Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-09-13
Charms.
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ola charms dealt with every possible
relation Of life. Thus Eat hare if
Won want TO look handsome for nine
laws after" "Put hens heart on
your wife's left side while she is asleep.
aud she'll tell all her secrets. q" "Swal-
low a moles heart, fresh and palpita-
ting. and y,u'll at once be expert in
divination." "Quartan agnes yield not
to ordinary medicine SO take of the
dust in which hawk has been rolling,
tie it up IN bit of white cloth with
red thread, and wear it ; or else knock
out the eve of live lizard, and wear it
wrapped in bit of goat-skin. These
are from Pliny, who also teaches that all
medicinal herbs should be gathered.
pick pocket fashion, with the right hand
poked through the left armhOle of the
tunic you ought to be clad in a white
robe, with naked, clean-washed feet,
and to have inst offered an OblatiOn of
bread and wine. Worms out of a goats
brain are good for epilepsy; so is rivet
taken from a wrecked ship, inserted in
the bone cut of a living stag's heart.
and then make it into a brooch. If yOu
see a shooting star, count very quickly,
for You'll be free from inflammation as
many years as you can count numbers
while the star remains in view. To
cure cataract in the eye, catch fox,
cut out his tongue, let him go, dry his
tongue, and tie it up in red rag, and
hang round the mans neck. When
something has got into your eve, rub it
with five fingers of the same side as the
eye affected, saying thrice "Tetunc
resonco bregam gresso," and spit thrice.
If you would escape stomach-ache, take
care that you always put on your left
shoe first, and wear on gold-leaf the
letters l. = NJ O r A, written three
times. For tOothache, say "Argidam
margidam sturgidam" thrice over, and
spit in frogs mouth, solemnly desir-
ing him to take the toothache. If any
one has swallowed bone, gently touch
the mouth with ring finger and thumb,
and say nine times Il kiss the Cor
CONS mouth" This is sovereign the
great Galen himself testifies to the value
of charms in such a case. These are
from Marcellus Empiricus dhe quack,
as he we'll deserves to be called who
fiourished about $50 A. ID. But this,
from Albertus magnus, is the most won
derful of all A.: Gather in August the
herb heliotropion, wrap it in bay leaf
with VOLTS tooth, and it will, if placed
under the pillow, show a man who has
been robbed, where are his goods, and
who has taken them also, if placed in
a church, it will keep fixed in their
places all the women present who have
broken their marriage. vow. "This last
is most tried and most true" La, a
VOLTS head under the pillow, and the
shall sleep sweetly. His
flesh well dressed and sodden, given TO
eat, cureth devils sickness, and an i'll
sight. For disease of joints, take live
fox. and seethe him till the bones alone
be left, adding oil during the seething,
and use this as bath right often. Let
those who suffer from apparitions eat
lions flesh; they will not, after that,
suffer any apparition. But the king of
beasts is condescending "For sore
ears take lions suet, melt in dish. and
drop into the ear" which makes MS
think either that lions were much more
plentiful, or sore ears much more dis
fressing, than nowadays. Fancy in
I" the Chepe" the announcement "a
lat lion killed last week of his suet a
little left. To prevent disappointment.
apply early" For tear of mad hound,
take the worms which be nnder mad
hounds tongue, snip them away, lead
them round about fig tree, give them
to him who hath been rent; he will
soon be healed; or this: IA hounds
head burnt to ashes, and applied on the
casteth out all the venom and
the foulness and healeth the man. And
so goats grease cures dropsy; dogs
milk helps children through their teeth
ing; gall of wild buck mingled with
field bees honey makes the eyes bright;
a hare's heel carried in the pocket keeps
away stomach-ache hare's brain in
wine cures drowsiness; burnt hartshorn
in hot water kills worms; and SO on
Al the Year ROund.