You may be familiar with some old wives’ tales that are supposed to act as amazing remedies and capable of curing a wide range of ailments. While some of them are rooted in fact and can potentially work, there are some out there that are just crazy and make you fear for the sanity of the public that believe in them.
Take a treatment for toothache that was pretty widely believed back in the Middle Ages in Germany. It was their belief that you could go ahead and cure a toothache by kissing a donkey. Yep, giving a donkey a peck on its lips could somehow take away the pain that you felt from the toothache.
Of course, this is impossible, but it does then make you wonder about the theory that supported this idea to begin with. One potential answer is that it was hoped the donkey would be so thrown by the kiss that it would kick the individual in the face and knock the tooth out. To be honest, this is quite an extreme way of trying to deal with a toothache, and it is certainly not recommended.