The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-01-11

tiate in the highest degree TO stop bleeiiny.
And the druidS possessed a far highers'and-
ard OF mental power than any around them.
Most Of the charms are nearly as old: buC
what IS more remarkable as that among the
Anglo-Saxon race some of them flourish
vigorously TO this day, though the school,
master has been so long and assse lively
abroad. Indeed, the class who I'd Mt be-
lleye IN doctorsn-nsy, hold the faculty in
dread and Rbhorrence-is much larger than
IS generally imagined. But they equal Y
abhor anything to be swallowed, though IL
be the herbal simple Of some neighbor who
equally dislikes doctors stuff"
Thus, for bleeding at the nose a favorite
ancient remedy is found in the charm.
! gruesome indesd-thougn such a clever man
as Robert Boyle seems to have believed in
lt-of wearing next the skin a portion of
the moss from dead mans skull, which
| however. to be potent, must be brought
from Ireland-a significant clausel
HOIsTED ON THE scAFFoLD.
1t is not so very long ago that woman
with Wen on the neck was hoisted up on
| the scaffold, after the execution of a muir
derer at Norwich. in England, that the
dead hand might be applied to the wen,
under the idea that it would thereby vanish.
Not very unlike this is another belief still
| existent that TO crawl round a grave lust
| filled in will cure bois of the worst descrip-
/ NAol-s All dACAtuk WTlteT OF more InAn a
| century ago mentions the habit Of passing
ruptured infants through a young ash Sow
cred ana held open by wedges, and after
ward plastering the cicatrice I'D as a reune-
| dy. 1t Is still existent as a belief. So is that
OF passing children-it il to be hoped with
due regard to their eyes-with whooping
cough through a bramble bush.
Another remedy for this malady is found
| by carrying the child, on three mornings in
succession, over three bridges crossing three
arms of river.
For baby cutting its teeth necklace Of
| bryony seeds is far superior to anything so
prosaic as a surgeons treatment, provided,
always. that she necklace be hung round
the Infants neck at the full moon, and kept
in position till the teeth be safely cut.
Warts form now, as in the days or But,
Ter, a common object OF charms, those who
hold them in respect having nothing but
contempt for nitric acid or lunar caustic
One very ancient and favorite remedy is to
pass bit of cheese rind thrice round the
wart land tell nobody" Another consists
In wetting it with the tongue with form
ula which varies in different counties; while
exposing it to the full moon, with ira
dltlonal rhymes, may also be used as a cure.
That sprains may DO cured by nine
| unrestricted wooden thread, and at the
same time that a rhyme il chanted-
passed round the seat of the ailmenti is firm
ly believed in, especially in the north. The
| potato, simply carried in the pocket and
never forgotten-for once to forget 1t breaks
the spell, however hurried the change of
attire may be-is remedy for rheumatism
nav more, Is prophylactic charm against
It. And who would suffer from govt II the
wearing Of dried cuttle-fish, picked up en-
Tuesday would cuarm the malady away7
THE LOCK OF HAIR RACKET.
Some practitioners in the family sorcerer
| line there are who, on receipt of a looE of
| hair from the patient, can not only dag
nose Immediately the complaint, but, re-
turning it wrapped in paper, not to be
opened but worn next the skin, can thereby
| cure it.
For fever ard ague a most potent charm
Of the utmost responsibility and antiquity
exists, which has the advantage, like some
patent medicine, of mot requiring the
| patient to alter In any way his usual habits
| or diet" 1t consists in writing the potent
word "Abracadabra" several times in the
shape of a triangle on piece of white
paper, then folding up the same-this being
most importaut-so as TO conceal the
writing. This must then be stitched in the
shape OF a cross with white thread and
must be attached to a white ribbon. This
must for nine days, neither more nor
| less be suspended round the neck and at
the end of that time thrown in perfect
! silence, at sunrise, into a stream which
| flows eastward. All these preliminary mat
tiers having been duly attended to, you have
an unfailing "cure for fever Quartan or
semitertian ague."
Much simpler is the remedy for hydro
phobia. which the adherents Of lhe Pasteur
system may well envy for the lack of
| trouble, risk and elaboration which distin-
guishes it. 1t is not generally known, and,
at any rate, was held in high favor as late
as the year after Culoden. You pluck out tie
| tail feathers from a live cook until the bi I'd
is tare-a black and white one is the most
efficacious-and wave them over the bitten
part. They are then applied to it. On this
| the hydrophobiR Is removed from the pa
tient into the cock, Nay, more; not only is
it a remedy, but a method OF discerning
when, happily, the fear of this terrible
malady may be unfouDded; for the cook
| mot the dog, by the way) is carefully
watched, and On his symptoms a correct no
ton eau be arrived at as TO the matter.
Probably the one malady as to which thu
| greatest and most mis- oellaneous selection of
charms exists Ia the toothache, which, as is
known, can upset even the most illustrious
| philosopher. But so much has been written
on this particular and widel y-spread torture
it would be int esting to pee Ilate on the
| political effects which "a raging tooth" in
directly caused in the course of centuries
that it is necessary to do more than allude
| to it.
CHARMS AGAINST HEADACHE.
Less known is the charm against head
ache, which consists In waving a dou BILE
! plantain leaf. gathered when the new moon
| is Just seen, before the brow, at the same
time counting 100. The now moon indeed
has good many things accredited to 1t /;
but one thing every invalid should avoid
most sedulously, and that is seeing it for the
| first time through a closed window. Those
| therefore, who suffer from anything In the
shape of cold should, it is presumed, care
| fully draw their curtains till such time as
| the window can be opened
The cramp-bone is sufficiently we'll known
as a remedy for that usually nocturnal and
always painful experience. But is the cab
bage leaf equally familiari Gathered at
noon and from the earliest in the garden
and wrapped in red flannel, then suspended
to the sufferers head with the adjuration:
"Cramp, cramp. go away.
Der the cabbage hold thy sway"
Who knows what happy result may not
ensuel But the leaf must not be taken out
of the flannel, nor removed from the bed at
any time, whatever objections the tdiest of
| housemaids may make.
Lastly-devoutly hoping in view Of the
| bird slaughter that fashion has encouraged
| that the custom is now more honored in the
| breach than the observance-the charm
against ague may be mentioned, which con-
sists in shooting a swallow and hanging 1t
up in the chimney. This is. however, a
charm which works in two ways, for in
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