862. You will not cry in peeling onions if you hold a bit of bread in the mouth. _Prince Edward Island, Cambridge, Mass. (Irish)._ Or, put the bread on the point of the knife. _Maine._ 863. You will not cry in peeling onions if you let the faucet be open so the water will run. _Cambridge, Mass._ 864. To bring up the palate when it drops and tickles the root of the tongue, take a wisp of hair on the crown of the head and tie it up very tight. _Chestertown, Md._ 865. Rubbing a sty with a gold ring will cure it. _Prince Edward Island._ 866. Cure a sty by rubbing it with a wedding ring. _General._ 867. A sty in the eye is cured by rubbing a gold ring on the eye three mornings with a sign of the cross. _Labrador._ 868. A pebble in the mouth will ease thirst. _Brookline, Mass._ 869. A sore throat may be cured by binding about the neck on going to bed one of the stockings which the patient has been wearing (no other one will do). _Somewhat general in the United States._ 870. To cure the sore throat, take three handfuls of ashes with your left hand, put into your left stocking, and bind it around your throat. _Mattawamkeag, Me._ 871. To burn the "little nerve" in the ear will cure the toothache forever. _Northern Ohio._ CHAPTER XIII. WARTS. CAUSES. 872. Blood from the warts on a cow's bag coming in contact with a person's hands will cause warts to appear on them. _New Hampshire._ 873. Blood from a wart, especially if applied to the tongue, will cause warts to appear. _New Jersey._ 874. To count another person's warts will cause them to appear on you. _General in the United States._ 875. If one counts stars while lying on his back, he will have as many warts as he has counted stars. _New York and Trenton, N.J._ 876. To drink the water in which eggs have been boiled will cause internal warts. _Miramichi, N.B._ 877. Washing the hands in water in which eggs have been boiled causes warts to grow. _Cape Breton and Eastern Massachusetts._ 878. Warts are caused by touching the white of an egg. _Salem, Mass._ 879. To touch the jelly-fish will cause warts. _Halifax, N.S., and parts of Eastern New England._ 880. Touching the excrescences that sometimes appear on trees will cause warts on the hand of the person who touches them. _New England._ 881. The handling of large species of toadstool, sometimes popularly called "wart-toadstool," will cause warts to grow on the part of the hand coming in contact with it. _New Hampshire._ 882. The handling of a toad will cause warts to appear. _General in the United States._ CURES. 883. To cure a wart, grease it with stolen bacon, and hide the latter.