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   There is many cures for toothache. This is suppose to be true. Get a hairy maggot and put him into a bottle and cork it tight and bury it the clay. One of the cures for taking out a thorn is to get a foxes tongue and put it on the sore and it will draw out the thorn. A cure for the whooping cough if you see a man with a grey horse go and him if he has any cure for the whooping cough what whatever he will say is supposed to be the cure

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2. Local Cures

   

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   a burn would cure it. To take away warts washing soda or castor oil or to rub a snail to them. When a person dies suddenly now they would say it was from heart failure. But if a person died suddenly long ago people would say it was the fairies took him.

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