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Toad doctors

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Toad doctors were practitioners of a specific tradition of medicinal folk magic, operating in western England until the end of the 19th century. Their main concern was healing scrofula (then called "the King's Evil," a skin disease), though they were also believed to cure other ailments including those resulting from witchcraft. They cured the sick by placing a live toad, or the leg of one, in a muslin bag and hanging it around the sick person's neck.^[1]^[2]

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1. ^{{cite journal | last = March | first = H. Colley | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Miscellanea: Dorset Folklore collected in 1879 | journal = Folklore | volume = 10 | issue = | pages = 478–89 | publisher = Folklore Society | location = | year = 1899 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=iE0KAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA479 | issn = | doi = 10.1080/0015587x.1899.9720514 | id = | accessdate = 2009-07-24}} p. 479-80.
2. ^{{cite book | last = Black | first = William George | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Folk Medicine: A Chapter in the History of Culture | publisher = Folklore Society | year = 1878 | location = | pages = 61–62 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=GkcKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA61 | doi = | id = | isbn = }}

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