A Saturday prayer for temre

Rituals for temre: in Northwest Anatolia there are countless rituals for “temre”, a skin disease caused by fungi. In one village a prayer is written over the patch with a heather twig sharpened like a pen; in other villages the edge of the patch is traced with a hot needle, rock salt or a barley stalk. In some places this is done only on Saturdays.

Source: Erdem Yeşilada, Ekrem Sezik, Gisho Honda ve ark., “Traditional medicine in Turkey IX: Folk medicine in north-west Anatolia”, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 64, 1999 (Yeşilada et al., J Ethnopharmacol, 1999). This is a folk record, not a treatment recommendation.