Condition |
Method Of Treatment |
epilepsy |
ingested - water over which a charm has been said |
epilepsy |
performed - suspend cross nail from patient’s arm. |
cancer |
The seeds and extract of Jimson weed. |
epilepsy |
ingested - afterbirth of a firstborn child |
epilepsy |
Baccae aquifolii, the berries of Ilex aquifolium (holly) |
epilepsy |
ingested - afterbirth |
epilepsy |
ingested - Antimony |
epilepsy |
performed - bloodletting |
epilepsy |
ingested - blood of executed criminals |
epilepsy |
ingested - human blood |
epilepsy |
camel’s brain. |
epilepsy |
ingested - Dog fennel. |
epilepsy |
Deer bones. |
epilepsy |
ingested - bread blessed in the church at Chambalind |
epilepsy |
ingested - cat’s blood |
epilepsy |
performed - suspension of hairs from an entirely white dog |
epilepsy |
ingested - Dried and powdered human excrement, one scruple to a drachm |
epilepsy |
performed - invoking / looking at image of St. Christopher |
epilepsy |
performed - coitus |
epilepsy |
performed - covering faces of sufferers |
epilepsy |
worn - emerald |
apoplexy, epilepsy, blindness, mumps |
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epilepsy |
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epilepsy |
ingested - cow parsnip seeds finely powdered taken in syrup |
epilepsy |
Claws of the goose. |
epilepsy |
ingested - heart of black mule, during new moon |
epilepsy |
worn - coin |
epilepsy |
hare’s rennet |
epilepsy |
Lynx claw. |
epilepsy |
worn - On the arm, nails from a cross. |
epilepsy |
performed - hair of sufferer placed in hole in tree, tree plugged. |
epilepsy |
Mistletoe |
epilepsy |
ingested - mole’s blood, duck’s bill, goose claw, flour, cumin |
epilepsy, hysteria, nervous diseases |
ingested - parsley tea |
epilepsy |
peony |
epilepsy |
constellated rings |
epilepsy |
ingested - powdered ox’s hoof. |
epilepsy |
ingested - St. John’s wort. |
epilepsy |
tobacco |
epilepsy |
performed - burn shirt |
epilepsy |
applied - swallow |
epilepsy |
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epilepsy |
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epilepsy |
worn - walrus tooth |
epilepsy |
performed - beg wax |
epilepsy |
ingested - Testicles of tame pigs taken in pig’s milk. |
epilepsy |
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epilepsy |
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mental illness, madness |
performed - drown black cock in sacred well |
epilepsy |
Navel cord |
epilepsy |
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blood, bad, cancer, tuberculosis, palsy, epilepsy |
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delirium |
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epilepsy |
beaver fat |
epilepsy |
burdock roots |
epilepsy |
performed - sleep under the altar using a Bible as a pillow |
epilepsy |
asphalt |
epilepsy |
ingested - blood of executed criminals |
epilepsy |
ingested - human blood |
epilepsy |
camel’s bile |
epilepsy |
ingested - heart of male black donkey. |
epilepsy |
ingested - Venison. |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
blood of a dove |
epilepsy |
performed - crush the shells of eggs after you eat them |
epilepsy |
ingested - Heracleum, Masterwort, cow-parsnip |
epilepsy |
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epilepsy |
ingested - crayfish stones |
epilepsy |
worn - emerald |
epilepsy, demon |
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epilepsy |
inhaled - the footwear of someone whose feet smell. |
epilepsy |
ingested - broth from chick peas |
epilepsy |
performed - Bury nail parings with black cock where patient fell. |
epilepsy |
performed - Keep guinea pigs. |
epilepsy, dyspepsia |
ingested - masterwort |
epilepsy |
performed - put a cock under the bed |
epilepsy |
worn - coins bearing image of St. Anna |
epilepsy |
worn - Old Byzantine currency with the image of St. Helena |
epilepsy |
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epilepsy |
performed - bury cuttings of hair below patient’s bed. |
epilepsy |
applied - mistletoe, gathered in the wane of the March moon. |
epilepsy |
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epilepsy |
worn - ring made from offertory money |
epilepsy |
ingested - placenta |
epilepsy |
ingested - rue |
epilepsy |
Ox’s dung in water. |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
performed - elaborate ritual |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
worn - carried --St. John’s wort |
epilepsy |
Topaz |
epilepsy |
performed - tear sufferer’s shirt to pieces, leave at crossroads |
epilepsy |
worn - necklace of silver sixpence’s |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
ingested or worn - heart of swallow |
epilepsy |
performed - ceremony |
epilepsy |
zinc |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
ingested - boy’s urine |
epilepsy |
wreaths |
epilepsy |
ingested - Pig’s testicles in pig’s milk. |
epilepsy |
|
tumors |
|
patent medicines, curare |
|
illness, healing methods, supernatural treatment |
Toad stone |
epilepsy |
ingested - Pansies |
epilepsy |
performed - pull off patient’s shirt over his head; pull shirt out of house through chimney; bury shirt at crossroads |
epilepsy |
worn - emerald powder. |
epilepsy |
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apoplexy, epilepsy, blindness, mumps |
|
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
ingested - raisins in which bedbugs were enclosed. take 7 to 9 a day |
epilepsy |
applied - ingested - a red cloth (as a substitute for human blood) |
epilepsy |
applied - amazonite |
epilepsy |
ingested - blood of executed criminals |
epilepsy |
ingested - human blood |
epilepsy |
ingested - hart’s placenta. |
epilepsy |
ingested - drink the washings from the bowl in which she kneaded the bread before baking it. |
epilepsy |
inhaled - incense soaked in blood of young swallow |
epilepsy |
ingested - blood of a dove |
epilepsy |
ingested - eggs laid on Maundy Thursday (Holy Thurs.), beaten with shell |
epilepsy |
performed - drinking out of a dish out of which a crossbill bird drinks |
epilepsy |
coal found under mugwort |
epilepsy |
worn - emerald |
epilepsy |
performed - Pull middle finger of left hand. |
epilepsy |
performed - daily sojourn in cow stall |
epilepsy |
Goose claws. |
epilepsy |
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epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
performed - put a cock under the bed, with nail parings, cuttings from hair, ashes from hearth |
epilepsy |
Powder of a burnt lizard. |
epilepsy |
performed - Drive nail into ground at spot where the patient fell. |
epilepsy |
performed - bury patient’s hair and nail parings, along with dirt from four corner’s of his room |
epilepsy |
Mistletoe |
epilepsy |
mole’s blood |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
peony |
epilepsy |
ingested - placenta |
epilepsy |
performed - small rolls (Aachener Bomchen) are distributed |
epilepsy |
worn - rings and amulets made from hoofs of elk |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
Onyx. |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
ingested - extract of mare’s juice |
epilepsy |
St. John’s Wort |
epilepsy |
performed - drinking from a skull |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
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epilepsy |
ingested |
epilepsy |
performed - visit, Virgen de los Castillos in Salinas |
epilepsy |
applied - specially prepared zinc |
epilepsy |
zinc |
epilepsy |
vertebrae of a man killed by violence |
epilepsy |
ingested |
epilepsy |
ingested - wolf liver |
mental illness |
performed - exorcism |
epilepsy |
ingested - applied - mustard |
epilepsy |
worn - three smooth-filed joints of rattlesnake’s backbone |
epilepsy |
ingested - tea of Romero or Rosemary or Ruda performed - blow tobacco smoke in face of person in convulsions, or have patient smell burnt wool |
epilepsy |
applied - piece of rope with which someone has committed suicide |
epilepsy |
ingested - hops |
epilepsy |
ingested - boiled mule hoof broth |
epilepsy |
“organic means” -- entire animals, human and animal materials |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
worn - names of Magi |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
ingested - blood of gladiators |
epilepsy |
ingested - human blood running |
epilepsy |
performed - intercession of St. Donato. |
epilepsy |
Tongue of the deer. |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
ingested - blood from cut throat of a turtle dove |
epilepsy |
ingested - cake made with snake eggs |
epilepsy |
black cat |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
ingested - black cat |
epilepsy, devil |
|
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
applied - Poultice of groundsel. |
epilepsy |
Camel’s gall bladder and honey. |
epilepsy |
hoof |
epilepsy |
performed - bury a black cock |
epilepsy |
worn - coral |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
worn - Live lizard around the neck. |
epilepsy |
performed - bury hair clippings and nail parings with black cock where fit occurred |
epilepsy |
worn - ring made from offertory coins |
epilepsy |
worn - peony, oak mistletoe |
epilepsy |
ingested - placenta |
epilepsy |
ingested - testes of a ram, ass’s milk |
epilepsy |
Inhaled -- Inula fumes |
epilepsy |
applied - Live newly born pig. |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
seaweed from backs of crabs |
epilepsy |
performed - controller of spirits (tukang tenung ) drives disease away |
epilepsy |
performed - trepanning worn - portions of scalp, skull, brain excised by trepanning |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
worn |
epilepsy |
swallows |
epilepsy |
ingested - coals (roots of red wormwood) in water |
epilepsy |
ingested - urine from black cow |
epilepsy |
performed - ingested - elaborate |
epilepsy |
ingested |
epilepsy |
ingested - Fried pancreas of bitch |
epilepsy |
ingested - powdered wolf heart in wine |
epilepsy |
performed - Kissing or touching the relics of St. Valentine on his day, February 14, in the Franciscan Church at Würzburg, Bavaria |
leprosy |
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toothache, headaches, ague, fever, chills, epilepsy |
performed - prick gum with iron nail; drive nail into tree or ground |
neuralgia, pain, cramps, paralysis, epilepsy |
worn - Dr. Christie’s Galvanic Belts and Necklaces |
menstruation |
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epilepsy |
flooding away of bad humors |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
performed - worm, dipped in alcohol, on sewing thread put down throat of patient and slowly withdrawn |
children, epilepsy |
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hysteria |
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spasms, fits, convulsions, epilepsy |
performed - put baby’s clothes in fire |
epilepsy |
ingested - marrow |
convulsions |
stag beetle (Lucanus cervus) oil |
epilepsy |
ingested - bromides |
epilepsy |
ingested - agate in food and drink. |
epilepsy |
blood letting |
epilepsy |
ingested - human blood |
epilepsy |
ingested - human blood |
epilepsy |
Deer’s brain. |
epilepsy |
applied - loaf of bread |
epilepsy |
ingested - animal blood (ass, goat, wolf, mole, chamois, pig, cat, weasel, vulture, hen, swallow etc.) human blood |
epilepsy |
dove’s dung |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
ingested - extract of cuckoo, boar bladder, mistletoe. |
epilepsy |
applied - cloth on which icons have stood |
epilepsy |
emerald |
epilepsy |
Flesh. |
epilepsy, mental ailments, blindness, fear, infertility |
performed - indulco |
epilepsy |
applied - elk hoof, applied to heart, then held in left hand and rubbed on ear |
epilepsy |
The maw of the mountain cock |
epilepsy |
heart |
epilepsy |
ingested - Jimson weed. |
epilepsy |
Lamb’s blood. |
epilepsy |
ingested - mistletoe decoction |
epilepsy |
worn - peony |
epilepsy |
ingested - placenta |
epilepsy, scrofula, paralysis, fits |
worn - silver ring from offertory |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
Micaxochitl |
epilepsy |
ingested - bleeding stork heart |
epilepsy |
sassafras |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
performed - bury or burn epileptic’s shirt |
epilepsy |
ingested - pulverized human skull |
epilepsy |
ingested |
epilepsy |
urine of a black horse |
epilepsy |
performed - elaborate |
epilepsy |
ingested - Peacock dung. |
epilepsy |
worn - wolf’s skin |
epilepsy |
ingested - violet water |
falling sickness, epilepsy |
root of bryony |
knees |
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mental illness, madness, morbus sacer, epilepsy |
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menstruation |
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virginity, epilepsy |
performed - have virgin touch with right thumb |
epilepsy |
ingested - swallow feces |
epilepsy |
performed - drive out cold humors |
spasms, fits, convulsions, epilepsy |
performed - burn black chicken feathers and hold baby over the smoke |
convulsions, mania, epilepsy, melancholy, rheumatism, cancer |
ingested - seeds and extract of Jimson weed |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
worn - amulet obtained from “the Lady Crawford” |
epilepsy |
performed - castration |
epilepsy |
ingested - blood of an executed criminal |
epilepsy |
ingested - human blood |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
performed - go to church on day of 4 seasons, priest writes down passage from Gospel. |
epilepsy |
St. Donato. |
epilepsy |
worn - A Nail from a wrecked ship, work it into a wide bracelet, upon which the heartbone of a deer is mounted, and wear this on your left arm; the deer’s heart is cut out, while the animal is still alive, and opened without delay; then one finds with a sound instantly an ossified, hardened small piece of flesh, which should be dried. Thereupon you should throw away the rest and proceed as indicated above. |
epilepsy |
ingested - warm blood of freshly killed dove |
epilepsy |
performed - applied - living dove cut open, placed on crown of head. Recite “In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.” |
epilepsy |
Cuckoo (ashes) |
epilepsy |
black cat |
epilepsy |
performed - cauterization (with metal) |
epilepsy |
emerald |
epilepsy, devil |
|
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
|
gout, epilepsy |
gosshawk, Cooper’s hawk, Kite |
epilepsy |
fox’s brain. |
epilepsy |
ingested - Horse’s excrement drunk with water. |
epilepsy |
applied - elk hind hoof, behind ear |
epilepsy |
The tongue of the mountain cock. |
epilepsy |
ingested - powder of red coral |
epilepsy |
horn |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
ingested - leg of a young lamb or mutton, hipscratch, milk or mush. |
epilepsy |
applied - Nails from a wrecked ship. |
epilepsy |
hand of murderer |
epilepsy |
worn - chaplet of mistletoe |
epilepsy |
performed - passing through ritual |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
worn - shilling collected at Holy Communion |
epilepsy |
performed - exorcism, whipping, fumigation; ingested - distasteful foods |
epilepsy |
Pierda de la vaca. |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
sun rose |
epilepsy |
ingested - 3 drops of sow’s milk |
epilepsy |
performed - bury or burn epileptic’s shirt |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
performed - trephining |
epilepsy |
ingested - turtle dove blood |
epilepsy |
ingested |
epilepsy |
ingested - wheat flour, St. John’s day dew |
epilepsy |
|
hemorrhage |
|
illness, unkraut |
|
mania, epilepsy, rheumatism, cancer |
Jimson weed -- seeds and extracts |
virginity |
|
epilepsy |
swallow dung |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
|
spasms, fits, convulsions, epilepsy |
performed - turn children onto left side |
epilepsy |
inhaled - smell a bedbug |
epilepsy |
worn - forehead of an ass |
epilepsy |
performed - castration |
epilepsy |
ingested - human blood |
epilepsy |
blow medicine on face of sufferer. |
epilepsy |
worn - amulet, on which are written certain lines with blood from the sick man’s finger. |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
Deer marrow. |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
ingested - drunk, blood of a cat |
epilepsy |
performed - lie under elder bush |
epilepsy |
ingested - cockroach |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
ingested - elixir vitae |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
ingested - goat’s liver |
epilepsy |
crust or parings of horse’s hoof |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
worn - half horseshoe with nails |
epilepsy |
performed - Bury a cock alive |
epilepsy |
worn - coral |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
rubies |
epilepsy |
mistletoe |
epilepsy |
ingested - mole’s heart |
epilepsy |
worn - amulet in shape of half moon |
epilepsy |
performed - light a fire at the the top of leaning stones and pass patient through opening below. |
epilepsy |
ingested - powder of dried placenta |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
worn - Rings made from gold or silver coins offered up by King of England during adoriatio crucis |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
ingested - milk |
epilepsy |
Performed -- Bury Epileptic's Shirt |
epilepsy |
human skull, human blood |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
ingested |
epilepsy |
scrapings of the vertebrae of a man killed by violence |
epilepsy |
ingested - stork’s dung |
epilepsy |
performed - invocation of St. Ulrich |
epilepsy |
performed - exposure to north wind |
epilepsy |
Peacock’s dung. |
epilepsy |
wolf skin |
epilepsy |
ingested - pulverized heart of a vulture; carbonate of iron |
abortions |
worn - Amulet of aetites or eagle stone |
mental ailments, hysteria |
ingested - rue |
epilepsy |
performed - pull patient’s shirt over head; pull shirt out of house through chimney; bury shirt at crossroads |
spasms, fits, convulsions, epilepsy |
performed - tear off baby’s clothes and throw them into fire |
epilepsy |
ingested - turtle-dove blood |
apoplexy, epilepsy |
ingested - pulverized “coals” (decayed roots of beech tree) in lavender oil or wine |
epilepsy |
worn - brain of an ass |
epilepsy |
performed - castration |
epilepsy |
ingested - blood of an executed criminal |
epilepsy |
ingested - human bone |
epilepsy |
performed - Ukranian charm |
epilepsy |
Coral. |
epilepsy |
ingested - Hartshorn, hartshorn powder (Hitzpulver) hartshorn ashes, hartshorn solution taken morning and evening in brandy. |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
blood of black cat |
epilepsy |
ingested - earthworms taken on empty stomach before sunrise in June |
epilepsy |
worn - Nine pieces of elder cut from between two knots |
epilepsy |
castoreum |
epilepsy |
Chameleon |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
Fox brain |
epilepsy |
worn - nails from horseshoe of particular horse |
epilepsy |
applied - elk left hind hoof, rubbed on ear |
epilepsy |
performed - burn part of shirt; ingest the ashes |
epilepsy |
powdered coral |
epilepsy |
“Hirnschadelmoos” (moss found on old skulls exposed to the air) |
epilepsy |
worn - Jade. |
epilepsy |
Lamb’s gall. |
epilepsy |
ruby |
epilepsy |
mistletoe |
epilepsy |
ingested - powder of burnt mole |
epilepsy |
ingested - roe’s brain |
epilepsy |
stork’s heart |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
ingested - sweet milk in which a horseshoe (found with all the nails in it) has been boiled. Keep horseshoe in church between uses, for greater efficacy. |
epilepsy |
performed - throw shirt over roof. |
epilepsy |
ingested - mixture of various ingredients |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
ingested - wormwood |
epilepsy |
worn - heart of a young vulture caught while feasting on a human corpse, around the neck |
epilepsy |
ingested - vulture’s liver drunk with the bird’s blood |
epilepsy |
performed - weighing |
epilepsy |
performed - meat of an animal killed by the same weapon which killed a man |
epilepsy |
worn - golden peacock’s feather under shirt. |
epilepsy |
worn - wolf’s skin |
epilepsy |
performed - a virgin strokes the patient on his/her heart |
gout |
|
epilepsy |
worn - swallow stones |
baby, fingernails, fits, epilepsy |
|
spasms, fits, convulsions, epilepsy |
performed - turn children onto left side |
illness unspecified |
bloodletting under proper sign of Zodiac |
epilepsy |
applied - abstain from baths |
epilepsy |
ingested - testes of an ass, salt |
epilepsy |
performed - castration |
epilepsy |
ingested - human bone powder |
epilepsy |
Red coral. |
epilepsy |
ingested - A plucked and well cleaned daw, fill its maw with carraway seeds, dry it in an oven until it is mummified; of this take every morning before breakfast a small dose with peony water. |
epilepsy |
ingested - blood of blind kitten in red wine |
epilepsy |
ingested - earthworms, at the moment of coitus |
epilepsy |
worn - Nine pieces of elder cut from between two knots |
epilepsy |
ingested - Oil of the cajipul tree |
epilepsy |
Cow’s brain |
epilepsy |
ingested - cat’s meat |
epilepsy, demon |
|
epilepsy, devil |
|
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
ingested - Goat’s horn |
epilepsy |
hyssop |
epilepsy |
ingested - Fox brain. |
epilepsy |
ingested - Horse manure (dung) in water. |
epilepsy |
elk hoof |
epilepsy |
performed - burn clothes |
cholera, epilepsy |
performed - carry rice, red powder, cock to edge of village. Decapitate and throw away body. |
epilepsy |
worn - oak-mistletoe |
epilepsy |
Bone marrow from human thigh |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
Lamb’s blood. |
epilepsy |
performed - drive nail into disease |
epilepsy |
raven’s ashes |
epilepsy |
mistletoe |
epilepsy |
ingested - powder of burnt mole |
epilepsy |
worn - mistletoe |
epilepsy |
worn - peony |
epilepsy |
ingested - Rue |
epilepsy |
ingested - Stork’s dung, water, oxymel |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
Scorpion oil |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |
hoof of tapir’s middle toe |
epilepsy |
performed - throw shirt backwards at tree |
epilepsy |
ingested - powdered skull |
epilepsy |
|
epilepsy |