Foxes

• 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.