Treating eye twitching with a bath

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Note: ; Original source: EA 2958, I, 163. ; Collected by Ferdinánd Fehér assistant pastor and János Nagy schoolmaster ; It is also useful to use the water in which the burning ember, coal tow and shovel are dipped when baking bread, to wash a child with a fever from a spell. Similarly, with the water in which the holy grass has been brewed, the washing should be done especially backwards from the chin, the crown of the head and down to the nape of the neck, similarly to wiping. Or the evil is known by putting water in a pot lid and three pieces of coal in it, if this water sinks to the bottom, then the child has been bewitched, and then this water is splashed over the head in the middle of the yard and back, whereupon the child is certainly freed from the evil. ; To this day, the belief among our people is that in the eyes of witches, a person sees themselves upside down.

Inventory number:

13437

Collection:

Repository

Type:

Myth

Municipality:

Dunaszerdahely