This section is from the book "Kentucky Superstitions", by Daniel Lindsey Thomas, Lucy Blayney Thomas. Also available from Amazon: Kentucky Superstitions.
1364. Remove a sty by picking up a rock, spitting on it, and returning it to its place.
1365. To keep off sun-stroke, put a wet cabbage leaf on the head.
1366. If you have a sun pain in your head, clip a small bunch of hair from the top of your head and place it in a branch running from west to east. Mountains
1367. If you have a tape-worm, get a handful of the bark of the root on the north side of a mulberry tree and boil it in a gallon of new milk; take this mixture for three days before the full, and three days before the change, for three moons......Blue Grass
1368. To cure tetter, wear a brass ring on your thumb..............................Southern Kentucky
1369. Thrush in a child can be cured if a person who has never seen his father will blow his breath three times into the child's face for three days...........................................Blue Grass
1370. You may cure thrush by putting the blood of a chicken into the child's mouth........Mountains
1371. To cure thrush, place a lock of the child's hair into a hole in a tree...............Central Kentucky
1372. Rainwater from a stump will cure thrush.
1373. Thrush in a child can be cured by washing the child's mouth with nine sage buds......Mountains
1374. For thrush, take three bunches of green sage of three buds each; rake each bunch through the mouth; hang the three bunches before the fire; when they dry, the child will be cured. .Mountains
1375. The seventh son or daughter by blowing into the mouth of a child will cure thrush...........................................Western Kentucky
1376. To avert thrush, drink water from a man's right shoe ..............................Mountains
1377. You can cure thrush in a child by giving him to drink water that has been tossed in a stranger's right shoe from heel to toe three times.. Mountains
1378. Cure thrush by having the child drink water out of an old shoe......................Mountains
1379. As a cure for thrush, place nine sow-bugs (little white insects found under stones near dwellings) in a small sack and wear it around the neck for nine days.
1380. To cure a child of thrush, let a stallion snort into the child's face.....................Mountains
1381. The wearing of amber beads around the neck will help teething.................Central Kentucky
1382. Black wooden beads worn about the neck will avert the pains of teething................Blue Grass
1383. Black hen's brains make babies' teething easy.................................Central Kentucky
1384. For a baby's teething, let it have nine pieces of burdock root on a string around its neck....................................Central Kentucky
1385. Rub an unbroken egg shell on a baby's gums, to ease the pains of teething............Mountains
1386. Suspend a borrowed egg in a paper sack from the ceiling, to cause the baby to cut its teeth easily___...........................Western Kentucky
1387. Sore gums in a baby may be cured by the application of a groundhog's brains..........Mountains
1388. Put the eye-tooth of a hog about the neck of a child, to keep it from having a hard second summer. (This tooth is found with a hole through the center) ............................Central Kentucky
1389. For sore gums, let the child wear a necklace of
"Job's Tears" (a kind of smooth, gray bean) about its neck.
1390. To aid a baby in cutting its teeth, rub a minnow or other small fish on the baby's gums.... Mountains
1391. To make all teething pains in a child cease, fasten about its neck in a small cloth "poke" or bag the right front paw of a ground mole.
1392. Make a baby's teething easy by putting a quarter of a dollar around its neck.
1393. For teething, cut off a rabbit's head, roast the head with the hair on, take the brains out, and rub them on the gums................Blue Grass Negroes
1394. Rub warm and raw rabbits' brains on the baby's gums .............................Mountains
1395. A snail or slug is placed on the gum for tooth-ache...........................Western Kentucky
1396. If you put a string of warm seed roots about a baby's neck, its teething will not be painful........................................Mountains
1397. For teething, use a necklace of whole spice soaked in whiskey ..........................Blue Grass
1398. For toothache, make the gums bleed, put the blood on a long cotton string, and tie the string around a dogwood tree at a place where an incision has been made in the bark............Western Kentucky
1399. To cure a toothache, steal a dishrag and bury it... .......................North-eastern Kentucky
1400. For toothache a faith doctor writes, "Gaffa, gaffa, gaffa," on the wall. With a nail he points at each letter, at the same time asking the sufferer if the tooth feels better. When he reaches a letter where the tooth is said to be better, he drives in the nail, and the toothache ceases......Western Kentucky
1401. If you keep a hog's jaw tooth, you will not have a toothache ..........................Mountains
1402. To cure toothache, cut a wart off a horse's leg and rub it on the gums...........Western Kentucky
1403. For toothache, carry the skull of a horse as far as you can, holding its teeth with your teeth..........................................Mountains
1404. To cure toothache, choke a mole with your hands behind your head and hang one of its feet around your neck.........................Mountains
1405. For toothache, secure a tooth from a live mole and rub this on the aching member. Western Kentucky
1406. Avert or cure toothache by cutting your nails on
Friday.
1407. You can cure toothache by promising not to cut your nails or do similar things on Sunday........
.................................. Mountains
 
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