A list of 39 words by sionnach.
- sore eyes appears on 1 other list
- nightmares appears on 3 other lists
- stuttering appears on 2 other lists
- oversleeping appears on just this list
- leg diseases appears on just this list
- sick chickens appears on 2 other lists
- gambling addiction appears on just this list
- carbuncles appears on just this list
- bad knees, cattle diseases, and bubonic plague appears on 1 other list
- leg diseases, rats, and mice appears on 3 other lists
- eye diseases, dysentery, and "hemorrhages in general" appears on just this list
- gravel in the urine appears on just this list
- hernias appears on just this list
- Belgians with hernias appears on 1 other list
- fever, inflammation, kidney disease, and temptations of the devil appears on just this list
- lameness, insanity, sterility, and epilepsy appears on just this list
- ruptures appears on just this list
- storms, hail, toothaches, and sudden death appears on just this list
- fever and snakes appears on just this list
- hail and snakes appears on just this list
- rabies and demonic possession appears on just this list
- worms appears on 14 other lists
- protection from fools, clowns, and idiots appears on 3 other lists
- invoked against whirlpools appears on just this list
- invoked against flies (and their maggots) appears on just this list
- protection from freethinkers appears on just this list
- protection from perjurers appears on just this list
- diseased cattle appears on 1 other list
- mice appears on 12 other lists
- sick horses appears on just this list
- disappointing children appears on just this list
- children who are late learning to walk appears on just this list
- backward children appears on just this list
- convulsive children appears on just this list
- eruptions of Mount Etna appears on 1 other list
- dying alone appears on just this list
- glandular disorders appears on just this list
- in-law problems appears on just this list
- losing keys appears on just this list
chained_bear May God and the saints (and the Virgin Mary, as an extra helper) preserve you, sionnach. Feb 1, 2011
bilby Surely Saint Valentine can cure afflictions like cash flow problems in the cut flower industry. Feb 1, 2011
sionnach Chained_bear expressed the hope this list would be comprehensive. A little research shows this to be a forlorn hope indeed. But for anyone interested in tracking down complaints not listed here there is the mother of all resources:
Your extended family in heaven and what they can do for you. Jan 28, 2011
sionnach From Wikipedia:
The Fourteen Holy Helpers are a group of saints venerated together in Roman Catholicism because their intercession is believed to be particularly effective, especially against various diseases. This group of Nothelfer ("helpers in need") originated in the 14th century at first in the Rhineland, largely as a result of the epidemic (probably of bubonic plague) that became known as the Black Death.
The basic 14 are:
Saints-
Agathius, Barbara, Blaise, Catherine of Alexandria, Christopher, Cyriacus, Denis, Erasmus, Eustace, George, Giles, Margaret of Antioch, Pantaleon, Vitus (Guy)
For one or another of the saints in the original set, Anthony the Anchorite, Leonard of Noblac, Nicholas, Sebastian, Oswald the King, Pope Sixtus II, Apollonia, Dorothea of Caesarea, Wolfgang of Regensburg, or Roch were sometimes substituted. In France an extra "helper" is added, the Virgin Mary. Jan 28, 2011
reesetee This goes under "Lists I've Always Promised Myself I'd Create, But I'm Probably Too Late." Thank heavens for sionnach. :-) Jan 28, 2011
chained_bear At last!!! At last, someone made me the perfect list!! Oh please let it be comprehensive, please, please, please... Jan 28, 2011
ruzuzu I think each of these would make a good name for a band. Jan 28, 2011