STRANGE SUPERSTITIONS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14390, 4 January 1911, Page 7

STRANGE SUPERSTITIONS.

SOME DISEASE "REMEDIES."- ' A correspondent, says the "Lancet, sends us tlio following list .of "remedies," drawing our attention to the ■ almost. incredible fact tha sucJi -. superstitions still linger in. out-of-tlio-wfty places in Ireland and Wales. Tho five remedies are • for . .epilepsy, and come: from. 'Roscommon: —;. . _ 1. Where a person falls at the time of - this first antack, if on ■ a flagged Savement or in a court,' at. once lift tlie. ag. Kill a fowl and cut a piece of the warm flash. . Place the bit,of fowl with a silver, coin in the hole .and -e----placo the flag, and'there will bo no return of tho: fit. ■-. , 2. A child fell on a road on hsr way to school, having an attack pf epilensy for the first time. . An; old woman tan from her house and said: "Don't touch the ohildl" Sho then undressed tho §irl, and, taking , tho chemise, she urnt it, t&en rodraseed the girl with, a new chemise in' place of the burnt one.' ■■ . ■, . .>.■■■■ 3. Dig a hole in the road whore the person falls and put„in a_silver coin. 4. 'Procure tie water in which a corpse has been' washed; and give a wineglassful to the patient, throe times 1 a day. (This remedy was tried on UiO' brother of the informant, but as he vomited the euro was of no avail.)' 5. Procure tlio milk of a foal (not a mare), which is very, rare, and give a teaspoonful throe times a day. _ For warts the following recipe is held good in County Mayo:—Cut .32 pieces of straw with tho joints in tho centra of each piece, placo tUem.in a hole in the ground,: and as they decay tho warts will ■ For shingles, an old WelsJi gardener told Ilia mistress that he'wag able to cure tho affection by passing his hands oyer tho affected parts; as he was, the of » man who Hcd shot and eaten n, b't cf an eagle, which had given him and his descendants this miraculous power a