CHRISTMAS CURES
"AU sorts of ailments are' believed- to bo cured at the season of Christmas (says an English paper).
The children of Yorkshire carry round a box, covered with evergreen leaves, containinjr a doll dressed up to repreeent Chriet. They oall at each house and_ a»k ..for money for the Christmas festivities, and those who contribute are allowed to take a leaf from, the box, and thi3 leaf is believed to be six.absolute cure for toothache. ..- ■
1 The country people in .Cheshire believe that on Chnstmos Eve ' the .-' Holy Child comes to reviait the earth afc midnight, and in some' homes where there is a sick ohild the mother takes the little one from-ita nick bed and carries it to tho door a- few minutos before midnight, and waits there until midnight has struck. . If the child recovers its health, she believes it is because the Christ Child, in passing the door, touched the sick child with His healing. fingeTß. If the child dies, the mother comforts herself with the belief that the. Christ Child called tho sick child to Heaven to be His playmate.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 150, 22 December 1922, Page 13
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186CHRISTMAS CURES Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 150, 22 December 1922, Page 13
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