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   “Long ago people used to seek cures for ailments in many ways.”

   

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   the village cut the tree and the well came in another. The seventh son is supposed to be a doctor. A child born after its father's death was supposed to be able to cure a sore mouth. It was cured by blowing the breath three times into it. Whit Monday is an unlucky day for a child to be born because it is said he would get killed or kill someone. A foal born on Whit Monday is supposed to kill someone. If you nibbed your finger on a dead persons teeth you would never get toothache.

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   “A man who has licked three lizards three times is supposed to cure a burn by licking it.”

   

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   A man who has licked three lizards three times is supposed to cure a burn by licking it.To put a worm in a bottle and bury it where it could not be found is a cure for a toothache.

   

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