78 Wishes
If a bald-headed man washes his head with sage tea, it will make a new growth of hair come out.
The use of tobacco is believed to prevent one’s taking diseases.
The sick person that shows an inclination to stretch will get well.
If a sick person itches, he will get well.
If he is cross, he will get well.
“That isn’t always so. There was a man in our town who was very sick, and his wife did something or other he didn’t like, and he sat right up in bed and swore at her, and the next instant he fell over dead.”
Put the first aching tooth you have pulled in a glass of whiskey. Then drink the whiskey, and you will never have occasion to have another tooth pulled because it aches.
Carry an onion with you to keep off diseases. You can’t take a disease from any odor that the onion scent is strong enough to overcome so that you don’t smell it. Indeed, whatever you can’t smell won’t harm you, onion or no onion. But if you think you smell a disease, even if you don’t, you are liable to have that disease.
