1134. Cut hair in the new moon, bury it in earth near a running brook, and it will make the new hair grow long and abundant. _Maine._ 1135. Clean the spring or well during the increase of the moon, so the water will _run in_ and fill the spring after it is emptied. _Mansfield, O._ 1136. Make soap in the new of the moon. _Talladega, Ala._ 1137. Make soap in the full of the moon. _Prince Edward Island._ 1138. Do not marry or move during the wane (decrease) of the moon. _Mansfield, O._ 1139. To take away warts, steal a dish-rag out of the house, without anybody's knowledge, and go out of doors in the first of the moon, rub the dish-rag on the wart, and say: "Here, new moon! take away my new wart." Then throw the dish-rag away where no one can find it, and tell nobody. _Talladega, Ala._ 1140. To cure warts, go out of doors when the moon is new, take up a handful of mud, looking at the moon all the time, and rub on the wart. _Holderness, N.H._ CHAPTER XVI. 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._