the reader may consult "Symbolik und Mythologie der Natur," by J. B.
FRIEDRICH, Wurzburg, 1859: "Salt is put into love-philtres and charms to
ensure the duration of an attachment; in some Eastern countries it is carried
in a little bag as an amulet to preserve health."
Another cure for fever. The patient must drink, from a new jug, water
from three brooks, and after every drink throw into the running stream a
handful of salt. Then he must make water into the first and say—
"Káthe hin t'ro sherro!""Here is thy head!"At the second he repeats the sacred ceremony and murmurs"Káthe hin t'ro perá!""Here is thy belly!"And again at the third he exclaims:--"Te kathehin t're punrá.
Já átunci ándre páñi!""And here are thy feet.
Go now into the water!"But while passing from one stream to another he must not look back
once, for then he might behold the dread demon of the fever which follows
him, neither must he open his mouth, except while uttering the charm, for
then the fever would at once enter his body again through the portal thus
left unclosed. This walking on in apprehension of beholding the ugly
spectre will recall to the reader a passage in the "Ancient Mariner," of the
man who walks in fear and dread,
"Nor turns around his head,
For well he knows a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread."BOILS
The wise wives among the gypsies in Hungary have many kinds of
miraculous salves for sale to cure different disorders. These they declare are