[TheForge] Blacksmith medical cure

[Dan Scheid]

we have a farm worker that takes care of the horses and one day while I was
shoe'n a horse he came and washed his hand in my quench bucket .told me he
grabbed a thistle weeding and that the quench water would take the sting
out.
Said it worked the next day
Dan Scheid

> While demonstraiting this last weekend I had a lady bring her son over and
> ask if he could put his hand in my slack bucket.  Appariently he had worts
> on his hand and she beleaved that the water of a blacksmith's bucket was
the
> cure.  The boy wasn't real hot on the idea but at his mom's insistance he
> finally put his hand in my wooden bucket.  She said that she would let me
> know if it worked.  She said that her borther had been cured that way when
> he was a boy.
>
> I think a red hot poker would probably have had a better chance.
>
> Have any of you heard of other home remidies connected to blacksmithing?
>
> Robert Ehrenberger
> Shelbyville, Mo.
>
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