This is a children’s book that was read to us in class during the mid-1970s, and I think it was more contemporary. It was humorous tales of mountain life. I believe it was from the perspective of a young boy. It is a collection of humorous short stories. In one of them, one of the characters gets his toe gets lopped off by an axe. The toe is buried in a tobacco tin. The amputee is tormented by burning sensation where the toe used to be. He believes it is burning because the tobacco is irritating the severed toe, so the boy has to find the tin, rinse the tobacco off. They do, and coincidentally (?) his pain is relieved.

It might have been either a Scholastic or Weekly Reader children’s book, from either the late ‘60s or early ‘70s; but I might have just stumbled onto it in a random store.
I think it was a small, thin, hardcover book with a primarily medium-blue cover.
I think it had a relatively simple title, like Magic Spells and Potions, or something like that, but I can’t remember.

What I do remember clearly is my favorite spell in the book, which involved going into the forest and finding fern “seeds” with which to acquire the power of invisibility.