Guest Author - Elizabeth Bissette

HEAD ACHE

1. Wear Rattlesnake rattles in the sweatband of your hat.

2. If you walk in the rain in the Dog Days of Summer, yuo'll be prone to headaches. Those headaches cause baldness and grey hair. To cure these ills, bind your head with a halter or rope someone was hung with. Ropes used in suicide have the most power.

3. Pierce your ears and your headache will go away.

4. Repeatedly dip your hand in cold water, rub it all around your head. Shake all the water off your hand each time you get ready to put it back in the water. Never let the water stay on your hand after its' gone over your head, that puts the headache back in the water. You have to throw it away every time or it doesn't work

5. Wet your finger and run it across the threshold of your house in the form of a cross. Apply dust from it in small dots on your temples.The dust of a threshold of the door

6. Put a lock of your hair under a stone and be sure not to mention either for one week.

7. Wear a match in your hair.

8. Sleep with your head toward the East.

9. Headaches are caused when birds build their nests with your hair, so each time you cut it, burn it. That way, you never have a headache.

10. Kill a snake and wrap it around your head.

11. Sometimes headaches are caused by the evil eye. If you have a headache and suspect that someone has put curse on you, wear a needle in the hem of your clothes to cure it.

12. Take a live frog and tie it to your head. Let it stay there till it dies.

STOMACH ACHE

1. Drink donkey dung tea, (or just regular old urine, or wrap manure in a cloth and wear it around your neck or stomach) -- ick.

2. Put the skin of a hawk on your stomach.

3. Hang a pair of your pants upside down.

4. Crawl around the legs of a ten legged table three times.

5. Drink water 3 flies have been boiled in.

6. Wear a cotton bag around your big toe, then burn it.

7. Tie the hands of the patient until blue. -- ouch!

8. Burn out an owl’s nest on a mountain, then eat fruit out of it. It was believed that the remedy worked because the smoke of the burning owls entered the fruit.

9. Tie an umbilical cord around a tree.

10. Fumigate your house with sulpher.

11. Rub an old bone on a stone.

12. Apply the contents of wolf’s stomach or the flesh, bones and hide of a goat to your stomache. Or, drink the blood of a freshly killed goat.

13. Put a frog on your stomach.

14. Roll over a barrel until you feel better.

15. Eat dried bear stomach.

16. Think of the one you love best, your stomachache go away and she will ache for you.

17. Dig a hole in the ground. If you can spit in it from 3 feet away your stomach won't hurt anymore.

EAR ACHE

1. Again with the urine. Put a tablespoon of it in your ear.

2. Spit under a rock, put the rock back and stand there for a few seconds, as still as you can.

3. Boil goose manure in a bag in water. Use a few drops in ear.

4. Wrap a tourniquet of live worms and garlic around your wrist. Your ear ache will go away when the worms die.

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