1108. Burns can be cured by persons who have the miraculous power of "blowing the fire out" of the wound.

1109. Do not burn a bandage that has been wrapped about a burn. If you do, the burn will not heal.

1110. To throw the dressing from a burnt wound into the fire will cause the wound to bum as if it were in the fire............................Mountains

1111. To cure a burn, one must blow on the burn, repeating these words:

"Three angels from the north;

Go out fire, come in frost"............Mountains

1112. To blow the fire out of a burn, the curer says: "You look east; you look west; you look south; you look north. I saw three angels coming. One had fire; one had frost. Blow out, Fire. Blow in, Frost.

Father, Son and Holy Ghost." Without the taking in or the letting out of breath, these words must be said in the mind three times, with the patient's wound against the curer's mouth......Mountains

1113. To take the fire out of a burn, the curer wets his forefinger with saliva and rubs it over the burnt place, repeating a charm of some kind.....................................Western Kentucky

1114. You may cure cancer by going at daybreak to an apple tree on three successive mornings and pronouncing a certain incantation........Mountains

1115. A cure for cancer. Get a double handful of redoak bark from the north side of the tree, a double handful of persimmon-tree bark, the north side, a double handful of the bark of the roots of dogwood, the north side, a double handful of the bark of sassafras roots, the north side, and a handful of dewberry briar roots. Put these together, boil them slowly for about twelve hours, then drink the mixture...........................Blue Grass

1116. A tobacco leaf is a sure cure for a carbuncle..................................Central Kentucky

1117. If you let a dog lick a cat, the latter will recover from its illness.

1118. If you wash your hands in the first snow, they will not chap that winter................ .Mountains

1119. If your chickens are sick, take the best one that is well and cut off its head, to cure the sick ones.

1120. Chicken-pox is treated with the water in which the feathers of a black chicken are boiled.......................................Western Kentucky

1121. As a cure for chicken-pox, the victim may sit in the henhouse for an hour......Western Kentucky

1122. Bathe a child in greasy dish-water, to avert illness.

1123. Gunpowder is given to a woman, to facilitate childbirth ..............................Mountains

1124. Carry an Irish potato in your pocket, to prevent chills......................Western Kentucky

1125. Frizzly chickens keep off cholera.......Mountains

1126. Mullein tea is a cure for colds, bronchitis, or croup..................................Mountains

1127. To cure colds, rub the chest, the palms, and the soles of the feet with goose-grease.

1128. Tallow rubbed on a baby's foot will cure a cold......................................Mountains

1129. To keep off cold (or other disease) cut an onion in two, hang it by a string, and knock it when you pass.

1130. If you accidentally fall into a creek, your cold will be cured...........................Mountains

1131. To keep off cold, wear a "sow bug" around your neck.

1132. Put a hair or a piece of toe-nail of the patient into a hole of a tree or stump, to cure a cold.

1133. If you drink water out of a stranger's shoe, your sore throat will be cured..............Mountains

1134. To cure sore throat, mouth or eyes, use yellow root.

1135. For a sore throat, tie your right sock, when you remove it at night and while it is warm, around your neck. Let it remain all night.

1136. As a cure for a sore throat, let a man who has smoked for several years blow his breath down the throat......................Central Kentucky

1137. Salt pork will prevent sore throat.

1138. If you wish to prevent a baby's having colic, blow tobacco smoke on its stomach.

1139. Eggs laid on Friday will cure colic.

1140. Red pepper and salt in your shoe will keep off conjures.

1141. Butterfly root is good for consumption.

1142. To eat the hind leg of a fat dog is a sure cure for tuberculosis of the lungs......Louisville Negroes

1143. Tuberculosis in a child may be cured if a lock of the child's hair is placed in a hole in a post or tree higher than the child's head. When he grows up to that height, he will be cured.

1144. For tuberculosis, stick a table fork into the head of the bed of the sufferer........Southern Kentucky

1145. To eat a snail each morning for nine mornings will cure consumption...........Southern Kentucky

1146. For consumption, eat three snails in the morning and three at night; then three or four days later drink a gill of cow's water and four gills of new milk mixed........................Blue Grass

1147. A cure for tuberculosis is to burn dried cow dung to ashes, make a weak lye, and drink it now and then ..................................Blue Grass

1148. As a cure for tuberculosis, cut off a rattlesnake's head, put the snake into rum, and then drink of the concoction two or three times a day.Blue Grass

1149. Tie a hemp string around the great toe of your left foot, to cure a cold...........Western Kentucky

1150. A string around the neck will keep off cold.

1151. If you have small-pox, you will never have tuberculosis.

1152. You can cure a corn by cutting it with a blade that has shaved the dead.

1153. To cure corns, use soft lye soap ("tub soap").

1154. To cure a corn, rub a snail (without a shell) on the corn nine times; then stick the snail on a thorn bush..............................Mountains

1155. When a cow's bag is hard and will not break, rub the bag three mornings with a flat rock; then put the rock back where you got it. The fever will then leave the bag............Central Kentucky