9. To take away warts, steal a dish-rag out of the house, without
anybody's knowledge, and go out of doors in the first of the moon, rub
the dish-rag on the wart, and say: "Here, new moon! take away my new
wart." Then throw the dish-rag away where no one can find it, and tell
nobody.
_Talladega, Ala._

1140. To cure warts, go out of doors when the moon is new, take up a
handful of mud, looking at the moon all the time, and rub on the wart.
_Holderness, N.H._

CHAPTER XVI.

SUN.

DOMESTIC AND MECHANICAL OPERATIONS.

1141. To make good bread, stir it with the sun. To make good yeast, make
it as near sunrise as possible.
_Northern Ohio._

1142. If you wish to secure lightness, you must always stir cake and eggs
a certain way, that is, the way the sun goes.
_Kittery, Me., Nashua, N.H., Eastern Massachusetts, and
Southern Michigan._

1143. Eggs and cake are commonly beaten and butter made by stirring
sunwise.
_Newfoundland._

1144. To make cake light, it must always be stirred the same way.
_Dalton, Mass., and Alabama._

1145. In cooking soft custard, the stirring must be continued throughout
in the direction in which it was begun; otherwise the custard will turn
to whey.
_Eastern Massachusetts._

1146. If, after turning the crank of a churn for a while with the sun,
you change and turn the other way, it will undo all the churning you have
done.
_Ferrisburgh, Vt._

1147. Ice cream will not freeze rightly unless the crank is turned the
right way.
_Concord, Mass._

1148. In making lye soap, if you stir it backward it will turn back to
lye.
_Warren Co., N.Y., and Alabama._

1149. In melting sugar for taffy, stir always one way, or it will grain.
_Allston, Mass._

1150. In greasing the wheels of a carriage, always begin at a certain
wheel and go round in a set way.
_Peabody, Mass._

CURES.

1151. In rubbing for rheumatism, etc., rub from left to right (sunwise).
_Concord, Mass._

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