History Class - SAXONS

-SMASHING SAXONS-

- About The Smashing Saxons -

Hello, my name is Owen Jeon in class 14. Do you know about Saxons? Saxons lived with Viking. Then, do you know about the curing ways of Saxons? The curing ways of Saxons were so various. Do you know how they cured the spider bite, or the dog bite? It is very interesting to cure those things. I will tell you about the way how they cured some diseases or the blooding.

-Curing Way When They Had Diseases of Blooding-

(You shouldn’t follow these cures!!!)

1. Poisonous spider bite: - Make three cuts into the flesh near the bite.

                         - Let the blood run into a hazel-wood spoon.

                         - Throw the spoon and blood over the road.

 Isn’t it dirty way to cure the poisonous spider bite?

2. Dog bite: - Burn the jaw of pig to ashes.

            - Sprinkle the ashes on to the wound.

 We have to be careful to be bitten by the pig jaw!

  3. Bleeding Wound: - Take a soot from a pot, and rub it into a powder and                            

                    sprinkle it on the wound.

 If it doesn’t work… - Take fresh horse droppings, bake them dry and rub

                    them into a powder.

               - Put the powder on to a thick linen cloth and bind it on             

                    to the wound overnight.

4. Thick hair(?) – To thin their hair…

              - Burn a swallow to ashes and rub the ashes into the scalp.

             - To completely stop hair growing…

             - Rub ant eggs into the scalp!

It is disgusting, isn’t it? How can make thin hair with this way?!

5. Headache: - Take swallow-chicks and cut them open.

             - Look for little stones in their stomachs, sew them into a bag                              

             on the head. This is also a cure for people plagued by goblins.

Cute cures for Saxons, not for us!!!

1.   For a toothache: Boil a holly leaf, lay it on a saucer of water,

raise to the mouth and yawn.

2.   For a swelling on the eyelid: Take a knife and cut out the

                                affected part.

3.   For a snake bite: Take a piece of wood from a tree grown in

                Heaven and press it to the wound.

4.   For madness: Take the skin of a dolphin, make it into a whip

             and beat yourself with it. 

5.   For a sick horse: Cut the sign of the cross in the forehead

                back and limbs, pierce the left ear, then

                beat with a stick.

6.   For a sick girl: Cut a vein and let out some blood.

              (This must be done at night.)

In conclusion, there were a lot of curing ways for Saxons. However, do you think those ways were not good way? Yeah, it is, but those ways would be right ways in that time.