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._
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._
1158. To raise an umbrella in a house is a sign of an approaching death. _Pennsylvania; somewhat general in the United States._
1159. To open an umbrella in the house is a sign of ill luck. An action of this sort seriously disturbed a friend of the informant, an American girl of good family. "I would never dare to do that," she said. _Niagara Falls, Ont._