November 19 1976 | | |
If you drop a fork, a man is coming. If you drop a knife, a woman is coming. | June 1964 | | |
Dropped knife -- a woman visitor is coming. Dropped fork -- a man visitor is coming. | June 1976 | | |
Dropped knife -- there's a woman coming. | December 20 1976 | | |
A knife, some woman will come. A fork, some man will come. Spoon, some kid will come. | March 1976 | | |
Dropped fork -- a man visitor. | March 1976 | | |
Drop: a broom -- company coming, a knife -- a woman coming, a fork -- a man coming, a spoon -- a child coming. | May 1976 | | |
If you drop a fork -- man company. If you drop a spoon -- women company. | May 1976 | | |
A dropped fork means company coming -- a man. | March 1976 | | |
Knife woman, fork man, spoon child, big spoon old woman, butcher knife preacher. | May 8 1963 | | |
Dropped knife, woman coming. Dropped fork, man coming. Dropped spoon, child coming. | August 10 1976 | | |
Dropped knife, woman was coming. Dropped fork, man was coming. | April 1976 | | |
Dropped fork -- company would be a man. | May 1976 | | |
Dropped fork -- a strange man will visit you. | November 15 1976 | | |
Falling objects. Knife -- woman. Fork -- man. Spoon -- child. Big spoon -- old woman. Butcher knife -- preacher. | May 8 1963 | | |
Knife falls = "some woman is comin' ". Fork falls = "a man coming". | May 10 1963 | | |
To drop a fork meant that a man was coming from the direction of the prong. | November 23 1976 | | |
A dropped fork means a man coming to visit; tines pointed direction he was coming from. | April 1976 | | |
A dropped knife -- company coming -- a woman. | March 1976 | | |
Dropped knife -- woman coming. | July 1980 | | |
Dropped knife -- meant a lady wold soon come visiting. | April 1977 | | |
Drop a knife on the floor a woman would come to visit. | April 1979 | | |
A woman visitor is a knife is dropped. | April 1979 | | |
Dropped fork -- woman coming. | February 17 1977 | | |
Dropped knife -- lady caller. | November 30 1976 | | |
Dropped knife -- a woman's coming to visit. | November 19 1976 | | |
Dropped knife -- a strange woman will visit you. | November 15 1976 | | |
Dropped knife -- a lady visitor. | March 1976 | | |
To drop a knife means a woman coming from the direction to which the blade was pointing. | November 23 1976 | | |
Dropped fork -- woman coming. | March 1977 | | |
Dropped knife -- company coming would be a woman. | May 1976 | | |
Dropped knife -- female company coming. | October 6 1976 | | |
Dropped fork -- adult female visitor. | November 11 1976 | | |
Dropped fork, a woman would come. | September 17 1976 | | |
Dropped fork -- a woman was coming. | October 1978 | | |
Dropped fork -- a woman was coming to visit. | June 1977 | | |
Dropped fork -- a woman is coming to house. | April 1980 | | |
Dropped fork -- a woman. | April 1980 | | |
Dropped fork -- woam coming. | February 29 1980 | | |
Dropped fork -- a lady is coming. | November 1978 | | |
Drop a fork -- woman visits. | March 1980 | | |
Dropped fork -- a woman was coming. | November 15 1978 | | |
If a fork falls to the floor a lady will come from the direction the utensil is pointing. | October 1978 | | |
A dropped fork means a woman was coming to visit you. | October 1976 | | |
Dropped fork -- woman was coming. | November 15 1976 | | |
Dropped fork -- a woman would come to your house. | January 10 1977 | | |
Drop a fork a woman is coming. | April 1982 | | |
Dropped fork, a female visitor. | October 11 1976 | | |
Dropped fork, a woman's coming. | October 1976 | | |
Drop a fork a woman is coming. | March 1976 | | |
A fork dropped -- a woman coming. | March 1976 | | |
Dropped fork -- female visitors coming. | March 1976 | | |
Dropped fork -- strange woman arriving from direction in which fork fell. | March 1976 | | |
Dropped spoon -- a gentleman would soon visit. | April 1977 | | |
If you drop a spoon a lady is coming to visit. | February 1979 | | |
Dropped spoon -- female visitor will come. | December 1978 | | |
Dropped spoon -- company is coming. | November 15 1976 | | |
Dropped spoon, company coming or you might receive a letter. | May 1976 | | |
Drop a spoon -- company coming. | April 1982 | | |
Drop a spoon, sign you're getting company. | April 1982 | | |
If you drop a spoon on the floor, company was coming. | April 1 1980 | | |
Dropped spoon -- company coming. | October 1976 | | |
Dropped spoon -- a big mouth is coming. | October 1976 | | |
Dropped spoon - both man and woman coming. | February 29 1980 | | |
Dropped spoon, somebody hungry was to come over. | September 21 1976 | | |
Dropped spoon -- a child was coming. | November 15 1978 | | |
Dropped spoon, a child was coming. | October 1978 | | |
Dropped spoon -- a child was coming to visit. | June 1977 | | |
If you drop spoon -- child. | April 1980 | | |
Drop a spoon -- child. | March 1980 | | |
Dropped spoon -- a child coming, or a fool if itÂ’s a teaspoon. | July 1980 | | |
Dropped spoon -- child coming. | March 1977 | | |
Dropped spoon, a child would come. | September 17 1976 | | |
Dropped spoon -- a child coming. | October 6 1976 | | |
Dropped spoon, a child will visit. | October 11 1976 | | |
Dropped spoon, a child's coming. | October 1976 | | |
Dropped spoon -- a child coming. | March 1976 | | |
Dropped spoon -- a child coming. | December 20 1976 | | |
Dropped spoon -- a child visitor. | November 30 1976 | | |
A spoon dropped -- a child coming. | March 1976 | | |
Dropped spoon -- doctor was coming. | November 15 1976 | | |
Dropped spoon -- a child arriving from direction in which spoon fell. | March 1976 | | |
Dropped table spoon -- a big mouth is coming. | April 1980 | | |
Dropping a dish towel -- company was coming. | February 1982 | | |
Drop the dish cloth on the floor -- company was coming. | February 28 1980 | | |
Dish cloth falls on floor -- company coming. | March 1 1980 | | |
Dropped dish rag -- company. | November 30 1976 | | |
Dropped dishrag, visitors. | January 20 1977 | | |
When you dropped a dishcloth, that meant company was comin' | April 1979 | | |
Dropped dishrag, someone will visit. | October 19 1976 | | |
Drop a dish cloth on the floor company is coming. | February 1979 | | |
Dropped dishrag - company. | February 17 1977 | | |
Dropped dishrag, preacher's coming. | October 1976 | | |
Dropped dish rag -- someone coming hungry. | January 21 1977 | | |
Dropped dish rag - an unkempt person will come. | December 1978 | | |
Dropped dishrag -- a slop was coming. | November 15 1978 | | |
Dropped dish rag, a 'slop' is here. | November 1978 | | |
Dropped dishrag -- an old slouch coming. | December 20 1976 | | |
Dropped dishrag, some slouch would come. | September 17 1976 | | |
Dropped dish rag -- a sloppy person is coming to visit you. | October 1976 | | |
Dropped dish rag -- a sloven was coming. | November 15 1976 | | |
Dropped dish rag -- a sloppy or dirty woman will visit. | November 15 1976 | | |
Drop a dishrag, some slop will come. | March 1976 | | |
Dropped dishrag -- Slop is coming. | January 1976 | | |
Dropped dish cloth -- a slob. | March 1976 | | |
If you lost or dropped the dish rag you were a "slop" | November 1978 | | |
Drop a dish clothÂ… "some slop's gonna come." | February 1972 | | |
Dropped dish rag -- someone is coming to your home who is sloppier than you are. | July 1980 | | |
Dropped dish rag, bigger slop than you are coming. | August 10 1976 | | |
Drop a dishrag -- slob is going to visit. | March 1980 | | |
Dropping a dish cloth meant a "slop," sloppy person, was coming. | April 1980 | | |
Dropped dish cloth -- a sloppy person. | April 1980 | | |
Dropped dish rag -- a slop was coming. | January 10 1977 | | |
When you go to put a morsel of food in your mouth and it falls from the fork that means somebody hungry is comin'! | April 1979 | | |
If you take something you already have on your plate, "somebody's coming hungry." | August 12 1963 | | |
If you butter a slice of bread when you already have one buttered, "someone's comin' hungry." | November 15 1964 | | |
Dropped spoon -- hungry people are coming. | April 1979 | | |
A fork droppd means somebody coming for dinner. | June 1976 | | |
Dropped scissors means company coming from direction points indicate. | March 1976 | | |
If yo udrop a pen or knife and it sticks upright in ground or carpet, company is coming. | March 1979 | | |
If a chain rocked with no one in it, someone is coming. | April 30 1980 | | |
Drop a broom across a door, company will come. | March 1976 | | |
When broom falls across a doorway, company is coming. | April 1980 | | |
If a feather was blowing across the floor, company was coming. (This was back when beds and pillows had feathers in them.) | April 24 1980 | | |
If you drop a broom, someone is going to come and sweep your floor for you. | April 1976 | | |
If you left by a different door, company was coming. | February 17 1977 | | |
If you leave by a different door, you will have company. | July 1977 | | |
If you left by a different door, you would bring company to that house. | November 15 1978 | | |
If you left by a different door than the one you entered, company is coming. | June 1977 | | |
If you leave by a different door than the one you entered -- company will come. | January 30 1980 | | |
If you leave by a different door than the one you entered, it brings company. | November 30 1986 | | |
If you left by different door, you will have company that day. | May 1979 | | |
If you leave by a different door than the one entered, it will bring company. | August 10 1976 | | |
If you don't go out the same door you came in, you can expect company. | April 1976 | | |
Leave by the same door you entered or it may bring company to that house. | October 6 1976 | | |
If a person came in one door and went out by another, it would bring more company. | June 1976 | | |
If you left by a different door than the one you entered you'll bring company. | July 1980 | | |
If you left by a different door than the one you entered, more company was coming. | September 1 1976 | | |
If you left by a different door a sign of company very soon. | February 29 1980 | | |
If you left by a different door, you would bring company. | April 1980 | | |
If you left by a different door, you'd get company. | April 6 1980 | | |
If you left by a different door, you'd bring in more company. | April 3 1980 | | |
If you left by a different door than the one you entered, it would bring more company. | January 10 1977 | | |
If you left by a different door -- company will come. | October 1979 | | |
If you left by a different door, the people would get company. | December 20 1976 | | |
When visiting someone's home for the first time, you should leave by the same door that you entered. | April 1980 | | |
If you left by a different door, you took their luck with you. | March 1980 | | |
If you left by a different door, you left your bad luck behind. You weren't supposed to do it because those in the house didn't want your bad luck. | April 19 1980 | | |
Always leave by the same door you entered. If you leave by another door you bring bad luck to that house. | October 1978 | | |
If you visited you never left before you heard the clock strike. | November 1978 | | |
A bright spark in a candle wick is sometimes said to indicate the coming of strangers, but more generally it means a letter for the individual nearest to it. | April 2 1980 | | |
If you dream about someone who is dead, you'll see someone you haven't seen for a while. | April 1980 | | |
Dream of the dead you hear from the living. | | | |
Dream of the dead you'll hear from the living. | April 1980 | | |
Dream of the dead, hear from the living. | April 1980 | | |
Dream of the dead, you'll hear from the living. | April 6 1980 | | |
Dream of the dead, you'll hear from the living. | April 3 1980 | | |
Dream of the dead and you'll hear from the living. | March 1976 | | |
Dream of someone dead: You're going to get a letter; You'll hear from the living. | July 1980 | | |
Dream of the dead, hear from the living. | March 1982 | | |
Dream of the dead hear from the living. | April 1982 | | |
Dream of the dead nad see the living. | March 1982 | | |
Dream of the dead, you'll hear from the living. | November 15 1978 | | |
Dream of the dead means you'll hear from the living. | October 1978 | | |
Dream about the dead and you hear from the living. | August 27, 1976 | | |
Dream of the dead -- hear of/from the living. | November 30 1976 | | |
If you dream of the dead you hear from the living. | October 1976 | | |
If you dream of a funeral, you'll hear from the living. | April 1976 | | |
If you dream of a funeral, you will hear from the living. | March 1976 | | |
Dreams of a funeral -- hear from living friend. | July 1 1976 | | |
Dream of the dead -- hear from the living. | January 21 1977 | | |
Dream of a funeral, you'll soon see a living friend. | March 1976 | | |
Dream of the dead you'll hear from the living. | March 1976 | | |
Dream of a funeral and you'll hear of a living relative/ | April 1976 | | |
Dream of a funeral, you'll hear from the living. | July 7 1976 | | |
When you feel good, sign of good news, feel bad, sign of bad news. | March 1982 | | |
Ringing in right ear -- good news. | April 1980 | | |
If your ear burns: right ear - good news, left ear - bad news. | November 15 1976 | | |
When your right ear burns, good news. | April 1980 | | |
Right ear ringing -- sign of good news. | April 1982 | | |
Ringing in the right ear -- good news. | April 1982 | | |
Ringing in right ear -- good news. | April 1980 | | |
Right ear itches -- good news coming. | January 30 1980 | | |
Itching ears, left one bad, right good news. | May 1979 | | |
Right eye itches -- good news. Left eye itches -- bad news. | April 1982 | | |
Palm itches -- good news. | April 1982 | | |
Itching of your nose -- sign of good news. | March 1982 | | |
Hand itches at night -- good news. Better if left hand, rather than right. | March 1982 | | |
If your left palm was itchy it meant good news. | | | |
Signs of good news: Kiss a letter something better! | April 1980 | | |
Itchy nose -- good news. | February 29 1980 | | |
A bee buzzing around your head, good news. | April 1980 | | |
A bird singing on your windowsill means good news. | April 1982 | | |
Roses -- sign of good news. | April 1982 | | |
A bee flying into a window -- good news. | April 1982 | | |
Finding a penny -- sign of good news. | April 1982 | | |
If you found a four leaf clover, good news. | | | |
No news at all, sign of good news. | April 1980 | | |
Dream of clear water - good news. | January 17 1977 | | |
When your left ear burns or rings, sign of bad news. | April 1980 | | |
Left ear ringing -- bad news. | April 1982 | | |
Ringing in left ear -- bad news. | April 1980 | | |
Left ear itches -- bad news coming. | January 30 1980 | | |
Twitching eye -- bad news. | April 24 1980 | | |
Nose itches - bad news. | April 1982 | | |
If your right palm was itchy, bad news. | | | |
A dog howling during daylight means bad news. | April 1982 | | |
If you found a black thread on your clothes that meant you were going to hear bad news. | | | |
Signs of bad news: 1) Hear an owl 2) Bird in window. | April 1980 | | |
The cooing of a turtle dove at a window indicates sad news. | April 1982 | | |
A bird flying into a window was a sign of a bad news. | April 1982 | | |
If a bird pecks on your window, sign of bad news. | April 1980 | | |
Bird flying around the windows -- bad news. | April 1980 | | |
A bird flying against your window was a sign of bad news. | March 1980 | | |
Bird comes to window and tries to get in -- bad news. | March 1 1980 | | |
Rooster crowing in the middle of the night -- bad news. | April 1982 | | |
If on a cloudless day the sun suddenly gets hid by one lone cloud, bad news. | March 28 1980 | | |
To hear a knock three times, bad news. | April 6 1980 | | |
If a picture falls off the wall and the nail was still in and the cord isn't broken, bad news. | April 6 1980 | | |
Dream about snakes and you will hear bad news. | March 1979 | | |
If a chair rocked by itself, bad news is coming. | April 1982 | | |
Getting a letter: something itches, I don't remember what it was. | April 19 1980 | | |
When your ear burns, you'll get a letter. | January 17 1977 | | |
If your nose itches, you are going to get a letter. | March 1976 | | |
An itchy nose means a letter. | April 1980 | | |
If your nose itches you'll get a letter. | February 28 1980 | | |
An itchy nose -- letter. | April 1980 | | |
When nose itched, sign of getting a letter. | March 1982 | | |
Nose itched -- sign of getting a letter. | March 1982 | | |
Your nose itches -- sign of getting a letter. | February 1982 | | |
Nose itches -- get a letter. | March 1982 | | |
Itchy nose -- sign of getting a letter. | April 1982 | | |
Itchy nose -- sign of getting a letter. | February 29 1980 | | |
Itching nose -- kiss or letter, or something better. | April 1982 | | |
Nose would itch -- going to get a letter. | March 1 1980 | | |
If your nose itches, get a letter. | April 1980 | | |
Itchy nose -- signs of getting a letter. | April 24 1980 | | |
An itchy nose meant you would get a letter. | March 1979 | | |
Nose is itching -- you'll get a letter. | April 1979 | | |
If your nose itched it meant a kiss or a letter or something better. | April 4 1979 | | |
If your nose itches, letter will come. | March 1979 | | |
If your nose was itchy, you'd get a letter. | April 1979 | | |
If your nose itches you are going to get a letter. | April 1979 | | |
If your nose itches you will be kissed or you might get a letter. | April 1979 | | |
If your nose itches, you'll get a kiss or a letter or something better. | October 1978 | | |
Nose itches -- you will receive a letter. | April 1977 | | |
If your nose itches, you're going to get a letter. | April 28 1963 | | |
When your nose itches, you will receive a letter. | July 7 1976 | | |
If your nose itches -- get letters. | November 15 1976 | | |
If your hand itches, you're going to get a letter. | March 1982 | | |
If your nose itches, you will get a letter or something better. | April 1980 | | |
If your nose itches, getting a letter or something better. | April 1980 | | |
Itching in center of hand or heel area, you would get a letter. | October 12 1979 | | |
Palm of hand itching meant you would get a letter the next day. | March 12 1979 | | |
If your palm itched, you would get a letter. | February 1979 | | |
If you sneeze , you'll get a letter. | February 1979 | | |
Sneeze on Wednesday - get a letter. | April 1980 | | |
If you sneezed three times you were going to get a letter. | | | |
White spot on fingernails of fourth finger meant getting a letter. | March 1982 | | |
Dream of death - sign of letter coming. | February 1979 | | |
String on coat -- a letter. | April 5 1980 | | |
If the hem of your clothing is turned uo, you will receive a letter. | April 1982 | | |
If hem of dress is turned up -- you will receive a letter. | April 1980 | | |
If your skirt tail is turned up you are going to get a letter. | February 1979 | | |
If your dress tail turns up, you'll get a letter. | February 1979 | | |
If your slip is sticking out, you'll get a letter. | April 1979 | | |
If you fall upstairs, you will get a letter. | January 1980 | | |
Dream of the dead -- sign of getting a letter. | April 6 1980 | | |
IF you see three crows flying overhead -- letter. | April 1980 | | |
If a spider approaches -- sign of getting a letter. | April 1982 | | |
When it rains you'll get a letter. | | | |
If you place the spamp upside down, it means "I love you." | 1951 | | |
A kiss given on New Year's Day -- good luck throughout the year. | April 1982 | | Love, Courtship, Marriage |
If you shake hands -- 2 couples crossing each other -- there will be a wedding. | July 18 1978 | | Love, Courtship, Marriage |
If the clasp of your necklace turns to the front, someone likes you or is thinking of you. | October 11 1976 | | Love, Courtship, Marriage |
Spots on fingernails -- how many boyfriends you were going to have. | April 4 1979 | | Love, Courtship, Marriage |
Spots of fingernails. How many girl or boyfriends you have. | March 1979 | | Love, Courtship, Marriage |
White spots on the fingernails mean the number of boyfriends you have. | November 23 1976 | | Love, Courtship, Marriage |
White spots on fingernails mean number of boy (girl) friends. | November 30 1976 | | Love, Courtship, Marriage |
White spots on the fingernails mean you're going to get a new boyfriend. | June 1976 | | Love, Courtship, Marriage |
If a girl had white spots on fingernails she would be sure to be married. | April 24 1980 | | Love, Courtship, Marriage |
White spots on fingernails mean you are in love. | April 1979 | | Love, Courtship, Marriage |
Spots on fingernails -- how many boyfriends or girlfriends you would have. | March 1979 | | Love, Courtship, Marriage |
Spots on fingernails = how many boyfriends you have. If on middle finger, he's taller than you, small finger he's shorter, thumb he's fat and the other two fingers he's the same height. | February 1979 | | Love, Courtship, Marriage |
Spots on fingernails = how many boyfriends or girlfriends you have. | April 1979 | | Love, Courtship, Marriage |
You stepped on my toe -- and I'm not gonna sleep with you tonight. | Sptember 12 1970 | | Love, Courtship, Marriage |
If a shoe-lace comes untied, it means someone is after you. | April 1980 | | Love, Courtship, Marriage |
If a shoelace comes untied a widower is after you. | April 1980 | | Love, Courtship, Marriage |
When crossing a railroad track, lift your feet off the floor of the car to insure your love's fidelity. | 1964 | | Love, Courtship, Marriage |
If the hem of your skirt is turned up, "you've been kissing the boys." | October 12 1979 | | Love, Courtship, Marriage |
If the hem of your skirt is turned up, you're going to get a kiss. | | | Love, Courtship, Marriage |
If a girl won't let you do it, rub your dick along the inside of her thigh and she'll let you put it in. | 1946 | | Love, Courtship, Marriage |
Olives make you passionate. | January 28 1976 | | Love, Courtship, Marriage |
Parsley was supposed to be an aphrodisiac. | October 1978 | | Love, Courtship, Marriage |
If a girl wanted to know who she would marry, she plucked a rosebud on Midsummer Day, wrapped it in white paper and put it away in soe secret place until Christmas Day. | April 2 1980 | | Love, Courtship, Marriage |
Don't sit on the table or you'll be married before your able. | May 10 1963 | | Love, Courtship, Marriage |
Singing at the dinner table, you are going to marry a crazy person. | September 21 1976 | | Love, Courtship, Marriage |
Dropped spoon -- you would find a beautiful girl (boy). | November 1976 | | Love, Courtship, Marriage |
Read tea leaves to determine spouse. | April 1980 | | Love, Courtship, Marriage |
Play the ouija board to find name or occupation of future husband. | April 1980 | | Love, Courtship, Marriage |
Girls used Ouiji board to learn name of future husband. | September 21 1976 | | Love, Courtship, Marriage |
We used to count the letters in our name and tehn take the number of the letter in the alphabet and that is what our husband's name started with. | April 19 1980 | | Love, Courtship, Marriage |
If a maid named the posts of her bed for four of her boyfriends, the boy she dreamed of would be her future mate. | April 1980 | | Love, Courtship, Marriage |
To find future husband, girls played with the Ouija board. | October 1976 | | Love, Courtship, Marriage |
To find future husband, they jumped rope to a song where you start naming names. The one that you miss on is his name. They they ask, "What will he do?" | October 1976 | | Love, Courtship, Marriage |
To find out future husband -- Ouiji board. | December 1976 | | Love, Courtship, Marriage |
To find name of future husband, they made hands made paper fortune telling, called cooties. | December 1976 | | Love, Courtship, Marriage |
To determine future husband, write both names and cross out the letters that match; remaining letters are then checked off by naming "Love, hate, friendship, and marriage." | November 30 1976 | | Love, Courtship, Marriage |
To find occupation of future husband jump rope to jingle "Butcher, baker, Indian Chief, Doctor, lawyer, merchant, thief." | March 1982 | | Love, Courtship, Marriage |
To find future husband -- Jump rope to ABC's till you got out, then boys names starting with that letter you were stopped at. | March 1982 | | Love, Courtship, Marriage |
To find husband's occupation, jump rope -- Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief. | March 1982 | | Love, Courtship, Marriage |
To find husband's occupation, jump rope -- Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief. | March 1982 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Jump rope to find name or occupation of future husband. | April 1980 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
To find husband girls used to jump rope sayings and the letter they missed on was the first letter in their future husband's name. | March 28 1980 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Before going to bed write 3 names of possible mates on 3 slips of paper, place them under the pillow. Throw one away before sleep, another next morning. The remaining name is your mate. | April 1980 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
On Valentine's Day, eat the white of an egg, pin five bay leaves on your pillows. Go to bed without talking to anyone; you will dream of the person you are going to marry. | February 1971 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Dreams of a wedding usually come true. | December 1976 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Dreams of a wedding; a wedding was anticipated. | July 18 1978 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Dream of death means wedding. | March 1980 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Dream of death, hear of a wedding. | April 18 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Dream of death = wedding. | April 26 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Dream of death means wedding. | November 25 1981 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
To dream of death meant wedding. | December 20 1976 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Dream of death means a wedding. | November 15 1976 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Christmas Eve the first man that spoke to you, you took his first name and looked for your partner. | May 1976 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Dream of wedding, sign of funeral, dream of funeral, sign of wedding in future. | April 1982 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
To dream of a funerl means a wedding. | April 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
If you dream of a funeral there's to be a wedding and vize versa. | April 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Dream of a funeral means there will be a wedding. | May 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Dream of a funeral -- sign of a wedding. | April 1976 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Dream of a funeral, look out, some one close to you will soon be married. | October 1978 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Dream of a funeral -- wedding. | July 18 1978 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Dreams of a funeral --wedding. | July 18 1978 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Dream of wedding, dream of funeral - reverse will happen. | July 18 1978 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
If you dream of a funeral, you will attend a party or wedding. | May 1976 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Dreams of a funeral -- a wedding. | May 1976 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
A man that can build a fire easy, will be a model husband. | April 1980 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Burning match on upright unlit one -- if horizontal one goes up, you'll marry, down you won't. | April 26 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
From Anglo-Saxon times, to find name of future husband, they looked in mirrors, pealed [!] apples without breaking the chain, picked read ears of corn. | October 1978 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Sleep with a mirror under your pillow to discover your future husband. | April 1980 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
To find name of future husband, hold mirror and look over shoulder. | July 1977 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Count seven stars on each of seven consecutive nights. You'll wed the first eligible man you meet on the eighth day. | February 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Throwing a cat on the finished quilt tells who the next bride will be as the cat is supposed to run to the fortunate one from the center of the handicraft. | February 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Crack an egg into a lake and the egge white will indicate the name or occupation of one's future husband. If the yolk doesn't break, he will be a success. | December 1976 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Put a chicken wish bone above the door and the first strange man to enger was to be your husband. | April 1976 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
The girl put a wishbone above the door and the sir name {1} of the first man visitor would be the name of the man she would marry. | November 1978 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Put a wishbone over the door, you kiss the first man who came through. | March 1976 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
They broke the wishbone and put it up over the door [to find future husband]. | April 1976 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
If a boy a girl pass a car with only one headlight, he may kiss her if he says "Padiddle." | | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
A wishbone was broken by 2 and larger piece put over door. He who put it there would marry the first to enter. | December 10 1976 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Two people break a wishbone; the person with the shortest piece will get married first. | March 1976 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
The wishbone was broken and the one who got the short piece would be married first. | November 15 1976 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Wishbone: two people would hold them and break it; shortest piece would be married first. | April 1976 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
See an owl in the daytime the next person you see will be your true love. | February 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Butterfiles in the house means there will soon be a wedding. | April 1982 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Two fireflys in the house means there will be a marriage. | April 1982 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Spiders and spiderwebs mean there is not enough loving in the room. | March 1982 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
When you dream about snakes you hear about a wedding. | March 7 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Find a pod containing nine peas and hang it over your door. The first man through the door will have the same name as their groom. | February 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Girls consultedtea leaves and the Ouija Board to learn of their future husbands. | March 1976 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Two vegtables grown together mean a wedding. | September 1 1976 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Gather a pile of sticks. Then, without looking, pull one out of the middle. A long stick means a tall man, a short stick, a short man. | February 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Count petals [!] on flowers to determine future husband. | March 1980 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Pull out daisy petals to find name of future husband. | April 1980 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Pull petals [!] from daisy to find future husband. | March 1980 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Daisies show whether someone loves you. | July 18 1978 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Count daisy petals to find your future husband. | March 1976 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Pick daisy petals to find out if either the boy or girl loved you -- "He loves me, he loves me not" until petals are all picked clean, and the last will indicate how the person feels toward you. | July 18 1978 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Pulling out the petals of daisies determined "he loves me, He loves me not." | July 18 1978 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Pull daisy petals off, he loves me, he loves me not, etc. | July 18 1978 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
You pulled the petals off daisies, and said, he loves me, he loves me not. Last petal decides if he loves me or not. | October 1978 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Count daisy petals -- "he loves me, he loves me not." | July 18 1978 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Pull daisy petals to see if "she loves me, she loves me not." | July 18 1978 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Pick petals on daisy and say he lvoes me, he loves me not, until daisy is picked clean, except for last. | July 18 1978 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
When there was a young man whom the young lady cared for she would get a daisy and pull the petals off reciting, "he loves me, he loves me not," for every other petal. | June 1976 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Daisy petals are pulled off and counted, "He loves me, he loves me not" to determine whether your sweetheart loves you or not. | | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Pick daisies apart to find name of futuer husband. | November 15 1978 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
A violet is the lover's flower. | October 1978 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Pick a rosebud on Midsummers Day (June 24) and wrap it in white paper. Keep it until Christmas, then wear it to Church. Your future husband will take it from you. | February 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
To predict future husband: Turn an apple core until it breaks on his name. | November 25 1981 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
To find future husband -- turn apple around, when stem breaks. | March 1980 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Twist apple cord to determine spouse. | April 1980 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
To predict husband, twist apple core, say alphabet. | April 1980 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
To find name of future husband, an old Scotch tale says peel on apple on Halloween might and throw it over the shoulder, shape it fell indicated initials. If whole, it might mean wealth. | October 6 1976 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
To find husband, peel apple, throw skin over shoulder. | April 1980 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Peel the skin of an apple and drop it, whatever letter it forms will be the first letter of their future husband's first name. | May 1980 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Peel an apple in 1 piece, throw over shoulder and it will come in shape of his first letter name. | April 1980 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
An apple peeling thrown over shoulder -- initial of husband. | March 1980 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Peel an apple (continuous) throw the peeling over shoulder and the letter it forms will be his 1st initial. | April 1982 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Girls predicted the name of their future husband by throwing parings over shoulder and noting the first letter they discern (his initial). | April 1982 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Peel an apple, throw it around your head, it will land in the slope of your future husband's initial. | February 1982 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
If you can cut all the peeling off an apple (potato) in one piece, throw it over your shoulder and it'll form the initial of the man you'll marry. | | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Peel an apple without breaking it, throw it over the left shoulder and it will give the initial of the one you'll marry. | April 1982 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
On New Year's Eve a girl would peel an apple round 'n' round then throw the peel up in the air and the initial made when the peel fell was that of her future husband. | July 1980 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
On Halloween peel an apple throw over shoulder, will land in form of mate's initials. | April 26 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Throw an apple pairing over right shoulder and it will fall in shape of husband to be initial. | September 1 1976 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Pare apple and throw paring over left shoulder, it will form initial of future husband. | August 10 1976 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
White spot on fingernails. I think it meant the total of spots would be years until marriage. | April 1980 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
A man who wears an earring on his left ear is supposed to be available, on the right ear, already taken. | September 21 1976 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Bad luck to put on the table a baby, get married before it's able. | April 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Don't sit on the table, you'll be married before you're able. | April 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Singing at the table will get you married before you're able. | March 1982 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
If you noticed an empty cradle, you keep chasing after someone you really likes but she dislikes you. | April 1980 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
If a single person breaks a mirror, she won't be married for seven years. | September 17 1976 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Don't sweep or scrube around a person if you do they will never get married. | February 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
If you fall upstairs you won't get married this year. | February 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
If you fall upstairs, you will be married within a year. | April 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
If you fall upstairs, you won't get married. | March 7 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
If you fall upstairs, sign of a wedding in the near future. | April 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
If yo ufall upstairs, you won't get married that year. | February 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
If you fall upstairs, won't get married for 7 years. | March 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
If you fall upstairs, won't marry for seven years. | October 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
If you fall up the stairs, it means a wedding. | October 1978 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
If you fall up the steps you'll get married before you're able. | July 31 1963 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
If you fall upstairs, you won't get married for 7 years. | March 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
If an engaged couple are photograhed together, something will happen to prevent the marriage. | April 2 1980 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
The parents of the girl matched them with a mate. | October 1976 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Sit on the table, you'll marry before you're able. | December 20 1976 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
A person that takes the last sewing on the table will stay unwed. | April 1980 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
If you take the last piece of something, you'll be an old maid. | | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
If you have last piece of cake will turn into an old maid. | March 1980 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Whoever eats the last piece of bread will be an old maid. | April 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
If you took the last slice of bread, you would be an "old maid" or a bachelor. | May 15 1976 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Dropping a comb means you won't get married that year. | February 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Girls never sing at the table or you'll get a crazy husband. | October 1978 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
If you sing at the table, you'll get a crazy husband or wife. | April 1982 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
If you sing at the table, you'll get a crazy spouse. | April 1982 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Dropped dishrag -- you would be a sloppy wife of house keeper. | November 1976 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Dropped dishrag -- you have a drunken husband. | July 1977 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
If you get your belly wet washing dishes you'll marry a drunkard. | April 1980 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Make a past of hazelnuts, walnuts, nutmeg butter and sugar. Roll it into little balls and eat nine of them before you go to bed. If you dream of wealth that night it means you'll marry a gentleman; of thunder, a soldier or sailor; of rain, a servant; of darkness, a lawyer; of horses, a laborer. | February 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Girls counted on their clothes to find out occupation of husband: Rich man, poor man, Indian chief. A doctor, lawyer. | March 1976 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
ButtonsÂ… Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief, doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. | April 1980 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
We used to recite (elementary school) Rich man, poor man, beggarman, thief, doctor, lawyer, Indian chief on the buttons down the front of the dress to determain husband. | March 1980 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
To find your future husband's occupation, count the number of buttons you have on and say "Rich man, poor man, beggarman, thief, Doctor, lawyer, Indian chief." | April 1982 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Count buttons on clothes -- "Rich man, poor man, beggarman, thief," to determine future husband's occupation. | November 25 1981 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Girls predicted their future husbands by counting buttons -- rich man, poor man -- | February 28 1980 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Girls would count the bottons on their coat: Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief, doctor, lawyer, Indian chief, etc. to determine future husband's occupation. | | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
To find future husband's occupation, counted on the buttons, rich man, poor man, etc. | January 21 1977 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Girls would count buttons on their waist to find husband's occupation: "Rich man, poor man, beggarman, (----), doctor, lawyer, merchant, chief." | November 1976 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
To find name of future husband: Cross out letters in name. Say rhyme: rich man, poor man -- he loves me, he loves me not. | May 1976 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
To find future husband's occupation jumping rope to "Rich man, poor man, etc." | April 1980 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Girls jumped rope to determine name and occupation of future husband. | June 1977 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
To find husband's occupation, jump rope -- "Rich man, poor man, beggarman, thief, Dr., lawyer, Indian chief." When you tripped on rope that was your husband. | July 1980 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Jump rope to the rhyme: Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief, Doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. Wherever the girl missed the rope, that would be her future husband's occupation. | November 15 1976 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
To find occupation of future husband, pull daisy leaves while reciting "Rich man, poor man, beggar, thief, Doctor, lawyer, merchant, chief." | March 1976 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
To find future husband's occupation: place plum stones in a plate and say "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor, Richman, Poor man, Beggar man, thief." The one you stop with will be your future husband's occupation. | March 1982 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Two marriages in the same family in one year -- neither one will be any good. | December 6 1974 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Bride can't see the groom the day or the marriage or it's bad luck. | October 28 1976 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
A gray day, a sad bride. Groom must not see bride on wedding day till wedding time. | July 7 1976 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Never have a groom see his bride before the wedding -- bad luck. | April 1980 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Groom isn't to see bride on the wedding day -- bad luck. | April 1976 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
A laughing bride becomes a weeping wife. | April 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Seeing a white horse on the way to a wedding is good luck. | April 26 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Don't get married during Advent or Lent, and not Sundays. | March 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Bad days to get married -- Saturday - Friday. Bad luck in Lent. | April 26 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Good days for getting married - June - Saturday. | April 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
June -- good month for getting married. | April 1982 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
The month of June, the day would be Saturday -- best for getting married. | February | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
June is the best month to get married. | | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Good days for getting married: Saturday, during June, July and August. | March 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
You were not to get married in dog days. | March 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, esp. Tuesday and Thursday, Good days to marry. | April 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Monday, Thursday, Friday bad days for getting married. | May 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Get married on Wednesday for good luck. | March 1982 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Good days to get married - Wednesday - days of the full moon. | April 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Sat, Sun, Wed -- good days for getting married. | May 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Wednesday and Friday -- bad days to marry. | April 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Wednesday was a bad day for getting married because there was an even number of days on either side. | February 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Wednesday -- bad day for getting married. | March 12 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Bad days for getting married -- Fridays. | April 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Never get married on Friday -- bad luck. | October 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Fridays were bad luck. If a girl got married on Friday, people assumed she was pregnant. | February 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Saturdays -- good days for getting married. | March 7 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Sat and Sun -- good days for getting married. | March 12 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Happy is the bride the sun shines on. | | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Happy is the bride the sun shines on. | September 1 1976 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Rainy days are bad days to get married. | April 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
If rain on wedding day, you have a lite of kids. | February 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
If it rains at a wedding, the bride will cry that many tears in her life. | March 1976 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
If it rains on the day a bride is married she'll have tears throughout her life. | February 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Rainbow on wedding day a sign of good luck. | March 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
It is bad luck to let the groom see the bride's gown before the wedding. | April 1982 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
It is bad luck to change wedding clothes before the night is over. | April 1982 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
White veils were also worn as part of the wedding costumer, but the wearing of them was restricted to virgins only. | April 1981 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
All women married in black dresses after her wedding, a girl could use her wedding gown as a formal dress. | April 1981 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Pearls are bad omens for brides. | March 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
If a bride wore pearls on a wedding day, she would cry. | February 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
Pearls are bad luck if worn by a bride. | April 1979 | Love, Courtship, Marriage | |
The first slice of wedding cake must always be cut by the bride, otherwise the marriage will be childless. | April 2 1980 | | |
They put wedding cake crumbs under their pillows to dream of their future husbands. | September 17 1976 | | |
Young girl dreams when she puts a piece of wedding cake under her pillow she will dream abut her future husband. | February 1979 | | |
Put piece of wedding cake under pillow and dream of the man you will marry or have good luck. | June 1977 | | |
Sleep on a wedding cake to find out future husband. | January 20 1977 | | |
Sleep on piece of wedding cake -- dream of who you will marry. | March 1980 | | |
Put a wedding cake under your pillow and you'll dream of your future husband. | April 3 1980 | | |
To learn who you will marry, sleep on a piece of wedding cake. | April 31 1982 | | |
Sleep on wedding cake, dream of future husband. | February 1982 | | |
Sleep on wedding cake and you'll dream of your future husband. | November 25 1981 | | |
Ways of predicting future mate: wedding cake under pillow and you'll dream of groom. | April 26 1979 | | |
Tradition was the baking of a cake with a golden finger ring inside. The one finding the ring would have an early marriage. | September 29 | | |
Never cut or break the ribbons on gifts at a wedding shower. | June 3 1969 | | |
The wedding ring should never be removed. | | | |
It is very unlikely to lose or break an engagement ring. | April 2 1980 | | |
Bad luck if you see a snake on the way to a wedding. | April 26 1979 | | |
The man who catches the bride's garter will be the next to marry. | December 1 1976 | | |
Whoever catches the bride's garter will be the next to marry. | 1972 | | |
Having clean feet for the wedding ceremony was also very important. Both the bride and her bridesmaids too part in stamping sowerkraut. | April 1981 | | |
To have luck in married life, jump over a broomstick after the wedding. | July 1964 | | |
For good luck, the groom should carry the bride across the threshold. | | | |
Toss a silver dollar into a river on your wedding night to insure a long married life. | March 28 1980 | | |