The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-03-11

wear about their necks pictures OF the
7 Virgin whish they take to bed with them.
Medals Of various saints have specific
values. That OF st Benoit IL good
against robbers; that Of ST. George pre-
vents drowning; that Of St Andrew Is a
preventive of apoplsxy; that OF Sc An
thony l. protection against heart-disease
while Tint of.St. A nnstasia antagonizsrs
demonias temptations. Bronze and silver
key bl SEED by the pope prsserve infants
from fqls and IT'S, while coins OF the
Papal Government OF the ntcenth and
eighteenth centuries possess an imilar
An5 body whoswill provide himself with
the available anulets of all sotts may
fairly consider himself proof against mis-
fortunes Of every kind. A dried snake
skin is good against snake bites; piece
Of human skull against epilepsy; n
VOLTS tooth against hydruphobia; an Ala
baster bead against tempest and hail. -
sapphire against blindness: q snaiI-shell
against gravel or fever; silver coin OF
tine Duke OF Parma against cry iipeins;
u bronze Byzantine coin against warts;
n pigs tooth against trouble In teethine;
ami a horse-ohestIut against the rheuna-
tism. A potato carried In the pocket is
equally good against rheumatism. After
q while IL becomes rs hard as stone. and
this shows that 1t has absorbed the rheu.
nlatism.
Pebbles found In a swallows nests re-
store sight to the young, while balls Of
ivory assist the secretion of milk. 10 dry
up the milk, the mother will do wsll to
carry on her person piece OF cork.
Amber beads, dug out of prehistoric
mounds in Brittany, are rented out AT the
rate of a sou week, to girls. for health.
A dog s tooth.Aa cocks spur or mole's
foot Is "a protection against the evil eye
An old MILESTONE, or a piece OF holly
(sorcerer's woody, Is prophy Tactic
against sorcery. Red jasper, red agate
and red carnelian are 'bloodstones.
which arrest the flow of blood. A bit OF
hammered lead u sharks tooth, or
Glove OF garlic gathered on st. Johns
Day, are autagonistic to worms. The
bulb of u certain species Of orchid brings
good luck with the opposite SEE. and gives
control over the mind of another.
dried human hand. or dried lard. Is n
protection against evil spirits.
In Perugia all the cab-drivers fasten
hits of badger fur to their whips. for luck.
Fossil es-urchins, imagined to be the
eggs OF the sea-seI pent. ara powerful anu
let's. so likewise is an elderstalk, much
used In Gascony. which In emptied OF Its
pith various little things. suon as grains
Of grass, being put into It. Among the
Indians OF North America. various prey
gos" are represented In stone or other
material. social power over the animals
represented teing possessed by those who
own the images. These aboriglnes I'm
ariIte that all inanimate Things have
ghosts, and the pots which they put into
graves. in the southwestern part of the
United States are broken to let ont their
spirits. From the ancient Indian
mounds are obtained certain. boat-shaped
objects, which, the modern Mohawks shy,
were made to help witches across the
water.
To Professor Thomas Wilson OF the
Smith sonian Institution the writer In in
debted for his Information on this inter
estlDg subject