- Seeing a lone fox is good luck.
- Seeing several foxes together is bad luck.
- Seeing a fox near your home is an omen of disaster and death.
- Being bitten by a fox is fatal, you will not live more than seven years.
- Nailing a severed fox’s head to a barn door keeps witches away.
Cures:
- Laying a fox’s tongue on the skin draws out deeply embedded thorns.
- A fox’s tongue applied to the eyes will cure cataracts.
- Eating or carrying a fox’s tongue helps a person overcome shyness.
- Carrying a fox’s tooth helps treat an inflamed leg.
- Eating a fox’s liver cures coughs.
- Drinking milk sipped by a fox cures whooping cough.
- Drinking the ashes of a fox in wine cures respiratory problems and benefits the liver.
- Rubbing fox fat into the scalp cures baldness.
