| Do you want to get rid of freckles instantly? | | | | you just read this now and realized it's already |
| Then follow what the Irish recommend: anoint | | | | September, go to a graveyard and wash your |
| your face with the blood of a bull or hare and | | | | face in any urn you find there. The third option is |
| your problems are over! | | | | a variation of the first - wash with dew from |
| Too hard for you? Check out this preventive | | | | wheat before sunrise. |
| measure from Filipinos: don't eat barbecue or any | | | | If wheat is a problem, young lilies of the valley |
| fried foods on Good Friday so you won't have | | | | gathered before sunrise will work just as well. Rub |
| freckles. | | | | them on your face to take away freckles. An |
| While doctors say that freckles are harmless and | | | | easier way is to count your freckles, wrap the |
| don't signify a health problem, a lot of people don't | | | | same number of pebbles in a piece of paper, and |
| want them. That's understandable since these | | | | throw it away. Whoever picks up that paper will |
| pigment cells can make you look ugly and old. | | | | inherit your freckles! |
| Perhaps that's the reason why our forefathers | | | | The last advice is reincarnated in The All New |
| tried desperately to eliminate them. No wonder | | | | Book of Lists for Kids by Sandra and Harry |
| they came up with these silly superstitious beliefs | | | | Choron. An old folk cure suggests rubbing your |
| about freckles - some of which survive to this | | | | freckles with a penny and throwing it away. The |
| day. | | | | poor soul who finds the penny will get your |
| The Encyclopedia of Superstitions, Folklore, and | | | | freckles! Or mix buttermilk with lemon juice and |
| the Occult Sciences of the World published in 1903 | | | | apply this to your face together with a live frog! |
| offers a fascinating glimpse into early man's | | | | Ovid, the most widely read Roman poet, |
| obsession with freckles and his desire to remove | | | | recommended the Pharian wash for freckles. This |
| them. It says that freckles around the eyes | | | | exotic scrub was made of crocodile entrails and |
| means you'll drown to death! | | | | was guaranteed to whiten the skin. The Germans, |
| To lift this curse (and remove freckles), the | | | | on the other hand, believed that rainwater found |
| author provides several options. You can wash in | | | | on tombstones is a great freckle fighter. |
| the dew before sunrise on the first of May. If | | | | |