Show HAVE ODD BE LIETS i PET superstitions FOU FOUND NO THE WORLD OVER strange strang e remedies and means of ward ing off disease mystic number barred from austro hun garian hospitals pet sur suro erst ad delusions can be round found in every eiery household when there is a a case ot of sick sickness rw ss in the house and some domestic animal dlos you will find that some think the patient will surely recover tho the most persistent in tile the world woid are those that are based up upon 0 1 I the habits ot of anim animals 13 said ai dr J dudley Mor morgan ot of washington washingto n it if one is walking at night and ana a brushes the face it is s hup supposed posea to mean that a ghost Is following but 1 in n daytime it tells that a stranger Is coming the neigh of a horse is la ia I 1 portent of death will will come f from r 0 m the quarter from W vh kirb his lead head I 1 is pointing when 10 h nelgis nei tile the hair bair ot a doc the s seln ln ot of a analo and alli tile the of blade black cat cal 1 are ara believed to medicinal qualities while the handling of a toad la Is said to glo gho warts gelman geiman canadians aro are full ot of superstition A white spider crawling toward one oae the howling ol of a log clos the sight ol of a snake all foretell death the killing of a toad or the cy owing of a lion hon foretells rain it if the cat washes its face it means that visitors are coming if a bee stings kill it and the wound will not swell the black tooth of a hos hog and the blood of a black hen have curative powers la in a certain district in germany tho the touch of a 1 corpses hand band is sl still regarded as curative ot of many local ius alss less grews grew orae soine is the leaody tor for hernia still applied in the marsh country 0 al u on the night of st john the baptists day june 24 a patient must be dragged gh gli the split of a cleft ash tice three men bearing the first name ot of john must perform the operation and it must be conducted in dead silence for erysipelas a fire Is lighted ind and a pinch of ashes from it is rubbed on the skin to the ac compani ment of a saying to the effect that the ashes and the sore went over the red lied sea together the ash came back but the sore never again Rece recently nIlly in 1 I georgetown a policeman was bitten by a supposed su rosed poisonous snake inako and the old remedy of killing hilling chickens cutting them open and applying them to tho the bite until the chickens were ivere cold and aid not turn black blach was tried two twenty n L T S six ix C chickens acro used on the pc fic isman Heaman in extracting tr the poison this remedy for cramps is used today to day in other places than georgetown on gol going ang to rest put your slippers under tho the b bed ed and turn the solos soles upward in the wards of garield garfield hospital sast ast fall there was a patient who insisted on keeping several apples under ais hiis bed to help the dropsy the things that people will carry within their pockets wear around their necks or bodies or plit pit on their fingers are legion have a white potato in each pocket of your trousers tron sers and you will never bo be troubled with rheumatism or I 1 it if you suffer with cough and cold exchange the potato sor a lump of cam pho no doubt there are some of us who now haie ha e a horse chestnut in our pockets or are wearing a nickel nichol ring several years yearn aso ago the iter was in sliced by an and considerate friend to wear a nutmeg for obstinate stil late bolls boils in no other west western rn european country is superstition so prevalent as in austria sunsary quito quite recently the chamberlains chambee ladics office changed the number of box 13 3 in the imperial opera house and aad the imperial codet theater because the public objected to sitting in a box bearing beams this un icky number but this superstition rca readies cies its elget in medicine SIje aking of the health exhibition dr 11 chirich grun declared that in many instances superstition and especially loral local sup was an absolute means to public health in the austrian hospitals one finds no block or pavilion 13 no ward 13 or staircase 13 very low few patients will consent to be operated on on the thirteenth and in that respect friday too is considered just as unlucky lucky |