Condition |
Method Of Treatment |
snakebite |
applied - nicotine from pipe |
bites, stings, insect |
applied - tobacco juice |
cuts, bruises, bullet wounds |
applied - green tobacco leaves |
bites, stings, insect |
applied - toad oil on body or exposed parts |
bites, human |
applied - chicken manure |
accidents |
|
adder bites |
ingested - juice of cabbage in wine |
animal bites |
ingested - knotgrass in wine |
bites, human |
|
bites |
applied - tobacco |
insects, chiggers |
applied - rub chewed tobacco over the bites the relieve itching |
insects, chiggers |
applied - salty water |
bites, animal, dog, wounds |
garlic |
epilepsy |
music |
bites, insect, flea |
performed - spit on flea bites; applied - saliva |
bites, insect |
worn - galachide stone |
menstruation |
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rheumatism |
applied - ant bites, bee stings |
snakebite |
Scorpion oil |
snakebite |
applied - garlic. |
snakebite |
applied - snakeweed |
snakebite |
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snakebite |
snakes (adders) |
snakebite |
urine |
snakebite |
applied - rub wound with honey and tobacco; then have three bees sting wound |
snakebite |
If person not taken to a healer within seven hours |
bites, arachnid, spider |
applied - spider bites. |
swelling |
May apples in whiskey |
warts |
performed - grasshopper bites wart |
hydrophobia, bites |
applied - madstones, snakestones |
hydrophobia, bites |
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animal in body |
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teething, dentition, cutting teeth |
performed - child’s father bites off mole’s paw for teething amulet |
ant bites |
applied - Laundry Blueing |
bites |
applied - mixture of alcohol and camphor shavings |
bites, insect |
applied - toothpaste |
snakebite |
applied - wedding ring. |
animal bites |
performed - put blood from dog bite on red flannel; burn flannel |
death, cause, portent, animals, snake |
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teething, dentition, cutting teeth |
performed - mother bites head from a live mouse |
snakebite |
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conjury, tooth loss |
|
stings, insects |
applied - poultice of snuff |
bites, animal, mad dog |
applied - deer gall in fresh sweet milk |
bites, human |
applied - intestines of live chicken. |
bites, stings, insect |
applied - salt, saliva |
bites |
applied - jimson weed salve |
burns, scratches, bites, colds, ague |
applied - live-forever salve: live-forever (Sedum purpureum), unsalted butter or lard |
adder bites |
ingested - powder of centaury in wine |
ant bites |
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animal bites |
ingested - lavender cotton |
animal bites |
water caltrops |
bunions, scarlet fever, lockjaw, snakebites |
applied - tobacco |
insects, chiggers |
applied - tobacco ashes |
insects, chiggers |
applied - face powder |
bites, animal, dog, wounds |
applied - pounded garlic |
bites, animal, dog |
performed - kill the dog |
bites, insect, flea |
ingested - teas |
bites, insect |
applied - cold water fomentation |
bites, insect |
applied - garlic juice |
bites, insects, mosquito |
applied - Ammonia |
poisons |
|
snakebite |
Fossil teeth of sharks found in quarries of conchiferous “molasse” |
snakebite |
applied - snake’s blood. |
snakebite |
|
snakebite |
applied - urine. |
snakebite |
performed - healer says a certain prayer made up of words from the “Our Father”, the Hail Mary” and the Credo and eats bread in privacy |
snakebite |
performed - run to river before snake does |
teeth, preservation |
performed - bite a live rattler along the back |
wounds, bites, parasites |
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hysteria, wounds, bites, bruises |
|
illness, healer traditions |
performed - rub mole to death in one’s hands |
illness, healing methods, supernatural treatment |
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illness, healing methods, supernatural treatment |
|
hydrophobia, bites |
|
hydrophobia, bites |
|
twins |
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nail biting |
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bites, animal, weasel |
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illness, healing methods, supernatural treatment |
flesh of same beast which inflicted bite |
animal bites |
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sprains |
applied - performed - twin bites afflicted joint |
fingernails, biting |
|
bites |
applied - moistened snuff |
cold |
ingested - vitamin C |
snakebite |
worn - copper band |
hydrophobia |
applied - mad stone |
snakebite |
ingested - rattlesnake master, sweet milk |
stings |
applied - mashed leaves of any kind of vegetation |
snakebite |
applied - gall of eagle |
stings, insects |
applied - poultice of tobacco |
bites, animal, dog |
performed - kill dog, tie a bow around legs. |
bites, stings, insect |
applied - poultice of powdered peach seeds, flour dough, and honey |
bed bug bites |
applied - sulphur lard |
bites, teeth |
applied - black hen litter |
snakebite |
applied - poultice of Sanguinaria Marilandica |
adder bites |
ingested - adder’s tongue fern |
ant bites |
bat heart |
animal bites |
wild marjoram |
animal bites |
seaweed ashes |
animal bites |
ingested - applied - wold [weld] |
bites, poisonous, venomous |
performed - sucking |
insects, chiggers |
applied - grease from bacon rind |
bites, animal, dog, saliva |
ingested - Saliva of a robust young man, taken while fasting. |
bites, animal, dog |
applied - the hair of the dog which caused wound is burnt and the ashes are applied to the wound |
bites, insect |
applied - cut stem of white ginger plant |
bites, lizard |
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rabies, hydrophobia |
born on same day as dog which bit one |
rheumatism |
applied - Honey bee stings. Ant bites. |
snakebite |
ingested - juice of dark beet |
snakebite |
Jade |
snakebite |
Rattlesnake plantain |
snakebite |
worn - garlic carried |
snakebite |
applied - snake oil |
snakebite |
Yerba de la Vibora, or rattlesnake weed (Dancus pusillus) |
snakebite |
performed - allow to be bitten by snake |
snakebite |
performed - place foot into water. |
snakebite |
ingested - bread, salt, water performed - free form spoken charm |
snakebite |
|
fear |
ingested - bite into veal that is still jerking |
rabies, hydrophobia, menstruation |
Menstrual blood |
hydrophobia, bites |
applied - madstones |
hydrophobia, bites |
|
cauls, bites, animal, dog |
worn - caul |
animal bites |
|
bites, animal, bat |
applied - heat, holy water |
bites, animal, dog |
ingested - dog’s hair, ashes, water |
snakebite |
applied - chicken |
pregnancy |
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cold |
ingested - vitamin C |
snakebite |
applied - mouse flesh |
snakebite |
applied - soda, lye soap |
snakebite |
performed - bite off snake’s head ingested - snake’s head |
bites, stings, insect |
applied - snuff |
bites, animal, dog |
applied - madstone |
snakebite |
applied - egg yolk poultice |
adder bites |
ingested - applied - adder’s tongue fern |
ant bites |
applied - bluing |
animal bites |
Onions with honey and rue |
animal bites |
applied - saliva |
animal bites |
spittle |
insects, chiggers |
applied - coal oil |
bites, animal, dog |
extract of deadly nightshade |
bites, animal, dog |
applied - performed - Let the wound bleed well then wash with hot water in which scabious is steeped, which makes a strong disinfectant. Cover the scabious leaves and leave on to check bleeding and heal wound. |
bites, animal, dog |
ingested - ashes of a dog |
bites, animal, dog |
applied - hair of the dog that bit you. |
bites, animal, dog |
ingested - white maggots found in rose hips, bread |
hydrophobia, rabies |
performed - kill dog if it bites a person |
bites, insects, mosquito |
applied - copper coin |
bites, insect, sandfly |
applied - seed of plane tree oil. |
stings, scorpion |
applied - ammonia, tobacco ash, pennyroyal mint |
snakebite |
pounded garlic. |
snakebite |
ingested - snakeweed |
snakebite |
Salt and fresh hog meat |
ulcers |
Ashes of southern wood |
vomiting |
|
warts |
performed - big grasshopper bites wart |
bites, animal, weasel |
|
hydrophobia, bites |
worn - madstones, Chinese snakestones |
hydrophobia, bites |
|
poisons |
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bites, arachnid, scorpion |
applied - patient’s own urine |
death, cause, portent |
|
animal bites |
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bites, insect |
applied - baking soda |
bites, insects, mosquito |
applied - Aspirins in alcohol. |
snakebite |
performed - scarify flesh as deep as fangs went applied - fine salt |
bites, insect |
applied - beetle bugs |
stings, bees |
applied - mud |
character, disposition |
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boils |
applied - ox-tongue cactus |
bites, stings, insect |
applied - kerosene |
snakebite |
applied - copper coins |
bites, stings, insect |
applied - tobacco juice |
bites, animal, dog |
applied - lard, hair from dog that bit you. |
bites, stings, insect |
applied - nail polish or nal polish remover. |
adder bites |
ingested - juice of goosegrass with wine |
ant bites |
applied - mud, cow dung |
animal bites |
ingested - pennyroyal with wine |
bites, human, snake |
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bites, insect, centipede |
applied - crushed centipede mixed with plant (“shoe-string”) |
insects, chiggers, jiggers |
applied - grease |
croup |
worn - dried viper, noose, cloth |
bites, animal, dog |
performed - intercession of St. Hubert |
hydrophobia, rabies |
performed - kill dog if it bites a person, treat person bitten |
bites, insect |
applied - alcohol |
bites, insect |
worn - kingfisher’s feathers |
rheumatism |
applied - ant bites |
bites, arachnid, scorpion |
applied - fresh cottage cheese, black hen |
bites, arachnid, scorpion |
worn - Serpentine. |
snakebite |
performed - Prayers, backwards. |
snakebite |
applied - fowl entrails |
snakebite |
ingested - sour milk. |
snakebite |
Calophanes linearis - (Snake plant) |
snakebite |
applied - ingested - guaco mikania |
snakebite |
applied - ingested - bezoar stone |
snakebite |
applied - crushed hemp seed |
snakebite |
|
tumors |
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fear |
ingested - meat from newly born slaughtered calf about to stiffen |
illness, healing methods, supernatural treatment |
applied - water in which adder stone or snake stone has been soaked |
illness, healing methods, supernatural treatment |
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hydrophobia, bites |
|
hydrophobia, bites |
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talking, speaking |
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venomous bites |
mouse |
snakebite |
|
animal bites |
|
bites, insect |
applied - snuff, tobacco,baking soda, bluing |
bites, insects, mosquito |
applied - Nail polish. |
bites, insect |
applied - pennyroyal. |
joints, ailments |
applied - tincture of camphor shavings in whiskey |
bites, insects, mosquito |
performed - spit on mosquito bites |
animal bites, parrots |
applied - mullein leaf |
conjury, tooth loss |
|
snakebite |
applied - roots of plant |
ant bites |
applied - mud or fresh cow dung |
insects, chigoes, chiggers, jiggers |
applied - salt and butter |
stings, insects |
applied - black loam |
bites, animal, dog |
performed - put blood from dog bite on piece of red flannel; burn flannel |
snakebite |
performed - kill rattlesnake; cut off rattles worn - snake rattles on wrist |
bites, stings, insect |
applied - tobacco juice |
bites, stings, insect |
applied - tobacco |
bites, animal, dog, hydrophobia |
performed - kill dog that bit you |
adder bites |
applied - lotion of pounded rosemary and betony in water |
animal bites |
pimpernel |
animal bites |
rhinoceros claw in pepperwood |
bites, poisonous, venomous |
leek in vinegar |
cancer, contagious |
|
bites, animal, dog |
ingested - onions or garlic |
bites, animal, dog |
Blessed bread. |
bites, animal, dog |
applied - squeezed dahlia leaves |
bites, insect |
applied - apple skin |
bites, insect |
applied - inside of leaves |
malaria |
|
bites, insects, mosquito, fingernails |
performed - make x-shaped imprint with fingernail. |
poisons |
tlilxochitl (black flower) pods in water |
rabies, hydrophobia |
menstrual blood |
rabies, hydrophobia |
ingested - dried and powdered roots of cypress euphorbia |
snakebite |
applied - split-open chicken |
snakebite |
applied - coal oil |
snakebite |
performed - place barley seed flour, water in snake’s mouth |
snakebite |
performed - run; step on stone before snake does |
snakebite |
pounded garlic. |
snakebite |
applied - rare and mysterious stone; milk |
snakebite |
bezoar stone |
snakebite |
applied - honey |
bites, arachnid, spider |
applied - touch of one who has killed spider with back of hand |
uvula |
performed - Healer bites patient’s vertex |
fear |
ingested - newly slaughtered and quivering meat |
itching, boils, warts, sprains, bites, shingles |
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dreaming, dreams |
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jumping, eating |
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delivery |
performed - bite midwifes braid |
illness, healing methods, supernatural treatment |
applied - snakestone; madstone |
hydrophobia, bites |
|
hydrophobia, bites |
|
hydrophobia, bites |
|
snakebite |
|
animal bites |
|
bites, insect |
applied - soda and cold cream |
bites |
applied - baking soda |
bites, insect |
applied - bay leaves |
bites, human |
applied - penny |
bites, insects, mosquito |
ingested - garlic |
stings, insects |
applied - cabbage leaves |
teeth |
performed - live snake |
snakebite |
dried snake’s skin |
bites, stings, insect |
applied - gasoline |
snakebite |
applied - wound of live black chicken |
adder bites |
ingested - juice of honeysuckle |
ant bites |
applied - mud or fresh cow dung |
animal bites |
wood of pepper tree |
bites, animal, dog |
applied - Bandage of salt |
bites, animal, dog |
|
bites, animal, dog |
|
bites, insect |
applied - Ammoniac |
bites, insect |
applied - lemon juice |
bites, insects, mosquito |
applied - blade of knife |
snakebite |
applied - ingested - blood from tail of black cat. |
snakebite |
Mimosa tree |
snakebite |
applied - viper’s head |
snakebite |
|
snakebite |
applied - tobacco |
snakebite |
ingested - bezoar stone |
snakebite |
|
bites, arachnid, spider |
the young of weasel |
stye |
applied - garlic breath. |
wounds |
applied - madstone |
wounds, cuts, fractures, snake bites |
ingested - applied - peyote root |
fear |
ingested - veal that is still twitching |
hydrophobia, bites |
|
hydrophobia, bites |
applied - Micou stone |
snakebite |
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abundance, scarcity of food, hunger |
|
animal bites |
applied - swine grease |
bites, reptile, snake, insect bites, insect stings |
Tobacco juice |
snakebite |
|
stings, wasps |
applied - rub 3 different kinds of green leaves. |
bites |
applied - urine |
bites, insect |
applied - mud |
cuts |
applied - yerba pasma |
bites, insects, mosquito |
applied - water and salt |
stings, insects |
applied - jimson weed |
stings, scorpions |
applied - meal, salt, soda, kerosene |
conjury, tooth loss |
|
ant bites |
applied - mud compress |
stings, scorpions |
applied - steamed tobacco leaf |
snakebite |
applied - water |
bites, animal, dog |
performed - kill dog |
adder bites |
worn - circlet of ash twigs around neck |
ant bites |
worn |
animal bites |
southern wood |
animal bites |
spitting |
poisoned arrow wounds |
|
bites, insect |
applied - madstone |
bites, insects, mosquito |
applied - hot blade |
bites, arachnid, scorpion |
Stone |
snakebite |
Snakeroot |
snakebite |
applied - turnip skin, vinegar. |
snakebite |
Pregnant woman |
bites, arachnid, spider |
musical sound. |
bites, arachnid, spider |
phosphorus from matches, hot water |
wounds, snakebite, bites |
performed - sucking wound |
bites, insect |
applied - sucking |
fear |
|
joint ailments, snakebite |
performed - healing by Vendarala |
animal bites |
performed - hold human skull |
hydrophobia, bites |
|
illness, healing methods, supernatural treatment |
applied - Madstone |
hydrophobia, bites |
applied - madstones, Chinese snakestones |
hydrophobia, bites |
applied - Madstone |
bites, insect |
applied - bluing |
bites, insects, mosquito |
applied - Nail polish. |
snakebite |
ingested - tobacco. |
bites |
applied - wet tobacco |
bites |
applied - paste of bicarbonate of soda and corn meal (or whole wheat flour) |
wounds |
applied - urine |
animal bites |
applied - plantain leaf poultice |
stings, insects |
applied - liquid bluing |
conjury, bite wound |
|
hydrophobia |
applied - madstone |
bite, rattlesnake |
applied - toloache, peach leaves, vinegar, poultice |
ant bites |
applied - bluing |
hand decay |
|
stings, insects |
applied - mud |
stings, scorpions |
applied - salt, egg yolk |
adder bites |
ingested - decoction of elder root |
ant bites |
applied - soda, vinegar |
animal bites |
spignel root |
bites, animal, dog |
performed - carry a piece of dogwood in the pocket |
bites, animal, dog |
performed - take some hair from the dog and smoke the bitten person |
bites, animal, dog |
hair of the dog that bit you |
eyes |
ingested - beech-nuts |
bites, insect |
applied - clean, cool beet leaves |
bites, insect |
Mint plants |
bites, insects, mosquito |
applied - mney of silver |
rabies, hydrophobia |
applied - madstone |
bites, arachnid, scorpion |
performed - Commemoration to St. George |
snakebite |
applied - torn-open chicken |
snakebite |
performed - catch snake on feast of St. John; put snake in bottle of whiskey ingested - drink whiskey after removing snake |
snakebite |
worn - serpentine |
snakebite |
ingested - black snakeroot |
snakebite |
applied - poultice of soft soap with salt |
snakebite |
applied - tear herring apart and fasten it to the bite |
bites, arachnid, spider |
performed - crush animal, mix with plant in powdered form of “shoe- string.” |
toothache |
performed - biting three times into the ground |
fear |
performed - bite jerking calf meat. |
afterbirth |
performed - wash woman’s face with afterbirth; bite afterbirth three times with vigor |
illness, healing methods, supernatural treatment |
applied - snakestones |
hydrophobia, bites |
|
hydrophobia, bites |
applied - madstones |
confinement, lying in |
Garlic |
amputation, phanton limb, pain, ant bites |
performed - Immersion in water |
snakebite |
performed - chewing tobacco. |
bites |
Stone from gall bladder of snow white deer |
bites |
applied - bluing |
animal bites |
applied - axle grease |
bites, insects, mosquito |
applied - wet soap bar |
bites, stings, insect, bee |
applied - saliva |
ant bites |
applied - chew of tobacco |
stings, scorpions |
applied - madstone |
bites |
applied - chicken manure |
snakebite |
applied - madstone |
ant bites |
salt |
animal bites |
applied - garden basil |
bites, poisonous, venomous |
applied - crushed flies |
bites, insect, gnat |
applied - crushed gnat |
bites, animal, dog |
applied - hair of the dog that bit you. |
bites, animal, dog |
|
hydrophobia |
performed - cross forehead of patient with keys of church dedicated to saint known for powers against rabid bites |
bites, insect |
applied - yellow clay poultice |
bites, insects, mosquito |
performed - Rub with oil from seeds of the plane tree. |
plague |
|
bites, arachnid, scorpion |
performed - Lick by person born on eve of St. Paul. |
snakebite |
ash of cabbage roots, honey. |
snakebite |
Milkwort |
snakebite |
rattlesnake plantain |
snakebite |
turquoise. |
snakebite |
applied - soap |
snakebite |
viper wine |
snakebite |
performed - cut off rattler worn - rattler |
snakebite |
|
bites, arachnid, spider |
|
toothache |
performed - Bite along body of rattlesnake. |
fear |
performed - bite into jerking meat. |
illness, healing methods, supernatural treatment |
applied - Toad stone |
hydrophobia, bites |
applied - madstone |
hydrophobia, bites |
applied - madstones |
insect bites |
applied - mouthwash |
pregnancy, morning sickness |
|
teething, dentition, cutting teeth |
performed - mother bites head off live mouse |
rabies, hydrophobia |
applied - spearmint leaves |
animal bites |
applied - axle grease |
snakebite |
|
stings, insects |
applied - tobacco |
ant bites |
performed - hold breath, bite tongue |
bites, insect, chigger |
applied - axle grease |
snakebite |
ingested - whiskey, turpentine salts |
bites, stings, insect |
applied - tobacco juice or snuff |
bites, stings, insect |
applied - split open live chicken |
animal bites |
applied - honeysuckle, swine grease |
animal bites |
applied - water, deer antler |
bites, animal, dog |
applied - hair of the dog that bit you |
bites, animal, dog |
performed - kill the dog |
goiter |
performed - gather at midnight on Ascension Day, bite the bark from the trunk of a peach tree |
headaches |