Browse:Onion (Volume 1, entries 1405–1408)
Onion
Volume 1, entries 1405–1408. Source context: THE DOCTORS AT WORK: REPORTS FROM LAYMEN → FOLK MEDICINE → CURE AND PROTECTION. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 1405
If you take a red onion and cut it and put half up over your door or jes' anywhere where it could be kept and take de rest of it and burn it up to ashes and wear it in your shoes, that'll keep anyone from hurting you.
Entry 1406
Let onion peelings and sulphur burn all day in closed room; no one can harm you.
Entry 1407
Take de red onion an' split it open an' if yo' got hot fever, yo' kin bind it to yore haid or bind it to yore breast, anywhere 'bout chew lak dat, an' it'll break a fever.
Entry 1408
Peel a onion an' chop it up - cut it up real fine an' put it in a pan an' put it underneath de bed fo' fever. Dat's all ah know about that. Dey says fo' fever.