{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/celt/ali/ali136.htm","path":"neu/celt/ali/ali136.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/ali/ali136.htm","text":"For Toothache\nGo to a graveyard; kneel upon any grave; say three paters and three ayes for the soul of the dead lying beneath. Then take a handful of grass from the grave, chew it well, casting forth each bite without swallowing any portion. After this process the sufferer, were he to live a hundred years, will never have toothache any more.\nAnother.\nThe patient must vow a vow to God, the Virgin, and the new moon, never to comb his hair on a Friday, in remembrance of relief should he be cured; and whenever or wherever he first sees the moon he must fall on his knees and say five prayers in gratitude for the cure, even if crossing a river at the time.\nCarry in your pocket the two jaw-bones of a haddock; for ever since the miracle of the loaves and fishes these bones are an infallible remedy against toothache, and the older they are the better, as nearer the time of the miracle.\nAlso this charm is to be sewn on the clothes--\n\"As Peter sat on a marble stone,\nThe Lord came to him all alone,\n'Peter, Peter, what makes you shake?'\n'O Lord and Master, it is the toothache.'\nThen Christ said, 'Take these for My sake,\nAnd never more you'll have toothache.'\"\nTo avoid toothache never shave on a Sunday.","title":"Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland: For Toothache","type":"page"}