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863. You will not cry in peeling onions if you let the faucet be open so the water will run.
_Cambridge, Ma.s.s._
864. To bring up the palate when it drops and tickles the root of the tongue, take a wisp of hair on the crown of the head and tie it up very tight.
_Chestertown, Md._
865. Rubbing a sty with a gold ring will cure it.
_Prince Edward Island._
866. Cure a sty by rubbing it with a wedding ring.
_General._
867. A sty in the eye is cured by rubbing a gold ring on the eye three mornings with a sign of the cross.
_Labrador._
868. A pebble in the mouth will ease thirst.
_Brookline, Ma.s.s._
869. A sore throat may be cured by binding about the neck on going to bed one of the stockings which the patient has been wearing (no other one will do).
_Somewhat general in the United States._
870. To cure the sore throat, take three handfuls of ashes with your left hand, put into your left stocking, and bind it around your throat.
_Mattawamkeag, Me._
871. To burn the "little nerve" in the ear will cure the toothache forever.
_Northern Ohio._
CHAPTER XIII.
WARTS.
CAUSES.
872. Blood from the warts on a cow's bag coming in contact with a person's hands will cause warts to appear on them.
_New Hamps.h.i.+re._
873. Blood from a wart, especially if applied to the tongue, will cause warts to appear.
_New Jersey._
874. To count another person's warts will cause them to appear on you.
_General in the United States._
875. If one counts stars while lying on his back, he will have as many warts as he has counted stars.
_New York and Trenton, N.J._
876. To drink the water in which eggs have been boiled will cause internal warts.
_Miramichi, N.B._
877. Was.h.i.+ng the hands in water in which eggs have been boiled causes warts to grow.
_Cape Breton and Eastern Ma.s.sachusetts._
878. Warts are caused by touching the white of an egg.
_Salem, Ma.s.s._
879. To touch the jelly-fish will cause warts.
_Halifax, N.S., and parts of Eastern New England._
880. Touching the excrescences that sometimes appear on trees will cause warts on the hand of the person who touches them.
_New England._
881. The handling of large species of toadstool, sometimes popularly called "wart-toadstool," will cause warts to grow on the part of the hand coming in contact with it.
_New Hamps.h.i.+re._
882. The handling of a toad will cause warts to appear.
_General in the United States._
CURES.
883. To cure a wart, grease it with stolen bacon, and hide the latter.
884. Split a bean and put one half on the wart, one half in the ground, and at the end of the week dig up the latter; place on the wart with the other half; bury again, and this will cure the wart.
_Greenfield, Ma.s.s._
885. Beans rubbed on a wart and thrown in the well will cure a wart.
_Maine._
886. Rub a white bean on the warts, wrap it in paper, and throw it on the road; whoever picks it up will get the warts.
_Connecticut._
887. If you find an old bone in the field, rub the wart with it, then lay it down exactly as you found it. The wart will be cured.
_Maine._
888. If a person has warts, he should rub them with a bone, and after replacing the bone they are said to leave.
_Alabama._
889. Rub a wart with the yellow milky juice of celandine (_Chelidonium majus_).
_Ma.s.sachusetts._
890. The juice of "wild celandine" (_Impatiens fulva_) is used as a wart cure.
_Franconia, N.H._
891. Dandelion juice will cure warts.
_Revere Beach, Ma.s.s._
892. The milky juice of the _Euphorbia hypericifolia_ (and other small prostrate Euphorbias) is thought to be a sure cure for warts.
