Condition |
Method Of Treatment |
sunburn |
applied - strong tea solution |
illness, healer traditions |
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apotropaics |
charms, amulets, talismans, or incantations |
warts |
performed - apply and bury a needle. |
confinement, lying in, childbirth |
performed - purification ritual (Candlemas) |
confinement, lying in |
inhaled - burning rags |
children, number, cause, portent |
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conjury, objects in body, animal |
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conjury |
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sunburn |
applied - buttermilk |
illness |
applied - Vinegar. |
conjury, hands |
|
burns |
performed - open blister after sunset |
sores |
performed - ceremony involving censer, candle, water, small fish, half calabash, performed by priest-curer |
head, fever, insomnia, thirst, irregular pulse |
|
warts |
applied - castor oil performed - burn with magnifying glass |
sunburn |
applied - cold strong tea |
baby teeth |
|
sunburn |
applied - buttermilk |
sunburn |
applied - cream |
conjury |
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conjury |
|
burns |
applied - oil of lady’s bedstraw |
halitosis |
performed - cross river three times before sunrise; burn gums with three blue stones |
cold, fever |
performed - lie in sun |
tetter |
applied - Oil and burnt harts horn. |
baldness, hair |
applied - salve made from beans (or pumpkin and sunflower seeds) and blood of cow |
conjury |
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blisters |
performed - break blister after sun goes down |
fear, healer traditions |
applied - performed - tuob (fumigation) |
illness, healer traditions, fairy doctor |
performed - elaborate |
mental illness, madness |
ingested - applied - black powder |
sunburn |
applied - tea leaves |
sunburn |
ingested - mineral oil |
fever |
performed - elaborate ritual |
sunburn |
applied - sweet milk. |
sunburn |
applied - tea poultices |
eye ailments, cataracts |
applied - Symphoricarpus racernosus Michx. is burned and put into a small mussel-shell, mixed with catfish oil |
burns |
performed - blow on burn, recite formula |
grave scab, grave merel |
|
heart |
performed - elaborate ritual |
conjury |
|
sunburn |
applied - buttermilk |
sunburn |
applied - vinegar |
sunburn |
applied - vinegar |
sunburn |
applied - baking soda, water. |
burns |
performed - open up burn blister after sundown |
sunburn |
performed - wash after first cuckoo. |
dreaming, dreams |
inhaled - smoke from green Sunday decorations |
sunburn |
applied - tomato |
illness, healer traditions |
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erysipelas |
applied - inhaled - dried cow’s dung (collected on Good Friday) mixed with white dung of dog, leaves of red rose, “cloister euphorbium,” juniper berries or needles, “devil’s dung,” censer of the Three Magi, three chips of threshold, and three chips of a broom, all burned on charcoal. Smoke applied to patient. |
illness, healing methods, supernatural treatment |
performed - bathe naked in boat, in sugar beet field, or under mango tree; burn down seven houses; burn miniature straw house made from pieces of thatch from seven houses on Sunday at midnight at crossroads, cook water over burning thatch, bathe in water |
sunburn |
applied - buttermilk. |
fingernails, toenails |
|
bruises |
applied - smoke of burned wool socks |
burns |
applied - vanilla |
sunburn |
worn - red and white string on wrist (or forefingers) |
burns, scalds, infections, poisonous weeds, wounds |
applied - sweet oil, white lead, flowers of St. John's wort |
moles |
performed - elaborated ceremony |
objects in body, animal |
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brain ailments |
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sunburn |
applied - distilled water from leaves of water betony |
sunburn, blisters |
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illness, sickness, disease, cause, portent |
|
sunburn |
performed - soak in a hot tub of water |
conjury, protection |
|
conjury |
|
conjury |
|
burns |
applied - spittle |
burns, sunburn |
applied - butter |
sunburn, headaches |
|
sleeping fever |
performed - elaborate |
burns |
applied - starch and vasoline |
sunburn |
applied - potato |
conjury |
|
burns, sunburn |
applied - glycerine |
sunburn |
performed - on May day, roll in dew, let sun dry you. |
death, token, sign, moon, sun, stars |
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conjury, headache |
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burns, sunburn |
applied - baking soda and salt water |
burns, sunstroke |
applied - with feather, liquid from cut vine of gourd |
burns |
performed - prick blister at sundown |
sunburn |
applied - cocoa butter performed - hot bath, swab with vinegar |
conjury |
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conjury |
performed- burn menstrual blood, lodestone, hair, needle, pin; three persons witness burning |
burns, sunburn |
applied - spittle, cobwebs |
cancer |
performed - spear a toad, dry it in the sun, then kill a snake; both should be burned into a powder which then kills cancer. |
piles, hemorrhoids |
applied - warm bowel fat |
sunburn |
applied - sour cream |
burns, sunburn |
applied - cold water |
eczema |
performed - apply then burn twigs in name of Trinity. |
burns, sunstroke |
applied - cloth soaked in woman’s urine; egg oil |
pimples |
applied - gall of bull, oil of bay, marrow on belly; sun-burned hartshorn |
burns, sunburn, eyes |
applied - juice from a potato |
burns |
applied - potato |
baldness |
applied - mustard |
sunburn |
applied - vitamin E |
healer traditions |
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snow blindness |
applied - skunk oil, black color around eyes |
afterbirth |
performed - burn placenta |
sunburn |
applied - cooled tea |
illness, healer traditions |
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conjury |
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