Binding Wounds

Pow-Wows, or Long Lost Friend, by John George Hoffman, [1820], at sacred-texts.com

HOW TO TIE UP AND HEAL WOUNDS

Speak the following: "This wound I tie up in three

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names, in order that thou mayest take from it heat, water, falling off of the flesh, swelling, and all that may be injurious about the swelling, in the name of the Holy Trinity." This must be spoken three times; then draw a string three times around the wound, and put it under the corner of the house toward the East, and say: "I put thee there, + + + in order that thou mayest take unto thyself the gathered water, the swelling, and the running, and all that may be injurious about the wound. Amen." Then repeat the Lord's Prayer and some good hymn.