The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1897-05-06
81 Per sTITIoNs.

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I Candies na lamp s have played an
iznportant part in religious worship
and in ma gic incantations TO vow
4 candle to the shtine Of 4 favorite.
saint is as, htfnoi a practice as III
was in tie centuries of long ago,
sandthe old crones who sell ex Foto
tapers of all sizes and at all prices
are still found clustered outside for
dgh church doors and near favorite
places of pilgrimage. Great festi-
walls are still marked in places of
worship by additional illumination
of the altar and its vicinity, and in
some foreign countries lighted tai,
pers as well as floral wreaths are
placed by loving hands upon re-
membered graves on the jour DIES
morris, The poorest German or Aus
trian household will at least have
lighted tapers upon it's Chr =
tree if the gifts on it's brancf
Of the humblest and meanest I'd
and in some German householda
is customary upon a birthday f6z
to lay oi1t'a table with the family
gifts and light upon it as many tiny
tapers as the individual whose birth.
is comrnemorated numbers years, a
custom which might not always be
pleasing to those persons who are
given to greatly postdate their bap-
.tismal register.
The grewsome ''hand of glory
was recommended as a potent bur-
glars tool in past centuries. A can
die formed of various uncanny ma
terials was fastened to the hand of
a corpse preferably of man who
had died violent death-and this
candle when lighted was supposed
to cast a spell upon the inmates of
the house into which twas brought.
Sleep, all who sleep;
Wake, all who wake,
- s But be as the dead
For the dead man s. sake.
Necromancers who desired to call
up the spirits of. the dead used spe-
cially prepared candles among the
rest Of their paraphernalia. A writer
on magic remarks that there are
some kinds of torches, lamps and
candles which, being made of GER
tain materials appropriately gather
ed, will, when they are lighted, pro-
duce marvellous effects. There is a
candle to be produced from mares
fat and marrow which will repre-
sent on thewall horses heads. This
thing is easy and pleasant to do.
The like may be done of asses and
flies" Would it be easy, however,
asks q correspondent of The Even
ing Standard, to find sufficient "fat
and marrow" even in bluebottle
fly to make a satisfactory torch or.
candles The writer goes on: 1.-THE
skin of a snake burnt in a green
lamp makes images of serpents to
appear. If centaury be mixed with
honey and the blood of lapwing
and put in lamp, they that stand
about will seem of gigantic stature.
The ink of cuttlefish put into
green lamp causes blackamoors to
appear. A candle made of saturnine
things, such as a man S fat and mar
row, the fat of black cat and the
brains of q crow and raven. being
in the mouth of a man
lately dead, will, as often as it is
lighted, bring great horror and
dread upon all the spectators about
it. " For pleasanter kind of illumi-
nation: when grapes are in flower,
take a vial of oil and bind it to the
vine and let it remain until the
grapes are ripe. When this oil is
lighted in lamp, it will cause
abundance of grapes to appear"
That even the smoke from special
ly prepared candles was useful as
an exorcism was belief held bv
some of the Mohammedans of Scinde
some 60 years ago. Puleetas, or
lamp charms, were used by them
for the casting out of evil spirits
and the cure of disease. Magical
words and figures were traced on a
sheet of paper, which was afterward
smeared with specified substances.
and, benz rolled up and ignited. the |
patlent was fumlgated with the
smoke from his candle.-Pittsbure
Dispatch.
Extraordinary Theft.