This post comes with a recent post that I did on the spirituality of healing and healers. I picked it up from the Appalachia Americans Facebook page but I believe that it is making the rounds.
Some Appalachian Folklore:
•Placing bread and coffee under a house will protect it from ghosts.
•Two people who part ways on a bridge will never meet again.
•A broom left outside on a Saturday night will likely disappear as it will become bewitched and follow other brooms to a witches coven.
•The last person in a community to die near the end of the year will become a symbol of death and will be seen by those in the community's who are fated to die in the coming year.
•Never give away or sell a cradle when your child outgrows it, or you will surely have another chid soon.
•Suicides, murderers, and other criminals were commonly buried at a crossroads. That way if the spirit rose from the grave it would be confused, and unable to find its way back home.
•Drinking a tincture made of dandelion was believed to help cure madness, and restore color to the hair that had turned white.
•To cure an infant or child's earache the mother must pour a small vial of her urine into the affected ear.
•Never allow the front door and the back door to be open at the same time. This invites malevolent spirits to enter the home.
•Doors and windows should be left open during a thunder and lightning storm to let the lightening out incase the house is struck during the storm.
(Shared from the Mountain Times. Photo via Pinterest)
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