1315. Carry a round ham-bone in your pocket, to avert rheumatism.

1316. Carry a potato filled with tacks in your pocket, to keep off rheumatism.........Northern Kentucky

1317. You can cure your rheumatism by crossing your shoes at night...............Northern Kentucky

1318. If you wish to keep from having rheumatism, place your shoes side by side under the bed at night___.......................North-eastern Kentucky

1319. Wear a silver ring, to keep off rheumatism.

1320. As a cure for rheumatism, tie a red string around the toe.

1321. A white silk ribbon worn about the body will prevent rheumatism....................Blue Grass

1322. A belt made of a rattlesnake skin will cure rheumatism ............................Mountains

1323. To cure rheumatism, kill a rattlesnake which has had no chance to strike, skin it, dry the remains, place them in a jug of corn whiskey, and drink the whiskey ...........................Mountains

1324. Carry sulphur in the pocket for rheumatism........................................Mountains

1325. To cure rheumatism, bind a live toad to the back.

The pain will pass from the back of the sufferer into the toad.......................Blue Grass

1326. Put a string of yarn around the neck, to keep off rheumatism.

1327. You can cure rheumatism if you will tie a wool string around your ankle.

1328. To cure ringworms, wet the index finger in the mouth, continue to move it in a circle on the bottom of a used pot, chanting this incantation the while:

"Ringworm round, Ringworm red, Ringworm die,

To make--------------------glad."

The person afflicted with ring-worm goes through with the ceremony using his given name in the blank space........................Mountains

1329. To cure a ringworm, let some one rub the ringworm with each of his fingers wet with saliva. Do not let him see the ringworm.............Mountains

1330. To cure a ringworm, rub around it nine times with a thimble...........................Mountains

1331. Scratch a cross with a pin on the finger, to make a "run-around" go off...............Mountains

1332. For shingles, rub the sores with blood obtained from cutting off a black cat's tail. They will then never meet........................Central Kentucky

1333. For shingles, cut off a black cat's tail and nail the tail against a door..................Mountains

1334. Kill a black chicken, and put the blood on shingles, to cure them.

1335. To cure a pain in the side, spit on the bottom of a stone, put it back in its place, and repeat rapidly an indefinite number of times, until the pain leaves your side: "Pain, get off my side; pain, get off my side"...........................Mountains

1336. For a pain in the side, stoop over until the nose touches the ground.

1337. For a pain in the side, stoop and take a drink of water from a spring.

1338. Hops in the pillow are soothing and induce sleep.

1339. You will never have small-pox so long as you carry an onion in your pocket.............. Blue Grass

1340. For a snake-bite, bury the wounded part in the earth.

1341. For a snake-bite, put grease on the wound and let a dog lick it..........Central Kentucky Negroes

1342. For a snake-bite, tie the half of a freshly killed chicken to the bitten place......Central Kentucky

1343. If a snake bites you, kill the snake, split it open, and wrap it around the wounded member..........................................Mountains

1344. Bind the liver and the intestines of the snake to its bite, as a cure for snake-bite.........Blue Grass

1345. A rattlesnake-bite is cured by salt and fresh pork....................................Mountains

1346. A piece of red yarn around your little toe will take sores off your feet..................Mountains

1347. Take jimson-weed and fat meat on a penny and apply the mixture to a sore; it will stop pain.................................Louisville Negroes

1348. A sore may be cured by a dog's licking it.....................................Louisville Negroes

1349. After you have extracted a splinter from your flesh, there will be no pain if you put the splinter in your hair...................Louisville Negroes

1350. Sprains are treated with goose grease......................................Western Kentucky

1351. For insect stings, take three kinds of weeds and rub the place that is irritated.. Southern Kentucky

1352. To cure a stone bruise, bind a live toad on the bruise. When the toad dies, the bruise will disappear.

1353. Rub a black cat's tail over your eye nine times, to remove a sty.

1354. To remove a sty, steal a dish-cloth, rub the sty with it, and bury the dish-cloth secretly.

1355. Rub an incipient sty with a plain gold ring warmed by friction with a woolen garment. Pronounce the following couplet: "Sty, sty, leave my eye; Go to the next passer-by."

1356. A sty may be cured by one's rubbing it with a wedding ring that has been blessed.. Central Kentucky

1357. Take gravel from a running stream, rub it on a sty or other place of pain, and then replace it..........................................Mountains

1358. If any one has a sty on his eye, tell him he has told a lie. This statement will relieve him. .Mountains

1359. If some one on seeing that you have a sty says that it is a sty and you say it is a lie, the sty will go off.. ..................................Mountains

1360. If you wear a nutmeg around your neck, you will cure the sty on your eye.

1361. At a cross-roads say: "Sty, sty, leave eye;

Go to the next passer-by."

1362. Remove a sty by turning three times on the heel at a cross-roads.

1363. If you have a sty, walk backwards to a cross-roads and spit on the ground three times over the right shoulder. The sty will leave you and infect the next passer-by.