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