In his piece on rushes and rush-bearing, Chambers gives a Devonshire charm for thrush in a baby. Three rushes were taken from any running stream and passed one at a time through the child’s mouth, then plunged back into the stream. As the current carried them away, so the thrush was to leave the child.
The rush charm for thrush
Printed under 13 April · Devon
Lore and belief
as the current bears them away, so will the thrush depart from the child
From Chambers's Book of Days, vol. 1, p. 505.
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