The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-12
THOUSAND BABIES ARE
 SACRIFICED IN A YEAR

from him! < This is to be used first on Thursday onee; on Friday, twice: on Saturday, thrice, and each morning thrice. You must, at the same time, always say the creed, and speak with no one until sunrise. The patient also must speak with no one, eat no swine's flesh and drink no milk for nine days and during the nine days not pass oyer running wa ter
 Remedy for the colic-T warn you you grlpes! There is one in judgment; he speaks: Right or wrong. Therefore, be- ware, ye gripes.
 To make a dog stay when no one else has previously used means to that end Take some good blood from yourself, give 1t to the dog in something to eat and he remains. Or scrape the four corners of the table on the upper side Always cat with the knife you scraped with. and give what you scraped off 10 the dog to eat, and he will remain
 To prevent the barking of a dog-Who- ever wears dogs heart onshis left side no dog will bark at him; they are all dumb before him.
 :, good remedy to get rid of bad people -Dullir ir, ur Yea, canst not over Pom tlo; Pontio is over Pilato. "
 To ease a pan-Cut three little sticks Cut them from one piece Rub them on the sore, wrap them in a little white pa-
 
 To drive away warts-Roast chiskens feet and rub the warts with them; then bury them under the caves.
 A charm for bad people-it Is said that if you suspect person for badness and he sits down on chair, and you take a shoeinakers wax-end that has not been used and stick one end of 1t on the under side of the chair, and you sit on the other end of it, he will immediately in a short time die.
 well-known member of the Berks Medical society says:
 Charms Frequently Worn.
 q have a number of original charms which l captured after I took charge of the cases in question. The first charm I found was several years ago In mak- ing an examination of the patients chest l found something under the chemse. Asking her what it was l was told .'the witch doctor put 1t there, saying it would drive all my sickness into the body of him or her who was haunting me" When I removed the charm and placed it in my pocketbook the woman was hor- rfed and said: q would not carry that charm in my pocket one minute if I were you for any amount of money" She seemed very much worried as to my well fare, and repeatedly referred to the idea whenever I visited her. The womans child has also been sick, and she be- lieved it to be bewitched. and I had con- siderable difficulty in convincing her that such was not the case, but that it was suffering from summer complaint caused by feeding it sour milk, etc. The mothers illness was cured by operation.
 "A very short time ago I was con- suited at my office by a young man who showed all signs of becoming a maniac. He imagined that he was haunted and bewitched and doomed to die. His mother, who accompanied him, explained how he came to his most unfortunate condition. He first con suited witch doctor, who pictured the young man In company with a woman who carried a penny in her mouth, and this would throw him into consump tidn,. of which he would die within few months. He finally con cluded through himself and some old women to consult the champion of witch doctors of Reading. When the young man finally concluded that he was being duped, he told his mother. and in this way he was directed to my office. When I examined him I found that the witch doctor had placed a small muslin bag on his chest sus- pended by piece of white tape around his neck. He told me that it containued asafetida and lot of curious look ing material, which, he was told would drive his ailment to afflict the person who caused it. l tried in every way to convince the young man that he need no worry; that his lungs were perfect ly sound, and belief in what the col ored woman had told him and the con- turing of the other witch doctor was nonsense. Later his case resulted in insanity.
 "I was recently summoned to attend a child that was suffering from nnaras- mus. The mother said they had an old woman attending the little one. and she had pronounced the disease due to spell placed on the child by some one, and that the one who "hexed" the child would come and ask for some thing. One of the neighbors adjoining happened to need clothes prop and wanted to borrow it from the afflicted family. The request was refused. and she narrowly escaped being soundly thrashed by the enra ged mother of tho child.
 "Witchcraft has been practiced as much in Berks county as In any part of the United States. These charla tans, as we may term them. are illegal prac- titioners and should be dealt with ac- cording to law