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5. Miscellaneous Customs Among the Turkish People.—Medication. They do not use many medicines, and those which are used are such things as the blood of a black hen, the skin of a black cat, certain animals' manure, roasted snake, the mixture of seven flowers from seven fields, the milk of a woman who nurses a girl baby, the fat of the bear, the milk of a bird, the rain-water that falls in the month of April, and other things that cannot be found easily, if at all. They believe in supernatural power of relics, reading from Koran, touch of a dervish, favorable words of an idiot, the tombs of certain saints, waters by a witch, or rags tied to certain bushes.