1152. Ringworm may be killed by moistening the finger in the mouth and rubbing sunwise around the diseased spot. Central Maine.
1153. To rub for "sweeney." Rub the diseased part of the horse's shoulder with a corn-cob with the sun every third morning. Northern Ohio.
1154. Rub a corn, a wen, etc., with the sun if by day, with the moon if by night. The sun or moon will draw all the pain away. Related by a Pennsylvania German. Northern Ohio.
1155. To cure a curb in a horse, rub it with a bone, at the going down of the sun. Plymouth, O.
1156. A "conjurer" can rub away a "rising" (boil) by coming to your bedside about daybreak, before you speak to any one, and rubbing the "rising" for nine successive days. Talladega, Ala.
1157. To cure a burn, moisten it with saliva, repeating:--
As far as the east is from the west, Come out fire and go in frost. In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Come out fire and go in frost.
Blow three times, and rub sunwise three times. To be taught to not more than three persons of the opposite sex. Eastern Tennessee.
DEATH OMENS.
1158. To raise an umbrella in a house is a sign of an approaching death. Pennsylvania; somewhat general in the United States.
1159. To open an umbrella in the house is a sign of ill luck. An action of this sort seriously disturbed a friend of the informant, an American girl of good family. "I would never dare to do that," she said. Niagara Falls, Ont.
1160. If a hoe be carried through a house, some one will die before the year is out. Mansfield, O.
1161. Carrying through the house a hoe, spade, or axe indicates a death in the family. Virginia.
1162. Carry an axe or any iron implement through the house, and some one will soon die. Southwestern Michigan.
1163. Death is foretold by the ringing of a bell that cannot otherwise be accounted for. Southern Ohio.
1164. When bread, in baking, cracks across the top, it means death. New Jersey and Ohio.
1165. Cracks on the top of a loaf of bread indicate the death of a friend. Several localities.
1166. When bright red specks resembling spattered blood appear on linen, it is held to be a token of misfortune, probably of death. Northern Ohio.
1167. If the candle burns blue, it is token of a death.
1168. To see a coffin in the candle is a token of death. Boston, Mass.
1169. To see a "winding-sheet" in the candle has the same significance. Virginia.
1170. Three lamps or candles burned close together mean death. Virginia.
1171. If a sudden and unaccountable light is seen in a carpenter's shop, it indicates that the carpenter will soon have to make a coffin. Cape Breton.
1172. If a coffin creaks in a carpenter's shop, another order soon follows. Newark, N.J., and Virginia.
1173. If the coffin does not settle down smoothly into place in the grave, but has to be raised and lowered again, another in the family will die inside a year. Stevens Point, Wis.
1174. Change a sick person from one room to another, and he will die. New Jersey.
1175. If a clock, long motionless, suddenly begins to tick or strike, it is a sign of approaching death or misfortune. Newark, N.J., Virginia, and North Carolina.
1176. If a corpse remains soft and supple after death, another death in the family will follow. Trinity Bay, N.F., and Prince Edward Island.
1177. A cow mooing after midnight means death.
1178. To dance on the ground indicates disaster, or death within a year. Boxford, Mass.
