Show transference of bi bilease bia ease sease I 1 have been in scores of old attics in pennsylvania dutch houses and discovered whole rows of pegs driven into the stout oaken beams and rafters with little tufts of hair sprouting from the holes these had been wrenched from simple dutch heads and with it the owners believed had gone the troublous ailment so it if the hair be driven in a live oak tree the next passer coming in contact with that tree trea will absorb the transferred disease while again if the suf cufr ferer goes to a willow copse ties three knots of his hair symbolic of the trinity wrenches them from his head and then runs nimbly away without ever looking back the disease will disappear by transference among tho the more ion ignorant sonorant orant is found tho the still existing superstition that infectious diseases may bo be cured by clipping the invalids hair laying it between slices of well buttered bread and feeding the latter to the first stray dog happening that way tho the head of a live fish held for a short time in a sick childs month and flung back bach into the tha water alive will cure it of disease young babes are w washed in ash sap no doubt with transmitted reverence for the sacred associations of ash wood and it is said to cure serpents bites driving nails into oak trees is a toothache remedy warts will disappear if rubbed with oaken cinders the latter being tied in a package and dropped at the nearest cross roads wens are removed if stroked by the hands oi of the dead the old norse korso custom of slipping 0 iron keys between the tha clothing and skin alan to stop bleeding at the nose is also found here rubbing flesh with polished silver is believed to have curative properties tile the bark of the alder is greatly relied on for purifying the blood generally for curing arpen bites and alder bari tea ea plentifully sprinkled about exercises exorcises exercises exorcises wit witches clies while laying peonies on crazy peoples heads is supposed to restore to sanity ed edgar edar ar L wakemans Wak emans letter ietter |