enter the holes and eat away all the flesh, leaving the bones which after a
few weeks are removed.
To bear healthy and strong children women wear a string of bears' claws
and children's teeth. Dr. von WLISLOCKI cites, apropos of this, a passage
from JACOBUS RUEFF, "Von Empfengnussen": "Etlich schwanger wyber
pflägend einen bären klauen von einem bären tapen yngefaszet am hals zuo
tragen" (Some women when with child are accustomed to wear mounted
bears' claws on their necks). In like manner boars' teeth, which much
resemble them, are still very commonly worn in Austria and Italy and
almost over all Europe and the East. It is but a few days since I here, in
Florence, met with a young English lady who had bought a very large one
mounted in silver as a brooch, but who was utterly unaware that there was
any meaning attached to it. I have a very ancient bear's tooth and whistle in
silver, meant for a teething child. It came from Munich.
FOR PAIN IN THE EYES
Pain in the eyes is cured with a wash made of spring or well water and
saffron. During the application the following is recited
"Oh dukh ándrál yákhá
Já ándré páñi
Já andrál páñi
Andre safráne
André pçuv.
Já andrál pçuv
Kiyá Pçuvusheske--
Odoy hin cerçá,
Odoy ja te ça."
Oh, pain from the eyes
Go into the water,
Go out of the water
Into the saffron,
Go out of the saffron
Into the earth.
To the Earth-Spirit.
There's thy home.
There go and eat."Another. Especially for use against erysipelas, or St. Anthony's Fire.