Good day, true believers! This is Lynn Haman at Success Unlimited, searching for dirty, nasty jobs every day that will make you and I respect our jobs just a little bit more. Haman’s Highlights brings you “Just Another Reason to Love Your Job”. Just a couple of months ago we started our incredible quest for the top ten strangest jobs in history:
#2 Toad Doctor
According to Wikipedia, 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. Needless to say this job would also require growing or gathering up a large collection of toads, and in the case of doctors who used just the leg, chopping their legs off to give to their patients.
Tune in next month to find out the #1 strangest job in history. Until then, this is Lynn Haman, saying good day and a nice tomorrow.
~Lynn~
#2 Toad Doctor
According to Wikipedia, 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. Needless to say this job would also require growing or gathering up a large collection of toads, and in the case of doctors who used just the leg, chopping their legs off to give to their patients.
Tune in next month to find out the #1 strangest job in history. Until then, this is Lynn Haman, saying good day and a nice tomorrow.
~Lynn~
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