"WISE" WOMEN OF WALES.
The survival in Wales of superstitious " cures," usually associated with mediaeval witchcraft, is confirmed by doctors practising in country districts. Not long ago a doctor, called to attend a shotgun wound, discovered that manure had been applied as a first-aid dressing. Spiders' webs are still used for healing cuts and salt bacon is often applied to boils. In Cardigan last year, on the advice of a " wise woman," a mouse was roasted alivo and ils pulverised ashes mixed in porridge taken by a boy who was ill. In Devonshire a poultice of rotten apples is considered excellent in cases of sore eyes, while a concoction made bv bouring hot cider over horseradish, to he drunk several times a day, is considered a euro for rheumatic pains A strange euro for neuritis is for the sufferer to fasten a potato under 01.0 of his armpits. As tho potato shrinks, it is claimed that tho pains disappear*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20217, 30 March 1929, Page 2 (Supplement)
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