Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-08-29 | Page 19 | Are You Superstitious?

Are You I Superstitious Next to the lust for lighting fighting hunting and mating matini folk medicine is probably our old oldest t inheritance from Irom primitive an ancestors tors Thousands o 0 of r f About p people In the United States 1 Cures continue to put faith In ln ancient cures curt according to o Dr B. B A. A Cartwright of the University Uni- Uni of Oklahoma who vho has spent pent more than 30 years ears collecting 2000 American superstitions Here are some of the more popularly popularly arly belie believed belie ed folk cures and pre- pre preventives from his collection Asafetida tied around the neck of f a child prevents colds cold A grape leaf in your our hat will prevent pre sunstroke Wear amber beads to prevent goiter Eat watercress to prevent bald bald- n ness eM Wear a nutmeg on a string around your neck to cure a sty Pierce the ear lobe t to prevent weak eyes Carry peony root to prevent convulsions convulsions convulsions con con- and epilepsy Nutmegs or castor beans worn as a necklace or carried in the pocket will prevent Indigestion and colic colle Soot or cobwebs applied to a 1 surface wound will prevent excessive ex excessive excessive ex- ex bleeding The best of an infinite number of remedies for hiccoughs is to I take nine sups of water count nine backwards and turn round nine times Grape leaf prevents sunstrokes A favorite remedy with the male population for a cold Is to hang tang ones one's hat on A eo bed post goto goto go goto to bed and drink moonshine whisky until two hats are seen To cure rheum rheumatism C Carry an Irish potato a buckeye a horse chestnut or cedar knots In your pocket wear a copper wire around your neck wear r red underwear underwear- and it must 0 be red wear a brass ring on your finger wear a blacksnake blacksnake blacksnake black- black snake hide next to your skin or sleep with a dog when dog when the dog catches rheumatism yours youn will be gone Tie a moles mole's foot on a string around the baby baby's neck to make teething easier A rose cut on St. St Johns John's day June 25 makes an excellent eye wash Wear lead around your jour our neck to prevent nosebleed To k keep p off the cramps while swimming wear a string of rattlesnake rattlesnake rattlesnake rattle rattle- snake rattles around your ankle To prevent nightmares hang a bridle on your bedpost If you feel reel a chill coming act as if It you were going to jump In bed but jump under the bed In Instead In- In stead The chill will go by If you have a punctured wound from a nail grease the nail and carry it in your pocket to escape lockjaw Blood from a black cat or a ablack ablack black hen is an excellent application application tion in erysipelas A rattlesnake skin belt will cure lumbago and snake oil skunk fat and fishing worm oil are excellent ointments for arthritis Distributed by NEA Service