A REMEDY TO BE USED WHEN ANYONE IS
FALLING AWAY, AND WHICH HAS CURED
MANY PERSONS.— Let the person in perfect soberness and without having conversed
with anyone, catch rain in a pot, before sunrise; boil an egg in this; bore
three small holes in this egg with a needle, and carry it to an ant-hill made
by big ants; and the person will feel relieved as soon as the egg is devoured.
ANOTHER REMEDY TO BE APPLIED
WHEN ANYONE IS SICK, WHICH HAS
AFFECTED MANY A CURE WHERE
DOCTORS COULD NOT HELP.— Let the sick person, without having conversed with anyone, put water
in a bottle before sunrise, close it up tight, and put it immediately in some
box or chest, lock it and stop up the keyhole; the key must be carried in one
of the pockets for three days, as nobody dare have it except the person who
puts the bottle with water in the chest or box.
A GOOD REMEDY FOR WORMS, TO BE
USED FOR MEN AS WELL AS FOR CATTLE:Mary, God’s Mother, traversed the land,
Holding three worms close in her hand;
One was white, the other was black, the third was red.This must be repeated three times, at the same time stroking the person
or animal with the hand; and at the end of each application strike the back
of the person or the animal, to wit: at the first application once, at the second
application twice, and at the third application three times; and then set the
worms a certain time, but not less than three minutes.
A GOOD REMEDY AGAINST
CALUMNIATION OR SLANDER.If you are calumniated or slandered to your very skin, to your very flesh,
to your very bones, cast it back upon the false tongues. + + + Take off your