The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-10-04
CHARMS.
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 Old charms dealt with every possible relation of life. Thus: @Eat hare i. you want to look handsome for nine da, $ after.' :" Put hens heart on your wife $ lett s'de while she is asleep and she'll tell all her secrets" Swallow a mole's heart, fresh and palpitating, and you'll at once be expert in divina,ion.n l" c ,ar- tan argues yield not to ordinary meolcine :; SO take of the dust in which a hawk has been rolling, tie ii up in a bi, Of white cloth with red thread and wear it; CT else knock ort the right eye of a live lizard and wear it wrapped in a bit of goat skin.' These are from Pliny. who also teaches that all medical herbs should be gathered, pickpocket fashion, with the right hand poked through the left arm- hole of the tunic you ought to be clad m white robe, with naked, clean -washsd d feet, and to have just offered au obla,icn of bread and wine. Worms cut of goats brain are good for epilepsy; so IS rivet from wrecked ship, if you inser, in 1t the bone cut out of living stap's heart and then make it into a brooch. If yor see a shooting star, count quickly. tor you'll be free from inflammation as many years as you can count numbers while ihe star remains in view. To cure faract in the eye, catch fox, cut ou, his tongue. let him go, dry his tongue and tie 1t up in a red rag, and hang around the mans neck. When something has got into your eye, rub it with five fingers of the same side as the eye affected, say ing thrice: "Tetunc resonco brepam gresso,' and spit thrice If you would escape stomach ache, take care tha, you always put on your left shoe first. and wear on gold leafthe letters. MORA written three times. For toothache, sa, Argidam margidam sturgidam thrice over. and spit in frogs mouth, so.emnly desiring him to take the toothache. If any one has swallowed bone, gently touch the mouth with ring finger and thumb, and say nine times, kiss the Gorpon's mouth" This is sovereign; the great Galen himself testi6es to the value of charms in such case. These are from Marce,!cs Empi icus (the quack, as he well deserves to be calied) who fiourished about $50 A. D. But this, from Albertus Magnus, IS the most wonderful of al; Gather in August the herb heliotropion. wrap 1t in hay-leaf with a wolfs tooth, and 1t will, if placed under the pillow. show man who has been robbed, where are h:s goods, and who has taken them also, It placed Tn church, it will keep hxed to their places ali the women pres ent who have broken their mari age-yow ;" This last is most tried and most true, Lay a wolf's head under the pillow, and the unhealthy shall sleep sweetly. His flesh well dressed and sodden, given to to eat, cureth devils sickness, and an i'll l right. For disease of joints, take a live | fox, and seethe him till the bones alone | be left, adding oil during the see,hing. and use this as a bath right often. Let those who suffer from apparitions eat lions flesh; they will not, after that, sui | fer any apparition. But the king of beasts IS condescending: For sore ears take lions suet, melt in a dish, and | drop into the ear ;' which makes US think | either that lions were much more picnti- fui, or sore ears much more dis,ressinp. than now-a-days. Fancy in the Chepe, the announcement. "A fat lion killed last week; of his suet little left. To prevent disappointment, apply carly" For tear of mad hound, take the worms which be under mad hounds tongue, snip them away, lead them round about a hg-tree, give them to him who hath been rent; he will soon be healed or this: hounds head burnt to ashes, and applied on the wound, casteih ou, all the venom and the foulness, and healeth the man. And so goats grease cures dropsy dogs milk helps children through their gall of a wiid-duck mingled ith feld-bees' honey, makes the eyes orighf; hare's heel carried in the pocke, keeps away stomach-ache; a hare's sr,.is n wine cures drowsiness burn, harts. aorn in hot water kills worms and so on.