Mountain Folk Voodoo
Posted by Dax Montana on 16 Feb 2007 at 12:24 pm | Tagged as: General
So, I’m hanging out in the break room eating my sandwich minding my own business. I don’t really socialize with many people. However, my supervisor and I seem to have a lot in common. He comes over to my table to hang out. He mentions that his little girl is sick. “Shitting razor blades,’ is the way he described it. I empathize with him because Baby Dax has been ill.
I went on to explain that Baby Dax is trying to cut his first tooth. The first tooth is always a bitch. I feel bad for him because I know tooth pain. Anyway, Joe added that his daughter is also cutting another tooth. He kind of deduced in his mind that the teething is why his daughter is ill.
Anyway, another woman was sitting close by turned around and said that “An old Black woman” gave her a cure for teething pain. She swore that it worked for her son’s tooth pain. Evidently, you take a chicken egg and place it in a sock that the baby has worn. (Dirty sock) Then the egg-sock is placed in a drawer and forgotten. The egg sock must be forgotten for the magic to work. Anyway, if you forget about the egg-sock, the baby will have no teething pain. After the tooth is cut, when you finally remember the egg-sock, if you crack the eggshell, the egg will be empty. She swears by this cure, and emphatically stated that it works “without fail.’
Of course I had to add, “What if you forgot the egg-sock but then accidentally break the egg? Does your baby’s head explode?” She didn’t appreciate my humor. Anyway, I’ve heard of mountain magic, voodoo, and gypsy curses and hexes. I’ve heard of them. I’ve never practiced any of them…well except for the lucky four-leaf clover or a rabbit’s foot. I think I want to study up on some of these “cures.”
Have you heard of any “magic” cures?
Just Damn!
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I just posted about this very thing not that long ago, and it was the MOST screwed up “home remedy” I’d ever heard about!!!
I choose to rely on my Lucky Rabbi’s Foot.
Well, if you’re a hot smoking babe who craves sex but doesn’t want to get pregnant, I can give you all the cock you want and you’ll never get pregnant. It’s Magic! It’s like hoodoo. That’s the only hex I know.
By the way, is that Gypsy woman Ralph Nader in drag?
Here in the South there are all kinds of home cures but I don’t know about how effective they are. My grandmother swore that drinking 2 teaspoons apple cider vinager and 2 teaspoons of honey in a glass of water 3 times a day kept her Arthritis at bay but it only works as long as you continue drinking it. She was a spry old lady, so it must have done some good
Penicillin is a magic cure for the clap, so I have heard. Does that count?
rub a your warts with a potato, then bury by the light of the full moon, then forget it. Also heard that if that does work, there’s a guy around here that will talk to your warts with/from a bible and that makes the warts go away, but it won’t work if you tell what he said.
Whiskey on the gums of a teething baby will work better than an egg in a sock.
And from my hisapanic friends, one claims if a baby has hiccups put a piece of wet toilet paper between its eyes.
My cure for everything is either sex or garlic. Is there something wrong with me?
Send beer.
…i swear by this and so does my dad…but we do ours different…we hang the egg in my sock on the wall above the babys bed…iv been using the egg for about 2 months and as soon as i hung it up i saw a difference…he has not once sice kept me up at night since either…call it what you will but dont knock it till you try it…
I did this with my son and like someone else mentioned, it wasn’t a drawer. It hung over the threshold of his room. He didn’t have any problems teething. I didn’t do it for my daughter and teething was a nightmare. So I’m crazy enough to believe there’s something to it.
this trick works! call me crazy, but desperate times came to desperate measures. My daughter is now 4, and I still to this DAY tell people about this remedy, and STILL can’t find why it works…. spoooooooky…..