Der heiligo Tumbo
Versegne disc wunta.""Tumbo (i.e., dumm or stupid) sat in the hill
With a stupid child in arms,
Dumb (stupid) the hill was called
Dumb was called the child,
The holy Tumbo (or dumb).
Heal (bless) this wound!"Some years after he found the following among the magic formulas, of
MARCELLUS BURDIGALENSIS:--
"Carmen utile profluvio mulieri:--
"Stupidus in monte ibat,
Stupidus stupuit,
Adjuro te matrix
Ne hoc iracunda suscipias.
"Pari ratione scriptum ligabis.I.e.: "A song useful for a flow of blood in woman:--
"The stupid man went into the mountain,
The stupid man was amazed;
I adjure thee, oh womb,
Be not angry!"Which shall also be bound as a writing," i.e., according to a previous
direction that it shall be written on virgin parchment, and bound with a
linen cord about the waist of him or of her--quæ patietur de qualibet parte
corporis sanguinis fluxum--who suffers anywhere from flow of blood.
MISCARRIAGE
There is a superstition among our gypsies that if the shadow of a cross
on a grave falls on a woman with child she will have a miscarriage, and this
seems to be peculiarly appropriate to girls who have "anticipated the
privileges of matrimony." The following rhyme seems to describe the
hesitation of a girl who has gone to a cross to produce the result alluded to,
but who is withheld by love for her unborn infant:--
"Cigno trušul pal handako
Hin ada ušalinako;