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close it in virgin wax under thy up
ward clothes the space of four Fridays,
and keep it in thy mouth, sub linga tua,
then kisse thy love, ct ipsa tie anrabit."-
Or another, more practicable: Say
unto woman in her left care, 'Veneto,
melchy, mobelcy-follow me. Fiat"
We should think so. The next receipt
is quaint and pleasing "Take redd
frog and bury him in hillock. Then
take the bones and lay them on a tile
stone redd hot. till he lift over himself
on the other side. So let it lie till she
is SO likewise. Then make powder
thereof, and strew them on her clothes
whom thon lowest. and she shall love
thee" There is little confusion oi
genders in the preceding, but we must
not be too particular. Here is another
of the same class: "Take bait. [nc
easy matterl and let him bloud with 4
glass or flint, and with the bloud wright
the letter "D,n and touch man OF
woman, and they will followstiee E6e
trial. touch dogg, and he will folbw
thee"
We are travelling little ont O. the
record, but the transition from the
material to the marvellous is so uBus-
piciously set forth in the Ayscdgh
Manuscript that we cannot rest a
few more illustrations of ancestralwls
dom. The following ought TO be 'orth
something. especially if one couldlame
the winner of the Derby by meanof it:
"a perfume made of hempseede and
of the plea-wort, and of violette roots,
and parslie, and smallage, mahth to
see things to come, and is available for
prophesie."
A policeman or thief 1--WE bg par
don Of the former for the juxtapsition)
would find this useful: "To goeinvisi-
BILE. Take piece of deal, audwright
thereon, Athatos, Stiros, Thea, Pan
tocraton,' and put it under pur left
foote" In your boot, of cours.
The usual receipt for seeing lights is
to put a shilling in your poc,et. but
the Ayscough Manuscript recommends
other methods "To see strangesightS
Make an oyntment of the gale of
bulle and the fat of a henne, anC anoynt
your eyes" Again: Take ans egees
and the bloud of whyte heme. and
anoynt your face Herewith, md you
shall see wonders" Another Take
the fatt of black catt and tie fatt of
a white henne, and anoynt ynr eyes,
and you shall see marvellous hings.-
If you would have any othe, TO see
them. let him set his foot ugnn yours
and he shall see them a
Cornelius Agrippa, nams held in
great veneration by our ancestors, has
written great deal to the sane pur-
pose as the above. One or two extracts
from his Occult Philosophy viii show
what sort Of wisdom he encouraged -
aThe stringes of an instrument made
OF the quits OF a wolfe, gl3 being
strained upon a harp or lutte with the
stringeS made of a sleeps quits. will
make no harmonyn Who even sang to
the instrument. we should ihinE. would
naturally howl. Cornelius Agrippa
must have been fond of discord Here
is receipt for producing it. We recon-
mend it 10 the ProtectionistS al the ap-
preaching general election "A stone
that is bit by mad dog, if it be put in
drinke, hath power to cause discord"
But the next is perhaps the pleasant
est receipt we ever met with; " A cup
of liquor being made with the brains of
bear, and drunke out of the skull,
shall make him that drinks it be as
fierce aud raging as bear, and thinke
himself to be changed into bear, and
Judge all things to be bears; aud so
continue in that madness nntil the
force of the draught shall be dissolved,
no other distemper being all this while
perceived in him." The urso-mania
appears to us to be distemper enough
for the time. We believe in this re.
ceipt for We have seen people who
have taken "a cup of liquor too much
behave themselves exactly like bears
We wish we had as much faith in
the last extract we shall make from
the Ayscough Manuscript, which in
wolves a secret that we understand
many people have been anxious TO dis
cover for some time, namely: "To
make money spent to return. Make a
purse of mole skinne, and write ia it,
Belzebub, Zetus, Caiaphas,' with the
bloud of bait And lay a good pennie
in the high waie for the space of three
days and three nights, and after put ii
in the purse. And when you will give
ii say Wade ct vine'a