The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-08-04
SURVIVING SUGGESTIONS.


dtgns, Charms and Philters In which civil
lied People stin Put Credence.
In Michigan a double cedar knot Is
carried in the pocket to cure rheuma-
tism, and in New Hampshire man car
ried gall from the stems of golden rod
for the same disease. A small white
grub is in the gall and he thought as
long as the grub remained alive no
rheumatism could get hold of him
Hickory nuts, the buckeye, and its
cousin, the horse chestnut, which brings
good luck in New Jersey, are other foes
to rheumatism in different localities.
Some people wear a strange ring made
OF potato with hole bored through
it for rheumatism, and others carry
plain potato in the pocket. The charm
is more potent If the potato has been
stolen. Almost anything seems to have
COMMUNICATING properties, for in
southern Michigan pebble in the
pocket serves toward 1t =Z s
A New Hampshire cure for sore throat
is to wear about the neck a stocking, in
the toe of which potato has been tied.
According to Maine belief, nutmeg
the neck prevents boils, Group and neu-
ralgia. The effect of Connecticut
wooden nutmeg is unknown. Il
Amongsthe negroes the most striking
remedies are to be found. Witness the
combination of cure and spell, described
under the name of 'conjuring TOOTH"
in Alabama. Go into a lonely parAsof
the woods with one Of the opposite sex,
who is to carry an ak. The bearer of
the AK chops around the roots of white
oak, cuts off with large jack-knife
nine splinters from the roots of tree,
then cuts around the roots of the aching
tooth with the knife, dips each-nf the
nine splinters in the blood flowing from
the cuts and finally buries the splinters
at the foot of the tree from which they
came. While doing this the operator
repeats something you don't under
stand, which is charm
From the same locality comes Curl
Gus remedy for chills and fever. Take
the skin from the inside of an eggshell,
go to a young persimmon tree three
days in succession and tie knot in the
skin each day.
On the eastern shore Of Maryland bill
iousness is cured by boring three holes
in a carefully selected tree and walking
three times around it, saying, go away
bilious" 1t is a matter of utmost i'm
portance whether the one who performs
the spell walks with the sun or against
the sun, but no one knows which is the
approved direction.
We have comparatively few philters,
none with truly indigenous reputa-
ton, but there are some of European
origin naturalized. Many of them have
undergone n certain variation since they
found home on this side of the Allan
tic. Plants used in love divinations are
common. In many parts of England
and Scotland the familiar southern
wood is shown as lads love-" 'lad-
love-lass,n or lads love and lasses' de-
light" Another British name for the
plant is ''old mans love-" or simply .'old
man." from it's use recommended by
Pliny.
In Woburn, Mass, this herb is called
boys love-, and it is said that if girl
tucks bit in her shoe she will marry
the first boy she meets. In other parts
of Massachusetts it is thought that if
girl puts piece of Southern wood down
her back the first boy she meets will be
her husband. In Boston, if a marriage
able woman puts bit of Southern wood
under her pillow on retiring, the first
man she sees in the morning will, so
says the superstition, be the one whom
she is to marry.-Kansas City Journal