Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-09-11
CHARMS.
FabIeB, Old and New, that go 10
show TO what an ldiOtic Race we
HeIOmR.

show to what an ldiOtic Race we
Belong.
From All the Year Round.l
Old charms dealt with every possible
relation Of life. Thus: Eat hare il
you want to look handsome for nine
days after" "Put hens heart on your
wife's left side while she is asleep, and
she'll tell her secrets. Swallow a
mole's heart, fresh and palpitating, and
you Il at once be expert in devination."
"Quartan agues yield not to ordinary
medicine; so take of the dust in which
a hawk has been rolling, tie it up in a
bit Of white cloth with red thread and
wear it; or else knock out the right eye
of live lizard, and wear it wrapped in
bit Of goat skin" These are from
Pliny, who also teaches that all medl'
cinal herbs should be gathered, pick
pocket fashion, with the right arm poked
through the left arm-hole of the tunic;
you ought to be clad in a white robe,
with naked, clean-washed feet, and to
have just offered an oblation of bread
and wine. Worms out of goats brain
are good for epilepsy; so is rivit from
wrecked ship, if you insert in it the
bone cut out of living stag heart, and
then make it into brooch. If you see a
shooting star, count quickly, for you IL
be free from Inflammation as many
years as you can count numbers while
the star remains in view. To cure cat
aract in the eye, catch fox, cut out his
tongue, let him go, dry his tongue, and
tie it up in red rag and hang it around
the man neck. When something has got
into your eyes, rub it with five fingers of
the same side as the eye affected, say
ing thrice, "Tetunc resonco bregam
gresso," and spit thrice. If you would
escape stomaoh-aehe, take care that you
put on your left shoe first, and wear on
gold leaf the letters L. M . X l a,
written three times. For tooth ache,
say "Argidam margidam sturgidam
thrice over, and spit in frogs mouth,
solemnly desiring him to take the tooth
ache. If any one has swallowed
bone, gently touch the mouth with ring
finger and thumb, and say nine times,
:" | kiss the Gorgon's mouth. This IS
sovereign; the great Galen himself testI-
6es to the value OF charms in such a
case. These are from Marcellus Empi-
ricus (the Quack, as he well deserves to
be called, who aourished about $50
A. D. But this from Albertus Magnus
is the most wonderful of all; Gather in
August the herb heliotropion, wrap i in
a bay leaf with VOLTS tooth, and 1t
will. if placed under the pillow, show a
man who.has been robbed where are his
goods and who has taken them;
and II placed in a church it will keep
fred to their places all the women who
have broken their marriage VOW, This
last is most tried and most true. -,
Lay q VOLTS bead under the pillow,
and the unhealthy shall sleep sweetly
His flesh well dressed and sodden, given
To eat cureth devils sickness, and an
IN sipLt. For disease of joints, take a
live fox and seethe him till the bones
alone are left, adding oil during the
Seething, and use this as Q bath right
often. Let those who suffer fro@ ap'
marathon eat lions flesh; they will not,
after that, suffer any apparation. Bqt
the king of beasts is condescehding;
&" For sore ears take EoG's 6 suet, melt IN
a dish, and drop into the esr, which
makes us think either that lions were
much more plentiful, or sore ears much
more distressing than nowadays. Fancy
in "the Cheyep the announcement:
"a fat lion killed iast geek; of his suet
little left. To prevent disappointment,
apply early:
Ror tear of mad hound, take the worms
which be under a mad hounds tongue,
snip them away. lead them around about
a fig tree, give him that hath been rent;
he will soon be healed or thnsi 4
hounds head burnt to ashes, and applied
on the wound, casteth out all the venom
and the fouIness and healeth the man.
And so goats grease cures dropsy;
dogs milk helps children through their
testhing; gall Of wild buck mingled
with field bees honey, nskes the eyes
h. tight; . hare's heel carried ip the
noe, yet keeps away stomacl-achej >
hSre's brain in wine cures drowsinessi
b"rnt % bartshorn IN hot water kills
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