Toad doctors

Toad doctors

Toad doctors were practitioners of a specific tradition of medicinal folk magic, operating in Western England until the end of the 19th Century. Their main concern was healing scrofula, though they were also believed to cure other ailments including those resulting from witchcraft. They cured the sick by placing the leg of a live toad in a muslin bag and hanging it around the sick person's neck.

References

*Owen Davies, "Cunning Folk".


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