I recently came across this in Alfreds Dzilums, “Zeme Dzivo” about an elderly grandfather( fictitious) who practiced medicinal folk healing:  “Cilveku kaitem vins deva lidzi zilu papiru, aprakstitu ar baltu kritu, to vajadzeja aptit ap vainu.  Tikai vins pazina noslepumainas rakstu zimes.”  Which roughly translates about this grandfather giving people with certain ailments a piece of blue paper inscribed with symbols, writings(?) in white chalk—the secret meaning of which he only knew—to wrap around the afflicted area.

My great grandfather in Latvia was an herbalist, into ancient healing arts; he lived to be 102 years old, never saw a doctor and had all his own, natural teeth intact when he died.  We often talk about and attribute this to the natural foods/diet of that time, but…I have heard of this blue paper, white chalk for healing as recently as a few years back in Latvia.  Anyone know more about this—what this blue paper is, where you would get it?

Irena

I remember meeting two such healers. One was a relative from Latgale.
Oma said that he was “Old Believer”, but out of the geezers earshot
said to take this spiel in easy.
The dude was writing notes in strange script and sticking them
all over. Anyway, the little notes were on strips of
birchbark and he used a twig for a scribe.
  The other guy was a nomad and wrote his strange messages
on small squares of note paper. Whatever he did, he got to
mooch a couple of days lodging from us…........before
dissappearing down the road.

Sounds interesting!  A good bit of healing comes from ‘the power of positive thinking’ and I suspect that’s at work here.