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The Folk-lore of Plants
·
T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
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Similarly,
in
Brandenburg,
if
a
person
is
afflicted
with
dizziness,
he
is
recommended
to
run
after
sunset,
naked,
three
times
through
a
field
of
flax;
after
doing
so,
the
flax
will
at
once
"take
the
dizziness
to
itself."
A
Sussex
cure
for
ague
is
to
eat
sage
leaves,
fasting,
nine
mornings
in
succession;
while
Flemish
folk-lore
enjoins
any
one
who
has
the
ague
to
go
early
in
the
morning
to
an
old
willow,
make
three
knots
in
one
of
its
branches,
and
say
"Good
morrow,
old
one;
I
give
thee
the
cold;
good
morrow,
old
one."
A
very
common
cure
for
warts
is
to
tie
as
many
knots
on
a
hair
as
there
are
warts,
and
to
throw
the
hair
away;
while
an
Irish
charm
is
to
give
the
patient
nine
leaves
of
dandelion,
three
leaves
being
eaten
on
three
successive
mornings.
Indeed,
the
efficacy
of
numbers
is
not
confined
to
any
one
locality;
and
Mr.
Folkard
[19]
mentions
an
instance
in
Cuba
where,
"thirteen
cloves
of
garlic
at
the
end
of
a
cord,
worn
round
the
neck
for
thirteen
days,
are
considered
a
safeguard
against
jaundice."
It
is
necessary,
however,
that
the
wearer,
in
the
middle
of
the
night
of
the
thirteenth
day,
should
proceed
to
the
corner
of
two
streets,
take
off
his
garlic
necklet,
and,
flinging
it
behind
him,
run
home
without
turning
round
to
see
what
has
become
of
it.
Similarly,
six
knots
of
elderwood
are
employed
"in
a
Yorkshire
incantation
to
ascertain
if
beasts
are
dying
from
witchcraft."
[20]
In
Thuringia,
on
the
extraction
of
a
tooth,
the
person
must
eat
three
daisies
to
be
henceforth
free
from
toothache.
In
Cornwall
[21]
bramble
leaves
are
made
use
of
in
cases
of
scalds
and
inflammatory
diseases.
Nine
leaves
are
moistened
with
spring-water,
and
"these
are
applied
to
the
burned
or
diseased
parts."
While
this
is
being
done,
for
every
bramble
leaf
the
following
charm
is
repeated
three
times:--
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
