A woman was done up in brown paper so the bugs wouldn't bite her.
One man set up in business as a doctor and gave his patients a bull's heart dried and powdered for medicine.
Another man said he knew how to get rid of boils. "I cut my nails on a Monday," was his cure.
They would take pulley-blocks and boil them in water and then drink the water.
To tell how the wind blew they would hang the head of a fox or wolf or a seal from the rafters and watch the way it swung. A wolf or fox would face the wind, they said, but a seal's head would turn away from it.
For rheumatism you must wear a haddock's fin-bone.
Green worsted tied round your wrist was a sure cure for hemorrhage.
If you had trouble with your eyes, you ought to get somebody to blow sugar into them.
Little sacks full of prayers tied round your neck were a great help in any sort of sickness.
A father tied a split herring round his boy's throat for diphtheria.