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folk medicine the treatment of illness by people without formal medical training, based on common sense, tradition, or superstition, and often using herbs and other natural remedies.
old wives' tale a superstition, usu. embodied as a folk tale or bit of folk wisdom.
Saint Agnes's Eve the night of January 20, on which, according to an old superstition, a woman might have a vision of her future husband.