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. The sun or moon will draw all the pain away. Related by a
Pennsylvania German.
_Northern Ohio._
1155. To cure a curb in a horse, rub it with a bone, at the going down of
the sun.
_Plymouth, O._
1156. A "conjurer" can rub away a "rising" (boil) by coming to your
bedside about daybreak, before you speak to any one, and rubbing the
"rising" for nine successive days.
_Talladega, Ala._
1157. To cure a burn, moisten it with saliva, repeating:--
As far as the east is from the west,
Come out fire and go in frost.
In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,
Come out fire and go in frost.
Blow three times, and rub sunwise three times. To be taught to not more
than three persons of the opposite sex.
_Eastern Tennessee._