If, by accident, you find the back tooth of a horse, carry it about with you as long as you live, and you will never want money; but it must be found by chance.


When a family has been carried off by fever, the house where they died may be again inhabited with safety if a certain number of sheep are driven in to sleep there for three nights.


An iron ring worn on the fourth finger was considered effective against rheumatism by the Irish peasantry from ancient times.


Paralysis is cured by stroking, but many forms and mystic incantations are also used during the process; and only certain persons have the power in the hands that can effect a cure by the magic of the stroke.


The seed of docks tied to the left arm of a woman will prevent her being barren.