You betcha it's a classic! Just like Vance Randolph's stuff or Stith-Thompson. And there's a new edition coming out next year, I think on CD-ROM.

I still wonder how much was leg-pulling and how much was actual belief.

2497. A birthmark can be removed by rubbing it with a duck's foot.
2672. If the brains of a black hen are rubbed over a baby's gums, it will teethe easily.
2704. To keep a baby from becoming liver-grown, every morning give it a good shaking, letting its head hand downward.
2732. You will make a baby cross, if you iron its diapers.
3276. Wipe your nose on a teatowel for luck.
3472. Burn an old shoe for luck.
3474. It causes bad luck to burn old shoes.
3489. Put sugar in your shoes to coax your shirt tail down.
3925. Let urine remain in a pot overnight and next morning remove the scum. Bathe your face in the clear liquid to get rid of blackheads.
3984. To remove a corn, sprinkle it with gunpowder; then light the gunpowder and let it burn up completely.
4250. Let a toad wet on your wart to cure it.
6886. Kissing a girl on the nose will cause trouble.
7763. Eat burnt bread and you will be able to whistle.
8955. If the first thing you see when entering the woods is an old sunken boat on land, you will catch a lot of opossums.
9070. You can take a black cat bone out of the rectum and wear it and become invisible.
10609. A girl that uses powder and paint is very poison.